Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sending out; emission.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sending out; emission.
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- noun obsolete
Emission .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bacon employs al-Kindī's theory of extramission in order to explain magic as a purely natural phenomenon (in De secretis operibus artis et naturae).
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008
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Dr. Ross says his findings move "human ocular extramission," which he also refers to as an "eyebeam," from the realm of superstition to science.
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“intromission” view, and the view that fuses extramission with intromission; views identified mostly with Aristotle's
Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008
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Thus, the De Aspectibus shows that al-Kindî favored an extramission view of vision, in which rays extend from the eyes to make contact with an object, enabling a person to see it. [
Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008
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According to the extramission theory, which was developed by such thinkers as Plato, Galen, Euclid, and Ptolemy, our eyes are more than the passive recipients of images.
The Extremely Real Science behind the Basilisk’s Lethal Gaze | JSTOR Daily Jonathan Aprea 2019
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