Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling or characteristic of a homunculus.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
homunculus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This phenomenon is called "homuncular flexibility."
On the Threshold of the Avatar Era Jaron Lanier 2010
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When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died of a coronary this weekend after 17 years in power, the homuncular tyrant left his country much as he found it—poor and desperately hungry.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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This remark shows that Descartes tried to avoid the so-called “homuncular fallacy,” which explains perception by assuming that there is a little man in the head who perceives the output of the sense organs, and obviously leads to an infinite regress.
Descartes and the Pineal Gland Lokhorst, Gert-Jan 2008
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(There are teleological and homuncular forms of functionalism, which I do not consider here.)
The Identity Theory of Mind Smart, J. J. C. 2007
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Gollum, Mini-Me, James Carville — in their vastly different ways they all promote homuncular vitality.
Never Mind 2004
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Gollum, Mini-Me, James Carville — in their vastly different ways they all promote homuncular vitality.
Never Mind 2004
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Subject: conspiracy to export homuncular material.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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Kevin Bacon gamely plays Nixon's loyal aide, Marine Col. Jack Brennan, and Toby Jones is the president's peculiar, homuncular agent, Swifty Lazar.
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Researchers at the University of Konstanz report "overlap or smearing of the homuncular organization of the representation of the digits in the primary somatosensory cortex"
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