| 单词 | mind-stuff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmind-stuff mind-stuff n. (originally) supposed particles of mental substance in combinations which are perceived as matter; (in later use also) any rudimentary abstract substance from which ideas, images, etc., can be formed. ΘΚΠ the mind > [noun] > supposed substance of the mind mind-stuff1878 mind-dust1890 1878 W. K. Clifford in Mind 3 65 Mind-stuff is the reality which we perceive as Matter. That element of which..even the simplest feeling is a complex, I shall call Mind-stuff. A moving molecule of inorganic matter does not possess mind, or consciousness; but it possesses a small piece of mind-stuff. 1930 A. O. Lovejoy Revolt against Dualism viii. 272 Mind-stuff is not supposed to be the same kind of thing as either data or the awareness of them. 1937 E. Upward in C. Day Lewis Mind in Chains 42 A poet's images or a novelist's characters are not created out of pure mind-stuff, but are suggested to him by the world in which he lives. 1983 M. Carrithers Buddha iii. 44 Poṭṭhapāda then changed tack, and proposed first a Self made not of material, but of mind-stuff, and then one of consciousness alone. 1995 Fortean Times Aug. 52/3 This altogether grander conception of telepathy saw it as an intangible binding force, ineluctably drawing together ‘mind-stuff’ from many quarters, both within and without the psyche of the individual. < as lemmas |
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