| 单词 | purposivism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈpurposivism ˈpurposivism n. the theory that all human or animal activity is purposive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > theories of motivation > theory of purpose > [noun] purposivism1931 1931 A. Ralston & C. J. Gage Present Day Psychol. xvii. 244 McDougall is the leading exponent of the school of purposivism. 1932 E. C. Tolman Purposive Behavior in Animals & Men xxv. 423 Our psychology is a purposivism; but it is an objective, behavioristic purposivism, not a mentalistic one. 1998 A. L. Blumenthal in G. A. Kimble & M. Wertheimer Portaits of Pioneers in Psychol. III. iii. 32 As early as 1858.., he [sc. Wilhelm Wundt] was arguing that there are phenomena in biology and psychology that require explanations that are different in their fundamental form from the pattern of explanation found in physics and chemistry. These explanations..had to involve notions of purposivism and goal-oriented actions. < as lemmas |
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