"primitive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The most economic answer is that they are merely simplistic expressions of the hopes, fears, and doubts that underlie the workings of primitive mentalities anywhere.
- The people have turned their backs on the scientific knowledge and took refuge in the primitive mentality of religion and medieval mysticism.
- Objectivism contends that by upholding reason and the value of the individual, a culture is able to reject the "primitive mentality that cower(s) before the forces of nature" and "the dictates of mystical authorities."
- For example, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl claimed that "the primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development."
- To think of God as a particular being was idolatry and the sign of a primitive mentality.
- People in The Seasons are drawn realistically, with their labors, experiences, cares, and primitive mentality, abounding with mythology.
- His primary field of study involved primitive mentality.
- In a learned but demanding demonstration, the author describes how "the so-called primitive mentality" works.
- He argued against those scholars who sustained that there is a "primitive mentality" distinct from modern methods of thought.
- Such descents, according to a view which Eliot found 'very interesting', allowed the poet privileged access to a primitive mentality.
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