SUPERSTITION  迷信

BELIEVE:faith ASSUMED to be NOT BASED ON UNDERSTANDING THINGS.
MYTHBELIEFOLD WIVES' TALELEGENDSTORYUNFOUNDED BELIEFCREDULITYFALLACYDELUSIONILLUSIONMAGICSORCERYINFORMAL HUMBUGHOOEY
Hypernym
  • BELIEVEATTITUDE IN-RELATION-TO a THINK:thought to the effect that this THOUGHT is TRUE.
    • ATTITUDERELATION between a HUMAN who FEELS and PERCEIVED OBJECTS involving a TENDENDY to REACT.
      • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
Old Chinese Criteria
000

Modern Chinese Criteria
迷信

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

Old Chinese Contrasts
Cicero, de divinatione 2.128 distinguishes systematically between superstition and religion: [Nam ut vere loquamur, superstitio, fusa per genis, oppressit omnium fere animos atque hominum imbecillitatem occupavit....Multum enim et nobismet ipsis et nostris profuturi videbamur, si eam fundtus sustulissemus. Nec vero - in enim diligenter intellegi volo - superstitione tollenda religio tollitur. Nam et maiorum instituta tueri sacris cerimoniisque retinendis sapientis est, et esse praestantem aliquem aeternamque naturam, et eam suspiciendam admirandamque hominum generi pulchritudo mundi ordoque rerum caelestium cogit confiteri. Quam ob rem, ut religio propaganda etiam est, quae est iuncta cum cognitione naturae, sic sperstitionis stirpes omnes eiiciendae. "...And therefore just as religion, which is linked to an understanding of nature, must be promoted so the roots of superstition must be pulled up." tr. CH

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 22.41

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    IDOLATRIA

    SUPERSTITIO

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.1091

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 10.633

    SUPERSTITION; ABERGLAUBE

  • Theophrast, Charaktere ( THEOPHRASTUS 1960) p. no. 16

  • Histoire des moeurs ( POIRIER 1991) p. 2.1045-1094

  • Democritus Ridens ( WEBER 1857) p. 3.271

  • Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens ( BAECHTHOLD-STAEUBLI 1987) p. 1.65

  • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 166A

    ABERGLAUBE

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