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mentalistic, a.|mɛntəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. mentalist + -ic.]
1. Of or pertaining to the processes of the mind or to processes of a similar nature. rare.
1962Listener 29 Mar. 568/3 Other practitioners may turn it [sc. treatment of insanity] into a purely mentalistic and verbal technique, letting slip all the gains which psycho-analysis has achieved by its attention to physical processes.
2. Of or pertaining to mentalism (sense 2). Hence mentaˈlistically adv.
1917A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God x. 191, I feel it to be important..to free the position I am defending from any supposed dependence on the Mentalistic doctrines which have often been used to support it. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xiv. 611, I class these two alternatives together under the name of ‘Mentalistic Neutralism’. 1927Mod. Philology Nov. 225 This theory..makes the hitherto otiose mentalistic factors play an actual part in linguistic change. 1950D. Jones Phoneme vii. 23 This is evidence in favour of a mentalistic view of the phoneme. 1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax i. 4 Hence, in the technical sense, linguistic theory is mentalistic, since it is concerned with discovering a mental reality underlying actual behavior. 1967[see identity theorist (identity 10 b)]. 1971D. Crystal Ling. 95 Very little of language..can be tested in the same way as material objects.., as mentalistically-inclined linguists have been quick to point out. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 150 The chapter on Syntax gives a traditional mentalistic statement of the function of the cases and moods. |