ratiomorphicadj.

1954 E. Brunswik in Acta Psychologica 11 109 Perception and thinking thus emerge as different forms of imperfect inferences regarding the environment, subsumable to a common behavior model patterned upon reasoning (‘ratiomorphic’ reduction, if this Latin-Greek hybrid be permitted).

1971 R. Martin tr. K. Lorenz Stud. Animal & Human Behaviour II. 302 All kinds of constancy apparatus are—in principle—‘ratiomorphic’ in the most rigorous sense of the term, since all incorporate processes analogous to those of both induction and deduction.

2001 H. Heft Ecol. Psychol. in Context iv. 160 If it is argued that spatial knowledge must come from somewhere, rather than being intrinsic to visual experience, then to claim this knowledge comes ‘magically’ from ratiomorphic processes or from innate knowledge is question begging.

1977 R. Taylor tr. K. Lorenz Behind Mirror vii. 119 Egon Brunswik coined the term ‘ratiomorphous’ to describe..all these sensory and nervous processes [which] take place in areas of our nervous system which are completely inaccessible to our consciousness and our self-observation.

1984 Poetics Today 5 256 The rational domain will never approach the certainty and efficiency of its ratiomorphous counterpart.