单词 | state of consciousness |
释义 | > as lemmasstate of consciousness c. Chiefly Philosophy and Psychology. A particular process or mode of consciousness. Frequently in state of consciousness. Cf. altered state n. at altered adj. and n. Compounds.anxiety, alpha state, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man Introd. p. iii The Will is that State of Mind, which is immediately previous to, and causes, those express Acts of Memory, Fancy, and bodily Motion, which are termed voluntary. c1790 T. Reid Let. to J. Gregory in Wks. (1846) 85 The reason why madness, idiotism, &c., are called states of mind, while its acts and operations are not, is because mankind have always conceived the mind to be passive in the former and active in the later. 1820 T. Brown Lect. Philos. Human Mind I. xi. 245 To the whole series of states of the mind, then, whatever the individual momentary successive states may be, I give the name of our consciousness. c1837 W. Hamilton in T. Reid Wks. (1846) 85 (note) The term State has, more especially of late years, and principally by Necessitarian philosophers, been applied to all modifications of mind indifferently. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §19. 61 It is..beyond question that our states of consciousness occur in succession. 1941 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 36 489 Hypnotic behavior, the striving to behave as if hypnotized, takes place in an altered state of the person. 1981 A. Verdu Philos. of Buddhism 72 Samādhi connotes a state of the mind in which consciousness has been drained of all particular objective contents. 2007 New Scientist 12 May 56/1 Reactance is actually a recognised psychological state. < as lemmas |
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