Definitions
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- noun The science which treats of the origin of ideas.
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- noun The
science dealing with theorigin ofideas .
Etymologies
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ideo- + -geny, compare French idéogénie and English idea, genesis.
Examples
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Where Locke, criticizing the ideogeny of Descartes, and admitting the part of empirical experience in the formation of ideas, left the metaphysical material substance and the metaphysical soul, as realities, uncriticized, Berkeley, developing his position further taught that the supposed existence of the material world was not only indemonstrable, but false.
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Study of origins of ideas. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008