ideogenetic

English

Etymology

From ideo- +‎ -geny +‎ -etic.

Adjective

ideogenetic (not comparable)

1. (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 […]

Related terms

• ideogeny

Further reading

• “ideogenetic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “ideogenetic”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.