单词 | palaeologic |
释义 | palaeologicpaleologicadj.n. A. adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by an archaic and pre-rational mode of thought dominated by subjective and emotional associations; (Psychiatry) of, relating to, or characterized by a thought process characterized by an inability to make even simple rational deductions about one's relationship to the world, found typically in schizophrenics. ΚΠ 1948 S. Arieti in Psychiatry 11 326/1 This different faculty of conception or different logic is similar to the one which is followed in dreams, in other forms of autistic thinking, and in primitive man. It was consequently called paleologic. 1955 S. Arieti in H. Werner On Expressive Lang. vii. 57 A person, like the schizophrenic or the paleologic man, who is unable to abstract one quality from the whole of two different subjects, tend[s] to identify the two subjects. 1963 D. Bidney Concept of Freedom in Anthropol. vii. 118 The first value system under construction is of an Emotional, Paleologic Nature. 1998 Perspectives in Psychiatric Care (Nexis) 34 14 Paleologic thinking must be weighed carefully along with other information about the patient's situation. B. n. This mode or process of thought. Cf. prelogic n. and adj. at pre- prefix 2a(a)(vi). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [noun] > prelogic prelogic1914 prelogical1926 palaeologic1956 1956 S. Arieti in Amer. Anthropologist 58 26 Von Domarus' principle..interprets this type of thinking as differing from the Aristotelian inasmuch as it does not follow our usual normal logic but another, primitive logic, called paralogic or paleologic. 1976 R. Sommer End of Imprisonment iii. 36 Silvano Arieti..coined the term paleologic to describe patterns of thinking that are primitive, emotionally laden, and outside ordinary rational constraints. 1994 W. D. Spaulding Cognitive Technol. in Psychiatric Rehabilit. Introd. p. xiii Paleologic is a primitive form that fails grammatically to distinguish predicate from subject. Hence in paleologic one might think, ‘Gorillas have hair, I have hair, therefore I am a gorilla.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1948 |
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