单词 | thought-tight |
释义 | > as lemmasthought-tight thought-tight adj. [after airtight adj.] keeping particular kinds of thought separate; excluding some thoughts or modes of thought. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > product of thinking, thought > [adjective] > neatly divided thought-tight1887 1887 T. T. Munger Appeal to Life i. 13 We are compartment-beings, thought-tight, and can shut religion up in one part, and philosophy in another, and science in still another. 1896 Pop. Sci. Jrnl. 50 267 The human mind is not built in thought-tight compartments. 1939 F. B. Fagerburg Is This Religion? v. 79 No one has ever proved the existence of God, or immortality; but such reasoning locks us up in a thought-tight circle where no thinking is possible at all. 2003 P. King No Ordinary Psychoanalyst xiv. 253 Anything which keeps the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ aspects of the parent figures separate in thought-tight, emotion-tight compartments leads to a dangerous splitting in the emotional life later. < as lemmas |
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