| 单词 |
pre-rational |
| 释义 |
pre-ˈrational, a.
[pre- B. 1.]
Intuitive, instinctive, based on mental processes more primitive than reason.
1903C. A. Strong Why Mind has Body xi. 274 Not reasoning, but some deep pre-rational instinct..is the basis of our belief in other minds. 1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Anal. iii. 39 In our intuitive pre-rational unconsciously based convictions we shall rediscover the beliefs of primitive man. 1921E. Sapir Language ii. 39 We have been assuming that the material of language reflects merely the world of concepts and, on what I have ventured to call the ‘pre-rational’ plane, of images, which are the raw material of concepts. 1936Wirth & Shils tr. Mannheim's Ideology & Utopia iii. 108 A mode of thought is thus created which conceives of history as the reign of pre- and super-rational forces. 1941Mind L. 378 It is, however, pertinent to one central topic, morality as pre⁓rational, rational, and post-rational. 1948P. Tillich Protestant Era p. xxiv, The trend of the younger generation in Europe toward the vital and prerational side of the individual and social life. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation (rev. ed.) iii. 52 This pre-rational phase of individual mental life. |
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