Meaning of obliterative assimilation | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“The forgetting of knowledge or obliterative assimilation may be viewed as the gradual and spontaneous dissolution of new ideas from their anchoring ideas.”

“This so-called obliterative assimilation contains two kinds of subsumption: a derivative subsumption (i.e., a deductive way of deriving subordinated concepts from superordinate concepts) and a correlative subsumption, which includes learning of new concepts.”

“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.”

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