monocausotaxophilia

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tendency to explain everything as based on a single cause. uncountable
    — There is increasing evidence (Levy 1974, 1984, forthcoming) that it is the exchange of information between right-brain and left-brain modes which constitutes what various researchers have called the human “cognitive imperative, "the 'aha' or 'eureka' moment, monocausotaxophilia, "or the "what is it" syndrome: the human capacity to make sense of the world.

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Coined by Ernst Pöppel, as a joke, but picked up and popularized by others.
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