ideogenetic

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From ideo- +‎ -geny +‎ -etic.

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ideogenetic (not comparable)

  1. (philosophy) Originating ideas or images. [from early 1900s]
    • 1960, Helen Marie Beha, Matthew of Aquasparta's Theory of Cognition:
      In such an ideogenetic theory, the mind does not form the species, as Matthew claims, but sensation begins with a reception.
    • 2003, Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy, page 64:
      This extreme ideogenetic view would make the function of divine illumination that of a kind of separate active intellect: in fact, God would Himself be an ontologically separate active intellect which infuses ideas into the human mind []
    • 2015, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, The Trinity of Trauma, page 30:
      In his ideogenetic view, these fixed ideas constitute the very heart of the symptoms of the disorder. A patient with traumatic hysteria with a paralyzed leg would thus have developed the fixed idea that his leg had become paralyzed []

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