单词 | reflectionist |
释义 | reflectionistn.adj. In Hindu philosophy: a person who believes that the soul is a reflection of Brahma. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of reflection of self > [noun] > reflection > one who theorizes on reflectionist1862 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. iii. vii. 244 Such as say thus, the reflexionists find no difficulty in maintaining, that the soul—a reflexion, with them—is liable to error, and that Brahma is exempt therefrom. B. adj. Chiefly in Marxist theory: designating the belief that ideas, art, literature, etc., are reflections of reality; having or characterized by such a belief. ΚΠ 1878 S. H. Hodgson Philos. of Refl. I. ii. v. 226 Idealist (or rather Reflectionist) in philosophy. 1971 T. Eagleton Marxism & Lit. Crit. 48 (heading) The reflectionist theory. 1992 Amer. Lit. Mar. 140 Orthodox Marxism had for some time been committed to a reflectionist theory of knowledge, in which ideas come to the mind as phantoms, sublimates, or reflections of real objects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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