Meaning of autoimitation | Babel Free

Definitions

The imitation of oneself.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Thiemich mentions cases of hysteria in children in which the symptoms of a preceding organic affection are continued by autoimitation long after the original condition has returned to normal.”

“The essential process⟳ is the copying of one's own⟳ action and not the action of some one else. It is thus seen that all imitation is of the reflex type⟳, and fundamentally all imitation is autoimitation.”

“Imitation and autoimitation are certain forms of behaviour, and hence imitationism is a proposal to reduce⟳ inner experience⟳ (introspection) to external experience⟳ (extraspection) via a translation of psychological statements into sentences about corresponding imitations or autoimitations; […]”

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