mentalisticadj.
/ˌmɛntəˈlɪstɪk/, /ˌmɛntlˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɛn(t)lˈɪstɪk/ 1. In Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, etc.: of or relating to the theory of mentalism (see mentalism n. 2).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [adjective] > of other branches of
Berkeleiana1743
egoistica1834
mentalistic1882
immanental1885
non-substantialist1893
philosophico-psychological1899
introjectionist1903
mentalist1948
1882 H. Sidgwick in Mind 7 541 Two lines of empirical thought which—if I may coin a word for clearness' sake—I will call respectively materialistic and mentalistic.
1917 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God x. 191 I feel it to be important..to free the position I am defending from any supposed dependence on the Mentalistic doctrines which have often been used to support it.
1927 Mod. Philol. Nov. 225 This theory..makes the hitherto otiose mentalistic factors play an actual part in linguistic change.
1950 D. Jones Phoneme vii. 23 This is evidence in favour of a mentalistic view of the phoneme.
1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax i. 4 Hence, in the technical sense, linguistic theory is mentalistic, since it is concerned with discovering a mental reality underlying actual behavior.
1967 Encycl. Philos. V. 339/1 The identity theorist uses the familiar philosophical distinction between significance and reference..to make the claim that mentalistic and physicalistic expressions..will turn out as a matter of empirical fact to refer to or denote one and the same thing, namely physical phenomena.
1973 Word 1970 26 150 The chapter on Syntax gives a traditional mentalistic statement of the function of the cases and moods.
1990 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 91 Prior to this, the tradition of linguistic commentary is a practical and utilitarian one..and this does not happily match the mentalistic bias of the rest of the book.
2. gen. Of or relating to the processes of the mind. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > [adjective]
mental?a1425
intentional1624
psychodynamic1874
intra-mental1904
intra-psychic1917
intrapsychical1935
mentalistic1962
1962 Listener 29 Mar. 568/3 Other practitioners may turn it [sc. treatment of insanity] into a purely mentalistic and verbal technique, letting slip all the gains which psycho-analysis has achieved by its attention to physical processes.
1990 S. R. L. Clark Parliament of Souls vii. 138 The human person is the unitary subject of both mentalistic and physical properties.
Derivatives
mentaˈlistically adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [adverb] > in a manner characteristic of branches of
solipsistically1898
mentalistically1942
1942 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 3 90 It has attacked the Kantian tendency to confuse the original formal structure of the given with a mentalistically conceived a priori.
1989 Philos. Rev. 98 163 Were there such laws, mentalistically described events would be in no sense ‘anomalous’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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