aatheist

A weak aatheist is someone who lacks belief in the existence of atheists. A strong aatheist is someone who believes that atheists do not exist. […]
Now. I'm a weak aatheist. That doesn't mean I can't be a theist. I believe my toaster is god. So, I consider myself to be a theist. Most atheist^([sic]) consider me to be a theist when asked off guard. That's because atheists consider "stupid beliefs" to be theisms. So I'm a theist.

1999 August 26, Dr Sinister, “Re: God”, in alt.philosophy.debate (Usenet), message-ID <8E2DF65E7kickass@news.globalserve.net>:

THE LEXICOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE NON-EXISTENCE OF ATHEISTS
As presented by Electro, strong aatheist...
Of all the self-classified people who baldly assert that they are either "weak" or "strong" atheists, the common banner they march under is the statement "We lack belief in gods."
This claim "the lack of belief in gods" has been equated with atheism so often and so many times, that any serious aatheist must examine the claim carefully and for what it is worth.
Let us look at what the alleged atheist claims about himself. He claims to "lack belief in gods." Now, we all know what the word "belief" means. A belief is the statement of something believed. So, what is believing?
[…]
Atheists do not exist.
QED

1999 September 1, Electro, “Re: Introduction to Aatheism”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <19990901121220.08068.00001526@ng-ce1.aol.com>:

[The paragraph below is quoted from http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/godspenman/2010-04-03/it-all-celebration-contradiction — the text below is odin's response.]
"Of course, I do not believe in atheists. I have never met an atheist in my entire life. I have met people who said they were atheists, but I never believed it. Every time an atheist gets in trouble, he blames it on God. Remember 9/11? Now, if he really does not believe in God, why does he blame things on God?"
But Iwould^([sic]) take that up a notch...
Of course, I do not believe in aatheists. I have never met an aatheist in my entire life. I have met people who said they were aatheists, but I never believed it. Therefore, I must be an aaatheist, but I digress. Every time an aatheist gets in trouble, he blames it on an atheist. Remember 9/11? Now, if he really does not believe in atheists, why does he blame things on atheists?

2010 April 4, odin, “Re: Commentary: It is all in the celebration of contradiction”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <546e1729-c244-4692-ac45-c13b9ce8ccc6@z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>:

(informal, humorous) A person who does not believe in the existence of atheists.


podophilic

en-adj

podophilic (comparative more podophilic, superlative most podophilic)

more podophilic (comparative)
most podophilic (superlative)


podophile

A foot fetishist; one who has a foot fetish.


Federal Intelligence Service

the Federal Intelligence Service (canonical)

The Federal Intelligence Services of Switzerland (the collective term for its agencies).

Nachrichtendienst des Bundes

Swiss intelligence community collectively


Löb's theorem

Named after Martin Löb, who formulated it in 1955.

(logic) A theorem stating that, in any formal system F with Peano arithmetic, for any formula P, if it is provable in F that "if P is provable in F then P is true", then P is provable in F.


argumentum ad feminam

en-noun

argumentum ad feminam (plural argumenta ad feminam)

(rhetoric) A faulty argument that simply attacks the woman making a point.


superintuitionistic

The results also apply to other fragments of other superintuitionistic logics under certain conditions. In particular, the exponential lower bounds on the length of intuitionistic EF proofs by Hrube\v{s} \cite{hru:lbint}, generalized to exponential separation between EF and SF systems in superintuitionistic logics of unbounded branching by Je\v{r}\'abek \cite{ej:sfef}, can be realized by implicational tautologies..

2015, Emil Jeřábek, “Proof complexity of intuitionistic implicational formulas”, in arXiv:

intuitionistic logic
intuitionistic logic

(logic) Describing an extended form of intuitionistic logic


hurtcore

(slang) Pornographic material depicting actual rape and abuse.

(usually specifically) Child pornography depicting such.


addressation

The concept of a (deconfining) thermal ground state, composed of certain solutions to the fundamental, classical Yang-Mills equation, allows for a unified addressation of both (classical) wave- and (quantum) particle-like excitations thereof..

2016, Ralf Hofmann, “SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory: Waves, Particles, and Quantum Thermodynamics”, in arXiv:

(philosophy) The identification, by an addresse, of an address of an assertion intended by a speaker


burninate

en-verb

burninate (third-person singular simple present burninates, present participle burninating, simple past and past participle burninated)

burninates (present singular third-person)
burninating (participle present)
burninated (participle past)
burninated (past)

Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons.

Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!

2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.

2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24:

These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.

2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37:

(slang, humorous) To destroy by fire; to burn.


monoamory

Attested since at least 1992, from mono- + Latin amor + -y, possibly modelled on polyamory.

Practice of involving romantic or sexual relationship with a single partner at a time. (especially as contrasted with polyamory).


contradictory antonym

en-noun

contradictory antonym (plural contradictory antonyms)

complementary antonym
complementary antonym#English

(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) complementary antonym


converse antonym

converse antonym (plural converse antonyms)

Converse antonyms describe the same relation or activity from different perspectives, and follow patterns like: if X is p to Y, then Y is q to X. [...]
a. Bill is Madeline's parent. → Madeline is Bill's child.
b. John gives to Oxfam. → Oxfam receives from John.
c. Scotland is above England. → England is below Scotland.

2010, M. Lynne Murphy, Lexical Meaning, page 120:

(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) Either of a pair of terms that name or describe a single relationship from opposite perspectives, such as parent versus child.


katastematic

en-adj

katastematic (comparative more katastematic, superlative most katastematic)

more katastematic (comparative)
most katastematic (superlative)

From Ancient Greek καταστηματικός (katastēmatikós), from καθίστημι (kathístēmi, “to stand still”).

bor

καταστηματικός

The term 'ataraxia' is used in Epicurean philosophy to refer to a type of katastematic pleasure that is engendered by a complete freedom from mental disturbances and worries.

(Epicurean philosophy) Pertaining to a constant state of being, as opposed to a kinetic state (of change).


functionhood

He did not distill the essential idea of functionhood: that to each x in the domain there corresponds a unique y in the range.

1999, William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All, The Mathematical Association of America, published 1999, page 17:

(mathematics, logic, grammar) The state or quality of being a function.


RAT

en-noun

RAT (countable and uncountable, plural RATs)

relevant alternatives theory
w:relevant alternatives theory

(philosophy, uncountable) Initialism of relevant alternatives theory.


egocentric predicament

(philosophy) The problem of not being able to view reality outside of our own perceptions.


speculative realism

(philosophy) A movement in contemporary philosophy that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms correlationism).


pisteology

From Ancient Greek πίστις (pístis, “faith”) + -ology.

The assertion of a receptivity in man, the Catholic-type conception of the gratia preveniens which runs alongside this receptivity, the mystical culmination of this pisteology, are all elements of a speculative basic approach which can even be seen here, in Dorner.

2002, Karl Barth, Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century, page 568:

(philosophy, rare) The science or study of faith.


Archelaus

An Athenian or Milesian philosopher who was preceptor to Socrates, noted for the doctrine that heat and cold are the principles of all things.


plurisexual

From pluri- + sexual, by analogy with monosexual.

Plurisexuals are often interpreted as half gay/half straight due to the prevailing belief that multigendered attractions are temporary, or illusory.

2020, Rosie Nelson, “'What do bisexuals look like? I don't know!' Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals”, in Journal of Sociology, volume 56, number 4, →DOI, page 591:


ordo salutis

(theology) A series of conceptual steps within the Christian doctrine of salvation.


Tian

The pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天 (Tiān).

...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds.

2000, Yao Xinzhong, An Introduction to Confucianism, page 142:

Supreme being in Chinese philosophy and religion. He rules over lesser gods, humankind, and controls the cosmos. The word Tian may also refer to Heaven. As a god, Tian is often seen as an impersonal power...

2003, Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God, s.v. "Tian"::

It was not just the sky, but a god with wills and intentions, seen as sovereign of all... In fact, "Tian" was another reverent term to address the supreme god: "Heaven, for the help of the inferior people, made for them rulers, and made for them instructors" ("Great Declaration I" in the Book of History)...

2018, Zhuo Xinping, Religious Faith of the Chinese, page 58:

(Chinese mythology) Synonym of Heaven: simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.


cyberphilosophical

en-adj

cyberphilosophical (comparative more cyberphilosophical, superlative most cyberphilosophical)

more cyberphilosophical (comparative)
most cyberphilosophical (superlative)


Stucky

A lot of people ship Stucky, and they ship it hard.

2016, Brittani Howell, “#LeaveCapAlone”, in Connect Statesboro, 1 June - 14 June 2016, page 4:

In her 'Domestic Stucky (feat. IKEA)' art project, Kurozawa Shiro decided to draw the characters Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes into a spare IKEA catalogue she had lying around (Stucky is the portmanteau name for the Steve/Bucky pairing).

2017, Francesca Coppa, “Hollywood of Our Own: Media Fandom as Female Artworld”, in Mary Harrod, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, editors, Women Do Genre in Film and Television, unnumbered page:

The Stucky fandom encompasses all kinds of fans, and acts as a vast space for fans to find their preferred content.

2018 December, Alen Ríos, Diego Rivera, “Vulnerability and Trash: Divisions within the Stucky fandom”, in Otherness: Essays and Studies, volume 6, number 1, page 35:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Bucky Barnes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


mobilism

(philosophy) The view that nothing is fixed


immanentism

en-noun

immanentism (usually uncountable, plural immanentisms)

While some, like the early Church Fathers, still viewed it as the prison of the spirit, new emphasis came to be placed on the soul's incarceration in the flesh, the doctrine of immanentism.

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 126:

(philosophy, theology) A doctrine based on immanence, especially the immanence of God.


Tien

(Chinese mythology) Alternative form of Tian: Heaven, simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.


incompatibilistic

(philosophy) Relating to incompatibilism.


Malec

I think the fans of the book are really going to be excited about the "Malec" relationship.

2016, Isaiah Mustafa, quoted in Aleksander Tomovic, "Isaiah Mustafa", Bello, January 2016, page 34

Shadowhunters season 3 has been such a blessing for Malec fans.

2018 May, “Hollywood Tea News”, in Cinespirit Magazine, page 80:

"Malec" shippers will clamor for installments to come.

2019, The Red Scrolls of Magic review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 February 2019, page 143

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from The Shadowhunter Chronicles franchise.


brojob

brojob (countable and uncountable, plural brojobs)

I'm tellin' you man, it ain't gay to give a homie a brojob.

Oh, and one way to tell your “bromance” has grown into a full-on gay relationship: When you're giving each other “brojobs.”

(humorous, slang) Oral sex performed by a straight (or bisexual) man on another straight (or bisexual) man, usually a friend.


definee

[…] by presenting us with another term (the definer) that has the same meaning as the definee. Moreover, a definition does not merely give us a single word that is a synonym of the definee:
"Liberty" means the same as "freedom."

1976, Monroe C. Beardsley, Writing With Reason: Logic for Composition - Page 37:


predicativist

(philosophy, logic) An advocate of predicativism.


predicativism

(philosophy, logic) A philosophical position that definitions of concepts can only use other concepts that don't depend on the concept being defined.


impredicativity

(mathematics, logic) A self-referencing definition.


gentle murder paradox

A paradox of deontic logic, whereby the plausible statements (i) if you murder, you ought to murder gently, (ii) you do commit murder, and (iii) to murder gently you must murder imply the less plausible statement (iv) you ought to murder.


adult baby

(sexuality, ABDL) A person who has a paraphilia involving role-playing a regression to an infant-like state, wearing diapers, etc.


autonepiophilia

/ˌɔːtəʊˌniːpiəʊˈfɪliə/

With one kind of chronophilia called autonepiophilia, sexual arousal and pleasure are dependent on, and responsive to, pretending to be a baby in diapers and having one's sexual partner play along.

2004, Nancy Butcher, The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse:

Infantilism, also known as autonepiophilia (Money, 1986) is a paraphilia characteristic of a masquerade in which an individual is symbolically transformed back to infancy.

2006, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, page 355:

Autonepiophilia is when the paraphilic individual behaves like a child, usually in wearing diapers as a necessary part of sexual activity.

2007, Fouad R. Kandeel, Male Sexual Dysfunction: Pathophysiology and Treatment, page 89:

Paraphilic infantilism with oneself in the role of the infant.


subextensive

Well, it's possible to believe being a dog to be subextensive to barking, but it's also possible to believe barking to be subextensive to being a dog.

2006, Dale Jacquette, Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism, →ISBN:

(philosophy) Indicative of but not fully implying.


appeal to nature

appeal to nature (plural appeals to nature)

An argument and informal fallacy where something is believed to be good because it is natural, or bad because it is unnatural.


protomatter

Perhaps the last named, mass-energy, comes closest to converying the Aristotelian idea of protomatter as the basic stuff of the universe. Whatever quarks may be, or leptons and hadrons in their various forms, it seems generally agreed that all are manifestations of mass-energy, the ultimate matrix to which science seems to have come in identifying the material cause of the universe.

1996, William A Wallace, The Modeling of Nature, →ISBN:

The owl's process of assimilation makes it impossible any longer for the mouse's substantial form to animate the mouse's protomatter, so it is replaced in its functioning by the substantial form of the owl. A mouse can become an owl (or part of an owl) preciesely because there is inherent in the mouse a principle of determinability that includes a capability to be owl. That principle, protomatter, is actualized (by the mouse-form) in the mouse, but is potentiality to be actualized in other ways.

2001, James W. Felt, Coming to Be: Toward a Thomistic-Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Becoming, →ISBN:

Rephrasing Heisenberg's solution, one could say that the explanation of massive, kinetic, and electromagnetic phenomena, all of which may be regarded as real, requires some underlying substrate or ultimate matter or protomatter that itself is real but only in a potential way.

2012, Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky, Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964/1966, →ISBN:

Protomatter is a potential for existence that requires the creative act of a substantial form to bring a particular substance into existence. In other words, although protomatter could exist as any particular substance, substantial form constrains protomatter into a particular substance.

2013, Mark Graves, Insight to Heal: Co-Creating Beauty amidst Human Suffering, →ISBN, page 98:

(philosophy) The ultimate basis of physical substance, before it has been given form.


monadism

monadism (countable and uncountable, plural monadisms)

(philosophy) A metaphysical theory of monads, introduced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, based on elementary particles with blurred perceptions of one another.


counterlegal

(logic, philosophy) That goes against a system of laws, such as the laws of nature.


counterlegal

(logic, philosophy) A proposition that goes against a system of laws.


sociophilosophy

(philosophy) An approach to philosophy based on sociological enquiry.


hard atheism

Coordinate term: soft atheism


soft atheism

Coordinate term: hard atheism

The lack of belief in deities, without actually asserting that there are none.


plurisexuality

plurisexuality (countable and uncountable, plural plurisexualities)

Bisexuality is thought to be the most prevalent plurisexuality but other identities, like pansexuality, are also common.

In participants' experience, youth sexuality was associated with risk for women and girls, with plurisexualities, particularly bisexuality, being equated with promiscuity and health risk

2020, Ruby Grant with Meredith Nash and Emily Hansen, “What does inclusive sexual and reproductive healthcare look like for bisexual, pansexual and queer women? Findings from an exploratory study from Tasmania, Australia”, in Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 257:

Any romantic or sexual orientation which includes attraction to more than one gender.


veristic

en-adj

veristic (comparative more veristic, superlative most veristic)

more veristic (comparative)
most veristic (superlative)

veristic variables

(logic) Having multiple valid solutions.


amatonormative

amatonormative (comparative more amatonormative, superlative most amatonormative)

more amatonormative (comparative)
most amatonormative (superlative)

Amatonormative discrimination is widely practiced. Its existence is not controversial. What is controversial is the claim that it is wrongful discrimination and not simply justified differential treatment—that it is arbitrary and hence, at least in law, unjust.

2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 94:

Both friends explicitly reject the amatonormative assumption that they are potential romantic partners.

2017, Matthew A. Hoffman, Sara Kolmes, “When Clark Met Diana: Friendship and Romance in Comics”, in Jacob M. Held, editor, Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique, page 87:

This is in direct opposition to amatonormative ideas about the "right" way to start a family.

2020, Constance Wilde, “What does it mean to be asexual in an increasingly sexualised world?”, in Lot's Wife, Edition 1 (2020), page 28:

(neologism) Privileging or valuing romantic relationships as fundamental or natural.


Deleuzoguattarian

Deleuzoguattarian (comparative more Deleuzoguattarian, superlative most Deleuzoguattarian)

more Deleuzoguattarian (comparative)
most Deleuzoguattarian (superlative)

/dəˌluːzəʊɡwəˈtɑːɹiən/

Nick Land's essay "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" is a great example of a Deleuzoguattarian critique of capital.

Specifically, Deleuzoguattarian conceptions of nomad subjectivity, embodied in ‘the schizo’ or ‘schizophrenic process’ in Anti-Oedipus, are famously cross-referenced with Beckett's work even on the first two pages of this co-authored volume: […]

2016, Benjamin Keatinge, “Breakdown or Breakthrough?”, in S. E. Wilmer, Audroné Žukauskaitė, editors, Deleuze and Beckett, Springer, →ISBN:

Relating to, or characteristic of the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.


skoliosexual

From Ancient Greek σκολιός (skoliós, “curved, bent”) + -sexual, coined by DeviantArt user Nelde in 2010.


throupling

The act of joining together to form a throuple.


correlationism

(philosophy) The philosophical standpoint, rejected by proponents of speculative realism, that we cannot directly access thinking and being, but only the correlation between them.


correlationist

(philosophy) A proponent of correlationism.


Marcan priority

(theology) The hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was the first-written of the three Synoptic Gospels and was used as a source by the other two (Matthew and Luke).


state of nature

en-noun

state of nature (plural states of nature)

(philosophy, religion, law) The way that people lived before there was any organized society.

luonnontila

the way that people lived before there was any organized society


consanguinamory

From Latin consanguinitas (“blood-relationship”) + amor (“love”) + -y, coined by activist Cristina Shy.

Most US states still have laws against consensual incest (consanguinamory), and in most of them, people do continue to be prosecuted for simply loving each other. Laws against gay sex have been struck down by the Supreme Court. So, gay sex is legal nationwide, consanguinamory isn't.

2012 September 11, “Hollywood director places incest alongside gay marriage”, in San Diego LGBT Weekly:

Consanguinamory (consensual adult incest) is not a crime in the US states of New Jersey and Rhode Island and there has been no problem as a result.

2015 August 17, Endrik Wilhelm, “Lawyer: 'Legalize incest!'”, in Deutsche Welle:

"Consanguinamory," is Shy's term for incestuous relationships, which she says should be legalized and recognized as "marriage."

2016 August 18, James B., “Mother Willing to go to Jail in Fight For Sexual Relationship With Son”, in The Christian Post:

Their founders call themselves advocates and use the word "consanguinamory" to name what they argue is a sexual orientation. They're very up-front about their goal. They want to normalize what they call "consensual" incest and even speak as if their plight were the same as that of other groups who have historically been marginalized for their sexual identity. One day they'll have a float at Pride, or at least they deserve one. They write as if they were sexual minorities who need law and culture changes to protect their marginalized desire, and in forums members adapt language from LGBTQ activism: think "consang-positive," "love is love," and "equal rights".

2022, Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Still in the dark fringy margins are the other two groups who, like polyamorists, have their own spanking new euphemistic names. Those who are in sexual relationships with close relatives have renamed incest "consanguinamory."

2022 February 4, “Incest and Pedophilia Comin’ to Town”, in Family Institute lIlinois:

(neologism, euphemistic) Romantic and/or sexual love between family members; consensual adult incest.


Fenders

"Im going to sleep!" Reads fenders fics on phone until 4am

2015 July 23, Tentacle (@10takler), Twitter:

EVERYBODY SHIPS FENDERS WRONG!!!! less angry makeouts more talking about feelings

2015 August 2, silver stars (@naiakiir), Twitter:

In my Fenders headcanon, Anders accompanies Fenris in Blue Wraith.

2023 June 26, BinkyProd (@BinkyProd), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fenris and Anders from Dragon Age II.


Malebranchist

(philosophy, theology) One who subscribes to Malebranchism.


Zhegalkin polynomial

Zhegalkin polynomial (plural Zhegalkin polynomials)

Named after the Russian mathematician Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin (1869–1947), who introduced them in 1927.

(logic, algebra) A Boolean-valued polynomial formed as a XOR-sum (or "ring sum") of conjunctions.

Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin
Zhegalkin polynomial


ring sum normal form

"Ring sum" refers to a XOR-sum of monomials, where XOR is the additive operator of a Boolean ring.

(algebra, logic) The form of a Boolean formula expressed using only the operators and constants of a Boolean ring (XOR, AND, 0, 1), some variables and possibly also coefficients, and without using any parentheses.


algebraic normal form

"Algebraic" would refer to the fact that a two-element Galois field, 𝔽₂ adjoined with some variables forms a polynomial algebra, 𝔽₂[x_1,...,x_n].

It is well known that every (n,1)-function f can be written uniquely as a multilinear polynomial over #x5C;mathbb#x7B;F#x7D;#x5F;2
#x5C;qquad#x5C;qquad#x5C;qquad#x5C;qquad#x5C;qquadf(x#x5F;1,...,x#x5F;n)#x3D;#x5C;sum#x5F;#x7B;X#x5C;subseteq#x5B;n#x5D;#x7D;#x5C;alpha#x5F;X#x5C;prod#x5F;#x7B;i#x5C;inX#x7D;x#x5F;i.
This polynomial is called the Zhegalkin polynomial or the algebraic normal form (ANF) of f.

2015 September 22, Magnus Gausdal Find, Joan Boyar, “Multiplicative Complexity of Vector Valued Boolean Functions”, in arxiv.org, retrieved 2017-08-10:

ring sum normal form
ring sum normal form


moral realism

(philosophy) The metaphysical belief that morality exists objectively, so that at least some actions, thoughts and behavior are morally good or morally bad.


pseudoservice

pseudoservice (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoservices)

(uncountable, Kantian philosophy) Formal or clerical rituals that are imagined to serve God, as distinguished from genuine good or pleasing actions.


monoletheism

But regardless of the outcome of the debate between the monoletheist (monoletheism being the view that all propositions have at most one truth value) and the dialetheist, it remains the case that Priest’s argument is really just an a posteriori version of this line of reasoning, and as such it is one that is just as acceptable to the Aristotelian or the classical logician as it is to the dialetheist (and the trivialist for that matter).

2008, Paul Priest Kabay, A Defense of Trivialism, page 142:

(philosophy) The idea that every proposition has at most one truth value, synonymous with the Law of Non-Contradiction.


nymphophile

(rare) A hebephile who is attracted to girls.


intrinsic value

intrinsic value (countable and uncountable, plural intrinsic values)

"Intrinsic value has traditionally been thought to lie at the heart of ethics. Philosophers use a number of terms to refer to such value. The intrinsic value of something is said to be the value that that thing has “in itself,” or “for its own sake,” or “as such,” or “in its own right.”

2014, “Intrinsic Value vs. Extrinsic Value”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

“Let me start then, by distinguishing two concepts of intrinsic value. On the one hand, we have the notion of the value that an object has independently of all other objects— the value that an object has in itself. Philosophers sometimes try to get at this kind of value by suggesting that it is the value that an object would have even if it were the only thing existing in the universe. Although this suggestion is not without its difficulties, it points us towards the basic idea that value of this sort must depend solely upon the intrinsic — that is, roughly, nonrelational — properties of the object…This first notion of intrinsic value should be distinguished from a second concept, that of the value that an object has “as an end.” I suppose that the familiar picture at work here goes something like this. Many objects are valued merely as a means to other objects — they are valuable solely in virtue of the fact that they will produce (or help produce) those other objects. Those things valued in this way have “instrumental” value. But what about the objects that the instrumentally valuable objects are means to? In some cases, of course, objects may possess instrumental value by virtue of being means to objects that are themselves of no more than instrumental value (as means to still other objects). But eventually — or so the thought goes — we must reach objects that are valuable as “ends” or “for their own sake.” The objects that come at the end of these chains — those that are desired (or deserved to be desired) for their own sake— have intrinsic value in the second sense of the term."

1998, "Rethinking Intrinsic Value", Shelly Kagan (in The Journal of Ethics)

(philosophy) Non-relational or non-instrumental value, or the value something has in itself, for its own sake, or as such.

itseisarvo

philosophy: non-relational or non-instrumental value


monoletheist

(philosophy) A person who believes in monoletheism.


clausal normal form

clausal normal form (countable and uncountable, plural clausal normal forms)

conjunctive normal form
conjunctive normal form#English

(logic) Synonym of conjunctive normal form


criteriology

But it seems otherwise with reasoning as viewed by criteriology.

1991, Ernest Sosa, Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology, →ISBN, page 129:

According to Mercier, criteriology should demonstrate the fallacy of two forms of scepticism: one that casts doubts on each of the acts of the human reason and one that casts doubts on the very possibility of arriving at a knowledge of the truth.

1996, Luciano Floridi, Scepticism Ant the Foundation of Epistemology, →ISBN:

In the other kind of knowledge, reflection develops a criteriology of the divine to judge whether or not consciousness is testifying to the true God or some phantasm of the divine.

2015, Paul Rigby, The Theology of Augustine's Confessions, →ISBN, page 17:

(philosophy) The study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.


criteriologic

In the course of these researches, he has clearly seen that psychoanalytic views have equally a religious and a criteriologic signification.

1954, Journal of Psychotherapy as a Religious Process, page 3:

Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected.

2012, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén, Crisis and Change: Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions, →ISBN:

Frequently the writers forget explicitly the gnoseological, criteriologic, epistemological problem or the question of knowledge whatever its denomination is to explain how to reach knowledge in general and the juridical specifically.

2013, Felipe de Jesús Fierro Alvídrez, Towards the True Law, →ISBN, page 263:

The American Philosophical Association (APA) defined critical thinking as purposeful, self-regulatory judgement that uses cognitive tools such as interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, and explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodologic, criteriologic, or contextual considerations on which judgment is based.

2015, Andrea M. Battaglia, Andrea M. Steele, Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care for Veterinary Technicians, →ISBN:

(philosophy) Pertaining to criteriology.


criteriologically

The conceptual netword of para (Schema IV) forks in two, according to the type of intervention on behalf of the conceptualizer, which is implied (cf. section 2.2) in the establishment of the relationship between the PS and the PO: the domain the PO applies to can be delimited by the individual sphere of an agent, i.e. a volitional instance, or it can be defined rather criteriologically, as the nature of evolving reality, which obeys standards rooted in intersubjective knowledge.

1996, Eugene H. Casad, Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods, →ISBN, page 280:

Truth, then, could be conceived in an abstract sense by a metaphysical ontology, or by a logical Semantics, to be a matter of correspondence between facts and propositions, which is criteriologically meaningsless, or to be a matter of private evidence about the correspondence of my propositional intentions with the self-given phenomena.

2012, Kah Kyung Cho, Philosophy and Science in Phenomenological Perspective, →ISBN, page 26:

However, one might note that the same difficulty arises with regard to the trancendental-pragmatic idea of the ultimate consensus, whereas Apel explicitly claims that a satisfactory philosophical account of truth -- of course, he considers his own account as such -- should be criteriologically relevant.

2017, Halla Kim, Steven Hoeltzel, Transcendental Inquiry: Its History, Methods and Critiques, →ISBN, page 273:


possible world

(philosophy) A world conceived in the imagination of persons and concluded to be metaphysically and logically possible because it can be so conceived.


it takes two to make a quarrel

En-au-it takes two to make a quarrel.ogg

(ethics, idiomatic) It takes two or more people to cause a quarrel; one cannot blame an argument entirely on the other side.

one volunteer is equal to two pressed men


truth tree

(logic) A variation of a truth table in which any node (representing a statement) has branches if and only if other statements (true or false) may be derived from it


Ennead

Which Darkneſs is a fourth Property of the Moſaick Matter, and on which Plotinus inſiſts pretty copiouſly in this ſecond Ennead, and contends we can have no other notion of it, […]

1662, Henry More, “An Appendix to the Defence of the Philosophick Cabbala”, in A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr Henry More, Fellow of Christ’s Colledge in Cambridge. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed by James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, chapter VIII, paragraph 3, page 137:

[W]e find side by side in the Enneads the positive and negative conceptions of the One.

1941 April, F[rederick] C[harles] Copleston, “The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus. An Analytical and Historical Study. By A. H. Armstrong. Pp. xii + 126. (Cambridge University Press, 1940. 7s. 6d.) [book review]”, in Christopher Dawson, editor, The Dublin Review, volume 208, number 417, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, →OCLC, page 263:

(philosophy) One of the six parts of the writings of the Greek-speaking philosopher Plotinus (c. 204–205 – 270), each containing nine treatises, compiled by his student Porphyry (c. 234 – c. 305).


antiagnostic

The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The antiagnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!

(philosophy, metaphysics, religion) Alternative form of anti-agnostic


antiagnostic

en-adj

antiagnostic (comparative more antiagnostic, superlative most antiagnostic)

more antiagnostic (comparative)
most antiagnostic (superlative)

A non ambivalent worldview, thus absolute, is always antiagnostic!


anti-agnostic

The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The anti-agnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!

(philosophy, metaphysics, religion) A person who opposes agnosticism.

αντιαγνωστικιστής

against ambiguous metaphysics; fully supporting either atheism or religion


anti-agnostic

A non ambivalent worldview, thus absolute, is always anti-agnostic!

(philosophy, metaphysics, religion) Opposed to agnosticism.

αντιαγνωστικιστικός

against ambiguous metaphysics; expressing full support to either atheism or religion


digital humanities

The volume brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities.

2016, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, editors, A New Companion to Digital Humanities, →ISBN:

“There is a lot of interest in digital humanities, but there is not a lot of money,” says Ilan Shimshoni, professor of computer vision and machine learning at the University of Haifa in Israel, where he works on archaeological projects that include reassembling artefacts from photos of fragments. “If you want to do an analysis of Facebook you’ll get much more money than if you want to look at ancient Greek artefacts.”

2020 July 1, Carly Minsky, quoting Ilan Shimshoni, “How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles”, in Financial Times, retrieved 2021-04-12:

An academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy.


personism

(philosophy) An ethical philosophy of personhood according to which rights are conferred on a creature to the extent that it is a person.


mindism

(philosophy) The philosophical stance that people are basically minds.


analetheism

(philosophy) The idea that propositions can be neither true nor false, that is that they can lack truth value, the opposite of the Law of Excluded Middle.


manusya

Transliteration of Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyà).

translit

If not a devata – let's try to become at least worth a manusya, what we look in appearance. For us to become a manusya, we must take care that we don't take anything from anyone more than what is due to us. As a manusya we cannot and should not cheat others.

2005, Dr. Harish Chandra, Ph. D., As Simple As It Gets, Hyderabad: Center for Inner Sciences, →ISBN, page 69, →ISBN:

Three classes of Prajapati's progeny—Devas (gods), Manusyas (men) and Asuras (demons)—lived a life of discipline under their father, Prajapati […]

2006, Mahendra Kulasrestha, Culture India: a compendium of Indian philosophy, religion, arts, literature and society, New Delhi: Lotus Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74, →ISBN:

The Manusyas or men are placed next to gods, Gandharvas and Apsarâs were inferior gods who ruled over forests and rivers.

1880, Mahadev Moreshwar Kunte, The Vicissitudes of Âryan Civilization in India: An Essay, which Treats of the History of the Vedic and Buddhistic Polities, Explaining Their Origin, Prosperity, and Decline, Bombay: Printed at the Oriental Print. Press, →OCLC, page 215:

In the Anguttara Nikaya, He said: ‘I am not indeed a deva, nor a gandharva, nor a yaksa, nor a manusya. Know ye that I am the Buddha.’ After Enlightenment, the Buddha could no longer be classified even as a ‘manusya’ or an ordinary human being.

2013 August 31, “Was Buddha an Incarnation of God?”, in Tsem Rinpoche, archived from the original on 2020-08-12:

(rare outside of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and related philosophy) man, human being

rare outside of Hinduism; Jainism and related philosophy; rare outside of Hinduism; Jainism and related philosophy


nonabsolutism

(philosophy) The idea that there is no Absolute; especially the Jain doctrine of anekantavada.


relevance conditional

en-noun

relevance conditional (plural relevance conditionals)

To be more precise, the speaker of a relevance conditional assumes a mutual understanding on the parts of the speaker and the addressee[s] that the actualization of P is a sufficient condition for the relevance of the Q-utterance.

2001, Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Conditionals: A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis, page 425:

For example, relevance conditionals are constructions in conditional shape that do not seem to express a clear conditional meaning at first glance. This has led semanticists to introduce analyses of relevance conditionals that capture many of their properties but are very specific to this construction.

2013, Tatjana Scheffler, Two-dimensional Semantics: Clausal Adjuncts and Complements, Walter de Gruyter, page 124:

A known grammatical marker of relevance conditionals is their resistance to linking their antecedent and consequent clauses with 'then': consider the mild oddity of 'If you want biscuits then there are some on the table.'[…]This peculiarity of relevance conditionals is straightforwardly explained by the ellipsis theory, according to which the consequent clause doesn't in general express a real (logical) consequent; 'There are some biscuits on the table' is just asserted as true.

2016, Stephen Finlay, Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language, Oxford University Press, page 71:

(logic, grammar) A subordinate clause, usually introduced by if, that asserts the relevance of the clause to the main clause of the sentence, but not that it entails the main clause; a construction involving such a clause.


anthropopathetically

I ascribe no faculties at all to God, except it be anthropopathetically; as the Scripture ascribes eyes and hands to God; which must be understood as is beseeming the majesty of God.

1844, John Bramhall, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall:

(theology, rare) Exhibiting human emotions.


modus tollendo ponens

Borrowed from Latin modus tollendō pōnēns (roughly, “mode where negating confirms”).

1. Either P or Q.

2. non-P.

3. Therefore, Q.

(philosophy, logic) A valid form of argument in which the antecedent of a conditional proposition is negated, thereby entailing the affirmation of the consequent. Modus ponendo tollens has the form:


modus ponendo tollens

Borrowed from Latin modus pōnendō tollens (roughly, “mode where affirming infirms”).

1. If P, then non-Q.

2. P.

3. Therefore, non-Q.

(philosophy, logic) A valid form of argument in which the antecedent of a conditional proposition is affirmed, thereby entailing the infirmation of the consequent. Modus ponendo tollens has the form:


modus ponendo ponens

Borrowed from Latin modus ponendo ponens (roughly, “mode where affirming affirms”).

1. If P, then Q.

2. P.

3. Therefore, Q.

(philosophy, logic) A valid form of argument in which the antecedent of a conditional proposition is affirmed, thereby entailing the affirmation of the consequent. Modus ponendo ponens has the form:

肯定前件

a valid form of argument in which the antecedent of a conditional proposition is affirmed, thereby entailing the affirmation of the consequent


modus tollendo tollens

Borrowed from Latin modus tollendō tollēns (roughly, “mode where infirming infirms”).

1. If non-P, then non-Q.

2. non-P.

3. Therefore, non-Q.

(philosophy, logic) A valid form of argument in which the antecedent of a conditional proposition is infirmed, thereby entailing the infirmation of the consequent. Modus tollendo tollens has the form:


antimorality

I am talking about antimorality — something that appears to be an organized, intentional and militant movement against Judeo-Christian morality.

1990, David A. Seamands, Living with your dreams, page 50:

For Lacan, no one more forcefully demonstrated the antinomic structure of law and desire than did Sade in his so-called antimorality.

1997, Peter Goodrich, David Gray Carlson, Law and the Postmodern Mind: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence:


mashed on

en-adj

mashed on (comparative more mashed on, superlative most mashed on)

more mashed on (comparative)
most mashed on (superlative)

(slang, dated) Struck with love for (a person).


antimetaphysicalist

(philosophy) A person opposed to metaphysics; an antimetaphysical person.


antimetaphysicalism

Thus, the theory of history served as a powerful pragmatic reinforcement, in Comte's scheme, for the epistemological premises of positivism—relentless phenomenalism, antimetaphysicalism, and unitarian hierarchy of knowledge.

2004, John H. Zammito, A Nice Derangement of Epistemes, →ISBN:

Wolin does not treat Kristeller, but we can add Kristeller's case to the list; although Kristeller refrained from extended critique and self-indulgent consideration of the Heidegger problem, Kristeller's rationalist project was in effect a rebuttal in practice of Heidegger's antimetaphysicalism.

2005, Christopher S. Celenza, The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy, →ISBN:

Antimetaphysicalism dated back to Hume, who, in his celebrated Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, declares: When we run over libraries... if we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

2013, Edwin Hung, Philosophy of Science Complete, →ISBN:

(philosophy) The denial of any metaphysics that is not grounded in science and positivism.


katechon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κατέχον (katékhon, “that which withholds”) or Ancient Greek κατέχων (katékhōn, “the one who withholds”).

der

(theology) Someone or something (of disputed identity) whose removal is necessary before the Antichrist can be fully manifested, according to 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 in the Bible.


nice guy syndrome

So before you fall into the trap of the ‘nice guy syndrome’ and start complaining about women’s choice in men, you should look to yourself.

2003, Laura Chesnik, "Our responsibility: Education is a right", The Lance (University of Windsor), 18 November 2003, page 18

Just because a guy treats a woman with respect does not mean she owes him anything. The “nice guy syndrome” needs to cease.

2014, Shira Stein, "Are nice guys actually as nice as they seem?", The Highlander (Carlmont High School, Belmont, CA), April 2014, page 3

If you really are a male feminist, whatever social awkwardness you might be suffering should never be confused with something so gross as Nice Guy Syndrome.

2016, “Coquette”, in [The Best of] Dear Coquette: Shady Advice from a Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any of These Questions, page 74:

(colloquial) A phenomenon in which a man thinks that he deserves romantic or sexual attention from women by virtue of being nice.


prosopon

From Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face, mask, person”).

uder

(theology) The self-manifestation of an individual.


Pizzagate

Battle of the Buffet
Pizzagate conspiracy theory

(slang) A 2016 conspiracy theory claiming that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, was involved in human trafficking, and alleging the existence of a secret child sex ring associated with the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, D.C.


extrinsic value

en-noun

extrinsic value (countable and uncountable, plural extrinsic values)

(philosophy) Value which is derived relationally or instrumentally, from something’s relations to other things, or for its value as a means to reaching some other end.


personal identity

It was largely in order to defend the justice of divine rewards and punishments in the face of his own relative agnosticism about substantial souls that Locke offered his reductive empiricist analysis of personal identity in terms of consciousness and memory.

2002, Don Garrett, Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy, page 163:

(philosophy) The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.


nonidentity problem

The articulation of the problem is credited to Derek Parfit in his work Reasons and Persons.

(philosophy) the philosophical problem involving our ethical obligations to future persons which derives from the observation that different courses of action will result in entirely different, or nonidentical, persons coming to be.


wisdom of Silenus

1869 AD, Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy
"There is an old legend that king Midas for a long time hunted the wise Silenus, the companion of Dionysus, in the forests, without catching him. When Silenus finally fell into the king’s hands, the king asked what was the best thing of all for men, the very finest. The daemon remained silent, motionless and inflexible, until, compelled by the king, he finally broke out into shrill laughter and said these words, “Suffering creature, born for a day, child of accident and toil, why are you forcing me to say what would give you the greatest pleasure not to hear? The very best thing for you is totally unreachable: not to have been born, not to exist, to be nothing. The second best thing for you, however, is this — to die soon.” What is the relationship between the Olympian world of the gods and this popular wisdom? It is like the relationship of the entrancing vision of the tortured martyr to his torments. Now, as it were, the Olympic magic mountain reveals itself and shows us its roots. The Greek knew and felt the terror and horrors of existence: in order to be able to live at all, he must have placed in front of him the gleaming dream birth of the Olympians...In this way, the gods justify the lives of men, because they themselves live it — that is the only satisfactory theodicy! Existence under the bright sunshine of such gods is experienced as worth striving for in itself, and the essential pain of the Homeric men refers to separation from that sunlight, above all in the fact that such separation is coming soon, so that people could now say of them, with a reversal of the wisdom of Silenus, “The very worst thing for them was to die soon; the second worst was to die at all.” When the laments resound now, they tell once more of short-lived Achilles, of the changes in the race of men, transformed like leaves, of the destruction of the heroic age. It is not unworthy of the greatest hero to long to live on, even as a day labourer. Thus, in the Apollonian stage, the “Will” spontaneously demands to keep on living, the Homeric man feels himself so at one with living, that even his lament becomes a song of praise."

(philosophy) The idea that it is wisest for humans to have never been born, and having been born, it is wisest that they die soon.


property-theoretic

Kurt Gödel is reported to have remarked ‘‘There never were any set-theoretic paradoxes, but the property-theoretic paradoxes are still unresolved.’’ The idea behind the ﬁrst part of his remark is presumably that the notion of set was hierarchical from the start, so that it should have been obvious all along that there was no Russell set (in the mathematical sense of ‘set’). The idea behind the second part is that this obvious resolution of Russell’s ‘‘paradox’’ for sets simply doesn’t carry over to the paradox for properties.

2008, Hartry Field, Saving Truth from Paradox:

theory of properties
theory of properties

(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the theory of properties.


romantopia

romantopia (usually uncountable, plural romantopias)

Blend of romance + utopia; originally coined by evolutionary psychologists Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons in their book Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution, and Female Sexuality (2001; →ISBN) to describe the setting in romance novels.

But why, one might wonder, is there no commercial erotic genre that combines the ingredients of pornotopia and romantopia, thereby doubling the potential audience and the potential profit?

2001, Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons (2001), Warrior lovers: erotic fiction, evolution, and female sexuality (New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press), page 68

The crucial difference between romantopia and intimatopia is that in intimatopia, intimacy is normally established before sexual interaction and is always maintained after it, whereas in romantopia, it is only established by sexual interaction and is frequently transitory.

2006, Elizabeth Woledge, "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream", chapter 3 (pages 97–114) in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, editors (2006), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays, (Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland), page 106

In opposition to romantopia and intimatopia and their respective romance and intimacy foci, paratopia’s interest in the fantastic is more radical.

2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 66

A fantasy world which serves as an ideal setting for romance as typically imagined by women.


romantopic

Like war novels, medieval literature is also sexually ambiguous (see Appendix one for more on medieval queerness). An example is slash inspired by the medieval-set Merlin, for which romantopic and intimatopic frameworks are useful.

2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 15


negand

A negation is true if and only if the negand is not true.

2006, Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, page 345:

"Maisie is a rottweiler" is the negand of "Maisie is not a rottweiler."

2012, Nicholas Jeremy Josef Smith, Logic: The Laws of Truth, page 25:

In a negation, the formula being negated is called the negand.

2015, Howard Gregory, Language and Logics:

(logic) The proposition that is to be negated.


white pill

Now that we have both the black pill and white pill results before us, we are in a position to make a few general observations.

1979, Ronald A. Howard, Life and death decision analysis, page 17:

We can also think of selling risks of being disabled. Suppose that a person facing a risk p of being disabled to level f could avoid that risk for a payment x. How much should he pay? We call this the disability white pill question and diagram it as shown in Figure 6.

1984, Management Science - Volume 30, page 414:

Howard [1984] bases his analysis on a "black pill” and a "white pill."

1986, Robert E. Machol, “How much safety?”, in Interfaces, volume 16, number 6:

While most people find the formulation of the white pill problem to be perfectly acceptable, many find the black pill problem to be very objectionable.

2017, M. Granger Morgan, Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis, →ISBN, page 124:

(philosophy, often attributive) A philosophical dilemma in which someone who faces death or disability at a certain probability is offered a perfect antidote if they pay a specified amount of money.


black pill

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Nihilism sense influenced by preexisting red pill. See there for further explanation.

But to me both characters in the black pill example were immoral in Kant's sense: the person who made the offer and the person who accepted it (to accept the offer of deliberately running a risk of death for dollars gain is treating humanity in yourself as a means only, whether or not you agree, or perhaps especially if you agree)

1980, C. West Churchman, “Symposium Summary the Safety Profession's Image of Humanity”, in Societal Risk Assessment,, →ISBN:

As a useful thought experiment, we imagine an individual faced with what we call the black pill question. He is offered the chance to take a pill that will kill him instantly and painlessly with a probability he assigns as p. If he takes the pill, he will receive x dollars. Should he accept?

2013, Richard C. Schwing, Walter A. Albers, Societal Risk Assessment: How Safe is Safe Enough?, →ISBN, page 92:

In contrast, the curve for the black pill takes off asymptotically to infinity once the risk reaches about 1/10.

2017, M. Granger Morgan, Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis, →ISBN, page 123:

(philosophy) A philosophical dilemma in which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take a pill that has a specific probability of resulting in death.


love quadrangle

love quadrangle (plural love quadrangles)

(rare) A situation in which three people vie for the love of a fourth person.


milkshake duck

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From a Twitter post by Ben Ward (pixelatedboat) on June 12th, 2016: "The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist".

(Internet slang) Someone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.


krypsis

(theology) The doctrine that Christ, during His state of humiliation, continued to possess in a veiled way the divine attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, etc.


limitarianism

(ethics) The belief that there should be limits on how much money or other resources any individual owns.


McTaggartian

en-adj

McTaggartian (comparative more McTaggartian, superlative most McTaggartian)

more McTaggartian (comparative)
most McTaggartian (superlative)

And so we would expect there to be a modal analog of our McTaggartian argument against nonpresentist A-Theories that threatens Bricker's nonstandard modal realism.

2015, Ross P. Cameron, The Moving Spotlight: An Essay on Time and Ontology:

(philosophy) Of or relating to J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925), idealist metaphysician.


theothanatology

en-noun

theothanatology (usually uncountable, plural theothanatologies)

It is no wonder that so many have felt humanity should overthrow such a God and be happier without him. Much of the theothanatology of the 1960s expressed optimism that civilization - particularly American civilization - was ready to do so at last.

1993, Marianthe Colakis, The classics in the American theater of the 1960s and early 1970s:

(philosophy, theology) A range of philosophical and theological explorations of the idea that God may be dead.


unipersonality

the unipersonality of Christ

(theology) The quality of being a single person.


indesignate

(logic) Without any indication of quantity.


gorpcore

Originally coined by New York Magazine’s The Cut in late May 2017 as blend of gorp (“trail mix”) + normcore.

It might be the Vetements effect of ‘wear what you want, we just don’t care’ but designers have more than embraced gorpcore, whose key elements have been seen on runways for seasons now.

2017 June 1, Francesca Wallace, “Gorpcore is the new normcore: everything you need to know about fashion's newest phase.”, in Vogue Australia:

These days, fanny packs are being worn by rappers. By models. And soon, no doubt, by you. Why? Because gorpcore has brought them back into fashion.

2017 May 29, “'Gorpcore' is the new 'Normcore' and it's bringing bum bags back”, in Metro:

We scoured the site for things that are not often on sale, and stumbled on this great nubby Patagonia fleece that’s perfect for living out your gorpcore dreams in.

2017 November 27, Alexis Swerdloff, “If You're Going to Buy One Thing Today, Make It This Patagonia Fleece”, in New York Magazine:

A recent New York Times headline about warcore, the gorier sequel to gorpcore, squealed: “If you can get killed doing it, fashion wants it”.

2019 October 30, Priya Elan, “Gorpcore: why people who rarely go outside are wearing hiking gear”, in The Guardian:

And in this Milan show, some of the most extreme iterations of gorpcore felt like a step too far.

2020 January 13, “Giorgio goes gorpcore: Armani channels The Matrix in Milan”, in The Guardian:

A style of fashion characterized by functional outdoor wear such as fleece jackets, parkas, gore-tex jackets and pants, and many other utilitarian styles.


prohairesis

From Ancient Greek προαίρεσις (proaíresis, “volition, moral choice, intention”).

bor

(philosophy) The Stoic principle that people have a choice in how they judge, and are affected by, externalities.


topia

From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), by analogy with utopia. Compare also French topie.

der

(postmodern philosophy) The lived physical place, in opposition to the ideal of a utopia.


Gendlinian

en-adj

Gendlinian (comparative more Gendlinian, superlative most Gendlinian)

more Gendlinian (comparative)
most Gendlinian (superlative)

Of or relating to Eugene Gendlin (1926–2017), American philosopher and psychotherapist.


hamartialogy

(theology) The part of theology dealing with the nature and effects of sin.


geometrism

(philosophy, psychology) A worldview based on geometric thinking or metaphor.


jumbie

From Kongo zumbi (“fetish”). Doublet of zombie.

If one wants to see “jumbies” “duppies” ghosts, all that is necessary is to put in your eye the tears from the eyes of a pie-bald horse. It is no use explaining to a negro that what he has taken to be a “jumbie” or apparition, is a tree or rock or other natural object.

1882, G.H. Hawtayne, “Occasional notes: West Indian Folk-lore”, in Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume 1, page 145:

Jethro stomped away up the hill, though the trail was supposed to be haunted by spirits of the dead called jumbies. He didn't care. He didn't believe in jumbies.

1979, Susan Cooper, Jethro and the Jumbie, page 5:

(chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.


love rectangle

But the breakup and awkward love rectangle were a recurring topic in Google's gossip mill, adding even more tension.

2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:


monoamorous

Attested since 1992, from monoamor(y) (which see) + -ous, possibly modelled on polyamorous.

That is, if we were monogamous/monoamorous, she would not have had a chance to explore these feelings without threatening the relationship. Our first few threesomes were very much oriented towards Janice, with less attention given to me (which turns out to be okay; as the saying goes, "I like to watch")[.]

1992 June 10, Jamais A. Cascio=, Bi/Polyamory Blend, alt.polyamory, Usenet

Being exclusively faithful to one partner; monogamous (especially as contrasted with polyamorous).


black bag operation

en-noun

black bag operation (plural black bag operations)

See black bag (“pouch or case containing burglary tools”).

(informal) A covert or clandestine entry into a building etc. to obtain information for an intelligence operation.


alteregoism

(psychology, philosophy) Altruism as a result of the identification of others with oneself.


anancasm

anancasm (countable and uncountable, plural anancasms)

If the development of ideas under the influence of the study of external facts be considered as external anancasm, — it is on the border between the external and the internal forms, — it is, of course, the principal thing in modern learning.

1923, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chance, Love and Logic: Philosophical Essays, page 294:

Far from being exclusive of one another, tychasm, anancasm, and agapasm share the same general elements; that said, these elements emerge most clearly in agapastic evolution.

2005, Susan Petrilli, Semiotics Unbounded: Interpretive Routes through the Open Network of Signs:

Anancasm is one of three modes of evolution identified by Charles Peirce, who distinguished anancasm, or evolution by mechanical necessity, from evolution by fortuitous variation (tychasm) and evolution by creative love (agapasm).

2008, John Laches, American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, page 42:

(philosophy) In the philosophy of Charles Peirce, a mode of evolution occurring by mechanical necessity.


Singularitarian

From Singularity + -arian, popularized by Ray Kurzweil who credits the term to the extropian Mark Plus (1991).

Rather, Kurzweil writes, he became a Singularitarian as a result of “practical” efforts to make “optimal tactical decisions in launching technology enterprises.” Startups showed him the way! Being a Singularitarian, Kurzweil claims, “is not a matter of faith but one of understanding.” This is a refrain Singularitarians share with Scientologists, for L. Ron Hubbard always marketed his doctrines as “technology”.

2018, Corey Pein, chapter VIII, in Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN:

technological singularity
technological singularity

(rare) Someone who supports the technological singularity theory.


Singularitarian

en-adj

Singularitarian (comparative more Singularitarian, superlative most Singularitarian)

more Singularitarian (comparative)
most Singularitarian (superlative)

“The Coming Technological Singularity” has often been credited with launching a so-called Singularitarian movement.

2010, Jonathon Keats, Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 142:

There was always something fundamentally misanthropic about the Singularitarian vision, with its drive for the elimination of the body and its echoes of Christian millenarianism.

Relating to the technological singularity theory.


teleologism

en-noun

teleologism (countable and uncountable, plural teleologisms)

(philosophy) The idea that whether an action is right or wrong is determined by its consequences.


roving eye

This dame she was new-fangled
And of a roving eye. . . .
"Beshrew me," quoth King Arthur,
"I think thou be'st not true!"

1858, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 4, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry:

But because she her wanton, roving eye
Turned upon me, her angry paramour
Did scourge her from her head unto her feet.

1909, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Purgatorio, Canto 32:

Miss Israel . . . plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. . . . The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump.

2001 April 21, Ellin Martens, “People: Beauty and the Bombshells”, in Time, retrieved 2018-03-21:

(idiomatic) The personal characteristic of taking amorous interest in people other than one's own spouse or regular romantic partner.


semantic tableau

semantic tableau (plural semantic tableaus or semantic tableaux)

semantic tableaus (plural)
semantic tableaux (plural)


in doubt

en-adj

in doubt (comparative more in doubt, superlative most in doubt)

more in doubt (comparative)
most in doubt (superlative)

The future of the company is in doubt now that the founder has died.

Next year's tournament is even more in doubt since the virus outbreak.


historical subject

en-noun

historical subject (plural historical subjects)

(philosophy) the consciousness of a dead person


ethopoiein

(Continental philosophy) The formation or transformation of one's own mode of existence.


desiring-production

desiring-production (countable and uncountable, plural desiring-productions)

Calque from French production désirante, which was coined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their book Anti-Œdipus (1972).

(philosophy) Desire conceptualized as a generative force rather than a mere lack of something.


grundnorm

(philosophy) The basic norm or rule that underpins a legal system.


singularism

(philosophy) The philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of only a single interpretation.


Frankfurt case

Presented by philosopher Harry Frankfurt in 1969.

(philosophy) Any of a set of counterexamples to the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP), which holds that an agent is morally responsible for an action only if they could have acted otherwise.


partialitas

From Latin partiālis + -itās? Used by Professor H. F. Hallett in his book Aeternitas: A Spinozistic study (1930).

(philosophy) The unique human position in Spinozan philosophy, where humans are simultaneously (i) 'finite modalities' as 'contingent' beings and (ii) because of human potential through the development and maturation of the intellect, a part of the 'infinite modalites' and hence a metaphysical part of the 'real'.


bromantical

en-adj

bromantical (comparative more bromantical, superlative most bromantical)

more bromantical (comparative)
most bromantical (superlative)

Blend of bro + romantical, equivalent to bromantic + -al.

2011 Marc Anthony, Will Smith, and Dwyane Wade Get Bromantical for Monday Night Football, Miami New Times

2013 Brad Pitt & Shia LaBeouf Went On A Bromantical Camping Trip With Their Fury Team, PerezHilton.com

2014 Enlisted Stars Crash the Bones Set to Annoy David Boreanaz and Celebrate Their Milestone 4th Episode Eonline.com
to make sure that this momentous occasion does not get overlooked, Geoff Stults and Parker Young have prepared a bromantical celebration with Bones' David Boreanaz

Of or pertaining to a bromantic tendency or character.


Thomson's lamp

The idea was devised in 1954 by British philosopher James F. Thomson.

(philosophy) A hypothetical lamp in a philosophical paradox. The lamp is repeatedly turned on and off by means of a switch; at the end of this time period, regarded as the sum of an infinite series of intervals, it seems paradoxically that the lamp cannot be either on or off.


hedonium

Suppose that we agreed to allow almost the entire accessible universe to be converted into hedonium—everything except a small preserve, say the Milky Way, which would be set aside to accommodate our own needs.

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence, page 219:

It’s because we intuitively or pre-theoretically think that we shouldn’t give all our cookies to the utility monster or kill ourselves to tile the solar system with hedonium that we reject the straightforward extension of utilitarian happiness-maximizing theory to such cases and reach for a different solution.

2015 November 17, Eric Schwitzgebel, Mara Garza, “A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences”, in Midwest Studies in Philosophy:

Suppose the AI goes on to convert all matter in the accessible universe to hedonium, i.e., to rearrange matter so as to produce the greatest amount of pleasurable experience per unit mass.

2016, Olle Häggström, Here Be Dragons, page 122:

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute's Buck Shlegeris recently recounted a conversation where “someone said that after the Singularity, if there was a magic button that would turn all of humanity into homogenous goop optimized for happiness (aka hedonium), they'd press it.[…]”

2020, Brian Christian, “Uncertainty”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(philosophy of artificial intelligence, rare) Matter arranged in a way that produces pleasure or happiness as efficiently as possible, as might be encouraged by philosophical hedonism.


Antiphon

an Ancient Greek sophist who wrote several philosophical treatises (480 – 411 BCE)


omnism

en-noun

omnism (countable and uncountable, plural omnisms)

(philosophy, religion) The doctrine of allness, completeness, and totality.


inclinationism

(philosophy) The idea that people can innately identify what is good; opposed to derivationism.


derivationism

(philosophy) The idea that people can only identify what is good by deriving it from human nature; opposed to inclinationism.


allosexuality

The condition of being allosexual (in any of its many senses).


multisexuality

For quotations using this term, see Citations:multisexuality.

The quality, state, or practice of being multisexual.


skoliosexuality

Some argue that it legitimizes the fetishization of trans people and undermines the legitimacy of transgender identities. Others, however, argue that the term accurately describes a real orientation and that skoliosexuality no more requires the fetishization of trans people than being a lesbian necessarily involves the fetishization of women.

2017, Don LePan, Laura Buzzard, Maureen Okun, How to Be Good with Words, →ISBN, page 158:


Kafkatrap

Compound of Kafka + trap, coined by American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement (*1957) Eric S. Raymond in 2010 (see the quotation below) in reference to the book Der Proceß (The Trial, 1925) by the Bohemian author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), in which a man is accused of crimes that are never specified, and every defense is treated as proof of guilt.

coinage

Jill said Jack was paranoid, and when he told her he was not she just nodded knowingly. It was a perfect Kafkatrap.

One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: "Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin, racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression …} confirms that you are guilty of {sin, racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression …}." I've been presented with enough instances of this recently that I've decided that it needs a name. I call this general style of argument "kafkatrapping", and the above the Model A kafkatrap. In this essay, I will show that the kafkatrap is a form of argument that is so fallacious and manipulative that those subjected to it are entitled to reject it based entirely on the form of the argument, without reference to whatever particular sin or thoughtcrime is being alleged.

2010 July 18, Eric S[teven] Raymond, “Kafkatrapping”, in Armed and Dangerous (blog), archived from the original on 2020-12-19:

James Lindsay, an independent American critic of Critical Theory and Social Justice, who along with his partners Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian, masterminded the “Grievance Studies Hoax,” in which they managed to get seven academic papers of critical theory and identity studies nonsense accepted for publication in scholarly journals, calls Critical Theory a "kafkatrap." If you deny that you are a witch, then you are a witch. And if you do not deny it, then you are a witch for sure.

2020 June 26, Bruce Pardy, “Apocalyptic Science: How the West is Destroying Itself”, in Financial Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-25:

David Edward Burke, for example, points out that her [Robin DiAngelo's] concept of "white fragility" is a "Kafkatrap" because it is an irrefutable theory: white people are either self-acknowledged racists (proving her theory true) or are denying it (displaying white fragility and therefor proving her theory true).

2020 September 25, Nicoli Nattrass, Jeremy Seekings, “UCT ‘says no to non-racialism’: A Freudian slip, or an embracing of the cult of ‘anti-racism’?”, in Daily Maverick, Cape Town, Johannesburg: Daily Maverick, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-22:

A sophistical rhetorical device in which any denial by an accused person serves as evidence of guilt.


refutationism

(epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.


contradictionism

(logic, philosophy) A worldview according to which contradictory statements can both be true.


recreationism

Apparently the advocates of recreationism accept this; at least, I know of none who clearly stipulates that the identity-of-matter condition must be met.

2015, William Hasker, The Emergent Self:

(theology) The concept that the world may be conceived as being created anew at every instant in time.


computationism

Although computers are a twentieth-century invention, computationism is much older, descending from Newton's contemporary Leibniz (and, arguably, more remotely from the Pythagoreans). It holds that everything is rationally intelligible only so far as it instantiates mathematical rules and ratios. As understood by Leibniz and his followers, computationism was explicitly hostile to all versions of materialism.

2003, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, page 13:

(philosophy) Synonym of computationalism


singular existential statement

en-noun

singular existential statement (plural singular existential statements)

singular existential statements (plural)

The statement In 1697, during the expedition of Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh, there were black swans on the Swan River in Australia is a singular existential statement, while There are black swans is not.

existential quantifier
existential quantifier

(epistemology) In Popperian epistemology, a statement that contains the equivalent of an existential quantifier and one or more proper names.


polyfamily

Group marriage must be contrasted with polyfamilies, which is similar to group marriage but where some members may not considered themselves married to all other members.

2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 13:

Interestingly, despite the percentages above illustrating that many polyfamilies in the Polyamory Survey had children or wanted children, only approximately 30 percent of survey respondents had told their children about their poly relationships or their desire to be in one...

2010, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 172:

A group of people in a polyamorous relationship, who consider each other as family.


DoggoLingo

(Internet slang, neologism) A form of English-language Internet slang related to dogs, using words such as doggo, woofer, bork, mlem, and heckin'.


do someone a frighten

en-verb

do someone a frighten (third-person singular simple present does someone a frighten, present participle doing someone a frighten, simple past did someone a frighten, past participle done someone a frighten)

does someone a frighten (present singular third-person)
doing someone a frighten (participle present)
did someone a frighten (past)
done someone a frighten (participle past)

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Intentionally incorrect grammar for comedic purposes; compare do a listen and can haz. Originated with the “Stop It Son, You Are Doing Me a Frighten” meme; first known use is on 8 November 2015, in an iFunny post by watarimono.

Together they hiked until they came upon a crevasse that was too wide to leap. To get across, they would have to climb down into the crevasse, cross over on a sliver of ice that served as a quasi bridge, then climb back up. Which did Stickeen a frighten. The previously unfazed dog was suddenly very fazed and absolutely, positively refused to cross.

2019 October, Mackenzi Lee, The History of the World in Fifty Dogs, Abrams, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, humorous) To frighten someone.


language game

Ludwig Wittgenstein
en:Language game (philosophy)

Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

(philosophy) A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.


toddlercon

From toddler + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

suf

(anime) Japanese-inspired erotic or suggestive art depicting very young children, of toddler age.


big dick energy

The Spice Girls had Big Dick Energy in abundance, years before Twitter coined the term.

2018, Lauren Bravo, chapter 5, in What would the Spice Girls do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN:

I didn't really want Brunhild being associated with big dick energy. We were just a fledgling nation, so it’d be bad for our image.

2018, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 11, →ISBN:

“Told you so.” My brother finished his drink and grabbed both their empty glasses. “He needs to quit worrying about upsetting people and use that big dick energy he’s got for his own good.”

2019, Kristin Harte, Penance: A Vigilante Justice Novel, Kinship Press,, →ISBN:

(slang, vulgar) Unassuming self-confidence.


memeify

en-verb

memeify (third-person singular simple present memeifies, present participle memeifying, simple past and past participle memeified)

memeifies (present singular third-person)
memeifying (participle present)
memeified (participle past)
memeified (past)

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(Internet slang) To form an Internet meme out of something.


memeification

en-noun

memeification (countable and uncountable, plural memeifications)

“Trump Draws” was one of the earliest memeifications of newly-sworn President Trump, capturing the childlike delight that (at first) attended his signing of fancy documents with spiffy pens.

2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe:

“Letterboxd has successfully tapped into the Gen Z phenomenon of ‘the memeification of everything’,” explains Rachel Lee of The Digital Fairy, a creative agency specialising in internet and youth culture.

2024 February 29, Jack King, quoting Rachel Lee, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ:

(Internet) The process of forming an Internet meme out of something.


lived experience

lived experience (countable and uncountable, plural lived experiences)

In the philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey, the human sciences are based on lived experience, which makes them fundamentally different from the natural sciences, which are considered to be based on scientific experiences.

(phenomenology) The experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain as a result.


memelord

RYAN CHONG Editor & Journalist - Recipe A quirky student who likes food and bubbletea during the day but a punny memelord at night :)

2016 September, The Raven Review, page 3:

“Jesus,” Hannah said, “this memelord in my bio class keeps saying that. Is it from something?” “Oh, yeah, you've got to watch it,” Sebastian said.

2018, Riley Redgate, Final Draft, Abrams, →ISBN:

Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? [headline]

2021 May 7, Taylor Lorenz, “Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Which is why it’s easy to understand the draw, particularly when it’s fed by an army of meme lords on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram, promising that this is the next big opportunity in crypto.

2021 May 21, Nick Bilton, “Inside the Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Shit Coins”, in Vanity Fair:

Yeah, this is what’s known as the Elon Musk memelord thesis, basically. And he is the uber memelord. And he can move things like Dogecoin just by tweeting.

2022 April 29, Ezra Klein, “Elon Musk Might Break Twitter. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.” (14:17 from the start), in The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), spoken by Felix Salmon:

(Internet slang) A person known for creating or distributing memes (usually humorous material copied and circulated online).


unatheist

en-adj

unatheist (comparative more unatheist, superlative most unatheist)

more unatheist (comparative)
most unatheist (superlative)

Tom Paine believed in God, specifically the Judeo-Christian God who created all and intervenes in his creation, life after death, direct revelation from God to men, and a whole bunch of other most unatheist beliefs.

2006 November 12, Tom P, “Thomas Jefferson on his own Christianity”, in alt.bible (Usenet):

That is very unatheist. We always question how we came about and have a arrived at some very good answers based on science and fact.

2010 April 12, bvallely, “I paint a picture”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Just then, the words of one Ehsān Narāghi, a man whose work I had once encountered in my father's library of unatheist books, cascaded down the walls of my void: What should be done to allow the Oriental countries, and Iran especially, ...

2018, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 223:


definitionism

1992, William R. LaFleur, Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan, Princeton University Press, page 15, Quoted in 2015, Adam C. Pelser, Robert C. Roberts, 18: Religious value and moral psychology, Tobias Brosch, David Sander (editors), Handbook of Value, Oxford University Press, page 388,
Instead of logic chopping and the unconnected neat boxes produced by definitionism, ritual provides activities that fuse a wide variety of things that seem otherwise unrelated.

Some philosophers have not given up on definitionism.

2006, Jack S. Crumley II, A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Rowman & Littlefield, page 152:

Perhaps definitionism does not work for all complex concepts.

2007, Karen Neander, “Biological Approaches to Mental Representation”, in Mohan Matthan, Christopher Stephens, editors, Philosophy of Biology, North-Holland: Elsevier, page 561:

(philosophy, metaphilosophy) The school of thought that for a theory to be properly explained it is necessary that all concepts used by the theory be well-defined.


inderivative

inderivative (comparative more inderivative, superlative most inderivative)

more inderivative (comparative)
most inderivative (superlative)

Only if comprehension is meant as a primary phenomenon can time be thought as an ecstatic disclosedness, i.e. an original, ontologically inderivative, unprogrammable non-functionalistic and essential temporality, which always involves and concerns us.

2015, Flavia Santoianni, The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy:

(philosophy) Without derivation, autonomous.


liberty of indifference

(philosophy) Freedom of the will because, before action, the will is undetermined as to acting or not acting.


panlogism

Coined by Johann Eduard Erdmann as New Latin Panlogismus in Die Entwicklung der deutschen Speculation seit Kant. Ultimately from Ancient Greek παν- (pan-) + λόγος (lógos) + -ισμός (-ismós), equivalent to pan- + Logos + -ism.

af

(philosophy) The Hegelian doctrine that the universe is the act or realization of Logos, and therefore logic and ontology are the same study.


futureness

en-noun

futureness (countable and uncountable, plural futurenesses)

/ˈfjʉːt͡ʃɘnɘs/

To our conclusion, that TIME is the equivalent of Pastness, Presentness, and Futureness, combined, it may be objected, that the word Time is applicable to all the three cases; as we can say, past time, present time, and future time, all with equal propriety.

1829, James Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, Volume 2, page 103:

What is posited as future is just the futureness of a sprout. That is, the sprout that will come is not future since when it exists, it exists at the present time.

1990, Daniel Cozort, Unique Tenets of The Middle Way Consequence School: The Systematization of the Philosophy of the Indian Buddhist Prāsaṅgika- Mādhyamika School by the Tibetan Ge-luk-ba Scholastic Tradition, page 225:

Furthermore, just as with the two passive syntheses, the third constitutive synthesis is a perspective of time giving us the elements of the futureness of the present and the futureness of the past.

2016 September 8, David Deamer, Deleuze's Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images, page 49:

(philosophy, psychology) The quality of occurring in, being, or being related to the future.


Fiddler's Green

From 19th-century English maritime folklore.

1996, Edward L. Daily, We Remember: U.S. Cavalry Association, Turner Publishing Company, page 7,
Fiddler's Green is where a cavalryman meets his comrades who have gone before him, at an old canteen, surrounded by a broad meadow, dotted with trees and crossed by many streams. Here the cavalryman stops, unsaddles his horse, and joins his comrades for a visit with many stories, reminiscences, and camaraderie, before continuing his journey. Soldiers of no other service may stop at Fiddler's Green, they must continue to march.

(US, military) A stopping place for fallen cavalrymen on the path to the afterlife.


compersive

—which (according to Lovelock's predictions) could be as little as just Antarctica—we will have to be very symbiotic and compersive indeed.

2010, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet, →ISBN:

Whether poly people as a whole have achieved the intended compersive intimacy is debatable, [...]

2015, Jillian Deri, Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, →ISBN:

It's one thing, people say, to be compersive about a colleague's success, but it's quite another to feel happy about your partner being intimate with someone other than you. Yet, it is possible to cultivate compersion in any social situation, [...]


QAnon

/ˌkjʉː ɘˈnɔn/

Q clearance
United States Department of Energy

From Q + anon. From the United States Department of Energy's Q clearance + anonymous. Compare Q (“QAnon”).

2017 November 18, Amazing Answers, “RE: Who is QAnon?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

In October, an anonymous 4chan account began making cryptic posts about earth-changing political and judicial events to come. Ever since then, conspiracy theorists, journalists, and amused observers have speculated about who was behind the account that has come to be known as QAnon.

2018 May 29, Mike Rothschild, “Who is Q Anon, the internet’s most mysterious poster?”, in The Daily Dot:

The question “Who is the most hilarious person QAnon could turn out to be?” yielded thousands of responses. Here are the best and most common ones.

2018 August 6, Joe Berkowitz, “Who is the mastermind behind QAnon? Twitter has some fun theories”, in Fast Company:

In The mysterious figure called “Q” or “QAnon” first appeared online on Oct. 28, 2017, with a post on the far-right /pol/ message board of 4chan that they had inside information about a secret plot being hatched by the Trump administration.

2018 November 11, Michael Barkun, “Failed Prophecies Won’t Stop Trump’s True Believers”, in Foreign Policy:

(US politics) An anonymous poster on the Internet message boards 4chan, 8chan and 8kun, claiming to possess Q clearance, who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory claiming that Donald Trump is working against a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles comprised of his political opponents.

These bizarre results, first spotted by the NBC reporter Ben Collins, are not the result of the latest #MeToo era investigation reporting. Instead, they are the entirely unsubstantiated manifestation of a sprawling rightwing conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
[…] Joseph Uscinski, a University of Miami professor who studies conspiracy theories, said by phone that QAnon remains a “fringe” belief held by “a very small number of people”.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

It's nebulous and continuously changing to adapt to current events, but the overarching conspiracy theory has been given a name: "QAnon".
 […] The baseless core of the QAnon story is that the Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia is actually an investigation into global elites, and that the president is masterminding a secret plan to arrest top politicians and Hollywood stars for corruption and child abuse.

2018 August 2, Elizabeth Cassin, Mike Wendling, “QAnon: What's the truth behind a pro-Trump conspiracy theory?”, in BBC:

QAnon, whose supporters also call it “The Storm” or “Great Awakening,” is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory that burst into greater visibility this summer, after supporters at a Trump rally wearing Q shirts prompted a rush of national media coverage about it.

2018 September 12, Abby Ohlheiser, “Reddit bans r/greatawakening, the main subreddit for QAnon conspiracy theorists”, in The Washington Post:

Like much of the new conspiracism, QAnon began with conspiracy entrepreneurs.[…]11. For instance, on August 3, 2018, the authors consulted the discussion of “clues” by QAnon researchers on the following Reddit.com message board: https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/84sam4/does_anyone_have_the_link_to_the_current_8chan/.

2019 April 16, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, Princeton University Press, pages 133 (Who Owns Reality?) and 195 (Notes):

(US politics) The conspiracy theory originated by this anonymous poster.

If QAnon's claims were true, they would shake the very foundations of global government and explain the confusion of politics in recent years. As it is, they are not true – but their importance could nonetheless be hugely significant.

2018 August 2, Andrew Griffin, “What is QAnon? The origins of the bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that Trump-Russia investigation is a hoax to catch pedophiles”, in The Independent:

A group dubbed "QAnon" has emerged at Trump campaign events recently. They follow and try to decipher the online posts of someone named "Q", who traffics in conspiracy theories focused on people in government and media.

2018 August 3, Jeff Brady, “QAnon: The Conspiracy Theorist Group That Appears At Trump Rallies”, in NPR:

"What a movement such as QAnon has going for it, and why it will catch on like wildfire, is that it makes people feel connected to something important that other people don’t yet know about,” says cult expert Rachel Bernstein, who specializes in recovery therapy. "All cults will provide this feeling of being special.”

2018 November 12, Renee Diresta, “Online Conspiracy Groups are a Lot Like Cults”, in Wired:

(US politics) The movement supporting this conspiracy theory.


predophile

[T]he alliance concluded that education, not filtering, is the most effective method for protecting children from pornography and predophiles[…]

1997, Information Retrieval & Library Automation, volumes 33-35:

2018, “Chrissy Teigen, John Legend news: Couple respond to their alleged involvement with Pizzagate Predophile ring conspiracy”, in Christian Today:

A pedophile who is predatory; a predator who is pedophilic.


prejacent

Multiple origins. Borrowed from Middle French prejacent (“previously existing”) during the sixteenth century. Also attested in twelfth century British sources, from post-classical Latin praeiacens (“situated before”).

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So, every exception set S that is not a subset of C(={b}) makes the prejacent statement false, i.e. makes it so that some (NPᵂ–S) (VPᵂ)=0.

2013, John Gajewski, “An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items”, in Eva Csipak, Regine Eckardt, Mingya Liu, editors, Beyond ‘Any’ and ‘Ever’: New Explorations in Negative Polarity, page 196:

(logic, of a proposition) Laid out earlier, prior.


prejacent

The subject of the prejacent and its exclusive must be one and the same (I grant that), but the subject of the prejacent ‘every man is a man’ is just ‘man’

1979 [c. 1499], Norman Kretzman, Logica Magna, translation of original by Pauli Veneti, pages 27–29:

I have suggested elsewhere (Horn 1992: 182-83) that this case requires an invocation of the notion of explicature or pragmatic enrichment […] so that the prejacent, while not constituting part of the linguistic meaning contributed by only, enters into the determination of what is said and hence into the enriched propositional content.

1997, Laurence Horn, “Negative polarity and the dynamics of vertical inference”, in Danielle Forget, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau, María Luisa Rivero, editors, Negation and Polarity, page 176:

(philosophy, logic, linguistics) A proposition laid out previously; a proposition from which another proposition is inferred.


cover name

By the time that he landed in New York early in June, 1915, Sir Edgar Speyer had good cause to be well aware that the Government was strongly opposed to any communication, direct or indirect, with enemy country and to all attempts to evade the censorship of letters and cables, whether by the use of code words or cover names;

1922, UK Parliament, Report […] in the Case of Sir Edgar Speyer, London, p. 7

1941, Richard Krebs (as Jan Valtin), Out of the Night, New York: Alliance Book Corporation, Chapter 31, p. 493,
The map of Germany was in my head—its cities, rivers, railroad schedules. I memorized a long string of names and cover names […]

[…] his headquarters were located, under a cover name, at the air terminal.

1962, Philip K. Dick, chapter 8, in The Man in the High Castle, New York: Ace Books, published 1988, page 113:

‘That’s a new one for us, isn’t it, Toby? A spy using his own name as a covername? I mean why bother any more? You’re Toby, so we’ll keep it a secret and call you Toby instead. Great.’

1990, John Le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim, Toronto: Pengin, published 1991, page 150:

(espionage, military) A name used to clandestinely identify somebody or something for confidentiality.


toposophy

His speculations on the "toposophy" of Superior Artificial Intelligences can be read as a materialistic version of theosophy — a theosophy without a teleology.

1986, Science-fiction Studies - Volume 13, page 250:

The practice of topos theory quickly spawned an associated philosophy—jocularly known as “toposophy”— whose chief tenet is the idea that, like a model of set theory, any topos may be taken as a taken as an autonomous universe of discourse or “world” in which mathematical concepts can be interpreted and constructions performed.

2005, John L. Bell, “The development of categorical logic”, in Handbook of philosophical logic:

For just as Goedel's proof demonstrates the existence of such islands of mathematical truth, such archipelagoes as are separated from the continent of mathematics by a distance that cannot be traversed by any step-by-step progress, so toposophy demonstrates the existence of unknown forms of Intelligence which are separated from the continent of evolutionary labors by a distance which non step-by-step adaptation of genes can cross.

2012 -, Stanislaw Lem, Imaginary Magnitude, →ISBN, page 70:

Quantum toposophy also accommodates the feeling that quantum mechanics is so radical that not just the actors of clasical mechanics, but its whole stage must be replaced.

2017, Klaas Landsman, Foundations of Quantum Theory:

(philosophy) The idea that any intellectual subject can be treated as an independent topos which can be described and understood in purely mathematical terms.


platinum rule

Learn how to build rapport with others by identifying their personality or behavioral style and use it to fulfill the platinum rule (treating others how they would want to be treated).

2014, Thomas Ventimiglia, Quest for your Empowered Self, →ISBN, page 312:

(ethics) The principle that one should treat people the way they want to be treated, as opposed to the way one wants to be treated by them.

(ethics, humorous) The principle that one should treat people the exact same way those people treat others.