单词 | conservative faculty |
释义 | > as lemmasconservative faculty ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] memory1694 conservative facultya1856 faculty of conservationa1856 retentivity1865 retention1902 a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxx. 206 Thus in the term Memory, the Conservative Faculty,—the phænomenon of Retention, is the central notion, with which, however, those of Reproduction and Representation are associated. 1875 R. V. Pierce People's Common Sense Med. Adviser i. xiv. 126 (caption) Fig. 72 is a representation of the cranial conformation of Alexander VI., exhibiting a full development of the conservative faculties. 1892 J. Sully Human Mind II. 340 A like dispensation to conceive of reproduction as emergence of what was pre-existent in a sub-conscious form is seen in Hamilton's theory of the conservative faculty. < as lemmas |
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