[ Summary ] · Chapter 6.2 : Glossary

Glossary

only available in French and partly in English.

Presentation & Content

Lists of neologisms and key concepts used in this exposé

Forewords

The words of the articles are selected closest to their etymological meaning, their contemporary denotation and according to their least polysemy, while avoiding the terms having too many subjective connotations.

When there is no suitable term or that a similar term is too much connoted or too polysemous, a neologism is forged on a graeco-latin basis.
The use of the neologisms is reduced to the maximum in order to prevent that the texts do become too hermetic.

List of the English keywords

Need (psychobiology) : generic concept used to indicate a whole set of heterogeneous processes, for which the "need" is expressed in a very diverse way.

Bionormed (psychobiology), neologism : from bio (bios, life) and normed (norma, norm : model or criterion to which it is advisable to refer).

Constraint (Phys., geophys.) : Entirety of the forces which, applied to a body, tend to deform it. [ Le Petit Robert électronique, version 1.3, 1997 ] "Constraint" meaning here "entirety of psychic forces inductive of behaviors".

Dyslogy (epistemology) : Gk. dus, expressing the idea of difficulty, of lack and Gk. logia "theory", of logos "speech". Generic concept indicating the whole set of the factors and processes implied in the information processing and likely to be at the origin of errors, distortions or paralogisms in a thought process or a theory.

Emergence : "While certain properties are common to the elementary components of the system, others exist only in the totality of the functioning system : it is called emergence [ … ] the emergent systemism (according to Bunge, Atlan or Paillard) postulates "that the mental emerges from the physical in the meaning of the properties which characterize a system, without then being able to be reduced to the elements which make it up or having existence apart from them (Mr. Jimencz)." Boisacq-Schepens & al. 1994 p5.

Hedodynamy (psychobiology), neologism : Gk. hêdonê, pleasure and Gk. dunamikos, force. The concept meaning : force, movement towards the pleasure.

Hierarchy : Organization of a whole set in a series in which each term is higher than the following one, by a character of normative nature (rating, classification, range, order). Hierarchy of values. Hierarchy of sciences. Moral, intellectual hierarchy. [ Le Petit Robert électronique, version 1.3, 1997 ]

Neurostructural (psychobiology), neologism : Emergent process, underlain by a structure (or a network of structures) whose anatomo-functional organization is specific to this process (i.e. the structural element produces only one principal type of functional element) (example : The process of orientation would be mainly underlain by the higher colliculi).

Organismic (psychobiology) neologism : 1. Level of organization of the organism as a functional system. 2. Relating to the organism taken as a whole.

Structuralist : Adjectival form of the substantive "Structuralism"

Structuralism : Theory according to which the study of a category of facts must mainly consider the structures. The structuralism of the psychology of the form (cf Gestalt), of modern linguistics (including generative linguistics), of social sciences. [ Le Petit Robert électronique, version 1.3, 1997 ]

Structurology : Structurology is the science of structures, in other words of the arrangement of the various parts constituting a unit. [ Le Petit Robert électronique, version 1.3, 1997 ]