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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

mneme

/nee-mee/US // ˈni mi //

姆尼姆

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
    • : Classical Mythology. the Muse of memory, one of the original three Muses.

Examples

  • The sum of the hereditary and individual engrams thus produced in a living organism is designated by the term mneme.

  • Semon also shows that the phenomena of regeneration in the embryo, as well as those of the adult, obey the law of the mneme.

  • The mental faculties of animal species, as well as their physical characters, depend on their ancestral hereditary mneme.

  • I refer the reader to what has been said concerning the mneme (Chapter I).

  • There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno.

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