attuitionn.
/atjuːˈɪʃən/ Psychology.
A hypothetical apprehension higher in order than mere animal sensation and lower than human perception.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of cognition > sub-human perception > [noun]
attuition1884
1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 6 This word (Attuition) is here coined, in order to indicate that state of Consciousness which lies between Sensation-proper and Perception-proper.
1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 11 I may now define Attuition to be the reflex co-ordination of the elements or units of Sensation into an image or synopsis: it is a synthesis in and for the Conscious Subject.
1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. I. ii. i. 180 In the higher quadrupeds..a state is reached which may be called Attuition, marked by discrimination of particular objects from each other in space..but without corresponding discrimination of them from the attuent subject.
Derivatives
attuent adj. /æˈtjuːənt/ [ < Latin tuēnt-, present participle of tuēri to look at] that has the function of, or is characterized by, attuition.
/æˈtjuːənt/ [ < Latin tuēnt-, present participle of tuēri to look at] that has the function of, or is characterized by, attuition.ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of cognition > sub-human perception > [adjective]
attuent1884
attuitional1884
attuitive1896
1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 49 The Attuent consciousness at the moment of receiving the ‘impression’ of Extension, locates it as outside itself.
1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. I. ii. i. 184 How I should feel if I were..reduced to the ‘attuent’ condition, I find it impossible to judge.
aˈttuit n. something of which one becomes conscious by attuition.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 677/2 Supposing..that a man, or a dog, through association ‘attuites’ sequence and invariableness of succession.
attuite v. /æˈtjuːɪt/ (transitive) to become conscious of (an object) by attuition.
/æˈtjuːɪt/ (transitive) to become conscious of (an object) by attuition.ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of cognition > sub-human perception > perceive by attuition [verb (transitive)]
attuite1884
1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 29 The Will then has now affirmed the attuited totality in perception as a one totality.
attuˈitional n.
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attuent1884
attuitional1884
attuitive1896
1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 11 The range and character of attuitional intelligence.
aˈttuitive adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of cognition > sub-human perception > [adjective]
attuent1884
attuitional1884
attuitive1896
1896 W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. iii. 157 Our consciousness of other things—i.e., our attuitive knowledge.
aˈttuitively adv. by attuition.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of cognition > sub-human perception > [adverb]
attuitively1884
1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 143 An animal is attuitively conscious of the à posteriori categories, but it cannot categorize, because it cannot affirm. They are present to it as sense-attuits.
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