ideogenetic
English
Etymology
From ideo- + -geny + -etic.
Adjective
ideogenetic (not comparable)
- (philosophy) Originating ideas or images. [from early 1900s]
- 1960, Helen Marie Beha, Matthew of Aquasparta's Theory of Cognition
- In such an ideogenetic theory, the mind does not form the species, as Matthew claims, but sensation begins with a reception.
- 2003, Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy (page 64)
- This extreme ideogenetic view would make the function of divine illumination that of a kind of separate active intellect: in fact, God would Himself be an ontologically separate active intellect which infuses ideas into the human mind […]
- 2015, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, The Trinity of Trauma (page 30)
- In his ideogenetic view, these fixed ideas constitute the very heart of the symptoms of the disorder. A patient with traumatic hysteria with a paralyzed leg would thus have developed the fixed idea that his leg had become paralyzed […]
- 1960, Helen Marie Beha, Matthew of Aquasparta's Theory of Cognition
Related terms
- ideogeny
Further reading
- “ideogenetic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “ideogenetic”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.