Catascopic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Related to spying or scouting.

    "To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments."

  2. 2
    Related to aerial photography.

    "New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...])."

  3. 3
    Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context.

    "The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole."

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"To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments."

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