单词 | proception |
释义 | proceptionn.1 Misprint of proreption in an unidentified edition of Eikon Basilike (1648), included in Johnson and later dictionaries; proreption is itself apparently an error for præreption or prereption (see quot. 1649 at proreption n. for the intermediate reading, and cf. discussion at that entry). ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Proception, preoccupation; act of taking something sooner than another. A word not in use. [Also in later dictionaries.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2018). proceptionn.2 Philosophy (chiefly U.S.). Justus Buchler’s term, replacing experience, for: the development of an individual arising from the interplay of purposive behaviour and the environment. ΚΠ 1951 J. Buchler Toward Gen. Theory Human Judgment i. 4 The interplay of the human individual's activities and dimensions, their unitary direction, constitutes a process I shall call proception. 1955 J. Buchler Nature & Judgment i. 31 Production is a process within ‘proception’, that is, within the natural process of individuated movement that we more loosely call ‘experience’. 1967 Jrnl. Philos. 64 753 Manipulation and assimilation are involved in all proception, and they are ontologically inseparable. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). proceptionn.3 Biology. Behaviour which promotes conception; sexual interaction leading to conception. Frequently contrasted with contraception. Cf. proceptivity n. ΚΠ 1979 Family Planning Perspectives 11 200/3 Psychological factors related to proception and contraception are potentially important components of..fertility. 1981 Q. Rev. Biol. 56 393/2 Beach (1976) independently recommended the term proception with a different nuance, to refer to the interplay..between the male and female prerequisite to intromission. 1995 Demography 32 83 Another issue of dimensionality is raised by Miller's (1986) concept of proception, which he argues is more than the absence of contraception. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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