单词 | mind-dust |
释义 | > as lemmasmind-dust mind-dust n. Philosophy and Psychology (in materialist hypotheses of evolution) supposed particles of mental substance which exist alongside particles of matter and which combine to form individual minds. ΘΚΠ the mind > [noun] > supposed substance of the mind mind-stuff1878 mind-dust1890 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vi. 146 Evolutionary psychology demands a mind-dust. 1938 Jrnl. Philos. 35 577 This reality is of the nature of feeling, only simpler. It is a mind-dust whose elements are specks or crumbs of sentience. 1990 Philos. Perspectives 4 215 The mind-dust argument, or something like it, has recently been revived by Thomas Nagel. < as lemmas |
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