单词 | thought-action |
释义 | > as lemmasthought-action thought-action n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > process of thinking i-thankc1000 thoughtOE cogitation?c1225 thinkinga1382 imaginationa1393 pansing?a1505 beating1606 brainwork1606 brain labour1638 headwork1642 thought process1850 thought-action1860 thought-production1881 nutting1951 1860 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 400/2 ‘And what’, I said, ‘when hand-and-foot action shall have ceased? will you then allow some play for thought-action?’ 1880 M. S. Phelps tr. R. Eucken Fund. Concepts Mod. Philos. Thought 20 In thought-action we have, not a system of uniformly persistent forces but a becoming, and a self-formation in the act of becomings. 1909 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics II. 85/2 Purely mental exercise consists in those ‘thought-actions’ (Denkhandlungen as Eucken calls them) which determine both our mental attitude and our conduct. 1935 Discovery Jan. 1/1 By means of electrical records made through the skull various states of the brain can be recognised; but the ‘brain waves’ thus recorded do not appear to be the result of thought-action. 2000 Callaloo 23 1274 The thought-action (the hyphen swings both ways here) of the conference was essayed before the theorists ‘knew it would work’. < as lemmas |
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