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1. autokinetical, adj. View full entry 1642
...Having self-generated motion or energy....
2. Cartesian, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Pertaining to Descartes, or to his philosophy or mathematical methods....
3. conarium, n. View full entry 1656
...The pineal gland of the brain (held by Descartes to be the seat of the soul)....
4. extensional, adj. View full entry 1647
...Of, pertaining to, or possessed of extension....
5. externality, n. View full entry 1673
...The quality of displaying itself in external forms....
6. hylo-, comb. form View full entry 1655-87
...The modern formations are either technical terms of natural history (with hylo- = ‘wood’, ‘forest’) or of philosophy (with hylo- = ‘matter’)....
7. inconsistency, n. View full entry 1647
...Want of consistency or congruity; lack of accordance or harmony (with something, or between things); incompatibility, contrariety, or opposition....
8. luciform, adj. View full entry 1668
...Having the character of light, luminous: applied spec. to the ‘vehicle’ of the soul (αὐγοειδὲς ὄχημα) imagined by the Neo-Platonists; occas. to the spiritual body of...
9. materialist, n. and adj. View full entry 1668
...Philos. An adherent of materialism. (In quot. 1807fig.)...
10. monadical, adj. View full entry 1642
...Of the nature of a monad or unit; unitary....
11. noematical, adj. View full entry 1682
...Originating or existing in thought, or in the mind alone; purely intellectual. Obs.rare....
12. noematically, adv. View full entry 1659
...Intellectually. Obs....
13. percipient, n. and adj. View full entry 1659
...Chiefly Philos. A person who or thing which perceives....
14. philosophizer, n. View full entry 1676
...A person who philosophizes....
15. philosophizing, adj. View full entry 1676
...That thinks or argues philosophically; that speculates or theorizes....
16. † plantal, adj. View full entry 1642
...Of or relating to a plant; vegetable, vegetative; (Philos.) belonging to the lowest and simplest kind of life....
17. † pneumatopyrist, n. View full entry 1682
...= psychopyristpsycho-....
18. reflexivity, n. View full entry 1662
...The quality or condition of being reflexive; reflexiveness....
19. reminiscency, n. View full entry 1651
...= reminiscence (in various senses), esp. (in Platonic philosophy) the possession by the soul of innate knowledge acquired in previous existences....
20. tetrad, n. View full entry 1653
...A sum, group, or set of four; four (things, etc.) regarded as a single object of thought....
