ideational
IPA: aɪdiˈeɪʃʌnʌɫ
adjective
- Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses.
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Examples of "ideational" in Sentences
- The Criten leaped for the ideational air-lock and activated the mechanism.
- Balancing ambition with feasibility, ideational goals with material costs, has been perhaps the highest realist doctrine.
- He inserted it into the space between another drawer and the side of the file cabinet, turned the key, and opened an ideational trap door.
- How far might ideas that some see as “distinct and simple” be viewed by others as mere labels for points in a vast framework of ideational potential?
- If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing.
- Given that something as basic as colour is actually an ideational impression, a semiotic artifice composed of arbitrary aesthemes, this just reads to me as essentialist philosophy contradicted by real science.
- On a wider, ideational definition of national self-interest, a state's self-interest is determined not only by its material interests, such as economic gain, but also by its identities, principles, and shared values, such as the promotion of democracy, freedom, and human rights.
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