单词 | externalize |
释义 | externalizev. transitive. To make external; to embody in outward form; to give or attribute external existence to; to treat as consisting in externals. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > externalize [verb (transitive)] externize1836 externalize1852 exteriorate1871 exteriorize1879 externate1890 1852 J. R. Morell & A. Johnson tr. W. G. Tennemann Man. Hist. Philos. (rev. ed.) 29 His fancy externalizing the divinations of his reason. 1875 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy I. i. 30 This high political abstraction, latent in Christianity..was externalised in the French Revolution. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. x. 427 The universe is the process whereby spirit externalises itself. 1884 Chicago Advance 14 Feb. The more ancient mistake has been to externalize religion too much. Derivatives exˈternalized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > externalized ad extra1825 externalized1876 exteriorized1892 1876 W. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 135 Creation is the evolution of deity, man externalized God. 1886 E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living I. 186 Divides the cases [of telepathy] into two great families—those (A) where the impression is sensory or externalised, and those (B) where it is not sensory or externalised. exˈternalizing n. the action of externalize v. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > externalization externalization1803 exteriorationa1831 externization1841 externation1854 externalizing1865 exteriorization1887 1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 98 The externalizing of one's own thoughts. Draft additions August 2007 transitive. Economics. To exclude (costs) from a pricing structure; spec. to fail to take into account (social or environmental costs resulting from a product's manufacture or use) when formulating an economic strategy, either deliberately or as an oversight. Cf. internalize v. 4. ΚΠ 1966 Econ. Devel. & Cultural Change 14 389 A widely effective coercive apparatus, whose costs the 'Big Push' strategist externalizes. 1992 Earth Matters Summer 1/1 This means continuing to allow short-term competitive advantage to dictate national economic strategies which ‘externalise’ environmental and social costs. 2003 New Internationalist Jan.–Feb. 11/2 How ‘efficient’ is a system of agriculture that ignores (‘externalizes’) the huge costs of removing chemical contamination from water or losing genetic diversity? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1852 |
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