单词 | psychoplasm |
释义 | psychoplasmn. Now rare. The basis of consciousness conceived as a substance. Cf. protoplasm n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > [noun] > basis of consciousness psychoplasm1874 1874 W. Jackson Philos. Nat. Theol. iii. 246 How many metaphysicians proper, or how many skilled students of Natural Science, can explain that novel compound ‘Psychoplasm’? a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) 219 This leads to the question of the evolution of foci or monads from impersonal consciousness or psychoplasm. 1926 G. F. Stout Stud. Philos. & Psychol. (1930) v. 106 The presentation continuum or ‘psychoplasm’ of each individual is his own private and incommunicable property. 1933 Mind 42 112 There are, says Mr. Fox, two senses of the word ‘mind’; the ‘psychoplasm’, which is closely connected with the body, and the ego. Derivatives psychoˈplasmic adj. relating to or of the nature of psychoplasm. ΚΠ 1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 68 The function..of the alleged psychoplasmic seat of sensation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1874 |
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