单词 | thought-form |
释义 | thought-formn. 1. a. Philosophy. Any of various fundamental notions (such as time, space, substance, causality, etc.) that universally condition human thought and knowledge; a category. Now historical except as merging into sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of material cause1393 matterc1395 matter subjecta1398 predicamenta1425 quality?1537 first substance1551 predicable1551 property1551 proprium1551 transcendent1581 final cause1587 category1588 habit1588 ante-predicament?1596 postpredicament1599 entelechy1603 transumption1628 secondary1656 objective cause1668 transcendental1668 general substance1697 third man1801 thought-form1834 posterioristic universal1902 ousia1917 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. viii, in Fraser's Mag. July 86/1 That the Thought-forms, Space and Time, wherein, once for all, we are sent into this Earth to live, should condition and determine our whole Practical reasonings, conceptions, and imagings (not imaginings),—seems altogether fit, just, and unavoidable. 1839 J. W. Donaldson New Cratylus ii. iv. 268 The idea of intervals or positions belongs to the primary thought-form of space, and..the words by which this idea is conveyed are pronouns, that is, words indicating position. 1860 J. Young Province Reason v. ii. 244 The first, the law of Time, is the universal, the only strictly universal thought-form, necessarily affecting all the acts of consciousness. 1866 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 275 This want is met by giving a thought form to the facts which is not in the facts themselves. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxviii. 664 Kant..insisted on thought-forms with which experience largely agrees. 1970 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 21 233 A finality imposed not by the nature of the objective world but by that of the thought-form which you adopt for describing the facts of experience. b. In singular and plural. A set of presuppositions, concepts, images, etc., that define and shape the thought characteristic of a particular time, culture, group, etc.; a particular way of thinking. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > intellectual framework thought-form1958 1866 Anthropol. Rev. 4 295 A time came when Asiatic thought-forms were to be subjected to the rather destructive process of European criticism. 1870 Jrnl. Anthropol. 1 177 Archæology has pretty clearly demonstrated that the civilisation of Egypt and Chaldea was the result of a colonial extension from an older centre, this being also within the Semitic area; its culture, so far as we can judge, bearing decided traces of Semitic thought-forms. 1901 Classical Rev. 15 51/2 The analysis of a commonly received view will..pave the way for a theory concerning the history of the thought-form. 1930 Jrnl. Philos. Stud. 5 108 ‘Thought-form’..is the expression Leisegang uses for the structure of a logic. 1958 E. L. Mascall Recov. Unity iv. 91 The deadlock between Catholics and Protestants..has been mainly due to their common inheritance of uncriticised..assumptions and thought-forms from the theologically decadent late Middle Ages. 1967 Man 2 527 Lévi-Strauss has formalised the experience of every fieldworker who has gained some intimacy with the thought-forms of a pre-literate society. 2002 R. Webber Younger Evangelicals iii. x. 160 Our culture increasingly moves away from logic and proposition-oriented thought forms and deeper into feelings-oriented and transrationally oriented thought forms. 2. A thought or way of thinking manifested in visible or transmissible form. Chiefly in theosophy, occultism, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > product of thinking, thought > [noun] > a thought, thoughts thoughtOE i-thankc1000 thinkingsa1225 pensee1474 considering1483 consideration1489 panse1568 reflect1594 reflection1648 thought-form1850 thought-product1853 thought-entity1868 1850 Token of Friendship, 1851 13 It was indeed ill-timed to eulogize my word-mantilla before a thought-form, all grace and symmetry, appeared to put it on. 1856 J. W. Jackson Seer of Sinai in Tait’s Edinb. Mag. Feb. 122 The shadowy veil that hides from common sight The plastic workings of a master mind, Creating thought forms for futurity. 1895 Lucifer 15 July 386 Men are continually talking in this colour-language quite unconsciously, and thus calling round them these swarms of Elementals, who take up their abodes in the appropriate thought-forms provided... Persons somewhat more developed than the ordinary clairvoyant can see the thought-forms. 1989 K. Green Night Angel vii. 80 Not some Casper sheet-draped spook but a thought form. 1997 J. Hatfield & G. Burt Unauthorized X-Cycl. E: Erlenmeyer Flask 91 The episode's original title was ‘Tulpa’, which, in Tibetan mystic practice, is a ghostly manifestation of a ‘thought-form’ produced by the mind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1834 |
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