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Definition of Mnemic
1. relating to the mneme [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mnemic
Literary usage of Mnemic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Aspects of Human Problems by Christian Archibald Herter, Susan Dows Herter (1911)
"That the mnemic conception of heredity operates to rehabilitate this factor in
... And never has the bearing of the mnemic theory on natural selection been ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"The mnemic Theory. If the mnemic theory is compared with Weismann's views it ...
The mnemic theory assumes that the determinants of morphological change are ..."
3. Essays in Scientific Synthesis by Eugenio Rignano (1918)
"IV ON THE mnemic ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE AFFECTIVE TENDENCIES IF we study the "
behaviour " of the different organisms from the unicellular to man, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"The second part is devoted to mnemic sensations and describes first the vanishing
of the original and the persistence of the ..."
5. The Sexual Question: A Scientific, Psychological, Hygenic and Sociological Study by Auguste Forel (1908)
"This is how the mnemic principle allows us to conceive the possibility of an
infinitely slow heredity of characters acquired by individuals, ..."
6. The Philosophy of Humanism and of Other Subjects by Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (1922)
"It is an advance towards the explanation of facts when he tells us that for him
mnemic phenomena comprise that large class of responses of the organism ..."
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