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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

empathical en · ADJ

Etymology

From empathy + -ical.

Meanings

  1. Pertaining to empathy.
    • In this respect, the standpoint influenced by historical epistemology is close to Hanson's statement that the reconstruction of implicational meanings does not require an empathical identification with beliefs and feelings of the actors; empathy with them is not necessary for proper comprehension of studied culture. 2023, Michal Buchowski, “Via Media: On the Consequences of Historical Epistemology for the Problem of Rationality”, in Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska, editor, Epistemology and History, page 192:
    • For this purpose, the phenomenological notion of an experiential, minimal selfhood is applied to experimental findings regarding the neural constitution of empathical reactions in the brain. 2010, Rebekka A. Klein, “How Do We Know about the Self: Theoretical, Experiential, and Neural?”, in Dirk Evers, Antje Jackelen, Taede Smedes, editor, How Do We Know?: Understanding in Science and Theology, page 59:
    • Suzanne Keen (2007) deals with authors' empathical involvement with fiction in Chapter 5, and in Chapter 6, she also contextualises empathy as a shared social practice. 2014, Maria Nikolajeva, Reading for Learning, page 7:

Forms

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more empathical Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most empathical Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

empathicalism · empathically