paraconsistent logic

paraconsistent logic (plural paraconsistent logics)

principle of explosion
principle of explosion

(logic, countable) A particular formal logical system which allows some contradictions to be true without all contradictions or all statements becoming true; i.e. in which the principle of explosion does not hold.

parakonsistentti logiikka

formal logical system without principle of explosion

parakonsistentti logiikka

study of logical systems without principle of explosion

(logic, uncountable) The study of such systems.


disjunctive syllogism

en-noun

disjunctive syllogism (plural disjunctive syllogisms)

(logic) A logical argument of the form that if there are only two possibilities, and one of them is ruled out, then the other must take place. In symbols: P∨Q,¬P⊢Q


neurophilosophy

The interdisciplinary study of neuroscience and philosophy that explores the relevance of neuroscientific studies to the arguments traditionally categorized as philosophy of mind.


imzadi

From the American science-fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which it is a term of endearment used by the Betazoid race, said to mean "beloved."

I have a 2 year old son, and my major interests include science fiction TV (Star Trek, X-Files), music, books and movies. […] I am looking for my imzadi, and hope to meet her someday.

1994 August 30, djsst22 [username], “GWF ISO SF”, in pgh.singles (Usenet):

So I'll probably run about the neighborhood with my imzadi (what I've decided to call my 'best-friend-person' now. It's a Star Trek term, Betazoid stuff.) […]

1999 October 28, Lisa: DreaManiChicKuriousStarfire [username], “Re: Halloween: What are your plans?”, in alt.drugs.psychedelics (Usenet):

I push beyond my body
I push beyond this world of mine
Drunk without wine
myself my imzadi

2001, Cari Lynn, “To Touch The Face of God”, in Journey Without a Map, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 20:

(fandom slang) A person with whom one shares a profound spiritual bond; a soulmate.


memedom

In celebration of all the treasured gems that are internet memedom, a group of Harvard folks are throwing what’s bound to blow up into the the^([sic]) biggest nerdfest outside of a Star Trek Convention.

2007 December 7, Jenna Wortham, “Famous Internet Memes to Gather at ROFLCon 2008”, in Wired:

An inventive joke born of Internet memedom.

2012 March 28, Katherine Boyle, “Peeps Show VI: Power to the Peeps”, in The Washington Post:

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has one of his top aides to thank for uttering the words that would secure his place in memedom.

2012 December 29, Samantha Rollins, “The 11 best memes of 2012”, in The Week:


etymological argument

etymological argument (plural etymological arguments)

But it goes without saying that this etymological argument in and of itself has no significance, since a word taken from a dead language may resultantly assume a meaning independent of its etymology.

1877, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, translated by Valerie Z. Nollan, The Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge, Eerdmans, published 2008, →ISBN, page 58:

Nothing need be said about the etymological argument except perhaps that it was characteristic of Stoic philosophers to think such an argument could be used with force, because they believed that language is not conventional, but natural.

1970, Josiah B. Gould, The Philosophy of Chrysippus, →ISBN, page 148:

And if we look to post-Platonic texts, etymological argument for philosophical positions seems to become common practice.

1998, Rachel Barney, “Socrates Agonistes: The Case of the Cratylus Etymologies”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XVI, →ISBN, page 68:

Aristotle also throws in a dubious etymological argument: this is why it has the name ‘money’ (nomisma)—because it exists not by nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power to change it and make it useless. (Nicomachean Ethics 1133a30-31)

2005, Roy Harris, The Semantics of Science, →ISBN, page 19:

In support of this supposed brotherhood between ready-to-hand and present-at-hand, Bernasconi offers the fashionable but shaky etymological argument that both terms contain the word “hand,” the organ which is traditionally regarded as the instrument of production.

2013, Graham Harman, Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects, →ISBN, page 111:

(philosophy, linguistics) Explanation and analysis—often considered controversial—of one or more concepts or linguistic terms by means of an exposition of their linguistic origins.


antiphilosopher

(philosophy) A philosopher who practices antiphilosophy.

antifilósofo

a philosopher who practices antiphilosophy


antiphilosophy

(philosophy) An antitheoretical metaphilosophy critical of a priori justification aiming to dissolve misconceptions that traditional philosophy makes.


substancehood

(philosophy) The quality of being a substance.


Waycest

(fandom slang) The incestuous real-person pairing of the brothers Gerard Way and Mikey Way, of American rock band My Chemical Romance, in slash fan fiction.


Wincest

From Win(chester) + -cest. Possibly influenced by wincest.

Wincest stories often take their transgressive cues from the text itself; often when Sam and Dean are seducing each other in Wincest stories, the more reluctant of the two is convinced to engage in the relationship when the other reiterates that they are already outsiders in society, already isolated from the “normality” of their world—why should the prohibition of incest stand in their way when they have already broken so many other laws?

2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), page 159

Instead, she suggests, the romanticized, paratextual Wincest slash fiction offers Sam and Dean a redemptive happiness that they are perpetually denied by the show's writers both in a diegetic sense (via Chuck Shurley, the show's writer/prophet who publishes novels based on the boys' adventures) and in a non-diegetic sense (via Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble, and the show's returning writers).

2011, Darren Elliott-Smith, “'Go Be Gay for That Poor, Dead Intern:' Conversion Fantasies and Gay Anxieties in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 106:

Supernatural fandom features some of the more controversial iterations of slash, predominantly Wincest (the incestuous coupling of the show's protagonists, the Winchester brothers), […]

2013, Henry Jenkins & Suzanne Scott, "Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later", in Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge (2013), page xxxiii

(fandom slang) The incestuous slash ship of the fictional brothers Dean and Sam Winchester from the television series Supernatural.


Snarry

Best Excuse for a Wandering Mind: SNARRY!, Jason Isaacs, Alan Rickman

2004 December 31, barbarella [username], “Re: That Was The Year That Was 2004”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):

"Snarry is part of a subgenre of fan fiction called Slash," she says. "Snarry depicts romantic relationships between Harry Potter and Severus Snape, together - Snarry. […]

2009 July 17, David Templeton, “One geek over the line”, in Pacific Sun:

Snarry slash people (ie people who write fan fiction about Snape and Harry getting it on till the break o’dawn) are super-intense. Seriously that is one rich, rich subculture.

2009 July 22, Lev Grossman, “Notes from Azkatraz, a Harry Potter Convention”, in Time:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series.


H/Hr

This news group certainly seemed to filled with a lot of R/Hr people. As I am a H/Hr person and I believe that Hermione and Harry have this subtle thing that's being^([sic]) built up since the very beginning, I will elaborate on my personal beliefs.

2002 May 4, Imran [username], “Re: Ron and hermoine”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

I can't help but suspect it's either some sort of passive-aggressive moralistic reaction or thinly disguised sour grapes on the part of die-hard H/Hr shippers.

2007 September 7, Bill Blakely, “Re: What happens next?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

For instance, those who write about or are interested in a relationship between Harry and Hermione are considered “H/Hr” shippers.

2007 Katie Greenway, "Dumbledore heats up overwhelming fanfic", The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 25 October 2007

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


pampathy

Formed as pam- (“all”) + -pathy (“feeling”) after sympathy, empathy, etc.

It is a “pampathy” or all-feeling which produces in every individual a deep-felt longing to be at one with the whole universe of which each is a part.

1918, Édouard Le Roy, translated by Lydia Gillingham Robinson, What Is a Dogma?, page 5:

(philosophy of religion, rare) The supposed faculty that causes its possessors to yearn to commune with the “All” of existence.


Destiel

His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.

2011, Brigid Cherry, “Becky Rosen, Fan Identity, and Interactivity in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 204:

All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.

2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8

I'm always happy to write some sappy Destiel one shot (a one chapter story, often focused solely on fluff, or pure cuddles) when writer's block is making work on Phoenix difficult.

2013, Evangeline Warren, "Confessions of a Teenage Fangirl", INKredible!, Issue 4, Summer 2013, page 21

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.


ship war

Oh, no, not another ship war between members of Team Edward and Team Jacob.

They seemed fascinated by my and Meg's absorption in the Harry Potter culture, so we told them stories of the ship wars […]

2008, Melissa Anelli, Harry, A History, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 236:

'Ship wars' are discussions, usually between female fans, about who the best partner would be for their favourite character or artist, a classic example being the debates over whether Yoko Ono was good for John Lennon.

2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 248:

Habermas may not have imagined ship wars as a context for practical discourse, but fandom is in fact an excellent space in which to engage in the forms of contestation he describes.

2013, Emily Regan Wills, “Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in The X-Files”, in Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 14:

(fandom slang) An intense and sometimes hostile disagreement between shippers of rival ships in a fandom.


Team Jacob

Of course, there are those two camps I mentioned earlier in this chapter: Team Edward and Team Jacob. Over time, Team Jacob has grown to the point where a lot of fans prefer Jacob to Edward.

2009, Lois H. Gresh, The Twilight Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 89:

However, Team Jacob members on the Anglophone boards were even more emphatic in their dismissal of Edward, and several posters argued that his behavior was abusive.

2010, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Rebecca Williams, “Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight Fan Community in Norway”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 200:

Team Jacob argues that Jacob's warmth, support, and wolfy exuberance should have won Bella away from her vampire swain.

2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 192:

(fandom slang) The faction of Twilight fandom which prefers Bella Swan in a romantic relationship with Jacob Black.


Team Edward

However, the continued conflict between Team Jacob and Team Edward shows that the series is sufficiently open to allow for the shipping of both Bella/Edward and Bella/Jacob.

2010, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Rebecca Williams, “Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight Fan Community in Norway”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 202:

To Team Edward, the canon pairing with the stoic, troubled, immortal 17-year-old is unquestionable.

Although the tension between Team Edward and Team Jacob fans is usually expressed in playful banter, there is the possibility that this group conflict will erupt into hostility.

2011, Melissa Burkley, “Prejudice in Twilight”, in E. David Klonsky, Alexis Black, editors, The Psychology of Twilight, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 72:

(fandom slang) The faction of Twilight fandom which prefers Bella Swan in a romantic relationship with Edward Cullen.


lesbophilia

It is his lesbophilia that sets Proust's narrator apart from the author, that marks the novel as a novel rather than a perverse exercise in selective autobiography.

1999, Elisabeth Ladenson, Proust's Lesbianism, Cornell University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 133:

More broadly, we might ask to what extent French literature, with its twin associations of high culture and lesbophilia, came to be an oblique but acceptable signifier for lesbianism in the popular imagination of the twentieth century.

2001, Gretchen Schultz, “Daughters of Bilitis: Literary Genealogy and Lesbian Authenticity”, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 7, number 3:

Sweel Charity, like other backstage musicals, finds women in dressing rooms, sharing stockings and make-up, stories and sympathy in a setting that ideologically conveys rampant lesbophilia in the history of sexuality and offers spectatorial pleasures for feminist audiences.

2004, Stacy Wolf, "'Something Better than This': Sweet Charity and the Feminist Utopia of Broadway Musicals", Modern Drama, Volume 47, Number 2, Summer 2004

A fetishistic fascination (typically in non-lesbians) with lesbians and erotic contact between women.


physis

physis (countable and uncountable, plural physes)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis).

(Ancient Greek philosophy and theology) Nature, as contrasted with law or custom.

physis

nature, as contrasted with law or custom


antireductionistic

en-adj

antireductionistic (comparative more antireductionistic, superlative most antireductionistic)

more antireductionistic (comparative)
most antireductionistic (superlative)

(philosophy) Opposing reductionism; exhibiting or relating to antireductionism.


antireductionism

(philosophy) A holistic viewpoint opposed to reductionism.

antireduktionismi

a holistic viewpoint opposed to reductionism


throughness

Matter on the physical plane has the dimensions of on-ness, that is, an outside; in-ness, that is, an inside; throughness, that is, consecutive insides; and presence, that is, being anywhere and everywhere at once.

2002, Harold W. Percival, Thinking And Destiny, page 729:

(philosophy) The state of being or going through.


an hero

Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.

In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.

2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder [username], “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.

2008 December 24, Alex Clark, “Re: Tom Cruise on Kimmel last night”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.

2009 August 22, ., “BECOMING AN HERO”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

(Internet slang) A suicidee; one who commits suicide.


painy

painy (comparative more painy, superlative most painy)

more painy (comparative)
most painy (superlative)

(rare, chiefly philosophy) Relating to, having, showing or causing pain.


Barnum effect

Named after American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum.

named-after

The tendency of individuals to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.


paramodulation

en-noun

paramodulation (countable and uncountable, plural paramodulations)

(logic) A technique for reasoning on sets of clauses where the predicate symbol is equality.


nulliverse

From null + -i- + -verse, coined by William James.

If the world cannot be rational in my sense, in the sense of unconditional surrender, I refuse to grant that it is rational at all. It is pure incoherence, a chaos, a nulliverse, to whose haphazard sway I will not truckle.

1882 April, William James, “On Some Hegelisms”, in Mind, volume VII, number 1, page 192:

If rationality be in it at all, it must be in it throughout ; if irrationality be in it anywhere, that also must pervade it throughout. It must be wholly rational or wholly irrational, pure universe or pure multiverse or pure nulliverse ; and reduced to this violent alternative, no one's choice ought long to remain doubtful.

1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures to Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 68:

You admit yourself that I am only a pale wild girl with gipsy hair in a deathless ballad, in a nulliverse, in Rattner's ‘menald world’ where the only principle is random variation.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:

Now, why should an author not create a “nulliverse” to represent “oneirologically” the contents of his own mind?

1969 August 2, John Updike, “Books: Van Loves Ada, Ada Loves Van”, in The New Yorker, volume 45, number 24, page 67:

... one of the infinite seas that swim in a bubble of a phenomenal ocean where there are no longer any stars because the stars have lost their name: the nulliverse, and wondering if Bustrófedon's sentity was expanding multiversally, ...

2004, Donald Gardner, Suzanne Jill Levine (tr.), Three Trapped Tigers, Dalkey Archive Press, translation of Tres Tristes Tigres by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, published 1967, page 480:

And Huw is abruptly ejected from whatever pocket nulliverse the Prophet’s fifth column have installed in the lobby of the virtual Tripoli Mariott, to a destination even more profoundly alienating than the cloud itself.

2012, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, The Rapture of the Nerds, Tor Books, page 291:

(philosophy) The world, regarded as having no rationality or rules.


multisexual

From multi- + sexual, by analogy with bisexual.

(neologism) Someone who is sexually attracted to more than one sex or gender.


Eudaimonia

/ˌjuːdɪˈməʊnɪə/

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονίᾱ (eudaimoníā, literally “happiness, well-being”).

lbor

Alternative forms: eudaimonia, eudaemonia, eudemonia, eudæmonia

(ethics) In Aristotelian ethics, a condition of living a life of the highest virtue; the state of human flourishing, which is desirable in and of itself, rather than as a means towards some other end.


polysyllogism

(logic) A number of propositions that, together, constitute a sequence of syllogisms

polisillogismo

propositions that together constitute a sequence of syllogisms


meaningness

(chiefly philosophy) Quality of having a meaning; meaningfulness.


Alpheus

From Ancient Greek Ἀλφειός (Alpheiós, literally “Whitish”).


hauntology

Borrowed from French hantologie: equivalent to haunt + -ology, and a near-homophone to ontologie (“ontology”).

So immersed is Marx's rhetoric in the Gothic that Derrida in Specters of Marx creates a neologism for Marx's ontology, transforming it into “hauntology.” Marx argues that in a market economy a ghostly web of simulacra of relationships, exchanges, and circulation hovers over the whole system, indicating that people have had their humanity drained out of them by capitalism and that they are left as ghostly shells.

[2005, Gail Turley Houston, From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 85:

The suspicion is inescapable: part of the reason why hauntology should appeal to us so much now is that, unconsciously, and increasing consciously, we suspect that something has died.

2018, Mark Fisher, “is pop undead?”, in Darren Ambrose, editor, K-punk: the collected and unpublished writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016), London: Repeater Books, →ISBN:

(Derridan philosophy) A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.


Derridan

en-adj

Derridan (comparative more Derridan, superlative most Derridan)

more Derridan (comparative)
most Derridan (superlative)

This is the final Derridan manoeuvre, the showing up of ‘blind spots’ in a text, or the ‘blindness’ of an author to certain textual ‘différances’ or ‘suppléments’ in his own text, operative though not observed.

1980 June 5, Roger Poole, “Roger Poole on the seductions and dangers of structuralism”, in London Review of Books, volume 02, number 11, →ISSN:

Of or relating to Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida; 1930–2004), French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction.


hauntological

hauntological (comparative more hauntological, superlative most hauntological)

more hauntological (comparative)
most hauntological (superlative)

With the appearance of hauntological history, everything long silenced, repressed, excluded, disavowed, negated by history, is blasted to the surface of events.

2014, Arthur Kroker, Exits to the Posthuman Future, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

We are living in what might be called a truly hauntological moment, a period of disjunction, of melancholy and precariousness, in which the recent past seems suddenly distant and we are obsessed with the idea of our lost future.

2020 October 28, Ian Sansom, “The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean review – unleashing ghosts”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


withness

Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.

2000, Sharon Warner, Experiencing the Knowing of Faith, page 113:

Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.

2009, Eric Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, page 6:

(philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.


vexillolatry

Beginning when I was about twelve, I railed, silently, against having to begin school each day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, with right hand over heart, if you can imagine such shameless vexillolatry.

2000, Douglas Fethering, Travels by Night, →ISBN, pages 42–43:

(theology) The worship of a flag or flags.


superliminal

superliminal (comparative more superliminal, superlative most superliminal)

more superliminal (comparative)
most superliminal (superlative)

The better we realise these differences, the more averse shall we be to predicting to what depth into our cellular being such perception may be pushed by those artifices of hypnotic trance, automatic writing, &c., which we are only just learning to employ. Who, even now, can maintain that there is any true psychological line of distinction between those processes which happen to rise above the threshold of our ordinary consciousness — which become super-liminal — and those processes which happen to remain sub-liminal throughout our whole bodily life?

1891, Frederic William Henry Myers, The Principles of Psychology, page 118:

The psychologist Gustav T. Fechner once introduced the idea of stimuli that are so weak that they are subliminal; they remain below the threshold of our perception and consciousness. Anders suggests that we must consider the opposite also, namely, stimuli that are absolutely too strong to be registered by our perception and imagination, stimuli that are superliminal. These can influence our behavior, passively and actively.

2000, Paul van Dijk, Anthropology in the Age of Technology: The Philosophical Contributions of Günther Anders, →ISBN, pages 77–78:

Commonly the hero, in an altered state of consciousness or under an intoxication of the senses, must pierce the veil of secrecy and penetrate to the superliminal, there to experience that which is not easily communicated, but which, even religions agree, quells all false divisions and partakes of unity.

2005, Eles T. Mann, The Image In The Mirror, →ISBN, page 216:

(rare, philosophy, parapsychology, of mental activity) Of, pertaining to, or involving a supposed kind of awareness which is above and beyond the experiential range of normal consciousness.


selfy

While a bat, like even the lowly lobster, has a biological self, it has no selfy self to speak of — no Center of Narrative Gravity

1991, The New York Times Book Review, volume 96, page 60:

(philosophy) Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.


truthbearer

(philosophy) An entity that is said to be either true or false.


optimalism

While optimalism does not exclude the possibility of a deity, it also doesn't require one, and is compatible with atheism.

(philosophy) The doctrine that this universe exists because it is better than the alternatives.


zweckrational

zweckrational (comparative more zweckrational, superlative most zweckrational)

more zweckrational (comparative)
most zweckrational (superlative)

(philosophy, of an action) Pursued after evaluating its consequences and consideration of the various means to achieve it.


know thyself

Calque of Ancient Greek γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnôthi seautón), one of the Delphic maxims, popularly attributed to various Ancient Greek sages. The proverb in Latin is given as nōsce tē ipsum.

calque

γνῶθι σεαυτόν

"Secondly, thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself, the most difficult thing to know that the mind can imagine. If thou knowest thyself, it will follow thou wilt not puff thyself up like the frog that strove to make himself as large as the ox; if thou dost, the recollection of having kept pigs in thine own country will serve as the ugly feet for the wheel of thy folly."

1885, Miguel de Cervantes, chapter XLII, in John Ormsby, transl., Don Quixote, volume 2:

(also philosophy) Be aware of your own strengths and limitations.

رحم الله امرَأً عرف قدر نفسه

be aware of both your strengths and limitations


satispassion

From Latin satispassiō, a compound of satis (“enough”) and passio (“suffering, or sufferance”). Compare passion.

This, this is the great "with us;" […] "with us" in all the virtues and merits of His life; "with us" in the satisfaction and satispassion (both) of His death; […]

1615 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), Lancelot Andrewes, “A Sermon Preached before the King’s Majesty, at Whitehall, on Sunday, the Twenty-fifth of December, A.D. MDCXIV. being Christmas-Day”, in J[ohn] P[osthumous] W[ilson], editor, Ninety-six Sermons […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, published 1841, →OCLC, page 147:

He muſt pay to Gods juſtice the temporal Puniſhment which he ows, and this is don either by Satispaſsion ſuffering the pains of Purgatorie for a certain time; or by the ſuffrages and penal works of the Living which they apply to him; or by Indulgence, applying from the treaſure of the Church, that’s of the ſuperabundant Satisfaction of Chriſt and his Saints, as much as will anſwer to the pains which they are to ſuffer there.

1678, Ignatius Brown, An Vnerrable Church or None, Being a Rejoynder to the Vnerring, Vnerrable Church: Againſt Dʳ Andrew Sall’s Repley entituled The Catholic Apoſtolic Church of England. Written by J. S. and dedicated to the moſt illuſtrious Prince, James Duke of Ormond, &c., chapter XX: “Purgatorie and Indulgences”, page 311

This [reparation for sin] may be made…by satispassion, or sufferings simply endured.

1890, Walter John Bruce Richards, A Catechism on Indulgences, Burns & Oates, page 8

Like His satispassion, so His satisfaction embraces the whole earthly career of the Saviour.

1897, A Catholic Dictionary, 5th edition, Redemption:

(theology) Atonement by suffering to an adequate degree.

satispassiō

atonement by suffering to an adequate degree


rational selfishness

The Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness—which means: the values required for man’s survival qua man—...

1961, Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics”, in The Virtue of Selfishness, Penguin Group:

(philosophy) Objectivist position that, in order to promote one's own life, the morally proper beneficiary of one's own rational actions should be oneself.


Parfitian survival

After Derek Parfit, British philosopher, from ideas expressed in his book Reasons and Persons and various journal articles throughout the late 20th century.

The question of one's psychological continuity and personal identity surviving through various philosophical thought experiments.


Parfitian

en-adj

Parfitian (comparative more Parfitian, superlative most Parfitian)

more Parfitian (comparative)
most Parfitian (superlative)

the Parfitian conception of psychological continuity defined in terms of overlapping chains of psychological connectedness

2001, M. V. Slors, The Diachronic Mind, page 109:

And so the Parfitian version of objectivism has unacceptable consequences when combined with actualism.

2012, Jacob Ross, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, volume 7, page 109:

Of or relating to Derek Parfit, British moral philosopher.


hybristophilia

From Ancient Greek ὑβρίζειν (hubrízein, “to commit an outrage against someone”), + -philia.

bor

A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.


actual sin

(theology) Sin committed by an individual, in contradistinction to original sin.


Antisthenes

From Latin Antisthenēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀντισθένης (Antisthénēs).

A Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by Antisthenes of Athens (445–365 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, founder of the school of Cynicism and a pupil of Socrates


Hegel

A surname from German, notably borne by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.


Johnlock

All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.

2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8

For Karen the most exciting thing about the comeback is the reunion between Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman: “I ship Johnlock!” Karen enthused.

2013, Gerrit van de Riet, "November for Fandoms: Sneak Peek", The Window (New College, Toronto), November 2013, page 20

Across the pond, writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss often place characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in situations that suggest a relationship between them, even though the series establishes Watson as heterosexual, to placate the fans that “ship Johnlock” in the BBC series “Sherlock.”

2013, Pragya Parmita, "Fandoms: Too Powerful?", The Bottom Line (Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara), Volume 8, Issue 5, 6 November - 12 November 2013, page 8

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from the television series Sherlock.


numbers station

en-noun

numbers station (plural numbers stations)

(radio, espionage) A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly coded messages.


flowerness

The property of being the qualificand residing in a flower which is the qualificand is limited by the universal flowerness, and the property of being the qualifier residing in a red colour which is the qualifier is limited by both redness and the relation of inherence which relates a red colour to a flower.

1997, The Journal of the Indian Academy of Philosophy, volume 36, page 62:

(philosophy) The quality of being a flower.


roseness

[…] the ruling idea being that the knower cannot know the sensible things, but can only know the unchanging Forms of the things, and Plato means that there can be no rose absent roseness, for roseness makes a rose be a rose.

2015, Loren Berengere, Infinity and the Supermen, page 367:

(philosophy) The quality of being a rose (type of flower).


categorical proposition

categorical proposition (plural categorical propositions)

(logic) A proposition that asserts or denies that members of one category (the subject term) belong to another (the predicate term). There are four types: "all S are P", "all S are not P", "some S are P", and "some S are not P".

mulisiping palagay

a proposition that asserts or denies that members of one category (the subject term) belong to another (the predicate term)


korephilia

/ˌkɔɹɪˈfɪli.ə/

/kɒɹɪˈfɪlɪə/

From the Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) + φῐλῐ́ᾱ (philíā, “love”), coined by analogy with pedophilia.

compound

It seems safe to assume that the panelists were referring to (pick your term) man–boy love, pederasty, ephebophilia. They may also have been referring to korephilia (woman–girl) and (looking internationally) may have been referring to paedophilia, since Dutch reformers seem to have seized on this term to refer to all inter-generational sex.

1991, Geoffrey Scott Puterbaugh (username), “Morning Gays at the AHA” in soc.motss, Usenet

Paedophilia and korephilia, respectively adult male and female ‘sexual love directed towards children…in pre-puberty and early adolescence’ (PIE 1978), have been openly championed by various organisations in the recent past.

1993, David T. Evans, chapter 8, in Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities, published 2004, page 220:

How many posts about korephilia are being made to already existing newsgroups at the moment?

1998, Ruediger Landmann (username), “Re: Proposal: alt.binaries.korephile” in alt.config, Usenet

Unlike pedophilia, which defines adult male or female attraction to a prepubescent girl or boy under thirteen, and korephilia, which denotes adult female attraction to girls, pederasty specifically defines emotional, intimate, and physical adult male attraction to teenage boys.

2007, James T. Sears (editor), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, & Sexuality Through History VI: The Modern World, “Pederasty”

Contemporary pederasty and korephilia differ from classical norms in that the younger partner may…take sexual initiative rather than be passive in serving the pleasures of the older partner.

2008, Bonnie G. Smith (editor), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History III: Kaffka–Service Sector, “Pederasty”

(rare) Erotic attraction of a woman or older female toward young girls; lesbian pederasty.

korefilia

woman’s erotic attraction toward young girls


queerplatonic

en-adj

queerplatonic (comparative more queerplatonic, superlative most queerplatonic)

more queerplatonic (comparative)
most queerplatonic (superlative)

At the end of a tough day, “just friends” might simply hug, whereas a queerplatonic couple is more likely to crawl right into bed together without thinking twice. Think Hannah and Marnie from Girls rather than Rachel and Monica from Friends. The former pair's friendship is an excellent example of a queerplatonic relationship, even if they might not label it that.

2012 November 15, Ashton Strait, “Beyond bffs: cozying up to queerplatonic relationships”, in Post, volume 14, number 8, Brown University, page 3:

Outside the romantic paradigm, some people form what they’re calling “queerplatonic” relationships. The word indicates nothing about the gender of the participants, but speaks to the desire to “queer” our understandings of platonic friendships. These are relationships of care — “life partnerships” that go quite beyond what most of us consider ordinary friendship. Many sexually ambiguous literary or onscreen relationships — think Frodo and Sam, Holmes and Watson, Thelma and Louise — can also be read as queerplatonic.

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

After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).

2013 September, anonymous author, “The 'A' in LGBT”, in Counterpoint, volume 35, number 1, Wellesley College, page 8:

(neologism, of a relationship) Not romantic and (usually) not sexual, but sharing a stronger emotional bond than typical in a friendship.

kvirplatona

not romantic, but stronger emotional bond than friendship


Sterek

Some shows have released official promos that play up the fans' favorite slash couples to court fans, most recently Hawaii Five-O and Teen Wolf, whose showrunner began to write the show itself in a slashy direction when he became aware of the popularity of “Sterek,” the slash pairing of sidekick Stiles and alpha wolf Derek.

2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 101:

"Teen Wolf 'Sterek' fans, we've read your (hundreds and hundreds of) comments and admire your passion," EW.com responded. "The reason Sterek didn't make the category is because it's not an acknowledged will-they-or-won't-they storyline."
This controversy led the gay entertainment news site AfterElton.com to start an annual "slash madness" tournament. Sterek won the first.

2013 October 31, Zachary Pincus-Roth, “Slash Fiction: A Fantasy World in Which Male TV Characters Find Romance — With Each Other”, in LA Weekly:

Even a nascent fandom will begin to develop its own tropes. You could see it, for instance, in the popular Sterek pairing in the Teen Wolf fandom as it took off.

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale from the television series Teen Wolf.


Drarry

It occurs because in canon Harry and Draco feel no emotion for each other warmer than intense dislike. […] Harry is willing to save Draco's life out of recognition of their shared humanity, but with apologies to all the Drarry shippers out there, that's as far as it goes.

2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, →ISBN, pages 69–79:

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:draco malfoy is a beautiful creation and he should be protected by harry potter who is his second cousin and who cares if you think its gross they are adorable together let the gayness happen
Dramione shippers apparently feel the same way when too much attention is paid to Drarry.

Fanfics that depict relationships between Draco and Harry have been particularly popular, spawning a cult of ‘Drarry’ shippers – with Facebook pages, fan art and many stories all dedicated to the pairing.

2013, Sarah Dear, "Fanfiction - A Hobby for Generations of Teenagers", Impact (University of Nottingham), 26 April 2013

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter of the Harry Potter series.


Dramione

"I secretly ship Dramione!" one boldly asserts, while more serious blogs boast confessions along the lines of, "I moved away to college this year and haven't made any new friends."

2011, Brittany Dalton, "Away with the Niceties", The Vista (University of Central Oklahoma), 1 September 2011, page 3

This is a haven for writers and readers to converge and show their interest in a variety of genres with any characters, from the typical Dramione (Draco and Hermione) action-adventure to the absurd Filch-Peeves BDSM.

2011 September 15, Sayantan Deb, Angela Song, “Potter Legacy”, in The Harvard Independent, volume 42, number 25, page 10:

Dramione shippers apparently feel the same way when too much attention is paid to Drarry.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


unipersonalism

(theology) Belief in unipersonality of a deity.


Sculder

Alas, Jess Mabe's "Bittersweet" has a similar nickname for the Sculder baby, and Jean Robinson's "When Old Friends Meet" is likewise obsessed with dolls.

2000 October 1, story_posting [username], “Dream Life 1/1”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Do come visit to read about Mulder, Scully, Frohike, CJ, Josh, Angel, deadly spellcasting books, Cordy, Buffy, Jack the gypsy computer repairman and the Sculder sproglet in all its many gestational forms

2001 May 3, ymmv2001 [username], “New update at YMMV”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

But Thackeray, like his Kirk/Spock, Johnlock, and (in the early years) “Sculder” descendants, must confront the sticky problem of canon: […]

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from the television series The X-Files.


Mills-and-Boonish

Mills-and-Boonish (comparative more Mills-and-Boonish, superlative most Mills-and-Boonish)

more Mills-and-Boonish (comparative)
most Mills-and-Boonish (superlative)

After the romance publisher Mills & Boon, + -ish.


wub

From a childish mispronunciation of love.

Glad to see your^([sic]) back cuz I need some of your wub!

2001 April 16, Jayess, “Re: I'M BaAaCk!!!”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet):

Give Cindy my wub.

2002 October 26, zippy, “Re: For Zippy”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet):

Its^([sic]) OK tiger, you just need some wub!

2008 April 16, redcoat1982, “Re: Fuck the Church of Scientology”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):


Stone space

Named after Marshall Harvey Stone (1903–1989), an American mathematician.

For every Boolean algebra there is a Boolean ring corresponding to it. The prime spectrum of a Boolean ring is a Stone space.

topological space
topological space#English

(topology, logic) A topological space constructed from a Boolean algebra, whose points are ultrafilters on the algebra.


posthumanist

(philosophy) One who subscribes to posthumanism.


connexionalism

Can it be said that here is an application of Methodism's concept of connexionalism to the embodiment of koinonia? That no indications in the dialogue point overtly in this direction does not rule out the possibility of it being in the Methodist mind and heart.

2008, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Koinonia and the Quest for an Ecumenical Ecclesiology:

(theology) The theological understanding and foundation of Methodist polity, as practised in the British Methodist Church, the American United Methodist Church, and many of the countries where Methodism was established by their missionaries.


posthumanism

en-noun

posthumanism (countable and uncountable, plural posthumanisms)

(philosophy) Any of various schools of thought that oppose the earlier humanism.


closed formula

closed formula (plural closed formulas or closed formulae)

closed formulas (plural)
closed formulae (plural)

(logic) A formula which has no free occurrences of variables; or equivalently, in which all occurrences of variables are bound.


Herbrand function

Herbrand function (plural Herbrand functions)

Named after Jacques Herbrand (1908–1931), French mathematician.

universal quantifier
universal quantifier

(logic) A function which replaces a variable bound by a universal quantifier which lies in the scope of an even number of logical negations; such function is a function of the remaining bound variables whose scope contain the given variable (being replaced).


Herbrand universe

Herbrand universe (plural Herbrand universes)

(logic) The set of all ground terms that may be formed (even recursively) using any of the constants and functions which appear in a given set of formulae. (If there is no constant in that given set of formulae, then designate one default constant as being usable for the aforementioned purpose.)


Skolem function

Skolem function (plural Skolem functions)

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

existential quantifier
existential quantifier

(logic) A function which replaces a variable bound by an existential quantifier which lies in the scope of an even number of logical negations; such function is a function of the remaining bound variables whose scope contain the given variable (being replaced).


prenex normal form

(logic) A way of expressing a formula of predicate logic such the formula consists of a prenex and a matrix, with the prenex preceding the matrix.


techne

From Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē, “craft, art”).

der

(philosophy) craft; practice; making or doing, as contrasted with episteme or knowing


synechism

Ancient Greek συνεχής (sunekhḗs, “continuous”) + -ism, coined by Charles Sanders Peirce.

uder

(philosophy) The tendency to regard things such as space, time, and law as continuous.


polyfidelity

A form of polyamory where all members are considered equal partners and agree to be sexually active only with other members of the group.


astrophilia

One wonders but cannot even approximate, just what percentage of earth's population in any given century in the past has tried to go high into the sky. I suspect that the incidence of astrophilia may have been constant throughout our complicated evolution.

1979 July, Charles S. Houston, “Introductory Address: Lessons to be Learned from High Altitude”, in Postgraduate Medical Journal, volume 55, number 645, page 447:

I still follow astronomical research with interest and participate in discussions on sci.astro. But as I matured I stopped believing in miracles. I liken the exuberance of astrophiles to the desperation of cancer patients. Ask doctors what they can do about cancer, and they can't yet offer much hope. Yet patients believe that somewhere, something that already exists must help. So they disbelieve the doctors and start popping shark cartilage or laetrile or whatever. So it is with astrophilia. Impatient with the slow pace of the careful space research that actually allows us to get a few people off this rock and return them safely, they propose hasty schemes that probably will not work, and pooh-pooh the stodgy establishment scien-tists.

1997 January 12, John Ladasky, “Re: Space junk??? Not here. Time for a new newsgroup?”, in alt.politics.greens (Usenet):

DO you really believe you have a handle on anything, let alone astrophilia and allegorical texts?

2004 June 2, Leigh_Bee, “Min's Apocalypse & Commentary - TOC (update 2 June 2004)”, in alt.astronomy (Usenet):

(rare) Love of and/or obsession with planets, stars, and outer space.


animal liberationist

(ethics, social policy) Of or pertaining to the animal liberation movement.


animal liberationist

en-noun

animal liberationist (plural animal liberationists)

(ethics, social policy) A theorist or activist who is a member of the animal liberation movement.


animal liberation

In Animal Liberation, Peter Singer argues that supporters of liberation for blacks and women should support animal liberation as well and that the basic principle of equality used against racism and sexism should be extended to animals to eliminate speciesism.

1979 July, Christine Pierce, “Can Animals Be Liberated”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 36, number 1, page 69:

The Band of Mercy is one of a number of "animal liberation" groups that are active throughout the country. The groups have taken responsibility for a number of incidents, including stealing chickens from farms in Delaware and Maryland.

1987 August 25, Keith Schneider, “Theft of Infected Cats From U.S. Lab Spurs Alert”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-03-04:

Then, in the 1970s, animal-liberation activists followed in the footsteps of the civil-rights movement, the women's liberation movement and the gay-rights movement, and argued that "species-ism" was wrong and had to be defeated.

2010 July 14, Adam Cohen, “Can Animal Rights Go Too Far?”, in Time, retrieved 2014-03-04:

(ethics, social policy) A social movement dedicated to the advancement of the interests and rights of non-human animals, consisting of theorists and activists.


no-tell motel

Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.

There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.

2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:

(slang) A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.


dogecoin

dogecoin (countable and uncountable, plural dogecoins)

/ˈdəʊd͡ʒkɔɪn/

The success of ransomware could be attributed to wide adoption of digital currencies or crypto currencies, such as bitcoin, litecoin ukash, dogecoin, ripple and monero, among others.

2017 August 19, Roderick Abad, “Slow Internet speed helping PHL fend off cyber felons”, in Business Mirror:

The net worth of Markus and Palmer is unknown due to their tendency to stay off social media and online platforms. However, dogecoin was estimated to be worth almost $17billion as of April 14, 2021.

2021 April 16, Jacob Bentley-York, “Who are Dogecoin founders Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer?”, in The US Sun, retrieved 2021-04-28:

(uncountable, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.


impredicative

(logic, of a proposition) definable only in terms of a totality of which it is itself a part


pantropy

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”, literally “turning”), coined by American science-fiction writer James Blish and first attested in 1952.

coinage

(science fiction) The process of adapting humans through genetic and/or cybernetic means to thrive in environments otherwise inhospitable to them, such as outer space, the deep sea or other planets.


thusness

en-noun

thusness (countable and uncountable, plural thusnesses)

(philosophy, chiefly Buddhism) The state of things being as they are.


antirepresentationalist

(philosophy) One who opposes representationalism.


love bombing

But in cases of love bombing, attention flows in a single direction: One person tries to become the other’s whole world.

2022 January 10, Gina Cherelus, “What Is ‘Love Bombing’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.


false flag

Using what the bureau calls a "False Flag" operation, F.B.I. agents posing as Russian intelligence officers contacted Mr. Pitts in August 1995, long after it believed he had ceased his spying activities, and feigned interest in reactivating him as a means of confirming his spying activities and determining how much information he may have provided to Moscow.

1996 December, David Johnston, “F.B.I. Supervisor Charged With Spying for Russians”, in The New York Times:

Now, that is not just offensive, it’s stupid. If the government had actually hired child actors, there is no way their stage parents would have stopped talking about it. “Well, he didn’t get the Tide commercial, but he did book a leading role in a government-sponsored false-flag attack! It’s the same director who did the moon landing! We’re very excited!”

2017, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Trump vs. Truth”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 1, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

The US has made noncommittal statements so far. Meanwhile, many experts on Russia have raised the possibility that the strike could have been a false-flag operation from Moscow.

2023 May 4, Jonathan Yerushalmy, Pjotr Sauer, “False flag or genuine attack? What we know about the Kremlin drone incident”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(espionage, military, politics) A diversionary or propaganda tactic of deceiving an adversary into thinking that an operation was carried out by another party.


antirationalistic

en-adj

antirationalistic (comparative more antirationalistic, superlative most antirationalistic)

more antirationalistic (comparative)
most antirationalistic (superlative)


antirepresentational

antirepresentational (comparative more antirepresentational, superlative most antirepresentational)

more antirepresentational (comparative)
most antirepresentational (superlative)


antifoundational

antifoundational (comparative more antifoundational, superlative most antifoundational)

more antifoundational (comparative)
most antifoundational (superlative)


antischolastic

antischolastic (comparative more antischolastic, superlative most antischolastic)

more antischolastic (comparative)
most antischolastic (superlative)


antiutopian

antiutopian (comparative more antiutopian, superlative most antiutopian)

more antiutopian (comparative)
most antiutopian (superlative)

(chiefly philosophy) Opposing utopian values.


sleeper agent

A spy who is placed in a target country or organisation, not to undertake an immediate mission, but rather to act as a potential asset if activated.

潛伏特工

spy placed in a target country or organisation to act as a potential asset


dianoia

Coordinate term: noesis

(philosophy) Discursive thought on mathematical or scientific subjects.


invincible ignorance

(theology) Ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he/she is not responsible before God.


argumentum ad baculum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin argūmentum ad baculum (literally “argument to the cudgel”).

ubor

(rhetoric) The use or threat of force to coerce acceptance of an argument.


special pleading

en-noun

special pleading (countable and uncountable, plural special pleadings)

Lt. Gilbert deserves a full and fair hearing just like everyone else, no matter how the chips fall, no special pleading, and no playing the gender card.

1997 September 30, The Court-Martial of Sandra Gilbert (JAG), season 3, episode 2:

Arguing that a particular case is an exception to a generally accepted rule, without justification and without a relevant basis.


fallacy of composition

fallacy of composition (plural fallacies of composition)

A theorist who moves from the putative fact that every shot in a given nonfiction film represents a personal point-of-view to the conclusion that every nonfiction film is a personal vision commits the fallacy of composition.

1996 March 29, Noël Carroll, Theorizing the Moving Image, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 229:

There is a small segment of the psychology literature that effectively commits a fallacy of composition, reasoning that if we can explain individual behavior, then this carries over immediately to the group.

2012, “Conclusion: Psychology, Neuroscience, and Economics”, in David K. Levine, editor, Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?: The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, →ISBN, →OL, page 127:

The cosmological argument, according to Edwards, commits the fallacy of composition because it assumes that because each part of the universe is caused that therefore the universe as a whole must have a cause, but that doesn't take into account the possibility of an infinite regress of events.

2013 August 5, Richard E. Creel, Philosophy of Religion: The Basics, Wiley Blackwell:

A presumption that if something is true of part(s) of a whole, then it is true of the whole itself.


subtle body

Translation of सूक्ष्म शरीर (sūkṣma-śarīra) or सूक्ष्म देह (sūkṣma-deha).

(Hinduism, philosophy) The second of three (or more) bodies that make up the fully embodied human in various Hindu philosophies.


naïve realism

(philosophy) The theory that perception supplies direct awareness of the external world


masked man fallacy

masked man fallacy (plural masked man fallacies)

That is to say, one cannot infer from one's subjective state of certainty and uncertainty about two propositions, to the objective connection or lack of connection between them; but it is just such an inference that Descartes seems to be making about himself and his body, and which gives his argument its embarrassing resemblance to the masked man fallacy.

1978, Bernard Williams, Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry, New York: Routledge, published 2005, page 97:

Consider the Masked Man fallacy, which shows that I can know something under one description but not under another.

1999, Jonathan E. Pike, From Aristotle to Marx: Aristotelianism in Marxist social ontology, Ashgate, page 176:

[…] that because the per diem payments are compensatory, ipso facto they are not travel expenses. Without further explication, this latter proposition might be thought to exemplify a species of the so-called masked man fallacy ("I know who my father is; I do not know who the masked man is; so, my father is not the masked man.").

2001, Reports of the Tax Court of the United States, volume 117:

(logic, philosophy) A fallacy of inferring that since one knows (or does not know) something by one description, one must know (or not know) it by another, as in "I know who my father is. I do not know who the masked man is. Therefore, my father is not the masked man."


argumentum ad crumenam

argumentum ad crumenam (plural argumenta ad crumenam)

That it be known and distinguished by the name and title of the Argumentum Fistulatorium, and no other;—and that it rank here∣after with the Argumentum Baculinum, and the Argumentum ad Crumenam, and for ever hereafter be treated of in the same chapter.

1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

The argumentum ad crumenam, however, is understood wherever there are pockets to appeal to, and even where there are none.

1908 December 19, “An Unsavoury Bait”, in The British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 2503, →JSTOR, page 1832:

An electioneering budget is an argumentum ad crumenam, and most elections in democracies have a strong element of this old argument.

1991 April 12, Philip Howard, “Rhetoric and All That Rot”, in The Times, London:

Because this rich individual obviously made many correct choices in life, his belief in Jesus, according to the apologist, only makes sense. We call such a ridiculous proposal argumentum ad crumenam, an argument based on wealth.

2005 January 19, Jason Long, Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians, Lincoln, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 25:

(rhetoric) The logical fallacy of concluding that a proposition is correct because the person advancing it is rich.


sapiosexuality

From Latin sapiens (“wise, judicious”) + sexuality or sapiosexual + -ity. Purportedly coined in 1998.

So a self-confessed culture vulture is a member of communities on authors, sudoku, films, chocolates and sapiosexuality (sapiosexuals are people who are apparently turned on by intelligence).

2008 August 17, Mohua Das, Malini Banerjee, “Virtual Vanities”, in The Telegraph, Calcutta:

I went to friend and psychologist Alejandro Spicker — who's both attractive and smart — and asked him what he thought of sapiosexuality.

2012 May, Carolina Montejo, “Sapiosexuality: The intelligent foreplay”, in Vangardist, page 129:

Sapiosexuality is getting aroused not by the physical appearance of a person, but through his or her intelligence.

2013 May 28, Sunayana Suresh, “Are women attracted to the sapiosexual men?”, in The Times of India:

The state of being sexually attracted to intelligence or the human mind.


counterextension

counterextension (countable and uncountable, plural counterextensions)

(countable, logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, do not satisfy the predicate.


alieve

en-verb

alieve (third-person singular simple present alieves, present participle alieving, simple past and past participle alieved)

alieves (present singular third-person)
alieving (participle present)
alieved (participle past)
alieved (past)

From alief, by analogy with belief and believe.

Therefore, regarding a person's moral character, it may be more important what one cares about and alieves than what one believes.

2015, Piotr Makowski, Mateusz Bonecki, Krzysztof Nowak-Posadzy, Praxiology and the Reasons for Action, page 121:

(philosophy, psychology, transitive) To subconsciously feel (something) to be true, even if one does not believe it; to hold an alief.


private language problem

en-noun

private language problem (plural private language problems)

(philosophy) The problem, considered by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and other philosophers, of whether it is possible for a private language to exist.


private language thesis

private language thesis (plural private language theses)

(philosophy) The thesis or contention that a private language cannot exist.


private language argument

private language argument (usually uncountable, plural private language arguments)

(philosophy) The argument, famously made by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), that a private language cannot exist.


destructive sorites

destructive sorites (plural destructive sorites)

In a destructive Sorites, you, of course, go back from the denial of the last consequent to the denial of the first antecedent

1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:

reductio ad absurdum
reductio ad absurdum

(logic) A form of reductio ad absurdum which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last.


private language

private language (plural private languages)

A private language was not merely a language contingently spoken by one person. . . . A private language was meant to be be semantically and necessarily private: one whose symbols could by definition be "understood only by the speaker".

1986, Héctor-Neri Castañeda, edited by James E. Tomberlin, Profiles: Héctor-Neri Castañeda, →ISBN, page 85:

Back in the 1960's, art-world philosophers liked to cite Wittgenstein's contention that there can be no such thing as a private language, because the meaning of words is determined by their shared public usage.

1995 October 6, Pepe Karmel, “Art in Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-29:

But a private language—one that is spoken and understood by only one person—is a contradiction in terms. The concept of meaning is a public concept. And language is a public phenomenon.

1996 May 4, Peter Mullen, “'I' is a tyrant. You are what you eat”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-04-29:

(philosophy) A language which expresses one's inner thoughts, feelings, or experiences but which cannot be used for communication, since it is known to and understandable by only one person—the existence of which was famously argued by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to be impossible.


schmoopiness

Warnings on the series: Contains post-Emily angst. Some Mulder/Scully schmoopiness, but emphasis on UST.

1998 August 3, JenRose [username], “New! Facing Janus chap 5 (actually a repost, but hey...)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

A bit more angst than schmoopiness, but the underlying feelings are very well communicated.

1999 April 3, | vlbb | [username], “Re: Slash Suggestions?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I'm all for earthy romance. I know a lot of folks abhor schmoopiness, and I'm not comfortable with the term schmoopy, but I'd love to see some long romantic kisses, or just one.

2000 July 4, Deborah, “Re: "Powerful good news"?”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The state or quality of being schmoopy.


schmoop

Mulder/Krycek and a bowl of kittens, what more could you want from schmoop?

1999 April 3, Drovar [username], “Re: Slash Suggestions?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Would someone please give me some M/K or Sk/K or M/K/Sk or K/Sp or M/Sp or Sk/Sp (you get the picture) recs on some super super, sugar sugar, sweet sweet, honey-dipped, cavity-causing schmoop or hurt/comfort slash?

1999 May 3, geoffrey2 [username], “Re: Sugar sweet syrupy schmoopy slash”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative.mature (Usenet):

Oh, and schmoop - this chapter's got a great heap of schmoop, but there'll be plenty of angst as well, not to fear.

2003 July 2, nik_cleo [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Life's Little Quirks, Part Three -R- (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweetly romantic or cute, usually to a degree considered maudlin.


shipperhood

This ep pushed me off the fence and right into full-fledged shipperhood ( I WANT TO BELIEVE !!!)

1997 February 3, Colleen Sullivan-Baier, “Re: "Never Again"”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Ah... I find that the best way to maintain joyous shipperhood is to not read much schmoopy shipper fic.

1999 July 22, Kipler [username], “Re: Mulder/Scully "relationship"”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):

Look, it's all happy and hopeful and absolutely wonderful--but I need more to sustain my Odo/Kira shipperhood!

2002 September 21, Tori Sky, “Re: FB: DS9: Edge of the World 1/2 (O/K; NC-17)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The state or quality of being a shipper.


schmoopy

en-adj

schmoopy (comparative schmoopier, superlative schmoopiest)

schmoopier (comparative)
schmoopiest (superlative)

Nothing wrong with schmoopy fic Ingrid...

2002 September 7, Carolin, “Re: A What if.....?”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet):

That "Barbie Shippers" faction of XF fandom is currently cloistering itself somewhere in really dreadful, schmoopy fanfic where no other character threatens the purity of their "deep, abiding luv".

2005 June 25, campylobacter [username], “Re: Never Again question”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Characteristic of schmoop; maudlin.


psychomanteum

Coined by Raymond Moody in 1993 in his book Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones.

A dark, mirrored room dedicated to communication with the spirit realm.


egology

(philosophy) A science of the ego, in Husserlian philosophy.


-mance

I very much look forward to this on my Dorianmance playthrough.

My Andersmance was taken at a more leisurely pace, so I really got into the depth and grief over his character and his romance.

My own Galemance run will go full swing once my Astarionmance one wraps up, so more to come soon ☺

2023 September 19, Irma 'Aimo (@aimostudio), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) A suffix attached to a noun or character's name to create a word for an in-game romance subplot or mechanic.


evidentialism

en-noun

evidentialism (countable and uncountable, plural evidentialisms)

(philosophy) The theory that the justification of a belief depends solely on the evidence for it.


artifactuality

artifactuality (countable and uncountable, plural artifactualities)

1969, Marcia M. Eaton, “Art, Artifact, and Intentions”. American Philosophical Quarterly, 6, p. 165.
These philosophers argue that the fact that someone might point to a piece of driftwood and say, “There is a work of art,” and further say, “That is not an artifact,” proves that artifactuality is not a necessary condition of a thing’s being a work of art.

(philosophy) The quality of being artifactual.


monosexuality

monosexuality (usually uncountable, plural monosexualities)


nudifidian

(theology) One who relies on faith alone without works for salvation.


monosexual

From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.

Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.

1968, Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, Panther Books, →OCLC, page 106:

There are several other reasons for underestimating the number of lesbians. One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual. But masculine women are not usually defined as homosexual. Therefore, the defining of visual characteristics varies for men and women.

1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology), Revised edition, Dorsey Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:

While monosexuals (gay men, heterosexuals, and lesbians) tend to describe being attracted to people of only one gender, bisexuals tend to disregard gender when assessing attractions to others.

2014 December 16, Chuck Stewart, Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 87:


Analects

From James Legge's 1861 translation of the work's Mandarin Chinese title 論語 (Lúnyǔ). "Analects" itself is a 1658 Ancient Greek loanword from ἀνάλεκτα (análekta, “things chosen”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + λέγειν (légein, “to gather”). Compare lecture.


Socratic method

Named for Socrates, who employs it in Plato's dialogues.

A method of teaching through questions rather than lectures.

ソクラテス式問答法

ソクラテスしきもんどうほう


God the Father

And aboue all thynges: ye muſt geue moſte humble and hartie thankes to God the father, the ſonne, and the holy ghoſt, for the redempcion of the worlde...

1549, The booke of the common prayer and adminiſtracion of the Sacramentes, and other rites and ceremonies of the Churche: after the vſe of the Churche of England:

(Christianity theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to the God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures and considered the creator of mankind and Father of Jesus Christ


intendable

(chiefly philosophy) Capable of being intended.


meanable

Firstly, the writer, like the language, is subject to the situation, in that he or she must say something meanable.

(chiefly philosophy) Capable of being meant.


love match

He had . . . two daughters, one of whom still flourished in single blessedness, and the other, who was greatly more juvenile, made a love-match with a captain in the Forty-twa, who had no other fortune but his commission and a Highland pedigree.

1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in The Antiquary—Volume I:

"And this I can tell you, 'tis not the five villages she marries, nor the Duke, but the man. And 'tis not the fine lady he takes to his heart, but our Clo, and none other, and would have taken her in her smock had she been a beggar wench. 'Tis an honest love-match, that I swear!"

1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 27, in His Grace of Osmonde:

It was, beyond doubt, the year's strangest love match. This week in Moscow, Christina Onassis, 27, heir to her late father Aristotle's $500 million shipping, financial and industrial empire, is set to marry a Soviet citizen and Communist Party member.

1978 August 7, “The Heiress and Her Comrade”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-14:

My second marriage, unlike my first, in which I became pregnant at 19 and married the man, was a love match from the start.

2006 April 16, Sheila Kohler, “Modern Love: This Is Where the Dog Comes In”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-14:

A marriage, betrothal, or other romantic relationship which is based on a spontaneous mutual feeling of love by the two individuals in the relationship, as opposed to a relationship based on other reasons or an arranged marriage brokered by parents or by third parties.


God the Holy Ghost

That which were a dishonour to God the Son, were a dishonour to God the holy Ghost.

1645, G. Gillespie, Nihil Respondes, section 11:

(Christianity theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence present in the faithful (particularly, inspired prophets) and considered to proceed either (Eastern Orthodoxy) from God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


God the Son

(Christianity theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to the Word of God, which became flesh—incarnated—in Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father.

Бог Син

the person of the Trinity that became flesh in Jesus Christ


psychophysical parallelism

(philosophy) The theory that mental and bodily experiences occur in tandem with each other, but without any type of causal interaction.


cishet

Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.

2013, "Witchymorgan", "On the Labor Movement and Transmisogyny", Black & Pink, May 2013, page 4

While children can be born to any kind of parent and situation, unless drastic measures are taken, they will be raised in an overwhelmingly cisgendered and heterosexual (cishet) world. Cishet children and adults’ identities are affirmed by media, legal documents, population majority, history and other depictions of assumed cis-ness and heterosexuality.

2013, Ariel Estrella, "Hegemony, heteronormativity and amoeba", The Mac Weekly (Macalester College), 18 October 2013

[…] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […]

2014, Bec Eames, "In defence of unattractive feminism", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 12, page 17

(informal) Cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual.


cishet

People who identify as cisgender and heterosexual, or cishets, are certainly more privileged in today’s society than the LGBTQIA+ community — which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-identified, intersex, and asexual people, as well as others who do not identify as cishet people.

2014 July 5, Anthony Speciyogic, “Burger King Pride Campaign Claims ‘We’re All The Same Inside’”, in Inquisitr:

(informal) A cissexual/cisgender and heterosexual person.


couchness

(philosophy) The essence of what it means to be a couch; the qualities that make a couch what it is.


other man

I know you've got a man in the picture, but it hasn't stopped me yet / We've all been in one situation or another we regret / Now I'm the other man / No one's rooting for me / If I'm the other man / Nature will abhor me

2001, Sloan, “The Other Man”, in Pretty Together:

(informal) A man who is romantically involved with someone (usually a woman) already in a committed relationship with another man, especially a man having an affair with a married woman.


loteby

From Middle English loteby, equivalent to lote + by.

Prouendreth persones · and prestes she meynteneth / To haue lemmannes and lotebies · alle here lif-dayes.

c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:

(obsolete) A lover, paramour; a concubine.


graysexual

/ˌɡɹeɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/

Blend of gray + asexual, coined by user asexualityrocks in 2008 on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network about two years after the advent of gray-A and gray asexual.

But then I remember: the whole ethos of sex-positivity is predicated on a belief that everyone—sexual, asexual, or gray-sexual; monogamous, polyamorous, or something in-between; LGBTQ or as hetero as the Romneys—is entitled to pleasurable and safe sex.

2013, M. M, "sex-pos", Post- (Brown University), Volume 14, Issue 13, 21 February 2013, page 7

Some aces are gray-sexual (or gray-A), meaning that they fall somewhere on a spectrum between asexual and sexual.

2014 February 19, Tess Banta, “The 'A' Stands for Asexual”, in The Amherst Student, volume 143, number 16, Amherst College, page 7:

Do you feel sexual attraction sometimes, but only rarely? You may be graysexual,* and you’ll have a lot in common with asexual people if you are.

2014 June 18, Julie Sondra Decker, “How to Tell If You Are Asexual”, in Time:

(neologism) Intermediate between sexual and asexual; sometimes, but not usually, experiencing sexual attraction and desire.


gray-A

Coined in 2006 by the user KSpaz on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network for those in the "fuzzy" area that is the distinction between asexuality and sexuality.

The gray-A type of attraction discussed in asexuality communities addresses this issue of a variable like sex drive.

2012, Evelyn Deshane, "Asexuality: Media Depictions and Lived Realities", Absynthe (Trent University), February 2012, page 34

People who find themselves “somewhere in the middle,” or people who don’t feel that they’re the cut-and-dry definition of aromantic asexual, tend to identify themselves as gray-A. And demisexuality is but one shade of gray-A.

2013, Adrienne Smith, “Cultural Fascination”, in Elesia Askenazy, Melanie Yergeau, editors, Relationships & Sexuality, page 96:

"Sexuality is so fluid, and Gray-A presents more of a possibility to be unsure. I don't understand all the intricacies of myself yet, so this is the closest approximation I've come up with," said Chris Maleney, an 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school student who identifies as Gray-A.

2013, Dominque Mosbergen, "Asexual in a Sexual World", Huffington, Issue #63, 25 August 2013, page 47 (approx.)


OOO

OOO's way of addressing the issue is with the impossibility of exhausting any object through undermining, overmining, or their simultaneous employment in duomining.

2020, Graham Harman, Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals, page 212:

object-oriented ontology
w:object-oriented ontology

(philosophy) Initialism of object-oriented ontology.


korephile

/ˈkɔːɹɪfaɪl/

/ˈkɔːɹɪfʌɪl/

From the Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) + -φῐ́λης (-phílēs, “-lover”), coined after korephilia and by analogy with paedophile.

compound

For quotations using this term, see Citations:korephile.

(rare) A woman or older female who is erotically attracted toward young (chiefly pre- and/or peripubescent) girls; a lesbian pederast.

parthenophile

a person attracted to young women, virgins


flexisexuality

Dr D’Felice admitted flexisexuality had become fashionable as a result of its recent celebrity endorsement, but said it had always existed.

2010 November 27, Louise Eccles, “Dawn of the flexisexual: The new word for the women who refuse to play it straight”, in Daily Mail:

Often, it begins in the enlightened college cocoon, where women can explore their sexuality, though a recent ABC report from San Antonio, Texas, said flexisexuality is also part of the high school culture.

2011 February 23, Susan Donaldson James, “Flexisexual: Girls Who Kiss Girls, But Like Boys”, in ABC News:

In fact, a growing proportion of Londoners are overturning the yoke of old-school monogamy and instead investigating the worlds of flexisexuality, of open or group relationships, of Living Apart Together (LAT), mono/non-mono and mono-gamish.

2014 March 14, Rebecca Newman, “Sex? Love? Commitment? The changing face of modern relationships”, in London Evening Standard:

(neologism) The state of having a flexible sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


flexisexual

He resembles a Maine logger, full beard and all, but inside he feels like he's a lesbian. His love IS a lesbian. What is he? What is she? Bisexual? Ambisexual? Flexisexual?

1998, Linda Handel, Now That You're Out of the Closet, What About the Rest of the House?, Pilgrim Press, →ISBN, page 147:

Personally, I identify as “flexisexual,” a word I invented because I'm attracted to more than just men and women, and because my patterns of attraction have changed over time.

2011, Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety, Seal Press, →ISBN:

Sixty percent of our user base identifies as lesbian and the other 40 percent identifies as other, which includes bisexual, curious, pansexual, flexisexual … anyone who doesn’t identify as fully gay.

2014 April 8, Andrea Park, “Hit lesbian dating app Dattch launches in the U.S.”, in Metro:

(of a person) Having a fluid sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


otome game

The otome games are marketed heavily toward female gamers, something generally uncommon with video game marketing. As of this writing, several game developers have invested in localizing otome games originally released only in Japan into English.

2017, Amy M. Green, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Storytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative:

A story-based video game in which the player attempts to establish a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male characters.

乙女遊戲

romance simulation game (usually the protagonist is a woman)


Romione

Ask her about her favorite ships. Does she like Dramione, or Romione? Ask her why, and if she's written fanfics about them.

2012, Krixia Subingsubing, "Date A Girl Who Writes", The Sword (St. Paul College of Makati), Volume 18, Number 1, June 2012-January 2013, page 14

The fans who believed in the canonical pairing were outraged that Rowling would say such things about their beloved Romione.

2014 February 10, Rebecca Godwin, “Romione vs. Harmony: Why do we even care?”, in The Michigan Daily, page 8A:

2014, J. Cibelli, "J. K. Rowling reflects on Romione romance", The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 18, 12 February 2014, page 11 (used in title only)

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


Harmony

Blend of Harry + Hermione, based on the common noun harmony.

Oh that is bloody priceless, unfortunately I've seen some of the Harmony shippers' rants and that little piece of creative fiction could really be considered understating some of the reactions that were areound^([sic]) on some forums after the HBP release.

2006 June 16, Deevo [username], “Re: OT - but not by far: Shippers and fan-ficcers and psychos, oh, brother...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Did you see where that retarded fucker Emerson Spaz ^([sic]) "that the Harmony shippers were (and still are) delusional. It's Romione all the way!" […]

2014 February 8, Darryl Homo Forests, “Re: Rowling Admits H/Hr was Better”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Others, who shipped, which is the internet's way of saying supported, Harmony (Harry and Hermione), claimed superiority over the Romione shippers, claiming they always knew whom the true pairing should have been.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


do no harm

en-verb

do no harm (third-person singular simple present does no harm, present participle doing no harm, simple past did no harm, past participle done no harm)

does no harm (present singular third-person)
doing no harm (participle present)
did no harm (past)
done no harm (participle past)

"Oh, make your mind easy! I shall do no harm, if I do no good."

1889, Wilkie Collins, chapter 51, in The Legacy of Cain:

[G]et government out of the gambling business. . . . These officials pervert public policy, which should at least do no harm.

1999 March 29, William Safire, “Essay”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-18:

First, consider the moral minimum, do no harm.

2005, Patricia Illingworth, Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care, Routledge, →ISBN, page 100:

A doctor's principle code is, "First, do no harm."

2008 December 20, Judith D. Schwartz, “Making Hospitals Greener — and Patients Healthier”, in Time, retrieved 2014-08-18:

Hence, some people consider non-maleficence to be the most basic of all the cardinal principles of ethics; it lays down the least minimum condition for ethical correctness, as if to say: "even if you would not do good, at least do no harm."

2012, A. Bame Nsamenang, editor, Handbook of African Educational Theories and Practices, →ISBN, page 100:

(ethics, medicine) To perform no actions which will be injurious or in any way unfavorable to another person, regardless of whether one does anything of positive benefit for that other person.


Logos

Fjala

(Christianity) the word of God as incarnate

(philosophy) In Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.

logos

rational principle in Ancient Greek philosophy


gynandromorphophilia

(rare) Sexual attraction to transsexual or transgender women.


autoandrophilia

/ˌɔː.təʊˌæn.dɹəʊˈfɪ.li.ə/

Coordinate term: autogynephilia

In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the proposed paraphilic tendency of a female person to be sexually aroused by the thought of becoming a male.


biastophilia

From Ancient Greek βιαστής (biastḗs, “rape”) + -philia.

A paraphilia involving sexual arousal from committing rape.


aromanticism

From aromantic + -ism or a- + romanticism.

But do orientations like aromanticism deserve to be discussed to the same extent as other, more common non-heteronormative ones?

2012 November, anonymous author, “Pandora's box: The stigmas surrounding aromanticism”, in The Scripps Voice, volume 16, number 4,1, Scripps College, page 5:

In other words, the percentage Bogaert identified is not likely very reliable, accurate, or representative and it certainly does not account for the diversity of lived styles of asexuality, ranging from a preference for hugging and kissing to aromanticism […]

2013 May, Ela Przybylo, “Producing facts: Empirical asexuality and the scientific study of sex”, in Feminism & Psychology, volume 23, number 2:

Finally, asexuality is not the same as aromanticism; aromantics have little or no romantic attachment or attraction toward others while asexuals may experience romantic attraction and seek out romantic relationships.

2014, Joan McDonough, "Asexuality", Reporter (Rochester Institute of Technology), May 2014, page 14

The state of experiencing little or no romantic attraction to others and/or desire.


ignoratio elenchi

/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ ɪˈlɛŋ.kaɪ/

/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹɑ.tiˌoʊ/

From Latin ignōrātiō elenchī (“ignorance of the refutation”).

bor

The fallacy of presenting an argument that may or may not be logically valid, but fails to address the issue in question.


semifactual

From semi- + factual. In the logic sense, introduced by Nelson Goodman.

(logic) A conditional with a false antecedent and a true consequent.


Aristippian

en-adj

Aristippian (comparative more Aristippian, superlative most Aristippian)

more Aristippian (comparative)
most Aristippian (superlative)

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaic, of or related to Aristippus of Cyrene, Aristippus the Younger, or their school of philosophy.


Aristippian

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaic, an adherent of Cyrenaicism, the school of philosophy founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.


Theophrastian

Theophrastian (comparative more Theophrastian, superlative most Theophrastian)

more Theophrastian (comparative)
most Theophrastian (superlative)

Of or relating to the Ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus.


gaytheist

(slang, offensive, derogatory) An atheist.


phren

From Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn, “mind; stomach, midriff”).

der

Some ancient Greeks, including Aristotle, believed that the phren was located in the heart rather than the cranium.

(philosophy, historical) The brain or mind.


OBHWF

Initialism of One Big Happy Weasley Family, since the ship results in two of the main characters in the series, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, ending up with two of the seven Weasley children.

Sadly for you & other OBHWF fans, Ginny is now over Harry, and is on her second boyfriend, while Luna Lovegood has the hots for Ron.

2003 June 30, Tennant Stuart, “Re: A couple of questions about book 5.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Because JKR ships OBHWF that's why. The way Hermione has been written shows us she's much more and^([sic]) equal and compatible with Harry though.

2005 July 24, Egla Bob, “Re: What Does Hermione See in Ron?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Those of us who didn't want OBHWF felt that Rowling was making a mistake, not that she was being misleading.

2008 September 9, Louis Epstein, “Re: Cho Chang not Ginny”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The double ship of Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley and Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley from the Harry Potter series.


molehunt

(espionage) An investigation attempting to identify moles (agents who have infiltrated an organisation).


becauseness

The child's concept of 'becauseness', i.e. causality, will undergo a series of changes, but not the verbal symbol which refers to it. Later on, the causal relation will enter as a relatum into the higher matrix of 'logical categories' […]

1964, Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation:

Real observers, Kant concluded, must live in a world of whatness, whereness, whenness, and becauseness, imposed by the way that a mind such as ours can grasp reality.

2008, Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature:

(philosophy, rare) The quality of being a causal result.


redemptionism

en-noun

redemptionism (usually uncountable, plural redemptionisms)

(theology) The doctrine that all of humanity was redeemed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and that the redemption of all was completed and concluded in Jesus's resurrection, and that there was no further need for scriptural fulfillment thereafter.


monosexism

Oppression of bisexual people is based in part on heterosexism and in part on monosexism, the belief that people can or should be attracted to only one sex/gender and that there is something wrong with those who cannot or will not choose.

1995, Liz A. Highleyman, “Identity and Ideas: Strategies for Bisexuals”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page 87:

Considering the fact that the overwhelming majority of biphobia and monosexism originates not from gay and lesbian communities but from heterosexual structures, […]

2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 61:

[…] The L Word seemed to harbor its own reservations about Alice's bisexuality from the start. But that the show ultimately chose to project its own monosexism through the voice of the one character who initially defied such limitations set a new record for implausible character noncontinuity, at the same time as it closed down one of American television's most prominent discourses on bisexuality.

2013, Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 206:

The assumption that everyone is monosexual (i.e. attracted to only one sex); the belief or assertion that bisexuality and pansexuality do not exist.


no true Scotsman fallacy

no true Scotsman fallacy (plural no true Scotsman fallacies)

An informal fallacy in which one attempts to defend or protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim.


have an affair

en-verb

have an affair (third-person singular simple present has an affair, present participle having an affair, simple past and past participle had an affair)

has an affair (present singular third-person)
having an affair (participle present)
had an affair (participle past)
had an affair (past)

To engage in a romantic or sexual relationship while being married. (This entry is a translation hub.)

olla suhde (subject in the adessive case)


H+

The initial H comes from the first letter of human, and the plus sign + indicates "beyond" or "better".

This idea—that human progress points toward human extinction—is held by people who go by a variety of names: transhumanists, posthumanists, extropians, advocates of H+, or singularitarians.

2014, Charles T. Rubin, Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress, page 10:


soulbond

6 fans (11%) did not like to specify a genre but offered an alternative view of “common tropes” in fan fiction, such as: “The tropier, the better! Werewolves or A/B/O or soulbonds or time travel or coffeeshop AUs. […]

2014, Lucie Cupalová, "Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 59

This is amplified by the common use in a/b/o of the soulmate and soulbond tropes, where two characters are written as destined for each other on a biological level, resulting in near-irresistible mutual attraction and a special connection.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 97

And that's not even getting into some of slash's more science-fictional tropes: soulbonds and telepathy, interspecies relationships; male pregnancy.

2018, Francesca Coppa, “Slash/Drag: Appropriation and Visibility in the Age of Hamilton”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 191:

(fandom slang) A deep, lasting emotional or spiritual connection between two characters, typically of a psychic or magical nature.


buybull

From buy and bull (“bullshit”), and the similarity in sound to Bible.

(derogatory, slang, religious slur) A Bible.


Xenophanic

Of or relating to the pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon.


ratio formalis

en-noun

ratio formalis (plural rationes formales)

From Latin ratiō (“reason”) + fōrmālis (“formal”).

(philosophy, logic) the formal grounds for something; the essential attributes of matter as they appear in the mind or in a definition.


separationist

(theology) One who believes that the human Jesus Christ was a separate being from the divine Christ.


metavariable

The pragmatic process of substitution requires some given context to provide an appropriate substituend for a metavariable projected by a pronoun.

2006 March 13, Lutz Martin, “Relative Clause Construal”, in The Dynamics of Language, Brill, →ISBN, page 85:

If it is a programming language, it will almost always have its own notion of variables, and hence the distinction between object-language variables and metavariables is useful.

2016, Aaron Stump, Verified Functional Programming in Agda, page 198:

(logic) A symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.


allosexual

From allo- (“other”) + sexual. "Directed at or involving another rather than one's self" and "involving the other sex; heterosexual" are the most etymologically literal senses (regarding the latter sense, compare the structure of heterosexual), structural and semantic opposites of autosexual and isosexual. The sense "non-heterosexual" was influenced by (and had influence on) Canadian French allosexuel.

Gray-asexual [denotes] a person who is somewhere between 100% asexual and allosexual; they might only experience sexual attraction on very rare occasions, […]

2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, “What it means to be asexual”, in The Mirror, number Fall, page 19:

Sexual assault is alarmingly common, yet most victims still identify as heterosexual, cisgender and allosexual (the opposite of asexual) after the trauma. Being sexual assaulted did not make me asexual, […]

2014 March 20, a letter to the editor of The Record, volume 116, number 20, page 6

(LGBT, of a person) Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.

Yet we later learn that Diana Baring already knew the secret — whether being “half—caste" references being lower-caste with “black blood” (more than a racial marker) or being transsexual, homosexual, or allosexual.

2005, Tom Cohen, Hitchcock's Cryptonymies, volume 2, →ISBN, page 58:

Diane Bourgeois (Terrebonne—Blainville, BQ): Mr. Speaker, last month in my riding, Gaétan Lord won the jury prize at the Allostars Gala for his contribution as founding president of Canada's first centre for “allosexual” or queer youth, which offers support to gays, lesbians and young people who are unsure about their sexual orientation.

2006, House of Commons Debates, numbers 27-40, page 1595:

Throughout this time, I have been struck by the absence of racialized, ethnicized, and colonized (REC) voices in historical accounts of the local gay and lesbian community at large, and likewise the lack of allosexual representation in the narratives of the city's various ethnocultural communities.

2013, Alan Wong, “Listen and Learn”, in Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice, →ISBN:

(LGBT, uncommon, chiefly Canada) LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.

Dr. Conigliaro contended that the sharing of the same bedroom by a single parent and child of the opposite sex "could contribute to, or cause, an excessive degree of ‘allosexual identifications’, [where a child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex] […]"

1980, Federal supplement, series 1, volume 476, page 1330:

[…] We performed 45 experimental confrontations with heterospecific pairs. Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.

1992 February, Aldo I Vassallo, Christina Busch, “Interspecific agonism between two sympatric species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae) in captivity”, in Behaviour, volume 120, number 1/2, pages 40-50:

(chiefly biology, sociology, psychology) Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.


allosexual

[…] that is par for the course of being any form of queer-identified. But it also allows allies and allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) to push out asexual and aromantic-identified individuals.

2014 October 15, Z Colburn, “"A" is for annoyed”, in The Easterner, volume 66, number 4, page 8:

A chart of the Ace Spectrum: the different possibilities for asexuals, demisexuals, and allosexuals.

2014 November, Krista Rhoades, “Asexual Awareness Week”, in Collide, number 22, page 5:

(LGBT) One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual.


Polandball

Compound of Poland + ball, coined circa 2009.

One comic, in which Poland flies into space and stops Russia using Crimea as a means of ramming the United States, has shot to the top of the charts in the Polandball sub-forum on Reddit.

2014 March 4, Emmet Ryan, “Polandball is Reddit's answer to Crimea crisis”, in The Daily Business Post, Businesspost.ie, retrieved 2014-11-01:

This Polandball comic sums it up better.

2014 September 11, Arunabh Saikia, “Why Some Calamities Are More Equal Than Others”, in The Newslaundry:

2014, "Mexicoball", The Polandball Book, →ISBN:

It’s also gotten attention from the Polish media. Gazeta Wyborcza reported on it (po polsku), and, on Culture.pl, Wojciech Oleksiak wrote an in-depth English analysis, including a presumably tongue-in-cheek guide to drawing a Polandball.

2015 May 2, Steven Hoffman, “How Polandball can of taking over internets”, in Krakow Post:

international relations
international relations

A user-generated internet meme, where countries are presented as spherical personas (countryballs) that interact in often broken English, poking fun at national stereotypes and international relations; an individual spherical persona from this.