Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being above or beyond organization; not dependent upon organization: noting psychical or spiritual things considered apart from the organisms by or through which they are manifested: as, “the interdependence of organic and superorganic life,”
- Social, with the implication that society is something like a physiological organism, but of a higher mode of coördination.
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- adjective Above or beyond the
organic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes.
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Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes.
The Chicago Blog: Press release: Richerson, Not By Genes Alone 2006
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Moreover, though every intellectual act is accompanied by sensory motion, and especially by some sense representation (phantasma) evoked in the imagination, nevertheless sensation and sensuous representation (phantasma, image) differ essentially from the idea produced in and by the intellect, which is an immaterial, supersensuous and superorganic power or faculty.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Secondarily, and in its logical (epistemological) usage, it designates the theory that all human knowledge is derived exclusively from experience, the latter term meaning, either explicitly or implicitly, external sense-percepts and internal representations and inferences exclusive of any superorganic (immaterial) intellectual factor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Competition and combination are two forms of life association which alternate through the whole organic and superorganic domains.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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They belong to a superorganic system of relations, conventions, and institutional arrangements.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
strev commented on the word superorganic
superorganic me!
November 7, 2009