Sentence examples for primitive mentality from inspiring English sources

Works on the supposedly primitive mentality published in the 19th and early 20th century usually presumed that primitive man could not distinguish between plants, animals, and men.

One problem for Vico, which he says took him many years of effort to solve, was that of the nature of primitive mentality.

In earlier anthropology, "primitive mentality" was characterized by the inability to make distinctions, by a sense of "mystic participation" or identity between man, his cosmos, and all other beings.

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl's famous anthropological analysis (1910) of "primitive" mentality influenced Piaget's early research with children and teachers at the Rousseau Institute in the 1920s.

However, some panpsychists say mechanical behaviour is derived from primitive mentality of atoms and molecules as are sophisticated mentality and organic behaviour, the difference being attributed to the presence or absence of complex structure in a compound object.

Metzger did not easily conform to the study of the mentality of an era, a programme that came with the assertion of a primitive mentality.

An unfortunate reality is that the U.S., because of its lack of comprehensive laws, is abetting primitive mentalities.

This primitive cell intelligence or mentality gradually developed into the more complex range of responses by higher animals (e.g., ant experience or pigeon experience) and the limited consciousness of primates such as chimpanzees.

It's time to take Africa out of the "primitive" box in the global mentality, and to put it where we see Southeast Asia today – a source of wealth, growth, and ingenuity, and a major player in the 21st century.

The phenomenologist of religion who probably has had the greatest influence after Otto, partly because he is fairly explicit about method, is Gerardus van der Leeuw (1890 1950), who was somewhat influenced by the French anthropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl Lévy-Bruhl) and his notion of prelogical mentality, which he applied to primitive cultures to distinguish them from civilized cultures.

In practice, searching across entire pages to find so-called "related" words is one of the most ignorant techniques ever thought of on a whim: it might be trivial to search entire pages; however, more advanced techniques are needed beyond today's primitive, low-tech search-engines with the mindless search-all mentality.