Hartleian, a. and n.
(hɑːtˈliːən, ˈhɑːtlɪən)
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the doctrines of David Hartley (1705–57), regarded as the founder of the English associationist school of psychologists. B. n. One of the Hartleian school.
| 1803 Edin. Rev. I. 476 The unnecessary complication of the Hartleyan theory. 1817 Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1882) 57 This Caput mortuum of the Hartleian process has been rejected by his followers. 1859 J. Martineau Ess., etc. (1891) III. 564 The thorough-faced Hartleyian walks through these startling paradoxes. |