mnemic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- mnemically adverb
Example Sentences
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What we know is that memory, and mnemic phenomena generally, can be disturbed or destroyed by changes in the brain.
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
But if psychology is to be independent of physiology, and if physiology can be reduced to physics, it would seem that mnemic causation is essential in psychology.
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
It is therefore a mnemic phenomenon according to our definition.
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
Some of them will concern us later, but for the present it is the fundamental character of mnemic phenomena that is in question.
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
We should, therefore, be compelled to allow the intrusion of mnemic causation, if admitted at all, into non-psychological regions, which ought, one feels, to be subject only to causation of the ordinary physical sort.
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
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