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obliterative assimilation

noun

Definitions

  1. The assimilation of new knowledge that causes changes to one's existing mental framework…

    The assimilation of new knowledge that causes changes to one's existing mental framework for organizing that knowledge.

    • The forgetting of knowledge or obliterative assimilation may be viewed as the gradual and spontaneous dissolution of new ideas from their anchoring ideas.
    • We cannot continue simply to assume a humanistic paternalistic empathy with the suffering of "Others" that Hartman characterises as the "obliterative assimilation of empathy" which quickly becomes self-indulgent.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for obliterative assimilation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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