| 释义 |
Idomenian, -enean, a. and n.|aɪdəʊˈmiːnɪən, aɪdəʊmɛˈniːən|
[f. Idomeneus, f. Gr. Ἰδοµενεύς, a king of Crete + -an.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to a race imagined by Thomas Reid, an 18th-c. metaphysician, to have no sense but sight, and to believe that space has only two dimensions.
B. n. A member of this race.
1764T. Reid Inquiry Human Mind vi. 252 ‘The Idomenians,’ saith he, ‘are many of them very ingenious, and much given to contemplation.’ Ibid. 255 The geometry of the Idomenians agrees in every thing with the geometry of visibles. Ibid. 257 A person of great genius, who is looked upon as having had something in him above Idomenian nature. Ibid., The Idomenian faculties were certainly intended for contemplation. Ibid. 258 Every Idomenian firmly believes, that two or more bodies may exist in the same place. 1871A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley x. 400 The invisibility of that sort of distance can thus be proved even to the Idomenian. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 214 One of Reid's Idomenians would frame precisely the same conception of the external world that we do, if he had our intellectual powers. |
