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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
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The meaning of blooming
the meaning of blooming
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
The idea that natural selection has endowed humans with a universal complex mind has received support from other quarters. Child psychologists no longer believe that the world of an infant is a blooming, buzzing confusion, because they have found signs of the basic categories of mind (such as those for objects, people, and tools) in young babies.
In this passage I’m not quite sure what the underlined ‘blooming’ means.
When I googled, I found out that a philosopher, William James used this phrase to describe the newborn infant as follows:
The brilliant philosopher and the "father of psychology", William James, offered his famous view in 1890 in his book, The Principles of Psychology. He described the mental experience of the newborn infant as a, "blooming, buzzing, confusion," meaning that at first, infants do not experience the world like adults (or even children) do, populated with distinguishable objects and surfaces that possess features such as size, color, shape, and meaning.
If this description is right, ‘blooming’ in this context probably mean ‘obscure’ but dictionary didn’t help to solve my question.
Can you give me your definition of this tricky word and, if possible, another example sentence?
Regards.
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
The idea that natural selection has endowed humans with a universal complex mind has received support from other quarters. Child psychologists no longer believe that the world of an infant is a blooming, buzzing confusion, because they have found signs of the basic categories of mind (such as those for objects, people, and tools) in young babies.
In this passage I’m not quite sure what the underlined ‘blooming’ means.
When I googled, I found out that a philosopher, William James used this phrase to describe the newborn infant as follows:
The brilliant philosopher and the "father of psychology", William James, offered his famous view in 1890 in his book, The Principles of Psychology. He described the mental experience of the newborn infant as a, "blooming, buzzing, confusion," meaning that at first, infants do not experience the world like adults (or even children) do, populated with distinguishable objects and surfaces that possess features such as size, color, shape, and meaning.
If this description is right, ‘blooming’ in this context probably mean ‘obscure’ but dictionary didn’t help to solve my question.
Can you give me your definition of this tricky word and, if possible, another example sentence?
Regards.
Top answer
It is not so tricky. 'Blooming' just means 'beginning to grow and reveal itself'. Babies experience a wide array of unknown shapes, colours and sounds as the world 'blooms' for them.
- It is not so tricky.
- 'Blooming' just means 'beginning to grow and reveal itself'.
- Babies experience a wide array of unknown shapes, colours and sounds as the world 'blooms' for them.
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It is not so tricky. 'Blooming' just means 'beginning to grow and reveal itself'. Babies experience a wide array of unknown shapes, colours and sounds as the world 'blooms' for them.
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