英语词汇“thinking substance”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

thinking substance n. Philosophy a substance (substance n. 2) that is capable of thought or consciousness; an entity that thinks, a mind; (also as mass noun) mind, spirit.

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1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iii. 22 If we defaecate the notion from materiality, and abstract quantity, locality and all kind of corporeity from it, and represent it to our thoughts..as the admir'd Des-Cartes expresses it, une chose qui pense, as a thinking substance.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding xii. 73 It can have no other Ideas of sensible Qualities, than what come from without by the Senses; nor any Ideas of other kind of Operations of a thinking Substance, than what it finds in it self.

1711 B. Mandeville Treat. Hypochondriack & Hysterick Passions 134 The Spirits that are the Internuncii, between the immaterial Thinking substance, and those parts are none of the coursest.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xix. 167 The great difference between the most acute and the most obtuse understanding,—was from no original sharpness or bluntness of one thinking substance above or below another.

1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 99 The etherialised medium of force, which probably connects the brain with the thinking-substance.

2006 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 23 Oct. Descartes, whose most enduring contribution to modern thought was his argument that reality consisted of two entirely different substances: material substance (res extensa) and thinking substance (res cogitans).

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释义	> as lemmas thinking substance thinking substance n. Philosophy a substance (substance n. 2) that is capable of thought or consciousness; an entity that thinks, a mind; (also as mass noun) mind, spirit. ΚΠ 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iii. 22 If we defaecate the notion from materiality, and abstract quantity, locality and all kind of corporeity from it, and represent it to our thoughts..as the admir'd Des-Cartes expresses it, une chose qui pense, as a thinking substance. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding xii. 73 It can have no other Ideas of sensible Qualities, than what come from without by the Senses; nor any Ideas of other kind of Operations of a thinking Substance, than what it finds in it self. 1711 B. Mandeville Treat. Hypochondriack & Hysterick Passions 134 The Spirits that are the Internuncii, between the immaterial Thinking substance, and those parts are none of the coursest. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xix. 167 The great difference between the most acute and the most obtuse understanding,—was from no original sharpness or bluntness of one thinking substance above or below another. 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 99 The etherialised medium of force, which probably connects the brain with the thinking-substance. 2006 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 23 Oct. Descartes, whose most enduring contribution to modern thought was his argument that reality consisted of two entirely different substances: material substance (res extensa) and thinking substance (res cogitans). extracted from thinkingadj. < as lemmas
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