Procrustean Bed
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Procrustean Bed (plural Procrustean Beds)
- Alternative letter-case form of procrustean bed
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 269:
- The reductionist tendencies and impulses of Jaynes's approach tend to turn history into a Procrustean Bed; the body is mangled to fit the theory.