单词 | subreptive |
释义 | subreptiveadj. 1. Deriving from, involving, or characterized by misrepresentation or suppression of the truth; false, misleading; (also) surreptitious. Cf. subreption n.1 1, 2a. rare before late 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [adjective] corrupting1509 flaring1593 subreptive1599 misrepresentative1735 misrepresenting1754 misdescriptive1903 1599 in Cal. MSS Marquis of Salisbury (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1902) IX. 202 (modernized text) Since we knew not his authority to be other than subreptive, we appealed formally to the supreme power. 1888 Bihang till Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13 63 It was Schynvoet's silence on this subreptive illustration that caused Linnæus to give the species a world-wide habitat. 1911 tr. A. de Montor Lives of Popes VII. 82 That brief was denounced by the treasury of Spain as obreptive and subreptive. 1993 E. S. Casey Getting back into Place 323 Models of time..tacitly borrow traits from place in various subreptive manners. 2008 Copley News Service (Nexis) 4 Jan. A significant portion of the advertising..is exploitive, phony, subreptive and pure bald-faced tommyrot. 2. Philosophy. In Kantian philosophy: characterized by or involving subreption (subreption n.1 3). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [adjective] > of or relating to Kantianism and its adherents dialectical1788 Kantian1796 synthetical1796 synthetic1819 multiplex1838 multiple1839 tri-logicala1856 pre-Kantian1866 dialectic1872 subreptive1877 criticist1878 category1901 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 151 ‘Many conceptions’, he [sc. Kant] says, ‘arise in our minds from some obscure suggestion of experience, and are developed..without any clear consciousness of the experience that suggests or the reason that develops them. These conceptions..may be called subreptive [Ger. Solche Träume kann man erschlichene nennen]’. 1900 B. E. Meyer tr. H. Höffding Hist. Mod. Philos. II. vii. ii. 44 Kant adduces here very important examples of such incomplete or subreptive concepts. The first is the concept of spirit employed by Descartes, Leibniz, and Wolff. 1989 W. Carl in E. Förster Kant's Transcendental Deductions 22 Kant asserts that..sensible intuition leads only to subreptive concepts of the intelligible world. 2009 P. Redding Continental Idealism iv. 59 To mix intuitive elements into purely conceptual thought gives rise to a fallacy—a fallacy..that Kant first referred to as the subreptive fallacy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1599 |
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