Crossword-Solution: ASSOCIATIONISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Associationism | n. | The doctrine or theory held by associationists. |
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| the theory which considers association of ideas to be the basis of all mental activity | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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EVNIID
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with ASSOCIATIONISM (5)
CHAPTER VII FREEDOM OF THE WILL Spirit of man revolts from physical and psychological determinism--Former examined and rejected--The latter more subtle--Vice of "associationism"--Psychology without a self.
Such statements do not help to solve the difficulty at all, for they avoid it and attempt to conceal it; they are due to a conception of mind which is both false and mischievous, viz., Associationism.
XIV ERRORS ARISING FROM THE CONFUSION BETWEEN PHYSIC AND AESTHETIC Critique of aesthetic associationism--Critique of aesthetic physic-- Critique of the theory of the beauty of the human body--Critique of the beauty of geometrical figures--Critique of another aspect of the imitation of nature--Critique of the theory of the elementary forms of the beautiful--Critique of the search for the objective conditions of the beautiful--The astrology of Aesthetic.
The efforts of the associationists (the usurpers of to-day in the field of Aesthetic) to emerge from the difficulty, and to reaffirm in some way the unity which has been destroyed by their principle of associationism, are highly instructive.
This theory was refuted by the same objection which destroyed aesthetic associationism in general: speech is unity, not multiplicity of images, and multiplicity does not explain, but presupposes the existence of the expression to explain.