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IDEOLOGY
1. The science of ideas.
2. A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation.
By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, ideologie . . . Has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation.
Origin: Ideo-: cf. F. Ideologie.
Source: Websters Vocabulary