A term used by Clement of Alexandria to mean a type of thought or memory that reflects aspects of the thought process relative to being human. (See "Stromata" Bk VIII by Clement of Alexandria) "But, in truth, Procatarctic causes (thoughts) are more than one both generically and specifically; as, for example, cold, weakness, fatigue, dyspepsia, drunkenness, generically, of anydisease; and specifically, of fever. But Synectic causes are so, generically alone, and not also specifically....Further, of causes, some are apparent; others are grasped by a process of reasoning; others are occult; others are inferred analogically". (See also; Procatarctic)