This is another instance of the synthetic or assimilative phase of scientific thinking.
"How We Think"
John Dewey
Not that, in their fashioning, this fitness for foreign minds is to be a conscious aim; but to be thus attractive and assimilative, is a proof of their breadth and depth-of their high humanity.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
So much "reading" and so much "meditation," even when accompanied by strong assimilative powers, are not, perhaps, the most desirable and necessary tendencies in a writer of verse or of fiction.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009