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单词 res cogitans
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res cogitansn.

Brit. /reɪz ˈkɒdʒᵻtanz/, /reɪz ˈkɒɡᵻtanz/, /rɛz ˈkɒdʒᵻtanz/, /rɛz ˈkɒɡᵻtanz/, U.S. /reɪs ˈkɑɡəˌtɑnz/, /riz ˈkɑdʒəˌtænz/
Inflections: Plural res cogitantes;
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin res cogitans.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin res cogitans (1641 in Descartes) < classical Latin rēs thing (see res n.1) + cōgitāns , present participle of cōgitāre cogitate v.For the coinage by Descartes see:1641 R. Descartes Meditationes ii. 23 Sed quid igitur sum? res cogitans: quid est hoc? nempe dubitans, intelligens, affirmans, negans, volens, nolens, imaginans quoque, & sentiens.
Philosophy.
Substance which has or is regarded as having the power of thought; spec. (in Cartesian metaphysics) the human mind viewed as a substance distinct from the material world. Cf. res extensa n.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > concept > man as a thinking being
res cogitans1676
1676 R. Baxter Judgm. Non-conformists vi. 111 The University of being is God, and there is nothing but God; who hath no divisible part..but all things are imaginable parts of God; substances part of his substance, and souls which are Ideas of his infinite Idea as he is res cogitans.
1769 W. Jackson Beauties of Nature ii. 17 Thus compounded, I think ‘Ego cogito’, or am a cogitative Being, ‘res cogitans’.
1817 T. Chalmers Plurality of Worlds 119 The Cartesians call it [sc. the soul] res cogitans, or ipsa cogitatio, never without actual thought.
1887 Mind 12 423 The first great question for psychology is—What is the res cogitans?
1904 J. Iverach Descartes, Spinoza & New Philos. iii. 63 It is not possible to take the mind as a thing among other things; a mere res cogitans can apprehend nothing but thoughts or ideas.
1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 247 The mental res cogitans and the material res extensa.
1972 Z. Vendler (title) Res cogitans: an essay in rational psychology.
2005 K. Harries in H. Schramm et al. Collection, Laboratory, Theater 520 Just as the spectator has no place in the picture he is observing, so a Cartesian res cogitans has no place in nature, whose essence Descartes determines as res extensa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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