ad verecundiam

Shortened from the Latin expression argumentum ad verecundiam. From argumentum (meaning "argument") + ad (meaning "to" or "at") + verecundiam, the accusative singular of verecundia (meaning "coyness", "modesty" or "shame").

Appeal to authority, argument from authority.


epagoge

/ɛpəˈɡəʊɡiː/

From Latin epagōgē, from Ancient Greek ἐπᾰγωγή (epagōgḗ, “a bringing in”). See epact.

uder

(logic) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.


inclusive disjunction

en-noun

inclusive disjunction (plural inclusive disjunctions)

(logic) A disjunction which is true if at least one of its disjuncts is true.


exclusive disjunction

exclusive disjunction (plural exclusive disjunctions)

(logic) A disjunction which is true if only one, but not both, of its disjuncts is true.


subalternate

(logic) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one.


retrophilia

At the same time, a wave of retrophilia started to crest. Clothing companies like Homage (which reproduces vintage-esque T's celebrating sports and pop culture from the '70s through the '90s) came up with unique ways to commercialize the interest in yesteryear.

2010 November 21, Kevin Alexander, “The secret to selling cool”, in Boston Globe:

The attraction to and preference for that which is from or characteristic of the past.


laxist

(chiefly theology) Someone promoting lax views or relaxed interpretations of something.


laxist

en-adj

laxist (comparative more laxist, superlative most laxist)

more laxist (comparative)
most laxist (superlative)

The Jesuits, it was charged, championed a laxist theology which encouraged rather than deterred sin [...].

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 248:

(chiefly theology) Promoting a lax view or interpretation of something.


pirot

Introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, who took the word from Rudolf Carnap's example sentence "Pirots karulize elatically".

Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).

1988, Richard E. Grandy, Richard Warner, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality, page 31:

Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.

2005, S. Chapman, Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist, page 123:

(philosophy) A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.


Epictetus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐπίκτητος (Epíktētos).


Armenophilia

unusual admiration or partiality for the Armenian people, or Armenian culture, language or history

հայասիրություն

unusual admiration or partiality for the Armenian people, culture, language or history


little black dress

en-noun

little black dress (plural little black dresses)

When dressing up for a night out, let's not forget the sex appeal, allure, and slenderizing effect of ultrasheer black hosiery under that little black dress.

2012, Rebecca Apsan, Lessons in Lingerie: Finding Your Perfect Shade of Seduction:

A simply cut and often quite short evening or cocktail dress.


cosmothetic

Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + θέσις (thésis, “placement, arrangement”) + -ic.

uder

The cosmothetic idealists […] deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter.

1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

(philosophy) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.


Academy

* French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Compare academe, academia, Akademeia.

(classical studies, philosophy) Platonism.


analogism

en-noun

analogism (countable and uncountable, plural analogisms)

From Ancient Greek ἀναλογία (analogía) (from ἀνά (aná) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, reckoning”)) + -ism.

all Judications and Analogisms may faile

1657, Henry Pinnell, Oswald Croll, Philosophy Reformed & Improved in Four Profound Tractates:

Epilogism as opposed to analogism proceeds from what is seen.

2012, P. Nicolacopoulos, Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, page 106:

The inclination toward simplified and/or distorted (but often useful) reasoning in the form of analogism and a propensity to organise events into teleological narratives to which causality is attributed, is of particular interest to this discussion.

2017, Jacqueline Hill, Mary Ann Lyons, Representing Irish Religious Histories, page 105:

(logic) An argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.

Why the drive to reduce these multiple modes of identification, forms of participatory knowing, and/or ontologies to one? My animism is better than your naturalism, totemism, analogism, or whatever.

2018, Zayin Cabot, Ecologies of Participation, page 146:

Defining pantheism as an ontology alongside analogism, it may be noted, requires an emendation to Descola's four ontologies: naturalism, totemism, animism and analogism.

2022, Olaf Almqvist, Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies:

(philosophy) The belief that the world consists of separate entities that follow certain rules or universal forces.


subreption

subreption (countable and uncountable, plural subreptions)

/sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/

From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition.

(philosophy) The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing.


storge

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στοργή (storgḗ, “affection, love (especially of parents and children)”), from στέργω (stérgō, “to love (chiefly of non-sexual affection); to show affection”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“to cover; to protect”)) + -η (-ē, suffix forming action nouns).

ref

From the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

der

[The virgins] haue choſen to expreſſe their ſeuerall qualities, thus in ſeuerall colours. The firſt, in citron colour, is natural affection, vvhich giuen vs to procure our good, is ſomtime called Storge, and as euery one is neereſt to himſelfe, ſo this hand-maid of reaſon, allovvable ſelfe-loue, as it is vvithout harme, ſo are none vvithout it: […]

1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act V, scene vii (the first masque), pages 257–258:

VVherefore as this Love has reference to Propagation; ſo Storge, or Natural Tenderneſs, referreth chiefly to Children that are begot. And if more of the Storge appear in Parents, than vvhat is reciprocal; it ſhevvs, this Paſſion is implanted by Nature, as others, to a greater Degree, or a leſs, ſuitable to the Uſe or VVant there may be thereof.

1688 September (date written), Henry More, “The Use and Interpretation of Love and Hatred; which are in the Second Classis”, in R. W. [pseudonym; Edward Southwell], transl., An Account of Virtue: Or, Dr. Henry More’s Abridgment of Morals, Put into English, London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, published 1690, →OCLC, book I, paragraph IV, pages 63–64:

As ſoon as the ſeeds are formed, it [the American cowslip (Primula sect. Dodecatheon)] erects all the flovver-ſtalks to prevent them from falling out; and thus loſes the beauty of its figure. Is this a mechanical effect, or does it indicate a vegetable ſtorgé to preſerve its offspring?

1789, [Erasmus Darwin], The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1791, →OCLC, part II (The Loves of the Plants; 3rd edition), footnote, page 6:

I saw a Jewish lady, only yesterday, with a child at her knee, and from whose face towards the child there shone a sweetness so angelical, that it seemed to form a sort of glory round both. I protest I could have knelt before her too, and adored in her the Divine beneficence in endowing us with the maternal storgē, which began with our race and sanctifies the history of mankind.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Pedigree and Other Family Matters”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 20:

The Greeks called this love storge (two syllables and the g is "hard"). I shall here call it simply Affection. My Greek Lexicon defines storge as "affection, especially of parents to offspring"; but also of offspring to parents. The image we must start with is that of a mother nursing a baby, a bitch or a cat with a basketful of puppies or kittens; all in a squeaking, nuzzling heap together; purrings, lickings, baby-talk, milk, warmth, the smell of young life.

[1960, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Affection”, in The Four Loves, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC, page 42:

[John Alan] Lee (1973), on the basis of interviews with adults about their love relationships, postulated three primary love styles—Eros, Ludus, and Storge. These could be combined to form three further styles, Mania (eros and ludus), Pragma (ludus and storge), and Agape (storge and eros). […] [T]hose "in love now" endorsed eros, storge, mania, and agape more strongly, and ludus less strongly, than those not in love.

1997, Robert A[ubrey] Hinde, “Love and Romantic Relationships”, in Relationships: A Dialectal Perspective, Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press Publishers, Erlbaum (UK) Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, part D (Friendship and Love), page 434:

Unlike the eros and ludus love styles, storge lovers emphasize companionship and compatibility over physical attraction. Also known as the friendship style of love, storge lovers are typically characterized as being honest and loyal with a desire to develop a relationship rather than spontaneously fall into one[…].

2012, Claire Kimberly, Jason D. Hans, “Love Styles and Their Role in Relationships”, in Michele E. Paludi, editor, The Psychology of Love, volume II (Emotion and Romance), Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, →ISBN, page 159:

Natural affection or love, especially of parents for their children.

Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
The Visit to the Nursery

حب أسري

natural affection or love, especially of parents for their children


nonimplication

en-noun

nonimplication (countable and uncountable, plural nonimplications)

Material nonimplication
w:Material nonimplication

(chiefly logic) That which is not implied; the opposite of an implication.


temporalize

en-verb

temporalize (third-person singular simple present temporalizes, present participle temporalizing, simple past and past participle temporalized)

temporalizes (present singular third-person)
temporalizing (participle present)
temporalized (participle past)
temporalized (past)

There are probably innumerable rhythms in a sensation during the duration of a second. . . . We are unable to temporalize our sensations of phenomena.

1928 November 22, Herman Hausheer, “A Theory of Perception”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 25, number 24, page 647:

In each language, mechanisms are available which allow us to classify, serialize, localize, and temporalize the objects of possible experience.

1976, Jürgen Habermas, “Some Distinctions in Universal Pragmatics: A Working Paper”, in Theory and Society, volume 3, number 2, page 161:

Spencer begins with an idea in the Platonist sense, which he proceeds to unfold, to spatialize and temporalize in the universe of fiction.

1991, S. K. Heninger, Jr., “Spenser, Sidney, and Poetic Form”, in Studies in Philology, volume 88, number 2, page 147:

By way of discourse, we break out of the immediate surround. . . . Whereas the other intentional threads spatialize and temporalize a surround with somewhat limited range . . ., discourse discloses world.

2002, Corey Anton, “Discourse as Care: A Phenomenological Consideration of Spatiality and Temporality”, in Human Studies, volume 25, number 2, page 195:

(transitive, often philosophy) To situate in time.


extropianism

Coordinate term: posthumanism

The main tenets of Extropianism are ‘boundless expansion, self-transformation, dynamic optimism, intelligent technology, and spontaneous order’. The goal of Extropianism is to enable those who want to be at the vanguard of the incumbent transformation into a ‘posthuman’ age.

2004, Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall, Iain Borden, The City Cultures Reader, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 238:

Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.


slashzine

There's also a healthy B7 [Blake's 7] slashzine community.

1994, William James Moyer, “Sinclair vs. Avon (?!)”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (Usenet):

Slashzines based on Dark Shadows characters are rare; most Dark Shadows fans have never even heard of them.

1998, Cheryl Harris, Alison Alexander, Theorizing fandom: fans, subculture, and identity:

That's why all the SW [Star Wars] slashzines are pubbed underground -- there is no sex, let alone kinky sex, in the SW universe, and by damn LucasArts is gonna see that it stays that way!

2000, Rez, “New Napster Software but for DOOM LEVELS”, in rec.games.computer.doom.misc (Usenet):


teleosemantics

From teleo- + semantics, introduced by Ruth Millikan who attributes it to Steven Wagner.

(philosophy) The view that the notion of representation should be defined with respect to biological function.


biosemantics

From bio- + semantics, introduced by Ruth Millikan.

(philosophy) A theory that aims to produce a constitutive account of intentionality.


patriarchalism

en-noun

patriarchalism (countable and uncountable, plural patriarchalisms)

(historical, politics, philosophy, sometimes uppercase) A political theory which arose in England in the seventeenth century, which emphasized the absolute power of the king as the paternal head of state, viewing his fatherly power as having been inherited genealogically from Adam.


videophilia

We are spending less time in parks, less time camping and hiking, and less time in unstructured outdoor play because videophilia is replacing biophilia.

2012, Nancy Sleeth, Almost Amish: One Woman's Quest for a Slower, Simpler, More Sustainable Life, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 78:

An inactive lifestyle characterized by activities that involve spending time in front of a screen, such as television, video games, and the Internet.


Megaric

Derived from Latin megaricus, from Ancient Greek Μεγαρικός (Megarikós). Also Megara + -ic.


absolute form

(philosophy) The Platonic form of the supreme idea in which all other ideas participate.


absolute ego

(philosophy) The Fichtean ego that posits its own existence and through the opposition of subject and object thus created dialectically evolves the universe.


absolute idealism

absolute idealism (countable and uncountable, plural absolute idealisms)

(philosophy) A philosophy originally developed by certain German idealists such as Hegel and Schelling, which affirms that reality is grounded in cognition as a single, fundamental and unlimited principle of being that unites subject and object.


absolute reality

absolute reality (countable and uncountable, plural absolute realities)

(philosophy) Ultimate reality, as is unaffected by the beliefs or limitations of any finite being.

(philosophy) Reality in relation to the divine mind.


Vicar of Christ

Vicar of Christ (plural Vicars of Christ)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin vicārius Christī.

calque

Grant, then, . . . that the Holy Ghost had no such respect to any one (church) as to lead it into truth, although sent with this view by Christ, and for this asked of the Father that He might be the teacher of truth; grant, also, that He, the Steward of God, the Vicar of Christ, neglected His office . . .

1885, Tertullian, chapter XXVIII, in Peter Holmes, transl., Prescription against Heretics:

(Christianity, theology, very rare) The Holy Ghost.


pharmacophilia

(rare) A morbid addiction to drugs; pharmacomania.


nihilator

Being alone can nihilate without itself being nihilated. In the act of nihilation the nihilator remains.

1980, Darshana International, volumes 20-21, J. P. Atreya, page 80:

Every ego is engaged in “a desperate effort to be” - desperate because we are all nihilators defending our fragile project of being, which necessarily involves mutual destruction: […]

1988, Joseph C. McLelland, Prometheus Rebound: The Irony of Atheism, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 267:

[…] French Resistance left him with a feeling of human solidarity quite absent from his earlier works, in which other people are most characteristically represented as Heidegger’s ‘They’ -- obstacles to our discovery of ourselves, nihilators of our possibilities.

1994, John Passmore, A Hundred Years of Philosophy, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 606:


nonbody

Thus, just as there are more bodies than animals, so, on the other hand, there are more nonanimals than nonbodies.

1969, G. W. Leibniz, translated by L. Lowmker, Samples of the Numerical Characteristic:

(chiefly philosophy) That which is not a body.


Temple of Heaven

Calque of Chinese 天壇／天坛 (Tiāntán, literally “Altar of Heaven”).

(proscribed) The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the largest building in the complex, commonly confused as its focus.


ecstatical

en-adj

ecstatical (comparative more ecstatical, superlative most ecstatical)

more ecstatical (comparative)
most ecstatical (superlative)

I find in me a great deal of ecstatical love, which continually carries me to good without myself.

I have argued that the lived-body does not simply "extend" in space as a non-ecstatical thing, but rather, it "occupies and inhabits" space.

2001, Corey Anton, Selfhood and Authenticity, page 123:

This ecstatical standpoint requires a kind of rewrapping of human beings in their constitutive envelops, links, neighbourhoods, and housing

2009, Environment and Planning:, page 159:

Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes.

2017, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, page 249:

(philosophy) Tending to external objects.


Hegelianism

en-noun

Hegelianism (countable and uncountable, plural Hegelianisms)

The system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories.


anti-Hegelian

en-adj

anti-Hegelian (comparative more anti-Hegelian, superlative most anti-Hegelian)

more anti-Hegelian (comparative)
most anti-Hegelian (superlative)

(philosophy) Opposing the Hegelian philosophy.


anti-Hegelian

(philosophy) One who opposes the Hegelian philosophy.


elenctical

elenctical (comparative more elenctical, superlative most elenctical)

more elenctical (comparative)
most elenctical (superlative)


thereness

en-noun

thereness (countable and uncountable, plural therenesses)

(philosophy) The quality of being there, or in some place; presence; existence.


apodict

(philosophy, rare) An apodictic proposition; a non-mathematical axiom.


apodict

en-adj

apodict (comparative more apodict, superlative most apodict)

more apodict (comparative)
most apodict (superlative)

From the Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτός (apodeiktós, “demonstrable”).


hexameron

From Ancient Greek ἑξαήμερον (hexaḗmeron, “six-day”).

der

He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc. His homilies on the Hexameron, too, shew thought of Nature.

1905, Alfred Biese, The Development of the Feeling for Nature In the Middle Ages and Modern Times, page 34:

(theology) The six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.

(theology) The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.


what is this I don't even

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-what is this I don't even.wav

The run-on and fragmentary structure of this phrase is presumably intended to mimic literally being rendered speechless.

My own personal hell came to pass on January 18th, 2012: Reddit and Wikipedia went offline. Yes, the point was to raise awareness about the intrusive, unjust Stop Online Piracy act. And yes, the blackout was politically influential and reached millions over a period of twelve hours…but what was I supposed to do? Play in the snow? Actually talk to humans in real life? What is this I don't even.

2012, Michael Kaemingk, "SOPA bill fails to address actual piracy issues", The Spectator (Seattle University), 25 January 2012

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that something has left one in a state of disbelief or confusion.


what has been seen cannot be unseen

At Dachau he was witness to real rather than abstract suffering; what has been seen cannot be unseen, nor can it be rationalized.

2010, Brad Prager, “Suffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA”, in Paul Cooke, Marc Silberman, editors, Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering, Camden House, →ISBN, page 196:

I went into Akira knowing it's considered amongst critics a landmark film for anime and the success of the genre in America, but I was also expecting the type of weirdness that has given anime an infamous reputation in pop culture. Don't know what I'm talking about? Google "hentai." …Actually, no, don't do that. Seriously. Don't fucking do that. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

2011 December, Jay Wallace, “Akira”, in BandWagon Magazine:

Repulsive, disturbing, or horrific sights can never be erased from memory once they have been seen.

that which has been seen cannot be unseen


antinihilistic

en-adj

antinihilistic (comparative more antinihilistic, superlative most antinihilistic)

more antinihilistic (comparative)
most antinihilistic (superlative)


intentional species

en-noun

intentional species (plural intentional species)

(philosophy, Aristotelian) Form that is without matter, which is radiated from a physical object, and then observed by the eye.


Baroko

The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase[…]

1847, Augustus De Morgan, Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable, page 132:

But this Conclusion is false, consequently the Minor Premise of the first Syllogism, Baroko, its contradictory, is true.

1870, William Dexter Wilson, An elementary treatise on logic, page 129:

The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo.

2005, Charles Gray Shaw, Logic in Theory and Practice, page 161:

(logic, obsolete) A form or mode of syllogism in which the first proposition is a universal affirmative and the other two are particular negative.


Bokardo

Bokardo is converted in a similar manner, only that in this case we substitute the contradictory of the conclusion for the major premiss[…]

1870, H. Coleman, Notes on logic, page 81:

(logic, obsolete) A form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are particular negatives and the second a universal affirmative.


telish

en-verb

telish (third-person singular simple present telishes, present participle telishing, simple past and past participle telished)

telishes (present singular third-person)
telishing (participle present)
telished (participle past)
telished (past)

Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “result”, “end”, loosely “the greater good”) and the English (pun)ish, after telishment.

uder

How is one to limit the risks involved in allowing such systematic deception? How is one to avoid giving anything short of complete discretion to the authorities to telish anyone they like?

1955, John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules”, in The Philosophical Review, LXIV, № 1, page 12:

(consequentialism) Punish (an innocent person) for the sake of deterrence; subject (a person) to telishment.


telishment

en-noun

telishment (usually uncountable, plural telishments)

Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “result; end; loosely, the greater good”) and the English (pun)ishment. Compare telish.

uder

Try to imagine, then, an institution (which we may call “telishment”) which is such that the officials set up by it have authority to arrange a trial for the condemnation of an innocent man whenever they are of the opinion that doing so would be in the best interests of society.

1955, John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules”, in The Philosophical Review, LXIV, № 1, page 11:

And I would say the same about punishments — not telishments, but punishments — in which the penalty is far too severe.

1961, John Hospers, Human Conduct: An Introduction to the Problems of Ethics, page 457:

(consequentialism) The act or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence.


monoousian

/ˌmɒnəʊˈuːzɪən/

From Ancient Greek μονοούσιος (monooúsios, “of one substance”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”) + οὐσία (ousía, “being, substance, essence”) + -ian.

But the homoousian Trinity of the orthodox went exactly in the middle, betwixt that monoousian trinity of Sabellius, which was a trinity of different notions or conceptions only of one and the self-same thing, and that other heteroousian trinity of Arius, which was a trinity of separate and heterogenous substances (one of which only was God, and the other creatures); […]

1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, volume I:

The use of the word "monoousian," as above, may mislead; for the orthodox view of the trinity has unquestionably and necessarily a monoousian basis; there is, and can be, but one essence in the godhead.

April 1867, The American Presbyterian and Theological Review, volume 5, number 18, page 339:

The trinitarian idea of personality lies midway between that of a mere form of manifestation, or a personation, which would lead to Sabellianism, and the idea of an independent, limited human personality, which would result in tritheism. In other words, it avoids the monoousian or unitarian trinity of a threefold conception and aspect of one and the same being, and the triousian or tritheistic trinity of three distinct and separate beings.

1884, Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, volume III, T. & T. Clark, pages 676–677:

(theology) Having one and the same nature or essence, especially with regard to the persons of the Trinity.

μονοούσιος

having one and the same nature or essence


law of attraction

The law of attraction is really obedience. When you think of the things that you want, and you focus on them with all of your intention, the law of attraction will give you what you want, every time.

If you're falling out of an airplane, the law of gravity trumps the law of attraction.

2008 June 4, Vinny Verelli, “I Got Your Secret Right Here”, in Vinny Vents, retrieved 2012-09-19:

She spoke with a woman who was so gung ho since learning about The Secret from watching an episode of Oprah that she was forgoing conventional medical advice about her cancer treatment. She'd decided to heal herself using the law of attraction.

2010 January 4, Robyn Okrant, Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk, New York: Center Street, →ISBN, →OL:

(New Age) The belief that thinking about someone or something attracts it and causes it or the individual to manifest in one's life.


besideness

Clearly, matching is a necessary condition for besideness in a category, since if two qualia of a category fail to match there is still an M-path joining them and consequently one or more qualia lying between them.

1977, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Appearance:

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of being beside.


aboveness

Because this evangile does in fact give us a continuum of gods below and above joined by a vibrating cord, it supports my point that metaphors operate upon continua — in this case belowness and aboveness — moving people and things aptly about on the continua.

1986, James. W. Fernandez, Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture, page 19:

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of being above.


belowness

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of being below.


metaproperty

The metaproperties allow you to extract more information (such as relative position and namespace information) about XML nodes than is visible in the textual representation.

2002, Rahul Sharma, Microsoft SQL Server 2000: A Guide to Enhancements and New Features:

(computing, philosophy) A property of a property.


noncognitivism

en-noun

noncognitivism (countable and uncountable, plural noncognitivisms)

(philosophy) The metaethical view that ethical sentences do not express propositions and thus cannot be true or false.


sapiosexual

From Latin sapiens + -sexual. Coined by Darren Stalder in 1998 to describe his own sexuality.

You see, for a true geek there's often little difference, because when you engage our brains, which are connected to our genitals, it often turns on our lust response (we're quite often sapiosexuals - people who lust after intellect first), but it's the *brain* you aim for, the intellect, to turn us on, not our genitals.

2005 October 20, CatDeville [username], “Re: Struggling with the details”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

In Study 2 we tapped attitudes toward a largely unknown sexual orientation group, sapiosexuals (those sexually attracted to the human mind).
[…]
Participants indicated their familiarity with heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, asexuals, and sapiosexuals […]

2012 April 24, Cara C. MacInnis, Gordon Hodson, “Intergroup bias toward 'Group X': Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals”, in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations:

So, what attracts you? What turns you on? If you decided on abstract thought, clever humour and insight. You're a sapiosexual.

2012 May, Carolina Montejo, “Sapiosexuality: The intelligent foreplay”, in Vangardist, page 126:


romantic comedy

romantic comedy (countable and uncountable, plural romantic comedies)

Judging from his new movie, the sublimely silly They Came Together, director and co-writer David Wain is a closet connoisseur of the modern romantic comedy.

2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-07:

(uncountable) A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.


Caturday

I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.

2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in Time:

Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet.

2010 August 31, Jon Kelly, Jude Sheerin, “The strange virtual world of 4chan”, in BBC News:

When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.

2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, →ISBN, page 148:

(Internet slang) Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats.


t-conorm

The t-conorm #x5C;sqrt#x7B;x²#x2B;y²-x²y²#x7D; is dominated by the t-conorm x#x2B;y-xy, which is in turn dominated by the t-conorm #x7B;x#x2B;y#x5C;over 1#x2B;xy#x7D;.

A t-conorm acts as a disjunction in fuzzy logic or as a union in fuzzy set theory. When one of its arguments is 0, it returns its other argument; when one of its arguments is 1, it returns 1. It is both associative and commutative, and its partial derivatives with respect to its parameters are non-negative.

(fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1], which, when given (a,b) as input, returns one minus a t-norm of (1 − a, 1 − b).


Skolemization

Named after Thoralf Skolem (1887–1963), Norwegian mathematician.

existential quantifier
existential quantifier

universal quantifier
universal quantifier

(logic) The conversion of a formula of first-order logic which involves the following steps: (1) replace free variables with constants, (2) replace any variable bound by an existential quantifier which lies in the scope of an even number of logical negations with a Skolem function, and (3) replace any variable bound by a universal quantifier which lies in the scope of an odd number of negations with a Skolem function.


sentential logic

sentential logic (plural sentential logics)

The Leibniz operator and the study of various of its properties that may or may not be satisfied for particular sentential logics have given rise to what is now known as the abstract algebraic hierarchy or Leibniz hierarchy of sentential logics.ᵂᴾ


Herbrandization

From Herbrand + -ization, after Jacques Herbrand (1908–1931), French mathematician.

(logic) The conversion of a formula of first-order logic which involves the following steps: (1) replace free variables with constants, (2) replace any variable bound by a universal quantifier which lies in the scope of an even number of logical negations with a Herbrand function, and (3) replace any variable bound by an existential quantifier which lies in the scope of an odd number of negations with a Herbrand function.


double turnstile

double turnstile (plural double turnstiles)

(logic, model theory) The ⊨ symbol used to denote semantic consequence, or the ⊧ symbol used to denote the fact that the model to the left of it satisfies the set of sentences to its right.


emergentist

(philosophy) One who subscribes to emergentism.


emergentism

emergentism (countable and uncountable, plural emergentisms)

(philosophy) The belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts (or not) with reductionism.


superorganicism

(philosophy) The belief that a culture or society transcends the purely organic nature of its individuals.


superdupervenience

Blend of super-duper + supervenience, coined by Terence Horgan in a 1993 paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307175427/http://thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/files/From%20Supervenience%20to%20Superdupervenience-%20Meeting%20the%20Demands%20of%20a%20Material%20World.pdf.

(philosophy) Ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.


antihistoricism

antihistoricism (countable and uncountable, plural antihistoricisms)

(philosophy, art) Any aesthetic, such as futurism in architecture, that rejects traditions and historicism.

anti-historicismo

any aesthetic that rejects traditions and historicism


preterism

(theology) A Christian eschatological view that interprets Biblical prophecies as events which happened in the first century C.E..


analogon

(philosophy) According to Sartre, an equivalent of perception (such as a painting or a mental image) that is necessary for the process of imagination to take place.


stoichiology

Ancient Greek στοιχεῖον (stoikheîon, “first element, fundamental principle”) + -logy.

uder

(logic) The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought .


antizombie

Let's find that bibulous "antizombie" state of pure experience.

1998, Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, Alwyn Scott, Toward a Science of Consciousness II, →ISBN:

Finally, in chapter 6 I revisit certain questions, especially concerning the nature of subjectivity, in the context of an exploration of various anti-zombie arguments.

2003, Joseph Levine, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, →ISBN, page 10:

The perfect experiment suggests the anti-zombie: a creature which is conscious, perhaps in just one respect, as in Cohen and Dennett«s isolation of colour consciousness, but gives no sign of it.

2016 -, William Seager, Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment, →ISBN:

We must all be functionalists. By demolishing the intuitions, the anti-zombie argument removes what has long been seen as a major problem for physicalism and functionalism. And by bringing out the fact that consciousness depends on a number of different information-processing capacities, that argument hints at what it really is.

2017, Robert Kirk, Robots, Zombies and Us: Understanding Consciousness, →ISBN:

(philosophy) The inverse of the philosophical zombie; an exact duplicate of a human being which certainly and necessarily does have conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.


Good

Form of the Good
Good (surname)
Good, West Virginia
Plato
Republic (Plato)

Ellipsis of the form of the Good, a calque of Ancient Greek ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα (hē toû agathoû idéa), a concept used in Plato's Republic.

calque

ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα

(philosophy) Plato's metaprinciple of proper systemic function between principles; the fundamental Platonic form which enables knowledge and metacognition, from which other concepts such as truth, justice and virtue derive meaning.


aretaics

Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -ics.

it is with 'aretaics' […] that anything which can be called moral philosophy begins

1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals:

(ethics) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; contrasted with eudaemonics.


right to work

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1948, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 23.1), United Nations
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(public policy, law, ethics) The human right (the right of an individual) to have gainful employment.

工作權

the fundamental human right to have employment


absolute idea

(philosophy) In Hegelianism, the spiritual principle of which the reality is the expression.


Aristotelean

Borrowed from Latin Aristoteleanus, from Aristoteles + -anus.


dialetheia

en-noun

dialetheia (plural dialetheias or dialetheia)

dialetheias (plural)
dialetheia (plural)

Coined by Graham Priest and Richard Routley, from di- + Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”), in 1981.

uder

A statement that is both true and false; a true contradiction.


fuck like a mink

en-verb

fuck like a mink (third-person singular simple present fucks like a mink, present participle fucking like a mink, simple past and past participle fucked like a mink)

fucks like a mink (present singular third-person)
fucking like a mink (participle present)
fucked like a mink (participle past)
fucked like a mink (past)

"She's a really sweet girl, kind and honest and decent, and all of her clients tell me that she fucks like a mink."
"With that endorsement and the boots and the whips, maybe I should give her a try."

1979, Warren Murphy, Frank Stevens, Atlantic City, page 209:

"...But, for general info, she'd just as gladly slide a knife in as anything else. Don't let her fool you. On the other hand, she can fuck like a mink. Have fun. I'll take Bambi any day."

“You fuck like a mink,” Eric told me one night in his sister's bedroom. His parents were out of town, and Eric and I had the run of the house.

2011, Carolyn Briggs, Higher Ground: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost:

(simile, vulgar) To have sex with great enthusiasm.


Yang

(Chinese philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of yang when used as a proper noun.


water

en-noun

water (countable and uncountable, plural waters)

desc

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: wata

Aukan: wataa

Australian Kriol: woda

Belizean Creole: waata

Bislama: wota

Cameroon Pidgin: wata

Grenadian Creole English: wata

Gullah: wata

Islander Creole English: waata

Jamaican Creole: wata

Krio: wata

Nicaraguan Creole: wáta

Pichinglis: wàtá

Pijin: wata

Pitcairn-Norfolk: worta

Saramaccan: wáta

Sranan Tongo: watra

Tok Pisin: wara

→ American Sign Language: 6@Chin

→ Catalan: vàter

→ Spanish: váter

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
From Middle English water, from Old English wæter (“water”), from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”). The development of the /ɔː/ vowel instead of expected */weɪtə(r)/ is irregular and has not been conclusively explained (compare father).
cognates
Cognate with cf, North Frisian weeter (“water”), Saterland Frisian Woater (“water”), West Frisian wetter (“water”), Dutch water (“water”), Low German Water (“water”), German Wasser, Old Norse vatn (Swedish vatten (“water”), Danish vand (“water”), Norwegian Bokmål vann (“water”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic vatn (“water”), Old Irish coin fodorne (“otters”, literally “water-dogs”), Latin unda (“wave”), Lithuanian vanduõ (“water”), Russian вода́ (vodá, “water”), Albanian ujë (“water”), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), Armenian գետ (get, “river”), Sanskrit उदन् (udán, “wave, water”), Hittite 𒉿𒀀𒋻 (wa-a-tar).

cog

Northern England, dated; obsolete elsewhere

[ˈʋaːʈər(ɯ)]

couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel

every miller draws water to his own mill

the mill cannot grind with water that is past

you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink

you can lead horses to water, but you can't make them drink

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

He showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God.

(alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.


triforce

From Japanese トライフォース (toraifōsu), from English tri- + force. First used in the Legend of Zelda video game franchise for a magical artefact in that fictional universe.

A shape composed of three equilateral triangles arranged in such a manner that a fourth triangle of identical size, but pointing the opposite direction, could fit between them.

三角之力

Shape composed of three triangles in a specific alignment


triforce

en-verb

triforce (third-person singular simple present triforces, present participle triforcing, simple past and past participle triforced)

triforces (present singular third-person)
triforcing (participle present)
triforced (participle past)
triforced (past)

(Internet slang) To post three Unicode triangles (▲) arranged in this configuration, especially on 4chan, where doing this correctly was a sign of experience used to weed out newbies.


ghostlore

From ghost + lore (“learning, knowledge”).

Three other sections of the state are important in this connection: the Adirondack Mountains and parts of the Catskills, which while sparsely settled and only slightly represented in this collection, have much good ghostlore yet to be collected.

1982, Louis Clark Jones, Three Eyes on the Past:

When one person tells another of a frightening experience, he is passing on ghostlore.

1995, Charles Edwin Price, Haunted Tennessee:

From ruthless gangsters to restless mail order kings, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the phantom remains of the passionate people and volatile events of Chicago history have made the Second City second to none in the annals of American ghostlore.

2004, Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen, The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television:

Ghost stories and tales of railroad heroics and tragedy may have mixed to create this unique type of ghostlore.

2019, Matthew L. Swayne, Haunted Rails: Tales of Ghost Trains, Phantom Conductors, and Other Railroad Spirits, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:


creepypasta

en-noun

creepypasta (countable and uncountable, plural creepypastas)

→ Polish: creepypasta

→ Spanish: creepypasta

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After the pattern of copypasta, substituting creepy for copy. Originated from 4chan’s /x/ (paranormal) board sometime around 2007.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English creepy
Middle English copien
English copy
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-pasteblend.
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pastablend.
English copypasta
English creepypasta

etymon

The video is part of a growing phenomenon making its way around message boards and e-mail chains called “creepypasta” — bite-sized bits of scariness that have joined the unending list of things-to-do-when-you’re-bored-at-work.

2010 November 14, “Bored at Work? Try Creepypasta, or Web Scares”, in The New York Times, Austin Considine:

The game was born from the familiar 'Slenderman' image, which you may or may not be familiar with from internet memes and creepypasta horror stories.

2012 September 14, Kaz Scattergood, “Spooked by Slender, Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union)”, in magazine, volume 9, number 49, page 2:

"[…] Listen to the nineteen personal creepypasta-style stories to piece together the mysterious events of that fateful night in 1898, when twelve orphans simply… disappeared!"

2013 September 5, “Huntsman: The Orphanage”, in Adventure Lantern, number 46, page 7:

The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas” on the Internet.

2013 November 14, Joey Dussault, “The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World”, in Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University), number 33, page 11:

A friend pointed her to Creepypasta, a collection of user-generated horror fan sites in which written, Photoshopped, and videotaped accounts of encounters with monsters and supernatural evil are presented as “real” in the form of encyclopedia entries, testimonials, and other “documentary” evidence.

2015 August 24, Lisa Miller, “Slender Man Is Watching”, in New York Magazine, page 62:

(Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories in the horror genre, circulated on the Internet.


quantum logic

(logic, quantum mechanics) A form of non-classical logic which has been abstracted out of quantum mechanics.

The representation theorem (for quantum logic) shows that these quantum logics form a lattice which is isomorphic to the lattice of subspaces of a vector space with a scalar product.ᵂᴾ

(logic, quantum mechanics) A set of events that is closed under a countable disjunction of countably many mutually exclusive events.ᵂᴾ


doctrine of necessity

duress of circumstances

principle of preservation of greater utilitarian value

In examining the doctrine of necessity, I shall endeavour to bring what I have to say about the subject into as narrow a compass as possible, and for that purpose the following axioms are premised; as in all sciences, some principles must be taken for granted, else nothing can be proved.

1803, John Dawson, The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Briefly Invalidated, page 7:

(philosophy, metaphysics, theology) Necessarianism, especially as espoused by Joseph Priestley.


scepsis

From Ancient Greek σκέψις (sképsis, “examination, observation, consideration”). See skeptic.

bor

Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of Kant.

1862 October 13, James Martineau, The Transient and the Permanent in Theology: An Address at the Opening of the Session of Manchester New College […], published 1862, page 4:

On the one side it is seen that the sole basis of philosophy is experience, and on the other that scepsis has shaken the credibility of experience.

1875, Albert Schwegler, translated by James Hutchison Stirling, Handbook of the History of Philosophy, page 279:

Permanent scepsis is, after all, the condition sine qua non of not only philosophy but also of all true social action.

The connection with opīnor ‘to suspect’ is difficult for semantic reasons; EM regard it with scepsis.

2008, Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, →ISBN, page 432:

(chiefly philosophy, uncommon) Skepticism; a skeptical approach or belief.


psychagogy

In the Christian type of psychagogy we will see that although it is true that the person who provides spiritual direction must obey a number of rules, and that he has a number of responsibilities and obligations, the most fundamental and essential cost of the truth and of "truth-telling" will be borne by the person whose soul has to be guided.

1981-1982, Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981--1982, published 2005:

An even more resounding echo of Plato's Gordias can be heard in this passage: the connection between psychagogy and pedagogy.

2006, James N. Comas, Between Politics and Ethics: Toward a Vocative History of English Studies, page 112:

Emphasis falls on the correction of error and participation in mutual psychagogy. This emphasis on reciprocal correction in friendship is congruent with the ideal of friendship of many and runs counter to the common saying that one should judge a person's character before friendship is proffered.

1996, John T. Fitzgeraldn, editor, Friendship, Flattery, and Frankness of Speech: Studies on Friendship in the New Testament World:

(religion, philosophy) Guidance of the soul.


nomic

From Ancient Greek νομικός (nomikós, “relating to laws”), from νόμος (nómos, “law, custom”).

der

(sciences, philosophy) Relating to a law.


apodeictical

en-adj

apodeictical (comparative more apodeictical, superlative most apodeictical)

more apodeictical (comparative)
most apodeictical (superlative)


seapunk

en-noun

seapunk (countable and uncountable, plural seapunks)

From sea + -punk; compare earlier cyberpunk, steampunk. Coined by Brooklyn-based DJ Lil Internet, who tweeted about a surreal dream he had in June 2011 ("Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be"), and later popularized as a Twitter hashtag.

Seapunk's aqueous adherents, mostly in the Midwest but spreading fast […] have been characterized as goth mermaids, which certainly captures the look and feel: think turquoise-dyed hair and an embrace of all things oceanic, yay for steampunk jellyfish outfits.

2012 January 10, Marke B., “Mermaids vs. unicorns”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian:

Many thought this understandably short-lived meme had died a watery death in 2011, but when Rihanna took to Saturday Night Live to perform Diamonds recently, with a full-on seapunk-influenced production, it got a new lease of life.

2012 December 14, Lucy Stehlik, “Seapunk: scenester in-joke or underground art movement?”, in The Guardian:

She also lashed out at Azealia Banks, who dropped an explicitly seapunk video the same week, but Azealia's fine in my books. She’s always been into seapunk stuff, she “came from the internet” unlike Rihanna, she actually commits to and genuinely engages with the seapunk visuals (e.g riding dolphins) and they at least somewhat fit her song and attitude.

2013, Cameron Welch, "That's That Shit I Don't Like: The Year in Wackness", The Phoenix (UBCO), 7 January 2013, page 11 (online version)

(aesthetic, uncountable) A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.

(neologism, countable) A follower of the seapunk style.


mommy porn

Now, as she turned the page of her book, a “mommy porn” title on every national bestseller list, she sneaked a peek at her in-flight neighbor's face.

2012, Emily Ryan-Davis, Tangled & Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN:

The sadomasochistic antics in EL James's 'mommy porn' book Fifty Shades of Grey have made it a phenomenon, despite the appalling writing.

2012 April 13, Laura Barnett, “Mommy porn?: Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: review”, in The Telegraph:

Countless newspapers across the country reported on this “mommy porn” trend, since the majority of its audience seemed to be suburban housewives.

2013, Nicole Cammorata, Words You Should Know 2013: The 201 Words from Science, Politics, Technology, and Pop Culture That Will Change Your Life This Year, Adams Media, published 2013, →ISBN, page 101:

(informal, neologism) A genre of mainstream erotic literature that primarily appeals to the sensibilities of mothers and housewives.


permissivist

(epistemology) A supporter of permissivism.


Leibniz

A surname from German — famously held by:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German mathematician, philosopher, and polymath


heteroromantic

en-adj

heteroromantic (comparative more heteroromantic, superlative most heteroromantic)

more heteroromantic (comparative)
most heteroromantic (superlative)

Often, however, asexual people will also identify with a particular sexual orientation, minus the sexual aspect, and may define themselves as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, transromantic or panromantic.

2009, Jennifer Byrne, "He's Just Not That Into Anyone, Pop Matters, 31 August 2009

It does not address other kinds of sexuality such as demisexual (sexual attraction is experienced only when accompanied by a strong emotional attraction), pansexual (attraction across all gender identities and biological sexes. Think “gender blind”), and the romantics (Homoromantic/heteroromantic/aromantic making attraction experienced romantically rather than sexually) among others.

2012 October 5, Kristen Hammond, “Gettin’ down with the sexuality spectrum and where we fit”, in The Elm:

Thus, you can be asexual and biromantic (romantically attracted to men and women), panromantic (romantically attracted to any gender identity), homoromantic (romantically attracted to members of the same sex), or heteroromantic (romantically attracted to members of the opposite sex). Some aces are asexual and aromantic, meaning they enjoy platonic friendships, but don’t experience romantic attraction.

2013 October 21, Helena Horton, “What is Asexuality?”, in York Vision:

There are different types of ‘aces’, with asexuals being heteroromantic (romantically attracted to the opposite sex); homoromantic (to the same sex); biromantic (to both sexes); panromantic (to both sexes and transsexuals); or aromantic (experiencing little or no romantic attraction to anyone).

2015 February 23, Alix O'Neill, “What It Feels Like To Be Asexual In A Sex-Obsessed World”, in Marie Claire:

Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.


homoromantic

homoromantic (comparative more homoromantic, superlative most homoromantic)

more homoromantic (comparative)
most homoromantic (superlative)

Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.


homoromantic

One who is romantically attracted to people of the same gender.


postphenomenology

en-noun

postphenomenology (usually uncountable, plural postphenomenologies)

(philosophy) A revised form of phenomenology that aims to overcome the limitations of subjectivism.


antiutilitarianism

(philosophy) Opposition to utilitarianism.


prioritarianism

(philosophy) The view that the goodness of an outcome is a function of overall well-being across all individuals, with extra weight given to those who are worse off.


antiutilitarian

en-adj

antiutilitarian (comparative more antiutilitarian, superlative most antiutilitarian)

more antiutilitarian (comparative)
most antiutilitarian (superlative)


eigenvariable

(mathematics, logic) A kind of term in natural deduction.


antiessentialism

(philosophy) Opposition to essentialism.


antiempiricist

(philosophy) One who opposes empiricism.


heteroflexibility

Essig divides society into the categories of heteroflexibility and heterorigidity and homoflexibility and homorigidity.

2002, Robert Goss, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 232:

The L Word banks on heteroflexibility as well as queer equivocation, through its cultivation of the touristic gaze, a gaze which immersed, identifies with, and distanced, desires.

2007, Candace Moore, “Getting Wet: The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L Word”, in Merri Lisa Johnson, editor, Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box, I. B. Tauris & Co., →ISBN, page 142:

It was unclear if the blatant display of her body was meant as a sexual advance or some other expression of heteroflexibility or homosociality.

2013, Heidi Hoefinger, Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia: Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships, Routledge, →ISBN:


final cause

In the production of a statue of Athena for the Parthenon, the bronze is the material cause; the shape and design of the statue is the formal cause; the sculptor is the efficient cause; the honor of the goddess (and the glory of Athens) is the final''' cause.

1998, R. J. Schork, Greek and Hellenic Culture in Joyce, →ISBN, page 176:

(philosophy, natural science) The purpose, goal, or end fulfilled by a thing.


efficient cause

en-noun

efficient cause (plural efficient causes)

As to its efficient cause, wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitution of the possessor of it, in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments, and an affluence of animal spirits, refined and rectified to a great degree of purity.

1781, Samuel Johnson, quoting Sir Richard Blackmore in Lives of the Poets

There must be some efficient cause for each slight individual difference, as well as for more strongly marked variations which occasionally arise.

1859, Charles Darwin, chapter 7, in The Origin of Species:

[H]e turned the corner where for years he had always paused; simply not to pause was an efficient cause for emotion.

1895, Henry James, chapter 6, in The Altar of the Dead:

In the production of a statue of Athena for the Parthenon, the bronze is the material cause; the shape and design of the statue is the formal cause; the sculptor is the efficient''' cause; the honor of the goddess (and the glory of Athens) is the final cause.

(philosophy, natural science) The being or event which physically brings about the change or motion that produces another occurrence or thing.


material cause

In the production of a statue of Athena for the Parthenon, the bronze is the material''' cause; the shape and design of the statue is the formal cause; the sculptor is the efficient cause; the honor of the goddess (and the glory of Athens) is the final cause.

(philosophy, natural science) The stuff or matter of which something is made.


formal cause

In the production of a statue of Athena for the Parthenon, the bronze is the material cause; the shape and design of the statue is the formal''' cause; the sculptor is the efficient cause; the honor of the goddess (and the glory of Athens) is the final cause.

(philosophy, natural science) The design, pattern, or pure concept of a thing, which gives form or structure to its matter.


Malebolge

Unadapted borrowing from Italian Malebolge (literally “Evil Ditches”). See bolgia.

unadapted borrowing

The eighth circle of Hell in the Divine Comedy.


asexy

en-adj

asexy (comparative more asexy, superlative most asexy)

more asexy (comparative)
most asexy (superlative)

One of the first rumored-to-be-asexy relationships can be seen in Henry James's The Bostonians, an 1886 novel that deals with the devotion between two women, Olive and Verena — the work even gave rise to the term "Boston marriages" to describe women who lived together in love with one another without having sex.

2007, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, numbers 34-37, page 363:

And in June, while wearing an "Asexy Dyke" T-shirt, she marched with two dozen other self-described asexuals in San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade.

2009 August 24, Demian Bulwa, “Asexuals leave the closet, find community”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

Asexual and Proud! is a MySpace community whose goal is to help “asexy” people connect with one another (Bogaert, 2004).

2011, Robert Crooks, Karla Baur, Our Sexuality, Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 250:

(slang) Asexual (not experiencing sexual attraction).


aromantic

(2005) From a- + romantic. Compare asexual. First coined in 2005 in Asexual Visibility and Education Network forums.

Ours is a generation of aromantics, jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.

1986, Wanda Urbanska, The Singular Generation, Doubleday & Company, published 1986, →ISBN, page 86:

Anna is an asexual, aromantic. Before discovering those terms, she assumed herself to merely be unusually disinterested in sex or relationships.

2012, Marina Hale, "The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51

'I let it slip one time at work that I’m an asexual aromantic [an asexual who is also not interested in making romantic attachments], and they think it’s absolutely hysterical,’ says Jean Wilson, a sales assistant and 63-year-old grandmother from Banbury. 'One of the women I work with said, “I don’t think you’ve met the right man yet.” I said: “Trish, I’m 63. If I haven’t met him by now I don’t think I’m going to.”’

2012 November 12, Olivia Gordon, “'The moment I realised I was asexual'”, in The Telegraph:

One who does not experience romantic attraction to others.


existential nihilism

The philosophical theory that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.


better place

He's in a better place now.

(idiomatic) Heaven; happiness after death.


neutrosophic

In a neutrosophic triplet set, there is a neutral element and antielement for each element.

2018, Memet Şahin, Abdullah Kargın, Mehmet Ali Çoban, Fixed Point Theorem for Neutrosophic Triplet Partial Metric Space:

(logic) Of or relating to a general form of logic in which each proposition has separate values for truth, falsehood, and indeterminacy.


religitard

Come on you, religitards: Prove your God exists and I'll shut the hell up.

2008 June 2, Gwen, “Re: God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says”, in alt.abortion (Usenet):

I understand the problem religitards have with Sodom, but what did Gomorrah ever do?

2012 May 2, chibiabos [username], “Re: "At Ease, Moron!!!"”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

I find it somewhat amusing that religitards get offended by the notion that they are related to other primates, but react with pride when they are referred to a^([sic]) flock of sheep.

2013 April 3, Barry OGrady, “Re: My question to CMI”, in aus.religion.christian (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, religious slur) An adherent of a religion, especially one who is dogmatic.


K/S

Initialism from the names of James T. Kirk and Spock, separated by a slash (/).

(fandom slang, often attributively) Fan fiction where the characters James T. Kirk and Spock from the science fiction media franchise Star Trek are shown in a homosexual relationship.


May–December

From the lyrics to the Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson song "September Song", first published in 1938, about such a relationship, which includes the line "It's a long, long time from May to December".

Whatever fantasy you can’t act out in real life can be fulfilled in fan fiction. May-December relationships are very popular, as are boys transforming into girls.

2013, Katherine Arcement, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 5:

One of the appeals of May/December relationships in fiction, for me, is that gulf of understanding between partners whose life experiences will never share the same footing at the same time, and the frustrations and desires that come with trying to bridge that gulf.

2024, Blue Delliquanti, Adversary, →ISBN:

Pertaining to a relationship in which one person is much older than the other.


philo-Semitism

To an Englishman, German liberalism is a hybrid creature, lame of three legs and blind of one eye, and thus it is necessary to explain — if indeed explanation in its rational sense be possible — the position of the German Liberals in this matter of philo-Semitism.

1881 March 5, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 350:

The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”

2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post:

Interest in or appreciation of Jewish people, their history, or the influence of Judaism, particularly on the part of a gentile.


synesis

en-noun

synesis (usually uncountable, plural syneses)

Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”).

uder

(philosophy) The faculty of good judgment or comprehension, passive intelligence.


hupokeimenon

From Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon, “that which lies beneath”), present participle of ὑπόκειμαι (hupókeimai, “to underlie”).

(philosophy) That which underlies, or lies beneath; substratum.


the cake is a lie

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From the 2007 video game Portal, in which a self-aware computer, GLaDOS, lures the player into participating in dangerous experiments with the promise of cake. As the game progresses, the player discovers graffiti left by Doug Rattman, the only known scientist alive since GLaDOS killed all the others with neurotoxin, with the graffiti including the warning "the cake is a lie".

The jokes are cake, and the cake is a lie — fan-service tricking nerds into watching a show designed for adults who vote Republican (Middle America!).

2011 December 15, Nick Martin, “A Hit Sitcom In Just Five Easy Steps!”, in Buzz Weekly, page 6:

The assumption that a degree will vastly improve future earnings is increasingly misleading. By their very nature high paid jobs are exclusive and limited in number. "The cake is a lie."

2012, James Margeson, "The quiet assault on public education", The Sphinx (University of Liverpool), March 2012, page 9

“One shitty leader doesn't mean the cake is a lie. One man's decisions don't invalidate everything else—the ideals, the history, the words etched in marble and the sacrifices of all the people who make the United States a just and safe place to live.”

2012 November 12, J. L. Hilton, Stellarnet Prince, Carina Press, →ISBN, page 320:

(Internet slang) The end being pursued is unattainable or misguided; the reward promised is false.


Heraclitan

A follower of Heraclitus, an Ancient Greek philosopher.


Anaximanderian

en-adj

Anaximanderian (comparative more Anaximanderian, superlative most Anaximanderian)

more Anaximanderian (comparative)
most Anaximanderian (superlative)

Of or relating to Anaximander, an Ancient Greek philosopher.

anaximândrico

relating to Anaximander, Ancient Greek philosopher


univocity

en-noun

univocity (countable and uncountable, plural univocities)

From Late Latin ūnivocitās, from ūnivocus (“univocal”).

Some analogies are deliberate equivocities and others are univocities.

1999, Armand Augustine Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles:

In opposition to their assertions, Williams argues that univocity is not only true (as he previously outlined), but it is also salutary.

2014, Daniel P. Horan, Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus:

(philosophy) The idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things.


monergism

monergism (countable and uncountable, plural monergisms)

(theology) A Christian position holding that God, through the Holy Spirit, works to bring about effectually the salvation of individuals through spiritual regeneration without cooperation from the individual.


panromantic

en-adj

panromantic (comparative more panromantic, superlative most panromantic)

more panromantic (comparative)
most panromantic (superlative)

As Jessica, a twenty-one year old white woman who self-identifies as a bi- or panromantic asexual describes, […]

2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5:

Neth, a 24-year-old from the West Country, describes herself as a "panromantic asexual".

2012 February 26, Rosie Swash, “Among the asexuals”, in The Guardian:

“I feel like it’s really important to say that anyone can be queer,” said Sonja Lund, a sophomore theatre major and panromantic lesbian on panel at the event.

2012, Katie Gossen, "Residence Life defies LGBT stereotypes", The Panther (Chapman University), 22 October 2012

(neologism, sexology) Romantically attracted to people regardless of sex or gender identity.


panromantic

(neologism) A person who is panromantic.


biromantic

biromantic (comparative more biromantic, superlative most biromantic)

more biromantic (comparative)
most biromantic (superlative)

Now that he's thought longer about it, Michael also likes to describe himself as "biromantic". He is keen to have a romantic relationship with either a man or a woman.

2005 April 16, Deborah Smith, “No Sex please, I'm not into it”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

So, for example, it is not unusual for an asexual person to say that he is asexual but bi'''romantic, or that she is asexual but heteroromantic.

2012, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2012, →ISBN, page 15:

Though some people identify as aromantic, others identify as heteromantic, homoromantic, biromantic and everything in between.

2013 February 14, Tracey Hickey, “Asexuality should be recognized as a legitimate sexual orientation”, in The Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh:

Romantically attracted to both males and females.


biromantic

Within this group of romantic asexuals, orientation varies: heteroromantics only feel romantic attraction to the opposite sex, homoromantics to the same sex, biromantics to both sexes and panromantics without reference to sex or gender.

2011 August, Mark Carrigan, “There’s more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community”, in Sexualities, volume 14, number 4, page 469:

For my part, I decided this year not to mention allies in the laundry list of identities represented (I also didn't mention heteroflexible biromantics), underscoring the Sisyphean task of creating an inclusive list of identities.

2014 October 8, Nino Testa, “Language, identity and National Coming Out Day”, in The Tufts Daily, volume 68, number 21, Tufts University, page 9:

Panromantics, unlike biromantics, will tend to feel that their partner's gender does little to define their relationship.

2015 February 10, Erinn Williams, “A Different Sexuality”, in The George-Anne, volume 89, number 46, Georgia Southern University, page 7:

One who is romantically attracted to both males and females.


my body is ready

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From an impromptu comment made by Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime while volunteering to try the Wii Balance Board during a demonstration of Wii Fit at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2007.

I noticed many innuendos that the general children’s audience may not pick up; “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” with Nala and Simba? I sure did, especially when she gave Simba the “my body is ready” face towards the end of the song.

2011, Phaedra Brady, "Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful flick", The Eye (Palm Harbor University High School), 3 October 2011

My grand idea is to slip the handsome James Dean look-alike in my History class a note that says "My body is ready, do me."

2012, Tanya Paz, "February Goes Down The Shitter", The Union Weekly (California State University, Long Beach), Volume 70, Issue 4, 13 February 2012, page 4

Then I found Trent University. Having heard rumours that it was "the gayest school in Canada", I burned with a newfound resolve – the conviction that this was the time and place where I would finally grow to be more than a straight young white guy. Finally I would go beyond the existence of a one-dimensional character in a pre-1960's middle class novel about the racial majority.
Introductory Seminar Week: my body is ready. This is it. This is when everyone lets loose. I can't let this opportunity slip away… […]

2013, Flavius S. Mercurius, "Coming Out of the Closet: A Story", Arthur (Trent University), Volume 47, Issue 13 (satire edition), 7 January 2013

(chiefly Internet slang) Used to express preparation for and excitement over something, especially sex.

Electronic Entertainment Expo
Wii Balance Board


redamancy

en-noun

redamancy (countable and uncountable, plural redamancies)

From the New Latin redamantia, from the Classical Latin redamō (“I requite love”, transitive verb).

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:redamancy.


infima species

Every infima species of the adaptation can be related unambiguously to a[n] infima species of the standard.

1993, Willem Hirs, “XV: The Use of Terminological Principles and Methods in Medicine”, in Helmi B. Sonneveld, Kurt Loening, editors, Terminology: Applications in Interdisciplinary Communication, page 239:

Combining Leibniz's view about species differentiation with his view that completed individuals constitute infima species, [DM 9; N 326] yields a promising speculation as to why he might hold that any change in property of our Adam would be a different person.

1998, R. O. Savage, Real Alternatives, Leibniz's Metaphysics of Choice, page 95:

So two things are pivotal in the Categories account of primary ousiai: the idea that the things that are ontologically fundamental are basic subjects, and the idea that the ontologically basic entities are instances or members of their infimae species.

2008, Michael J. Loux, Primary Ousia: An Essay on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H, page 4:

But when Pratt gives illustrations of his claim, he selects different infimae species under the genus 'material substance'.

2009, James Porter Moreland, The Recalcitrant Imago Dei, page 124:

(logic, philosophy, semantics) The narrowest of species; one that that is not a genus to anything else.


methexis

(philosophy) The relation between a particular and a Platonic form.


megalopsychos

From the Ancient Greek μεγᾰλόψῡχος (megalópsūkhos, “great-souled man”, “magnanimous one”), from μεγᾰς (megas, “great”) + ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “mind”, “spirit”, “soul”).

uder

Nietzsche could not, for instance, accuse Aristotle of preaching a morality of pity, nor of extolling humility. On the contrary Aristotle’s description of the megalopsychos who possesses the virtue of greatness of soul and “deserves and claims great things” (Nicomachean Ethics 1123 a 15) has much in common with Nietzsche’s picture of the “higher” type of man.

1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 164:

(in Aristotelian philosophy) Aristotle’s “great-souled man”: an aristocratic paragon who embodies the virtues to an exceptional degree (a figure described chiefly in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics).


kill it with fire

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Presumably a reference to the trope of using fire to kill a monster in horror, science fiction, and fantasy, with a notable example being the 1982 film The Thing.

'Look at this! IS GAY THE NEW STRAIGHT? Jesus – she's like a one woman crap factory. Kill it! Kill it with fire!'

2005, Anna Clare, Make You a Man, Black Lace, →ISBN, page 14:

But we need to give STL [file format] a headshot. We should kill it. Kill it with fire. Whatever switching costs you may have they will pay for themselves in money saved in storage.

2013 July, Joris Peels, “AMF is no longer only for bowling”, in TCT Magazine, page 15:

For me, the victor is the film adaption, which is a masterpiece of one man's conversion. As for the book? Kill it with fire.

2020 January 16, Patrick Ullmer, “The Stack-Up: 'The Hunter'”, in The Spectrum, North Dakota State University, page 7:

(Internet slang) Used to express fear, disgust, or strong objection in reaction to something.


bi-asexual

en-adj

bi-asexual (comparative more bi-asexual, superlative most bi-asexual)

more bi-asexual (comparative)
most bi-asexual (superlative)

Asexual people are often attracted to a specific gender just like sexual people are: you can be hetero-asexual, homo-asexual, or bi-asexual.

2006 April, “Asexuality 101”, in The Guide:

Similarly, Mona, a thirty year old white woman, said that she identifies as, “Bi-asexual. The things I find attractive, I find attractive in both sexes.”

2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5:

There was a survey held in the English forum of AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network), which is the longest running forum for asexual people and also claims the most members, according to which 23.7% of the users defined themselves as bi-asexual.

2011, Irina, "I am bi-asexual", Bijou, Issue 24, May 2011, page 36

(neologism) Romantically or aesthetically attracted to members of either sex, but not experiencing sexual attraction to others.


ailihphilia

Deliberately constructed to be a palindrome, combining the suffix -philia with its reversed spelling.

Of course, there is also ailihphilia (palindrome fetishism). X-(:^)

1996 August 25, :Sparky: [username], “Gynadromorphophiliac Question”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

A fear of Palindromes......
 I have ailihphilia.

1999 September 30, Steve Barnes, “Re: The fear”, in rec.humor (Usenet):

Ladies and gentlemen! Children of all ages! We now present an exclusive interview with the Palindromedary himself, the two-way statement made flesh. This camel is a talking animal smitten with ailihphilia—the love of palindromes.

2006, Richard Lederer, Word Wizard: Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 232:

(humorous, nonce word) A love of palindromes.


philosophy of mind

en-noun

philosophy of mind (countable and uncountable, plural philosophies of mind)

Philosophy of mind, paradoxically enough, became an interesting area of philosophy only when philosophers began to stop taking the notion of "mind" for granted and began asking whether it was a misleading locution.

1982 November, Richard Rorty, “Contemporary Philosophy of Mind”, in Synthese, volume 53, number 2, page 325:

[T]he crux of the debate over concepts is really to be found within discussions of the philosophy of mind.

2006 October, Jonathan Stoltz, “Sakya Pandita and the Status of Concepts”, in Philosophy East and West, volume 56, number 4, page 567:

(philosophy, uncountable) The area of philosophy which studies the nature and functions of the mind, thought, and consciousness, with attention to such topics as perception, reasoning, belief, memory, will, and identity.

Descartes is a thinker whose very reputation and influence have been serious obstacles to the correct understanding and interpretation of his doctrines . . . . This is preëminently true of his ‘philosophy of mind’, understanding by this expression his conception of the human mind, its nature and significance.

1932 September, Ledger Wood, “Descartes' Philosophy of Mind”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 41, number 5, page 466:

Now we shall argue that science is relevant to philosophy and, in particular, to the problem of settling the disputes among the ten philosophies of mind outlined in the previous section.

1991 December, Mario Bunge, “A Philosophical Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem”, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 135, number 4, page 518:

(philosophy, countable) The views of a particular philosopher or philosophical movement concerning the matters studied within this area of philosophy.


cognitive parallax

One of the most obvious manifestations of (cognitive) parallax may be observed when the very fact of an individual saying or writing something proves the falseness of what he says or writes (...) note that (cognitive) parallax cannot be mistaken in any way for lies, hypocrisy, or conscious dissimulation.

2011, Olavo de Carvalho (autor), Machiavelli, or The Demonic Confusion, part 4 (original: "Maquiavel, ou a Confusão Demoníaca")

(philosophy) philosophical phenomenon described as the dislocation of the axis of the theoretical construction of a thinker and the axis of his lived experience; discrepancy between theory and experience


zimbo

From zombie, by switching vowels. Coined by philosopher Daniel Dennett.

(philosophy) A non-conscious person analogous to a zombie, but capable of interrogating and discussing its own internal states.


precisification

precisification (countable and uncountable, plural precisifications)

(logic) The process of making a statement more precise.


eidos

(philosophy) Form; essence; type; species.


ermahgerd

From a humorously altered pronunciation of oh my God. Popularized by an image macro meme in 2012, which features the text "ermahgerd, Gersberms" overlaid on a photo of a teenage girl making a silly face and holding several Goosebumps books. The girl in the photo has a visible orthodontic retainer. The pronunciation spelling is intended to mimic the speech of a wearer of this device.

PLUS (please brace yourselves, fangirls) he's coming to play at the Perth Arena in a few months – ermahgerd.

2012 October 24, “Livin' A Teenage Dream”, in X-Press Magazine, number 1341, page 11:

Here's a scary thought: I'm a Canadian citizen over 18 years of age and I have lived in Saskatoon for more than three months and in Saskatchewan for more than six months. What does this mean? I can run for mayor. Ermahgerd!

2012 October 25, Travis Homenuk, “Let's all run for mayor”, in The Sheaf, volume 104, number 8, University of Saskatchewan, page 16:

Is that an Alber Elbaz pink-bubblegum macaron you're eating? Ermahgerd! You are so last year.

2013 March 3, Robert Epstein, “Being Modern: Macarons”, in The Independent:

(slang, humorous or sarcastic) Alternative form of oh my God.


hetfic

hetfic (countable and uncountable, plural hetfics)

The slashers don't object to the fact that your friend (Let's call her "Mamin Mavis") writes hetfic. They object to the fact that she bitches and moans about slash on a list that's at least 50% slash-fic.

2000 October 13, trekkigrrl [username], “Re: Why some K/Sers enjoy slash”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

I -do- also read hetfic when there's a straight couple I like.

2002 May 26, Kirei, “Re: Fanattempts”, in alt.books.pratchett (Usenet):

Genfic and hetfic typically extend the source material along lines consistent with the producers' intentions, albeit sometimes more explicitly than the broadcast market would allow.

2008, Steve Abrams, Smaragd Grün, “Mundanes at the Gate … and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online”, in Tyrone L. Adams, Stephen A. Smith, editors, Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 210:

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.


bandslash

It's an archive of bandslash about the rock group Orgy, who are best known for their hard-hitting remake of New Order's early 80s chestnut "Blue Monday."

2002 August 10, LadyCyrrh [username], “[ART] The Annex Reviews, 8/10/02”, in alt.sex.stories.gay.moderated (Usenet):

Even more amusing is that those doing the wishful humping in bandslash aren't your usual pin-ups. Bandslash has gone indie. This is a shadowy world where the boys in Franz Ferdinand are each others' fetish objects, and former Libertines Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, lovers.

2006 October 26, Kitty Empire, “Pop idols trade licks”, in The Observer:

Westcott doesn’t even consider the thornier question of fan fiction based on real and often living people, for instance, the “bandslash” or “bandfic” phenomenon built around rock-star characters and often homoerotic subplots.

2008 July 15, Keith Goetzman, “Is Fan Fiction Flouting the Law?”, in Utne Reader:

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction which pairs real musicians, especially ones belonging to the same group.


popslash

Popslash writers use pop stars as their protagonists, constructing fictional narratives that supplement and enhance those disseminated by the media.

2006, Kristina Busse, “'I'm jealous of the fake me': Postmodern subjectivity and identity construction in boy band fan fiction”, in Su Holmes, Sean Redmond, editors, Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 254:

Consequently, popslash grew popular among media fan writers, many of whom created similarly brilliant and science fiction-like premises to explore celebrity culture as a metaphor for gender identity and other performances of the self.

2006, Francesca Coppa, “A Brief History of Media Fandom”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 56:

The popslash phenomenon gathered momentum after a 2001 story that imagined Chris Kirkpatrick of the band 'N Sync experiencing a sudden overnight gender change, […]

2011, Katherine Meizel, Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 46:

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction which pairs pop musicians, especially ones belonging to the same boy band.


relationship anarchy

The practice of forming anti-mononormative and anti-hierarchical relationships.


noromo

Being a hard-core "noromo" (parlance for "no romancer," someone who believes the show's UST, or unresolved sexual tension, is the key to its vitality), I have also flamed "shippers" ("relationshippers," those who want Mulder and Scully to get it on in the film) with now embarrassing vituperations, such as, "Why don't you just go get the lame job you're destined for at the state budget office?"

1998 June 22, John Cloud, “Cinema: An X-Phile Confesses”, in Time:

There had always been a separation between the noromos and the shippers, but at the start of the eighth season, another significant division was born.

2002, Tom Kessenich, EXaminations: An Unauthorized Look at Seasons 6-9 of The X-Files, Featuring the Reviews of Unbound I, Trafford Publishing (2002), page 5

Once it became generally accepted that Mulder and Scully were romantically involved off screen, the noromos stopped watching in disgust, while the shippers lamented not being allowed to witness the transition in the relationship.

2002, Elizabeth Weinbloom, "'THE X-FILES'; A Botched Romance" (letter to the editor), The New York Times, 2 June 2002

(X-Files fandom slang) A person who opposes the idea of a romantic relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.


alief

alief (countable and uncountable, plural aliefs)

Apparently formed to contrast with belief, as if it were B-lief and this were A-lief.

Abstract: I introduce and argue for the importance of a cognitive state that I call alief. An alief is, to a reasonable approximation, an innate or habitual propensity to respond to an apparent stimulus in a particular way.

2008, TS Gendler, “Alief in action (and reaction)”, in Mind & Language:

Simulated risk can invoke an alief of danger in subjects using a virtual environment. Alief is a concept useful in virtual training that describes situations where the person experiencing a simulated scenario knows it is not real, but suspends disbelief (willingly or unwillingly).

2011, Derek Harter, Shulan Lu, Pratyush Kotturu, Devin Pierce, “An Immersive Virtual Environment for Varying Risk and Immersion for Effective Training”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), →DOI:

In many cases, Bloom notes, it is actually aliefs that are involved, not full-blown beliefs. 'Alief' is a term coined by Bloom's colleague Tamar Gendler to refer to more primitive versions of beliefs that are responsive to how things seem, not how things are.

2012 November 1, Laura Sizer, “Review: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom”, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 70, number 4, pages 394–397:

Having the half belief (or what the philosopher Tamar Gendler calls an alief) that an image or decoy is literally what it represents is one thing, but how might one jump from that confusion, which is usually cleared up, to conceiving the abstract law that influence can be transmitted between the representation and it referent — the law of similarity?

2012, Matthew Hutson, The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us:

In response, they pop out of the fiction and refuse to imagine as the movie invites them because, ex hypothesi, their nonconscious alief that white human beings are superior leads them to react automatically and in affect-laden ways to the contrary story and implicit appraisals that Rodriguez and his fellow artists present. Some of Machete’s viewers […]

2013, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Dan Flory, Race, Philosophy, and Film, page 22:

(philosophy, psychology) A primitive, subconscious belieflike attitude which may contradict one's conscious beliefs.


restrictivism

From restrictive + -ism, coined by John E. Sanders.

(theology) The view that Christian salvation is possible only for those who have heard about the gospel of Jesus and put their faith in Jesus prior to their death.


odaxelagnia

From Ancient Greek ὀδάξ (odáx) + -lagnia.

If a male can only achieve an erection and have an orgasm while engaging in odaxelagnia, being bitten by or biting his sexual partner, then he could have a problem.

2012, Senator Bill Diamond, The Evil and the Innocent, page 115:

(rare) A paraphilia in which biting or being bitten leads to sexual arousal.


selfcest

And this is where selfcest comes in. For those unfamiliar with Adventure Time, it has two series: the main, phallogocentric one, Adventure Time, and another spin-off version, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, in which gender-flipped versions of the original characters are presented. Marceline spawns Marshall Lee, Jake turns into Cake, Finn becomes Fionna, Princess Bubblegum is chewed up and spat out as Prince Gumball… you get the picture. Enter Fanfiction, which causes them to hook up. Creepy, yes.

2013, Boo Patrick, "Selfcest", Manifesto (University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts), April 2013, page 8

Several Loki fans shared their horror over the idea of Loki and Sylvie getting together, as it would be an example of selfcest.

2021 July 2, Sabrina Barr, “Loki fans defend Marvel series over ‘queerbaiting’ claims as director says God of Mischief’s bisexuality won’t be explored further”, in Metro, UK:

'"The Time Traveler's Wife” having selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card,' another [Twitter] user commented.

2022 May 25, Erica Tempesta, “'Selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card': The Time Traveler's Wife baffles viewers with 'wild' and 'disturbing' oral sex scene between the HBO show's protagonist and HIMSELF”, in The Daily Mail:

(fandom slang, fiction) Sexual activity with an alternate version of oneself, such as a clone, duplicate, alter ego, or a version of oneself from a different time or alternate universe.


Tao Te Ching

/ˌtaʊ ˌteɪ ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道德經／道德经 (Dàodéjīng, “Classic of the Dao and De”).

bor

(philosophy, Taoism) A Chinese classic text fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism.


aroundness

This means that aroundness is an ontological characteristic of directional space. But, as such, it can only be an entirely indeterminate characteristic.

2007, Christopher E. Macann, Being and Becoming: Natural Philosophy, page 140:

(philosophy) The quality of being around.


Nietzscheanism

On gray mornings when the jests of the night before had shrunk to ribaldries without wit or dignity, they could, after a fashion, bring out this batch of common hopes and count them over, then smile at each other and repeat, by way of clinching the matter, the terse yet sincere Nietzscheanism of Gloria's defiant "I don't care!"

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2:

(philosophy) The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), or support for its views.


antitheorem

(logic) A syntactically correct expression whose negation is a theorem.


Weltbild

Borrowed from German Weltbild, literally "world-picture".

(philosophy) A theoretical understanding of the world and how it operates.


Delena

And vice versa, when we want Stefan and Elena to have a moment together, how can we do that and not have our Delena fans outraged?

2012, Julie Plec, quoted in Nuzhat Naoreen, "This Week's Cover: 'The Vampire Diaries' stars talk about the red-hot Damon-Elena-Stefan triangle", Entertainment Weekly, 8 February 2012

And while you may deny having ever watched the "Vampire Diaries" in pubic, you have a strong opinion regarding team Stelena vs. team Delena.

2014, Danielle Wolk, "Netflix or Nut-flix?: A guide to Understanding Your Netflix Obsession", The Lion's Roar (Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, Hartsdale, New York), January 2014, page 6

There will never be enough swoon-worthy Delena moments to fill shippers’ hearts, […]

2014 May 4, Lanford Beard, “TV Jukebox: 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'The Following,' 'Supernatural,' and more of the week's best music-on-TV moments”, in Entertainment Weekly:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.


moral relativism

en-noun

moral relativism (usually uncountable, plural moral relativisms)

Double standards could be thought of as Satanic in the context of moral relativism.

(philosophy) Any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.


computationalism

(philosophy) The view that the human mind and/or brain is an information-processing system and that thinking is a form of computing.


darsana

In presenting its ‘view’ of the truth, each darśana is as it were describing what it is that its practitioners will ‘see’.

2000, Sue Hamilton, Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, published 2001, page 12:

(India philosophy) A philosophy, worldview.


contractionless

a contractionless logic


antimonistic

en-adj

antimonistic (comparative more antimonistic, superlative most antimonistic)

more antimonistic (comparative)
most antimonistic (superlative)


Empedoclean

Empedoclean (comparative more Empedoclean, superlative most Empedoclean)

more Empedoclean (comparative)
most Empedoclean (superlative)

Relating to the Ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles (circa 490–430 BC).


shipfic

en-noun

shipfic (countable and uncountable, plural shipfics)

Just make sure you don't let me know where your shipfic is available, won't you? <g>

2001 December 6, Eva, “Re: 48 Hours: Please God, tell me that's not Daniel's replacement! ***Spoiler***”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet):

HP slashfic gives me the creeps, not because of homophobia, but more because I get this imperceptible vibe that it's written by people who are obsessed with the movie stars, and in some peculiar way want to debase them because they can't have them. Actually, I shouldn't single out the slashfic. There's plenty of shipfic that gives me this same impression, too.

2003 August 20, Chistaya, “Re: and either must die at the hand of the other...”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

I've just started looking for DW fanfic to see if there's any Rose-meets-altuniverse-Doctor, and have been drowned in shipfic on places like ff.net (or whatever its^([sic]) called now.

2006 September 2, JACUK, “Re: What has happened to DW fanfic...?”, in alt.drwho.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Fan fiction revolving around or dedicated to shipping.


postfoundationalism

(philosophy) A theory of epistemology denoting a rejection of an assumed or given authority for a specific action or belief, but arguing, in dialectical fashion, for a rationale for action or belief.


postpositivism

(philosophy) A metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism, saying that theories, background, knowledge and values of the researcher can influence what is observed and that human knowledge is based upon human conjectures.


antifoundationalism

(epistemology) A philosophy that rejects foundationalism.

antifundacionalismo

a philosophy that rejects foundationalism


principle of explosion

(logic) The principle or axiom of classical logic and some other logical systems stating that if a contradiction or a false proposition is proven to be true, then it proves that everything is true. In symbols: ⊥→P


law of noncontradiction

The statement "this piece of chalk is not a piece of chalk" violates the law of noncontradiction.

(logic) The principle that no statement may be simultaneously true and false at the same time and in the same sense.


vacuous truth

(logic) A proposition which is true only because it is a conditional statement with a necessarily false premise, or which asserts a property of all elements of an empty domain of discourse.


doxastic logic

doxastic logic (countable and uncountable, plural doxastic logics)

(logic) A type of modal logic which deals with statements involving beliefs.