ejective

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If so, however, we might begin to wonder whether any expression other than the entirely undirected curse or ejective is actually functionally distinct from the implicit manipulation it goes hand-in-hand with.

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  1. Pertaining to ejection; casting out; expelling. It was the one thing needful, I take it, to prove that the sun is an orb possessing intense eruptive or ejective energy. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 422.
  2. In philosophy, of the nature of an eject. [Recent.] This conception symbolizes an indefinite number of ejects, together with one object which the conception of each eject more or less resembles. Its character is therefore mainly ejective in respect of what it symbolizes, but mainly objective in respect of its nature. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 74.

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  • In a simple ejective such as "Aaah!" we find an articulation targeted on its own agent, operating as a revelation of their state. —  Notes From The Geek Show
  • In its intonation this ejective may express agony or ecstasy, wonder or horror, but the degree to which we can class this as content is marginal at best. —  Notes From The Geek Show
  • If so, however, we might begin to wonder whether any expression other than the entirely undirected curse or ejective is actually functionally distinct from the implicit manipulation it goes hand-in-hand with. —  Notes From The Geek Show
  • An efficient "ejective" feedback mechanism, such as supernova driven winds, must reduce the masses of these progenitors. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • He has enriched it, to be sure; with it he now reads into the other persons the great fact of subjective agency; but still whatever he thinks of them has come by way of his thought of himself, and that in turn was made up from them This view of the other person as being the same in the main as the self who thinks of the other person, is what psychologists mean when they speak of the "ejective" self. —  The Story of the Mind
 

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