| Anselmian | Of or pertaining to St. Anselm (1033 – 1109), Archbishop of Canterbury… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| apanthropinization | Withdrawal from preoccupation with what relates to man. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| apperceptive | Pertaining to or involving apperception; also = appercipient adj.; apperceptive mass = apperception mass at apperception n. 3b. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| applicational | Chiefly Logic and Philos. Relating to or involving the use of a symbol or word to stand for or refer to a thing. Now rare. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| arational | That does not purport to be rational; not governed by the laws of reason, non-rational. Also ellipt. as n. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| audile | A person in whom auditory images are predominant over motile and visual presentations. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| categorial | Relating to, or involving, categories, spec. in Logic and Linguistics. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| co-determinant | One of a set of determining factors. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| cognitivist | One who holds that moral judgements are true or false statements about moral facts. | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| commutativeness | Commutativity. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| compresent | Present together; co-present. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| contentless | Void of content or meaning. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| contextless | Lacking a context. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| contra-attitude | An attitude of aversion or rejection, as contrasted with a pro-attitude. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| contraconscientious | = contra-conscient adj. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| co-personal | Belonging to the same person. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| counterfactual | Pertaining to, or expressing, what has not in fact happened, but might, could, or… | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| de-emotionalize | trans. To render emotionless. | 1942 | Go To Quotation |
| derealize | To deprive of reality, make unreal. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| desubstantialize | trans. To make less substantial; to take away reality from. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| developmentalism | Belief in development or evolution; evolutionism. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| diagrammatize | trans. To put into the form of a diagram; to exhibit in a diagram. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| discursivity | = discursiveness n. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| empirio-criticism | The philosophy of Richard Avenarius (1843 – 96), a form of positivism consisting primarily… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| engram | A memory-trace; a permanent and heritable physical change in the nerve tissue of the… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| environmentally | With reference to or by means of one's surroundings, physical context, or particular environment. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| epistemological | Pertaining to epistemology n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| epistemologically | In an epistemological manner; with reference or in regard to epistemology. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| explicand | = explicandum n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| explicans | The explanatory part of an explanation; in the analysis or explication of a concept… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| explosibility | Liability to explode. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| extensivist | An advocate of the view that perception of spatial form or extension (extension n. 7b)… | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| extrospective | Not introspective; regarding external objects rather than one's own thoughts and feelings. Cf. extraspective adj. 2. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| false memory | The reporting as a memory of an event that did not occur; (now) spec. the… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Fascistic | Of or pertaining to Fascism or Fascists; having Fascist ideals. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| feltness | The quality or state of being felt. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| finitist | An exponent or adherent of finitism. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| fixate | trans. To fix; to render stable. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| free-associate | intr. To indulge in free association. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| Grübelsucht | A form of obsession in which even the simplest facts are compulsively queried. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Husserlian | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Husserl or his work. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| idempotency | = idempotence n. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| idiographic | Concerned with the individual, relating to or descriptive of single and unique facts and processes. Opposed to nomothetic adj. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| inductivist | One who follows or upholds inductivism or inductive methods; one who holds that the… | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| intensionalist | Of or pertaining to the intensional attributes of a concept. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| intensivist | Psychol. An advocate of the view that perception of spatial form can be accommodated… | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| internetwork | An interconnecting network; esp. a network consisting of or interconnecting a number of smaller computer networks. | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| interpolatory | Serving to interpolate. | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| interpretativeness | The quality or condition of being interpretative. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| intransformable | Not transformable; incapable of transformation. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| introspectionistic | = introspectionist n. c. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| irrelated | = irrelate adj. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| judicatum | (See quots.) | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| kinesimeter | An instrument for investigating the properties of different areas of the skin, by which… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| kultur | the history of the cultural development (of a country, etc.); history of civilization. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| lebensraum | Territory which the Germans believed was needed for their natural development (now Hist.). Also transf. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| lifestyle | A style or way of living (associated with an individual person, a society, etc.); esp.… | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| liminal | spec. in Psychol. Of or pertaining to a ‘limen’ or ‘threshold’. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| logistician | One skilled in logic or logistics. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| manipulatee | A person who is manipulated or easily influenced; a victim of manipulation. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| Mapuche | A member of any of the Araucanian Indian peoples of central Chile and Argentina. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| materiature | Esp. in Hegelian philosophy: that which constitutes materiality. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| maximally | In or to the maximum degree. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Meinongian | Of, relating to, or characteristic of Meinong or his philosophical theories, esp. his… | 1950 | Go To Quotation |
| mentalistic | In Philos., Psychol., Linguistics, etc.: of or relating to the theory of mentalism (see mentalism n. 2). | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| metacharacter | Philos. The character of a concept, etc., in a metalanguage; metalinguistic character. rare. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| metageometry | Non-Euclidean geometry. Also as a count noun. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| metalanguage | A language or set of terms used for the description or analysis of another language.… | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| metamathematician | An expert in or student of metamathematics. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| meta-metalanguage | A language used to describe a metalanguage. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| metastatement | A statement giving information about another statement. | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| meta-talk | Originally: any higher-order discussion about language. Now usually: hidden… | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| metatheological | Of or relating to metatheology (metatheology n. 2). Also: beyond or outside (the scope of) theology. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| Mill's Methods | With pl. concord. The principles or canons of inductive inquiry for discovering… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| mind-brain | Of, designating, or relating to the mind and the brain, or to the relation of mind to brain. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| mini-language | A subset of a language; (Computing) a subset of a programming language. Also: a form… | 1970 | Go To Quotation |
| misemphasis | Incorrect emphasis. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| modernizing | That modernizes or brings up to date. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| monadistic | Philos. Of or relating to monadism. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| monadological | Of or relating to monadology. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| monadologically | In a monadological manner; with respect to monads. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| moneric | = moneran adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| monodromic | Relating to or exhibiting monodromy (monodromy n. 1). Also (of a function): having a single value for each value of the variable. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| monoideistic | Relating to, characterized by, or characteristic of monoideism. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| mutationism | The view that mutation, rather than natural selection, is the main driving force in evolution; esp. = mutation theory n. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| mutilative | Causing or involving mutilation. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| mutualizing | The action of mutualize v.; mutualization. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| myophysics | The physical (chiefly electrical) aspects of muscular activity; the study of this. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| mythogenesis | The creation of myths. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Aristotelian | Of, designating, or relating to a new or modern form of, or a revival of, Aristotelianism. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-critical | Of or relating to a new or revised critical theory or theory of criticism; spec. neo-Kantian. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-criticist | A proponent or supporter of a new or revised form of critical philosophy; esp. neo-Kantianism. Also as adj. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Kantian | Of, relating to, or designating philosophers or philosophical ideas reviving… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Kantianism | A revival or development of Kantian thought. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Kantism | = neo-Kantianism n. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-scholastic | Of, relating to, or characteristic of neo-scholasticism. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-scholasticism | Revived, renewed, or modernized scholasticism; esp. the revival and renewal… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| neuroplasm | A substance believed to constitute nerves or nerve tissue. Obs. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| neutralistic | Characterized by a neutralist attitude; of the nature of neutralism. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| new realism | An early 20th cent. reaction against the dominant idealist metaphysics of the 19th… | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| new realist | A supporter or advocate of new realism. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Nietzschean | Of, characteristic of, or associated with Nietzsche or his views. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| non-associative | Chiefly Psychol. Not relating to or characterized by association, esp. the association of ideas (cf. associative adj. 2). | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| non-core | That is not, or is not regarded as, an essential or core element. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| non-egotistical | Not intrusive in the display of one's own personality or interpretation; not centred… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| non-finality | The state or condition of not being final. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| non-judgemental | That does not involve the exercise of judgement; that is not inclined to make moral judgements. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| non-naturalistically | In a non-naturalistic manner. | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| non-person | Christian Church and Judaism. A being which is not a person; esp. God. rare. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| non-personal | Not personal; (Grammar) that does not relate to or designate any of the three grammatical persons. Cf. impersonal adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| non-realist | A person who is not a realist, esp. someone who is not an advocate of a realist philosophy; a nominalist or idealist. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| non-relational | Not relational; (Computing) of, relating to, or designating a database that is not… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| nonverbally | In a non-verbal manner; without the use of words. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| normalism | The quality or state of being normal; belief in or adherence to a norm. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| nothing-but-ism | An oversimplistic approach to the explanation of a phenomenon, which excludes… | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| nothing-buttery | = nothing-but-ism n. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| observationalist | Adhering to observationalism; practising observational as opposed to theoretical work… | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| one–many | Designating a correspondence or relation in which each member of one set is associated… | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| ontic | Of or relating to entities and the facts about them; having or relating to real as… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| optotype | A type or letter of definite size used for testing acuteness of vision; a test-type. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Ouspenskian | Of, relating to, or characteristic of the ideas and works of Ouspensky, esp. his work on… | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| over-prepare | trans. To prepare to an excessive extent. Freq. in pass. Also occas. intr. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| oversimplification | The action of oversimplifying something; an instance of this; a representation… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| palpating | That palpates something. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pangeometry | N. Lobachevsky's term for: non-Euclidean geometry. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| parallelizing | The action of parallelize v. Cf. parallelization n. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| parapsychical | Of, relating to, or characterized by latent or unconscious psychic processes. rare. disused. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| parascience | The field of study concerned with phenomena assumed to be beyond the scope of… | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| partyness | Party character or spirit; partisanship, devotion to the principles of a party, esp.… | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| patternization | Arrangement in a pattern; the fact of conforming to a pattern. Cf. patternation n. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| Peirce | In the genitive. Designating the theories, methods, or discoveries of Charles… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| Peircean | Of or relating to Charles Sanders Peirce (see Peirce n.), or his theories, methods, or discoveries. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| perseverative | Of, relating to, or of the nature of perseveration. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| petitio | = petitio principii n. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| photism | A subjective sensation of colour or light, esp. one occurring in association with… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| placentate | Of or relating to a placenta; characterized by the development of a placenta; placental. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| postdict | trans. To assert or imply something about (something in the past or the present). | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| post rem | Used postpositively: subsequent to the existence of, or logically posterior to, something else. Also as adv. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| preconceptual | Occurring or existing before development of the ability to conceptualize. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| preconsciousness | The state or condition of being preconscious; the preconscious part of the mind. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-critical | Previous to the critical treatment of a subject; prior to critical analysis, or the… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| prelogical | Preceding or prior to the development of logic or logical reasoning; (Physical Anthropol.… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| presentedness | The fact of an object, etc., being presented or given; (esp. in the philosophy of C. D.… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| preterminal | Preceding the end, conclusion, or terminal state of something; spec. preceding death. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| pro-attitude | A favourable or positive attitude (such as approval, pleasure, satisfaction… | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| projectionism | The theory that some apparent properties of objective reality in fact belong to the mind… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| propaideia | Preliminary teaching or education; an instance of this. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| propositionalist | A person who is concerned with logical propositions; a person given to considering… | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| protanopic | Affected by protanopia; of or relating to protanopia. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudo-proposition | A spurious proposition; (Philos.) a sentence, etc., which is presented as meaningful but… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudosexual | Of or relating to pseudosex; spec. relating to or designating activity regarded as… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| psychoacoustics | With sing. concord. The branch of science dealing with auditory perception (the perception of sound, including speech). | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| psychogenetic | Of or relating to psychogenesis (in various senses) or psychogenetics. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| rebalancing | The action or an act of rebalancing something. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| relationing | That establishes relations between things. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| retributivist | A believer in or advocate of retributive justice, esp. in punishment for wrong or illegal acts. | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| Russellian | An advocate or adherent of Russell's theories. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| Rylean | Of, relating to, or characteristic of Ryle's theories or his approach to linguistic philosophy or philosophical behaviourism. | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| self-transcendence | Transcendence or surpassing of oneself or one's limitations; the achievement of or… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| sense-datum | Whatever is the immediate object of any of the senses, usually, but not always… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| significs | A proposed scientific discipline and educational method based upon the importance of… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| sociometry | The study of the structure of groups, esp. by statistical analysis of the interrelations between members of a social group. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| solipsistic | = solipsist adj. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| spatialism | Philos. (See quot. 1935) rare. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| stabilization | The action or process of stabilizing. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| stabilized | Prevented from oscillating or moving. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| substantivism | A system or method of analysis founded on experience, evidence, and observation, in… | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| substantivist | A person who advocates a doctrine, system, or method of analysis founded on… | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| summatively | Additively, cumulatively. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| time frame | A conceptual framework or frame of reference within which the time-related aspects of something may be considered. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| time series | The sequence of events which constitutes or is measured by time. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| transempirical | Pertaining to things beyond the range of experiential knowledge; metempirical. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| trans-subjective | That transcends or is beyond subjective or individual experience as such. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| tumescent | Becoming tumid, swelling; somewhat tumid; also fig. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| unbiological | Not such as occurs in the course of nature, as studied in biology. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| ungrown-up | Not grown-up; immature. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| upness | The quality of being elevated or raised. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| verbalistic | Of, pertaining to, or characterized by verbalism. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| verificationist | Of, pertaining to, or supporting verificationism. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| well-integrated | | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| Whiteheadian | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the English mathematician and philosopher A. N. Whitehead (1861 – 1947) or his ideas. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| Wittgensteinian | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Wittgenstein, or his theories or methods. | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
