| 单词 | ideal construction |
| 释义 | > as lemmasideal construction ideal construction n. Philosophy a mental conception formed by abstracting properties found in experience and recombining or developing them; the process of forming such a conception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > ideal construction ideal construction1829 1829 J. Marsh in S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. (new ed.) Prelim. Essay p. xlii The pure ideas of the geometrician, the power of ideal construction, the intuition of geometrical or other necessary and universal truths? 1874 G. H. Lewes Foundation of Creed I. 288 Hume did not clearly understand that Science is essentially an ideal construction very far removed from a real transcript of facts. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiii. 533 We have a conception of absolute sameness,..but this..is an ideal construction got by following a certain direction of serial increase to its maximum supposable extreme. 1917 J. Gibson Locke's Theory of Knowledge iv. 78 The nature of ideal construction as the discovery of possible alternatives admitted by the nature of some universal. 1946 Mind 55 153 Suppose, however, that Euclidean points are ideal constructions. 1997 B. C. Anderson Raymond Aron ii. 42 If the social scientist had unlimited liberty to impose his own ideal constructions on reality, why call it social ‘science’at all? < as lemmas |
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