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folk-psychology

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as ethnopsychology.

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Examples

  • In the meantime, being too polite to be argumentative, we would conclude that all this talk of concepts and whatnot was like trying to do neurosurgery with a butter knife, giving us a folk-psychology about as accurate as explaining a tsunami by reference to Poseidon.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • In the meantime, being too polite to be argumentative, we would conclude that all this talk of concepts and whatnot was like trying to do neurosurgery with a butter knife, giving us a folk-psychology about as accurate as explaining a tsunami by reference to Poseidon.

    Philosophy facilitates the wayfarer’s subsistence Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Carruthers notes the complexity of folk-psychology, along with its success in explaining our behavior and the fact that its explanations appeal to such unobservables as beliefs, desires, feelings and thoughts.

    Rationalism vs. Empiricism Markie, Peter 2008

  • Peter Carruthers (Human Knowledge and Human Nature) argues that we have innate knowledge of the principles of folk-psychology.

    Rationalism vs. Empiricism Markie, Peter 2008

  • From two different directions ideas of folk-psychology have found their way into modern science.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • Wundt's folk-psychology is a continuation of the tradition of these earlier writers.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • The aim of folk-psychology has been, on the whole, to explain the genesis and development of certain cultural forms, i.e., language, myth, and religion.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • The name folk-psychology was first used by Lazarus and Steinthal, _Zeitschrift für

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

  • This question may be of the gravest importance to folk-psychology or to the theory of the evolution of creeds and cults.

    The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

  • This question may be of the gravest importance to folk-psychology or to the theory of the evolution of creeds and cults.

    Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893

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