time-binding

American  

[tahym-bahyn-ding] / ˈtaɪmˌbaɪn dɪŋ /

noun

1. the distinctively human attribute of preserving memories and records of experiences for the use of subsequent generations.

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Example Sentences

Finally humanity, the highest known class of life, has time-binding capacity as its characteristic, its discriminant, its peculiar and definitive mark.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

Nature or nature's laws happily cannot be completely deviated from or violated—the time-binding energy cannot be completely suppressed in the time-binding class of life.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

Properly understood, wealth consists of the fruits or products of this time-binding capacity of man.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

It is the fact that humanity is a time-binding class of life where the time-binding capacity or the time-binding energy is the highest function of humanity, including all the so-called mental, spiritual, will, etc., powers.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

It will be a branch of humanology, a branch of Human Engineering; it will be a time-binding ethics, the ethics of the entirely natural civilization-producing energies of humanity.

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred