Definition of Mentalistic

1. Adjective. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to mentalism. ¹

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Definition of Mentalistic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mentalistic

mental status schedule
mental strain
mental symphysis
mental synthesis
mental telepathist
mental test
mental testing
mental tubercle
mental unsoundness
mentalese
mentaleses
mentalis
mentalism
mentalisms
mentalist
mentalistic (current term)
mentalists
mentalities
mentality
mentalité
mentalization
mentalize
mentalized
mentalizes
mentalizing
mentally
mentally challenged
mentally disabled persons
mentally ill
mentally retarded

Literary usage of Mentalistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"But yet this fact does not in any sense support a mentalistic interpretation; in fact we believe it even argues for an objectivistic interpretation. ..."

2. Lectures on the Philosophy of Kant and Other Philosophical Lectures & Essays by Henry Sidgwick (1905)
"The mentalistic Empiricist, on the other hand, maintains that nothing can be immediately known except mental facts, consciousness or feeling of some kind ..."

3. Philosophy, Its Scope and Relations: An Introductory Course of Lectures by Henry Sidgwick, James Ward (1902)
"although his method of obtaining knowledge does not enable him to decide between the alternatives. Even if he is an Empiricist of a mentalistic or ..."

4. Modern Nirvanaism by William Danmar (1914)
"The so-called spiritualistic theory of "spirits" is mentalistic but in the sense of supernaturalistic mentalism, as a part of the dualism of "matter and ..."

5. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"Such a warning is doubtless superfluous from the standpoint of our exposition but the mentalistic way of looking at the matter is so prevalent that we ..."

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