ideational

Example Sentences

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“My doctoral thesis happens to be on one of the ideational foundations of American society, the rebbe of the Founding Fathers”—John Locke.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Disgust was unlike the other three responses in one peculiar fashion: It could be motivated primarily by ideational factors — by what a person knew, or thought she knew, about the object at hand.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

In 1712, Joseph Addison assumed his readers were acquainted with the “great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy” regarding the ideational nature of perception.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2015

Yigal Amir may have acted alone, as he told police, but he had many ideational conspirators.

From Time Magazine Archive

Failure may result either from weakness in the power of ideational representation of objects, or from the inadequacy of the associations themselves, or from both.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson