"obliterative assimilation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, Robert Stone Newsom, The Assimilation and Retention of Hierarchically Structured Prose Materials, page 15",
          "text": "The forgetting of knowledge or obliterative assimilation may be viewed as the gradual and spontaneous dissolution of new ideas from their anchoring ideas.",
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          "ref": "2011, Norbert M. Seel, Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, page 387",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2020, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Familial Feeling, page 274",
          "text": "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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        "The assimilation of new knowledge that causes changes to one's existing mental framework for organizing that knowledge."
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          "ref": "1970, Robert Stone Newsom, The Assimilation and Retention of Hierarchically Structured Prose Materials, page 15",
          "text": "The forgetting of knowledge or obliterative assimilation may be viewed as the gradual and spontaneous dissolution of new ideas from their anchoring ideas.",
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          "text": "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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