haecceitistic

[T]here are no clear actual cases of individual substances discernible only with respect to relational and haecceitistic properties. On the other hand, there do seem to be pairs of possible individuals which differ only with respect to such properties. Max Black has argued that there is a possible universe containing only two qualitatively indiscernible brass spheres. These spheres will have the same mass, shape, color; be made of the same kind of stuff; and so on. But they will differ with respect to spatial relational properties involving the haecceity of what they're made of, such as being made of this matter, as well as differing with respect to purely haecceitistic properties like being this and impurely haecceitistic properties like being this brass sphere. If, as seems plausible, there are possible universes of the sort Black envisions, then there are individuals that cannot be distinguished save relationally or haecceitistically.

1989, Christopher Hughes, On a Complex Theory of a Simple God: An Investigation in Aquinas' Philosophical Theology, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 202:

Well, the existence of spacetime points is closely tied up with questions of counting of possibilities – so they are vulnerable to elimination in the transition from a haecceitistic means of counting to an anti-haecceitistic one. But in the case of particles we have much more to hang on to.

2003, Gordon Belot, “Notes on Symmetries”, in Katherine Brading, Elena Castellani, editors, Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 410:

[…] One might wonder whether if x and y share every 'non-haecceitistic property', then x and y are identical (where haecceitistic properties — such as being identical to John or being the daughter of Jim — are those which, in some intuitive way, make direct references to a particular individual(s)). One may be so interested because one thinks that there are not, strictly speaking, haecceitistic properties in reality […]; but even if one tolerates haecceitistic properties, one might think it an interesting metaphysical question whether the restricted thesis is true.

2003, John Hawthorne, “Identity”, in Michael J. Loux, Dean W. Zimmerman, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 107:

Many philosophers would admit that there can be purely haecceitistic differences at the level of simples, that is, entities that are not compounds of other entities. Suppose we have two simple particles, call them "Sam" and "Pam." Then, these philosophers would say, there really are distinct possibilities that simply turn on the numerical difference between Sam and Pam, for example, two really distinct possibilities of the following sort. […] Suppose, then, that one admits purely haecceitistic differences between simple particles. The thing to see is that there remains no basis for allowing further purely haecceitistic differences among the sets or sums or complexes or wholes made out of them. That is what undermines bare haecceitism about bodies.

2011, Mark Johnston, Surviving Death, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 115:

My first argument appeals to the role that haecceitistic considerations (considerations to do with identity across states of affairs) play in shaping Mary's preferences. […] I ask her which she prefers, and she replies "I don't know. You have not told me enough about the states of affairs. You have told me, in glorious detail, all the qualitative facts about them, but I need to know some further, irreducibly haecceitistic facts about them in order to know which I prefer. These irreducibly haecceitistic facts matter to me." […] Decent people do not care about merely haecceitistic differences between states of affairs without grounds for so caring.

2013, Caspar Hare, The Limits of Kindness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 154 and 156:

(philosophy) Of or pertaining to haecceitism.


atheologist

The turbulent life and fragmentary writings of a third woman, Colette Peignot (1903-38) are also becoming better known in their own right and not simply for the influence they had on those of her lover during the last years of her life, the self-styled "atheologist" Georges Bataille (1897-1962) who, along with others, was responsible for her posthumous mythologization as "Laure."

2004, Richard D. E. Burton, Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page x:

It would be wrong to use this as a direct proof of God's existence and equally wrong to imagine, along with the atheologists in cosmological physics, that a system of equations can bootstrap its own parameters and constants, also actualizing what is described by those specific equations.

2006, Loyd L. Fueston, To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Reconciling the Saints to Darwin and Einstein, Divorcing the Saints from Smith and Lincoln, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 114:

In his review of the history of atheism, French atheologist Michel Onfray dates its explicit inception to 1729 and a book published posthumously by the Abbe Jean Meslier, the parish priest of Etrépigny in northeastern France.

2008, Vox Day, The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, BenBella Books, →ISBN:

(philosophy, religion) A scholar and/or proponent of atheism.


necrozoophilia

A paraphilia characterised by sexual attraction toward dead animals.


haecceitistically

[…] I am contemplating the possibility of being poor Fred in a world just life this one. The Haecceitist will suggest that I have in mind a qualitative duplicate of this world where the nonqualitative determinants of cross-identification somehow link me with the qualitative counterpart of Fred. But this distorts my thought: I thought not just that I might have lived Fred's life, but that I might have been Fred living Fred's life. […] I suggest that the possibility I have in mind is not a world that is like ours qualitatively but differs from ours Haecceitistically.

1984, David [Kellogg] Lewis, “Individuation by Acquaintance and by Stipulation”, in Fred Landman, Frank Veltman, editors, Varieties of Formal Semantics: Proceedings of the Fourth Amsterdam Colloquium, September 1982 [Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics; 3], Dordrecht: Foris Publications Holland, →ISBN, pages 235–236:

Two individuals differ haecceitistically just in case they have different haecceities. Differing haecceitistically is consistent with sharing many properties and also with differing with respect to many properties. In contrast, two individuals differ merely haecceitistically just in case they share all the same properties but differ haecceitistically. Haecceitism entails that there is a possible world qualitatively identical to, but nevertheless distinct from, the actual world where my haecceity is swapped with yours.

2007, Jonathan D. Jacobs, Causal Powers: A Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysic [Dissertation Abstracts International; vol. 69-02, sect. A, p. 0630], Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, →ISBN, pages 47–48:

[H]aecceitism leads to trouble in a way that quidditism does not. Suppose we allegedly have two indiscernible worlds that differ haecceitistically: at the place where individual A is in W₁, B is in W₂, and vice versa. We ask: in virtue of what does B rather than A occupy that place in W₂? Because the worlds are indiscernible, it seems we can have no informative answer. We can only say "It just does". That is, we need to invoke the transworld identity of B in W₁ with B in W₂.

2009, Daniel Stoljar, “The Argument from Revelation”, in David Braddon-Mitchell, Robert Nola, editors, Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 210:

Bill's and Tina's experiential properties differ haecceitistically in their object but are indiscriminable; Bill's and Inez's experiential properties differ quidditistically in their object but are indiscriminable; Bill's and Dean's experiential properties differ with respect to factivity, and haecceitistically and quidditistically in their object.

2010, Benj Hellie, “An Externalist's Guide to Inner Experience”, in Bence Nanay, editor, Perceiving the World, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140:


atheocracy

An atheocracy is not a practicable form of government.

1907, Thomas Whittaker, The Liberal State: A Speculation, Watts & Co., page 14:

An atheocracy of the Marxian type is as intolerant of liberty of thought as any Holy Roman Empire or Bible-ridden company of Puritans.

1950, William Pepperell Montague, Great Visions of Philosophy: Varieties of Speculative Thought in the West from the Greeks to Bergson, The Open Court Publishing Company, page 32:

More than a few thinkers have noted the irony of secularism as itself constituting a de facto “religious” system of thought, which defines how and why we can believe things, and where we can talk about them. As some might put it: a secular atheocracy.

2012 February 22, Robert Joustra, “Beware the secular atheocracy”, in The Globe and Mail:


racelessness

(sociology, philosophy) The condition of having no perceived race.


araciality

Such symbols were of no minor importance for a show such as Cosby, roundly and repeatedly criticized for its "araciality."

1994, Kristal Brent Zook, "How I Became Prince of a Town Called Bel Air: Nationalist Desire in Black Television", dissertation submitted to the University of California, Santa Cruz, page 72

I think we don’t pay enough attention to the fact that Michael Jackson, for much of his career, was asexual. And it’s almost as if he was trying to get to some sort of araciality in terms of his presentation, when you think about, you know, someone wearing a mask, someone trying to morph — I mean, Madonna has done it very well without necessarily having to have cosmetic surgery, but this kind of figure that morphs into something else as time goes on.

2009 June 30, “Michael Jackson 1958-2009: The Life and Legacy of the King of Pop”, in Democracy Now:

Though Maouyo and Spencer’s lives have parallels, Maouyo’s journey to araciality was not so much a tireless social justice mission than a process of finding an identity that felt like a good fit.

2011 October 13, Zoe A. Y. Weinberg, “Raceless Like Me”, in The Harvard Crimson:

(sociology, philosophy) The state of being aracial.


trollface

Compound of troll (“person who provokes others for personal amusement or to cause disruption”) + face.

com+

Geek revelers. This is a very rare antagonism. Maybe it doesn't even exist. But if it exists, Gigablog leaves here a fantasy tip. Carnatroll is a mask with the face of the most famous meme on the internet, the Trollface.

2011 February 28, “‘Troll Face’ mask promises to delight geek partygoers”, in Uol News, Rodrigo Vitulli:

Thanks to the Trollface meme, those with a secret affinity for the hilarious ways of trolling now have a figure to worship.

2011 March 24, “Land of a million memes”, in The Gateway, volume 101, number 42, University of Alberta, page 18:

People took trollface and pasted it into other comics, whenever a character was either being a pest or generally annoying people.

2012, Sean Rockey & Alexander Bevier, "Memes", The Current (Green River Community College), Volume 46, Issue 10, 7 May 2012, page 9

The trollface is a visual representation of what someone might look like when engaging in trolling.

2013, Roger Whitson, Jason Whittaker, William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media, Routledge, →ISBN, page 111:

(Internet slang) An illustration of a face with a cartoonishly wide, maniacal grin (from a comic drawn by Carlos Ramirez and originally posted on the 4chan community), typically featured in image macros to convey trolling, mockery, or humorous intent.


pre-Adamitism

The doctrine of 'pre-Adamitism,' while heretical and guaranteed to generate storms of controversy, won some prominent adherents.

1994, Alvin Snider, Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, page 134:

He probably also had theological reasons for not considering pre-Adamitism.

2007, Davis A. Young, John Calvin and the natural world, →ISBN, page 151:

(theology) The belief that humanity is descended from a single progenitor that predates Adam.


anti-racialize

en-verb

anti-racialize (third-person singular simple present anti-racalizes, present participle anti-racializing, simple past and past participle anti-racialized)

anti-racalizes (present singular third-person)
anti-racializing (participle present)
anti-racialized (participle past)
anti-racialized (past)

Interpellating the crystal in the midst of an anti-racializing dialog, Sun Ra intimates emphasizes his power to move race from its historical determinants to rest in mystic powers.

2007, Sue-Ellen Case, Performing Science and the Virtual, Routledge, →ISBN, page 192:

The racializing epistemology that these plays help to codify serves to empower the white/right gaze, which implicitly normalizes and, as I will argue, anti-racializes the English gaze.

2008, Ayanna Thompson, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage, Routledge, →ISBN, page 20:

At the same time, the prompt increase in resources and tools made available to Arab and Muslim American organizations, the intensification of anti-racializing work within civil society organizations, and the American public's increased interest in learning more about Arabs and Muslims provided a majority of the Arab Muslims interviewed in this study with a degree of optimism for the future, even though many remained concerned because of the connection they saw between social constructions of Arabs/Muslims and American foreign policy.

2009, Louise A. Cainkar, Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11, Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 72:

(sociology, philosophy) To act against racial identity or racism.


co-Adamitism

(theology) The belief that the different races are descended from separately created progenitors.


exocortex

en-noun

exocortex (plural exocortexes or exocortices)

exocortexes (plural)
exocortices (plural)

We will move from the neocortex into an exocortex that will give us a lot more capabilities: a superintelligence, probably.

2020, Tina Woods, quoting José Cordeiro, Live Longer with AI […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 120:

A hypothetical artificial information-processing system that would augment a brain's biological cognitive processes.


ELINT

ELINT (countable and uncountable, plural ELINTs)

electronic intelligence
electronic intelligence#English

(espionage) Abbreviation of electronic intelligence.


aeviternal

Further, if there is no before and after in aeviternity, it follows that in aeviternal things there is no difference between being, having been, or going to be. Since then it is impossible for aeviternal things not to have been, it follows that it is impossible for them not to be in the future; which is false, since God can reduce them to nothing.

1862, (St. Thomas Aquinas), Summa Theologica - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 78:

In aeviternal rhythms the current of time would be channeled in the cosmos, reflecting not only the pulsation of life within the microcosm, but with it also the possibility of realization, in samadhi, of timelessness.

1992, Stella Kramrisch, The Presence of Siva, →ISBN, page 268:

And in general, memory and imagination, bygone facts and aeviternal fictions, are closely intermingled, since the factual memory, as it drops back, is almost inexorably transformed into a fictive image, while imagined images are often artfully assimilated to the factual past.

2001, Eva Brann, What, Then, Is Time?, →ISBN, page 214:

It is hard because it is very difficult to convert our thinking from the physical to the spiritual; from time to aeviternal and more so to eternity.

2014, Justin Nnaemeka Onyeukaziri, Echoes of the Good News, →ISBN, page 93:

(theology) Pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.


fee splitting

fee splitting (usually uncountable, plural fee splittings)

While it is impossible to remove all financial pressures from the decision-making process, there are some practices, such as fee splitting, that are unethical because they so strongly influence practice patterns solely on the basis of financial considerations.

1986 July 6, Dr. Carl Weber, “Westchester Opinion: Challenge to Doctor's Ethics Emerges”, in New York Times:

Some commenters believed that implementation of the employer-employee exemption would allow abusive practices to occur such as kickbacks, tie-ins, fee splittings, and conflicts of interest.

1997, Lauch Faircloth, Connie Mack, editors, Problems Surrounding the Mortgage Origination Process: Congressional Hearing, →ISBN, page 208:

The report complained of "a clear nexus between private medical practitioners and pharmacy shops," and "fee-splitting between diagnostic centres and referring doctors."

2008 March 25, Manjeet Kripalani, “Indian Pharma: Hooked on the Hard Sell”, in Businessweek:

(business) The practice, usually of questionable ethicality, by some professionals, such as medical doctors and lawyers, of sending a client to a second practitioner for an additional consultation in order to obtain another payment from the client or from his or her insurer, and in return for which the original practitioner receives a portion of the payment made to the second practitioner (a "commission" or "piece of the action").


thinkably

en-adv

thinkably (comparative more thinkably, superlative most thinkably)

more thinkably (comparative)
most thinkably (superlative)

(philosophy) Such that it can be thought.


overmine

en-verb

overmine (third-person singular simple present overmines, present participle overmining, simple past and past participle overmined)

overmines (present singular third-person)
overmining (participle present)
overmined (participle past)
overmined (past)

Coordinate term: undermine

We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.

2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25:

(philosophy) To view an object in terms of its effects on or relationships with others, in object-oriented ontology.


agriculturalism

A school of Chinese philosophy, prevalent during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770 to 221 BC), that advocated for peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.


spoopy

en-adj

spoopy (comparative more spoopy, superlative most spoopy)

more spoopy (comparative)
most spoopy (superlative)

A photograph of a Halloween sign with the misspelled word “spoopy” (for “spooky”), taken in 2009 and originally uploaded to Flickr, was reposted on Tumblr in 2011, upon which the word become an Internet meme and developed its current sense.

To get into the spoopy spirit, you will exclusively listen to the “Spooky Scary Skeletons” trap remix on repeat from now until Halloween.

2016 October 27, Derek Baker, “Your future is foretold in these spooky horror-scopes”, in The Guantlet, page 17:

It's spoopy season — a time for pumpkin carving, trick or treating and “Hocus Pocus” reruns.

2018 October 24, Amelia Calautti, “Get goosebumps with 'Netflix and Chills'”, in The Rice Thresher, page 8:

Unfortunately, tricks, treats and spoopy shenanigans aren't the only things escalating in the runup to Halloween.

2018 October 29, Sara Serrano, “Where have all the cats gone?”, in The Collegian, page 14:

(Internet slang) Calling upon horror tropes and concepts in cute, nonthreatening or comical ways.


pedo-stache

Exception to the rule: the pedo-stache, or more recently known as the Crosby-stache. It covers nothing, and qualifies you instantaniously to be on a child offenders list.

2010, "Single Guy", "Dating Advice From the Single Guy", mathNEWS (University of Waterloo), Volume 114, Issue 1, 24 September 2010, page 9

However, if you are a young male with a pedo-stache like M, sitting in a café while small children run around your legs is enough to make you feel like Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones.”

2013 July 29, M & G, “Otago Museum Café”, in Critic, number 17, University of Otago, page 37:

With his pedo-stache firmly penciled on, Kline nails the accent, the affectations and the alcoholism.

2014 September 10, Meg Elison, “Dakota Fanning’s latest flaccidly flops”, in The Daily Californian, University of California, Berkeley:

(slang) A moustache that resembles one from a stereotypical depiction of a male pedophile in the media.


shota

en-noun

shota (usually uncountable, plural shotas)

From Japanese ショタ (shota) or a clipping of shotacon.

(uncountable, anime) Hentai anime or manga, or other Japanese-inspired erotic art featuring young, usually prepubescent boys.


rustle someone's jimmies

en-verb

rustle someone's jimmies (third-person singular simple present rustles someone's jimmies, present participle rustling someone's jimmies, simple past and past participle rustled someone's jimmies)

rustles someone's jimmies (present singular third-person)
rustling someone's jimmies (participle present)
rustled someone's jimmies (participle past)
rustled someone's jimmies (past)

First attested in 2009 (see Citations:rustle someone's jimmies).

It's not that my wide feet are so irresistibly sexy that no man could keep his hands off them — trust me, they're not — but there's just something about feet that really rustles his jimmies.

2014 March 5, Hamarita Jones, “Fetishes, kinks, and paraphilias, oh my!”, in The Cascade, University of the Fraser Valley, page 13:

Should I try find love with someone who really rustles my jimmies?

2014, "True love Tracey", letter to "Letters To The Ductus Doctor", Ductus (University of Newcastle), Edition 2 (2014), page 37

And what, I'm sure you're asking, rustles the jimmies of a highly discerning [turtle] bachelor such as myself? I'm looking for a delectable woman who is interested in long, painfully slow walks on the beach, being dazzled by my utterly stunning shell, and mercilessly abandoning any children of our union to be devoured by birds while they desperately try to scramble from land to the water immediately after hatching.

2017 February, The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 3:

(Internet slang) To interest or excite sexually or romantically.


abderitism

/ˈæbdəˌɹɪtɪzm̩/

From German Abderitismus, from Abderit (“foolish person”) + -ismus (“-ism”), from Ancient Greek Ἀβδηρῑ́της (Abdērī́tēs, “Abderite”) because of the Abderites’ famed foolishness and stupidity in classical Greece. It is equivalent to Abderite + -ism. The German term was coined by the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) in Der Streit der Fakultäten (The Conflict of the Faculties, 1798).

der

This one example of Abderitism will suffice for my present purpose, though innumerable instances might be produced in other departments.

1886, R. A. K., “Overproduction and Tea Culture”, in Revue Coloniale Internationale, volume 1, Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, →OCLC, page 502:

The Anarchist-eaters believe to have executed a master-stroke of Abderitism by turning national muttonhead and laying the blame for Anarchism at the door of foreigners.

1908, Max Baginski, “Abderites versus Anarchists”, in Mother Earth, New York, N.Y.: Emma Goldman, →OCLC, page 76:

[…] Kant posed the critical problems of historical prediction and, in passing, unwittingly provided us with a convenient framework for an examination of the debate on moral progress in one of its most original forms—the German Enlightenment. He acknowledged three current popular hypotheses with respect to philosophical theory and the future moral nature of man: […] The first he called "moral terrorism," the second "eudaemonism," and the third "abderitism."

1965, Frank E[dward] Manuel, “Man is a Crooked Stick: Kant and the Debate on Moral Destiny”, in Shapes of Philosophical History (Harry Camp Lectures at Stanford University), Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →OCLC, pages 70–71:

The dialogue "Stilpon" presents the reader with a purely negative view of abderitism.

1979, John A[loysius] McCarthy, Christoph Martin Wieland (Twayne's World Authors Series, Germany; TWAS 528), Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 118:

Coming to an end thus becomes an interminable and inconsistent process, a process Kant gives the rather silly name "Abderitism" in order to capture its lack of seriousness.

1994, Timothy Burns, After History?: Francis Fukuyama and His Critics, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 222:

(philosophy) The theory that humanity's morality will never advance beyond its present state.


chindi

According to Navajo beliefs, a harmful ghost that leaves a person's body when they die and may remain around their possessions.


illeity

From Latin ille (“that man; he”) + -ity.

(philosophy) An external embodiment of the self.


ladyporn

Half the women in the country are getting all hot and bothered over this ladyporn book, Fifty Shades of Grey, and the British establishment offers little more than a Frankie Howerdstyle “ooh err missus!”

Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century.

2015, Elana Levine (ed.), University of Illinois, title

The "Dr. Phil rape tweet" saga having finally petered out, some desperate web writer, likely digging for click bait on a slow news day, unearthed a once-obscure sub-genre of self-published ladyporn over at Amazon.com.

2015, Kathy Shaidle, Confessions of a Failed Slut, Thought Catalog, published 2014, →ISBN:

(informal) Erotic literature written by and/or intended to appeal to women.


hell-born

en-adj

hell-born (comparative more hell-born, superlative most hell-born)

more hell-born (comparative)
most hell-born (superlative)


entelechial

entelechial (comparative more entelechial, superlative most entelechial)

more entelechial (comparative)
most entelechial (superlative)

And this process “would be ‘entelechial’ or ‘perfectionist’ in the ironic sense of the term, insofar as the sufferer was in effect striving to impose a ‘perfect’ form by using the key terms of his formative wound as a paradigm.”

1979, Film/Psychology Review, volume 3, Pleasantville, N.Y.: Redgrave Publishing Company, page 37:

I am assuming that an entelechial "tendency" […] does exist for human beings – that human beings "tend" to act in accordance with a purpose (or telos) which exists within the mind of the specific human taking the action. […] What would be more entelechial in the Burkean sense than a "single word" which reveals "an underlying pattern of experience"?

1998, Stan A. Lindsay, Implicit Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Extension of Aristotle's Concept of Entelechy, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, pages 106 and 109:

Invoking Aristotelian intuition, we will characterize each being as projecting an "entelechial" design. I want to say that the individualization of living beings – and only living beings manifest the characteristics of individualization – is a constructive process that follows a design. This design is "entelechial" because it projects a line of articulations that the process follows from within.

2000, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Impetus and Equipoise in the Life-Strategies of Reason: Logos and Life: Book 4 [Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; vol. LXX], Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 627:

[E]ntelechy, or the entelechial motive, is a function of language and is rooted in history, in a verbal action by a human agent in a specific sociopolitical scene. The entelechial motive is one of the most purely human motives in Burke.

2003, Kenneth Burke, edited by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna, On Human Nature: A Gathering while Everything Flows, 1967–1984, Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 121:

Just as an acorn has the telos or entelechial potential to become an oak, so do ideas contain the seeds of their own transformation. Follow the logical or poetic implications of even the noblest idea and you are likely to find it becoming "rotten with perfection." This is nicely illustrated in "Cat's Cradle [sic: Cat's in the Cradle]," a song written by Burke's grandson, Harry Chapin. It is a song, says Stan Lindsay (1998), about entelechial potential, about a father who has made the idea of career more important than family. But one need not make moral judgments in doing entelechial analysis.

2004, Herbert W. Simmons, “The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke”, in Walter Jost, Wendy Olmsted, editors, A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 164, note 5:

Could we not say that life proceeds in tandem with intrinsic prompting and invigorating entelechial energies, on the one hand, and the operative functional generation of force, on the other?

2009, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life: Book I. The Case of God in the New Enlightenment [Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; vol. C], Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 44:

(philosophy) Of or pertaining to entelechy.


entelechially

One imitates entelechially, thereby attaining a universal, insofar as the individual is shown living up to the potentialities of its genus. […] And so, in sum, were the poem (for instance) to imitate a sailor universally, entelechially, it would have him represent to the full the potentialities of sailor as such: speaking nautical terms (even perhaps to the extent of applying nautical analogies to non-nautical matters), scrupulous in the performing of his duties at sea (yet revealing exactly the most relevant temptations to the dereliction of such duties), looking perhaps with a carnival eye upon his times in port, etc.

1952 August, Kenneth Burke, “A 'Dramatistic' View of 'Imitation'”, in Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature, volume 12, number 4, Urbana, Ill.: Department of English, University of Illinois, →OCLC, page 236:

In some fundamental way, it seems that the principles of logology and ecology (that is, the entelechies of each) are at odds with each other, for logology, logologic, and logocentricity, if unchecked by large eco-ethical concerns, and allowed to drive entelechially toward the perfection and completion of themselves in the symbolic realm, seem destined to destroy, or perhaps just deny, ecology, ecologic, and the natural world.

1994, William H[owe] Rueckert, Encounters with Kenneth Burke, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 174:

In a pragmatic approach, the telos does not guarantee its results entelechially. The telos itself is the product of semiosis and can be made concrete only when it is used to guide actions.

1997, James A. Mackin, Jr., Community Over Chaos: An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics, Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 120:

[I]f future possibilities exist for the discipline of rhetoric, it must be conceded that, entelechially speaking, even the present state of the discipline of rhetoric existed entelechially prior to the naming of the discipline.

1998, Stan A. Lindsay, Implicit Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Extension of Aristotle's Concept of Entelechy, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 145:

To behave reasonably is to exemplify the highest human ideals and discipline, for in doing so, one is entelechially exalting his fullest potential. But this is not achieved through the inhuman slavery to logic which defines automatons and whose absence distinguish man. No, it is done by the proper obedience to the manifold nature and constituent elements we possess and which define us.

2013, Michael David Levenstein, The End of Knowledge: A Discourse on the Unification of Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, pages 20–21:


Hannigram

"I know there's a lot of Hannigram shipping out there," Gamier said, referring to the Lecter-Graham pairing. "That's not my bag, but I get it and respect them. I am more of a Hannigail or Hannibloom shipper."

2014 February 21, Dana Hayes, “Hannibal's Hungry Tumblr Fandom”, in Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:

Aja Romano, writing for The Daily Dot during the series' first season in 2013, observed that “slashers,” fans who “ship” (imagine or write relationships) between same-sex characters, “are already coming out in droves for Hannibal/Graham, or 'Hannigram,' as fans have dubbed the obligatory ship portmanteau.”

2015, Jeff Casey, “Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives: Subversion and Homosocial Desire in NBC's Hannibal”, in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, volume 32, number 6:

Perhaps this is part of the reason why Hannibal, though it has an extremely devoted, practically religious fanbase (including a sizeable contingent of “Hannigram” shippers), has failed to achieve quite the level of widespread success attained by similarly lurid series like American Horror Story or The Walking Dead.

2015 June 3, Eric Thurm, “Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s'”, in The Guardian:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.


fagling

You're behaving like a young fagling who has discovered gay sex, and therefore thinks he has nothing more to discover about his gayness.

1996 December 24, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Christmas Bell”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Compelled? I like this idea. Like those re-education camps in Vietnam. We line all the young faglings up and force them to watch The Harvey Girls over and over and over again. And The Pirate! And Meet Me in St. Louis! And Judy singing "Liza, Liza Minelli" on national television to her seemingly less than thrilled but always professional daughter.

1997 July 5, You Rang? [username], “Re: Judy”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

I was a tender young fagling of sixteen when I saw it on a double-bill with _The Gay Deceivers_ in 1970.

2005 February 25, Mike McKinley, “Re: The Boys in the Band (the movie)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

(vulgar, offensive, sometimes derogatory) A young male homosexual.


buddyslash

Slash about Harry and Draco, who are enemies in canon, complicates academic theories of slash that are predicated upon the Kirk/Spock “buddyslash” model.

2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 124

Although the pairing of Harry and Ron may seem as a typical example of buddyslash, one has to consider the presence of Hermione Granger as Harry's second sidekick.

2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 67

It is most commonly noted that the first famous pairing of Kirk/Spock, or Spirk, falls under the category of buddyslash.

2013, Janidean Bruner, "I 'like' slash: the demographics of Facebook slash communities", thesis submitted to the University of Louisville, page 10

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between friends.


enemyslash

As an intimatopic 'enemyslash' fic, Harry Potter and the Bound Prince centers on the development of intimacy as expressed through sex and eroticized comfort between two characters that are enemies in the series canon […]

2010, Darlene Rose Hampton, "Beyond Resistance: Gender, Performance, and Fannish Practice in Digital Culture", dissertation submitted to the University of Oregon, page 102

As a result, Harry Potter fandom again denies well-known theories of slash, as its most popular pairing – Harry/Draco – belongs to the enemyslash category.

2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 65

Catherine Tosenberger suggests that the joy of an enemyslash pairing lies in watching the antagonists overcome their differences.

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

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between adversaries.


panpsychist

As the philosopher Philip Goff, one of the most prominent contemporary panpsychists, has pointed out, our belief that science will solve the mystery of consciousness, given that it triumphed in so many other areas, ignores that its success was predicated in the first place on the exclusion of the mind.

2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 9, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:


powerslash

The second most popular Potter slash pairing is Harry/Snape, which belongs to the powerslash category, and again defies findings of early fan fiction studies focusing on buddyslash.

Order of the Phoenix featured Harry and Snape (a powerslash pairing par excellence) forced to become uncomfortably intimate with each other: Snape is teaching Harry how to prevent Voldemort from reading his thoughts by...reading Harry's thoughts; […]

2011, Catherine Tosenberger, “Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction”, in Michelle Ann Abate, Kenneth B. Kidd, editors, Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature, →ISBN, page 343:

Although the second most popular pairing in Potter slash fandom, Snape/Harry (or Snarry), could be categorized as enemyslash, it is also a prime example of powerslash.

(fandom slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between characters of unequal social status or rank.


primary goods

Goods which are presumed to be desired by all rational individuals.

初級產品

goods which are presumed to be desired by all rational individuals


analogate

(philosophy) An instance of a thing represented in general by the analogon. For example, given the analogon "famous musician", the analogates might include Mozart and Liszt.


long-termism

Known as long-termism, it is based on a belief that the interests of later generations, stretching far into the future, must be taken into account in decisions made today.

[2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:

(philosophy) Alternative spelling of longtermism


Williamsian

Williamsian (comparative more Williamsian, superlative most Williamsian)

more Williamsian (comparative)
most Williamsian (superlative)

Of or relating to Bernard Williams (1929–2003), English moral philosopher.


raptophilia

From Latin rapere (“to seize”) + -philia.

A paraphilia involving sexual arousal from committing rape.


infallibilism

en-noun

infallibilism (countable and uncountable, plural infallibilisms)

(epistemology) The theory that belief in a true proposition counts as knowledge only if the proposition is necessarily entailed by the evidence or reasoning that supports this belief.


means of grace

(Christianity, theology) a means by which God gives grace, usually considered to include both word and sacrament, and often other ways as well


extensionalist

(philosophy) A proponent of extensionalism.


extensionalism

extensionalism (usually uncountable, plural extensionalisms)

(philosophy) The belief in extensionality.


compresent

(philosophy) Existing together concurrently.


problematology

(philosophy) A form of philosophy based upon the questioning of questioning, to derive a new foundational principle of thought and a new conception of logical difference.


moral imperative

moral imperative (plural moral imperatives)

This 60-second commercial, titled The Deficit Trials: 2017 A.D., . . . "expresses a view that budget cuts are a moral imperative."

2001 June 24, “American Notes: Advertising”, in Time, retrieved 2016-01-07:

To research a possible link between US bombardment and rates of birth defects and pediatric cancer in Iraq is a moral imperative.

2012 October 25, Ross Caputi, “The victims of Fallujah's health crisis are stifled by western silence”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2016-01-07:

Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, wrote on Twitter about the accident, with his usual bravado, “Self-driving cars and trucks are a moral imperative.”

2014 June 10, Claire Cain Miller, “If Robots Drove, How Much Safer Would Roads Be?”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-01-07:

(ethics) A practice, policy, or state of affairs which is required and justified by the fact that it is morally right.

. . . the Confucian custom of filial piety. This moral imperative requires sons to obey their parents and take care of them during old age.

1996, Robert Strom et al., "Intergenerational Relationships in Taiwanese Families" in Changing Family Roles and Feminism, Man Singh Das (ed.), p. 48 (Google preview)

There are no laws about queueing, but there is a powerful moral imperative not to cheat.

2004 September 18, Adam Nicolson, “Not even the full force of the law is enough to make something legitimate”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2016-01-07:

It is not murderous venom that courses in black veins but loving tolerance for the stranger, which is the central moral imperative of the Gospel.

2015 June 20, Michael Eric Dyson, “Love and Terror in the Black Church”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-01-07:

(ethics) An ethical principle or rule which requires and justifies a practice, policy, or state of affairs.


trivialist

(logic) A proponent of trivialism, the metaphysical and logical theory that all propositions are true.


pyrophilia

A paraphilia in which gratification is derived from fire and fire-starting activity.


superdupervenient

(philosophy) Relating to or exhibiting superdupervenience.


genarian

This distinguishes his position from that of rule-utilitarians like Brandt, with whom Hare otherwise largely agrees, and makes Hare an actarian in my sense rather than a genarian.

1979, Peter Schröder, Leonard Nelson Symposium, page 90:

Rawls' s theory is genarian (the Method is used to derive rules, principles, which in turn are applied to acts) rather than actarian (the Method applied directly to acts).

1982, J. H. Wellbank, Denis Snook, David T. Mason, John Rawls & His Critics: An Annotated Bibliography, page 187:

(philosophy) Concerning rules or principles as opposed to acts.


Hays Code

Named after Will H. Hays (1879–1954), then president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.

(historical) The Motion Picture Production Code, a set of moral guidelines for motion pictures in the United States; it was in force from 1930 to 1968.


Rhazes

From Latin Rhazes, from Arabic اَلرَّازِي (ar-rāzī), from Persian رازی (râzi), a surname meaning "from Ray".

An 8th/9th-century Persian polymath and physician; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī.


sophron

en-adj

sophron (comparative more sophron, superlative most sophron)

more sophron (comparative)
most sophron (superlative)

From Ancient Greek σώφρων (sṓphrōn, “sane, moderate, prudent”) (from σῶς (sôs, “safe, sound, whole”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”)).

der

As a young gentleman, Charmides was expected to be sophron, self- restrained in his moral behavior, and we learn in the prologue that he so well fulfills this expectation that he is regarded as the most moderate [sophronestatos, 157d6) of the young men of his generation.

1998, Walter T. Schmid, Plato's Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of Rationality, page 11:

Even if, the argument notwithstanding, quiet deeds should somehow emerge as more beautiful and not fewer in number “in walking and speaking or anywhere else,” even given this, the quiet life would be no more sophron than the non-quiet.

2015, David Lawrence Levine, Profound Ignorance: Plato's Charmides and the Saving of Wisdom:

(in Ancient Greek philosophy) Of a sound and well-balanced mind; moderate, prudent, sensible, reasonable.


world to come

Translation of Hebrew הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא (ha'olám habá, literally “the coming world”).

הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא

(Judaism) The Jewish afterlife or mythic future, usually thought to occur after the coming of the Messiah, in which the righteous are rewarded for their good deeds and the wicked punished for their evil deeds


nepiophilia

From Ancient Greek νήπιος (nḗpios, “infant”) and φιλία (philía, “(fraternal) love”).


memescape

A notional landscape of memes, or units of cultural information.


ecstaticity

(philosophy) The quality or state of being ecstatic.


linear logic

Gentzen also wrote down inference rules suitable for the intuitionistic propositional and predicate calculi. These rules lack the mirror symmetry of the classical case. But in the 1980s, this symmetry was restored by Girard’s invention of ‘linear logic’ [43].

2009 February 3, John C. Baez with Mike Stay, “Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 39:

(logic) A logic in which two structural rules are missing from its sequent calculus: those for weakening and contraction; which has some extra logical connectives, so that it has both "additive" and "multiplicative" versions of the typical binary connectives and truth constants; and which has a pair of modal, "exponential" operators for resource management, to help make up for the loss of the two structural rules.


nonconceptualism

Part of the appeal of nonconceptualism as a view in its own right is that it seems to do better justice than conceptualism to what we might call the primitive character of perception relative to thought and judgment.

2007 October 17, Hannah Ginsborg, “Was Kant a nonconceptualist?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 1, →DOI:

(philosophy) A negation of conceptualism


contentual

I shall wish, then, to indicate in a general way what I conceive to be the true and valuable significance of the Self-realization principle; namely, that it is essentially an ideal of ethical method, and not a contentual or descriptive ideal from which either the details or the generalities of right conduct are to be extracted; and I shall try to present the principles of such a method as will answer to the requirements of this ideal, thereby supplying an interpretation, in a strictly ethical sense, of the concept of derivation.

1904, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, The Logic of Self-realization:

Presented evidence, appearance, sense experience, in itself, enjoys the rank of content of reality. That is, it claims to be real and deserves to be taken as such so long as proof to the contrary is wanting. I shall call this kind of knowledge 'contentual'; if I may be permitted to coin a word.

1915, Evelyn Board Raynolds, The Realistic Concept of Independence, page 19:

It seems to me that a true empiricist can easily note that we use "thought" in four distinct ways. First, thought is a term for a reflective process ; second, it is a term for data, the contentual entities which are objects of awareness; third, it is a term for the act of awareness; fourth, it is a term for an idea of an object, for the contentual thought of an object of reference, for a specific knowledge-claim.

1920, “The status of the categories”, in The Monist, volume 30, page 234:

It seems that there is no locution in English that must be read as a prosentence, no argument that requires this reading. Any locution offered as the natural-language paraphrase of contentual quantification can be read in another way.

2008, Ryan Christensen, Minimal truth, page 74:

(philosophy) Relating to content (as apposed to context).


causalism

en-noun

causalism (countable and uncountable, plural causalisms)

11 Since Donald Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons, and Causes” ( 1963 ), causalism about action explanations has been widely accepted (and perennially contested).

2007 March 6, Andrew Sneddon, “The depths and shallows of psychological externalism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI:

(philosophy) The doctrine that actions have a direct cause, especially that people's actions are caused by their mental state at the time


conjunctivism

The first thing to note is that S4 sounds dangerously close to conjunctivism.

2007 July 10, Jeffrey Dunn, “The obscure act of perception”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI:

(philosophy) The theory that the grounding conditions for social facts are conjunctive


counterpossible

(philosophy, logic) A counterfactual in which the antecedent could not possibly be true.


projectivism

projectivism (usually uncountable, plural projectivisms)

(philosophy) A philosophy in which the qualities of an object are 'projected' onto it as though they actually belong to it.


conferralism

However, it is not a constructivist conferralism.

2008 April 5, Ásta Sveinsdóttir, “Essentiality conferred”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:

(philosophy) A philosophy in which attributes are conferred on objects


combinatorialism

Yet, many philosophers find combinatorialism attractive because of its ontological parsimony and because it harmonizes with actualism and naturalism.

2007 September 20, Luca Moretti, “Brogaard and Salerno on antirealism and the conditional fallacy”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI:

(philosophy) A theory of reality based on all the possible combinations of simple objects


compositionalism

(philosophy) The view that the meanings of propositions are determined independently of the terms of which they are composed


mysterianism

The latter contention may be motivated in one of two ways: either by appeal to positively characterized and seemingly conflictive features of the mental and the physical (in which case we might always reject dualism in favor of a materialist mysterianism such as McGinn’s 1999 ), or simply by failing to characterize positively the relevant domain of non-mental entities with which mentality is in need of reconciliation.

2007 August 9, Neal Judisch, “Why ‘non-mental’ won’t work: on Hempel’s dilemma and the characterization of the ‘physical’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, →DOI:

(philosophy) The view that the explanation of consciousness is not possible by humans


indexicalism

According to indexicalism, at any time during the interval t 1 –t 4, Cyrano has to lose all of his properties and gain new ones: he first has the property “having-a-big-nose-at-t 1 ”, then the property “having-a-big-nose-at-t 2 ”, then the property “having-a-big-nose-at-t 3 ”, and so on.

2007 September 20, Jiri Benovsky, “The bundle theory and the substratum theory: deadly enemies or twin brothers?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:

(philosophy) A philosophy of indexicality


adverbialism

I have considered a number of objections to adverbialism being true.

2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:

(philosophy) The view that perceptions do not have objects, so for example one "senses redly" rather than being aware of a red sense datum.


determinablism

(After all, it is not entailed by determinablism or even recombinationism!

2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:

(philosophy, rare) A philosophy of determinables


interpretationism

(philosophy) The analysis of the mental by interpretation of the physical


epiphenomenalize

en-verb

epiphenomenalize (third-person singular simple present epiphenomenalizes, present participle epiphenomenalizing, simple past and past participle epiphenomenalized)

epiphenomenalizes (present singular third-person)
epiphenomenalizing (participle present)
epiphenomenalized (participle past)
epiphenomenalized (past)

To endorse option one is to epiphenomenalize macrophysical objects.

2007 December 8, Patrick Toner, “Emergent substance”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI:


coincidentalism

The fact that three-dimensionalist coincidentalism faces problems concerning how an object’s temporal trajectory is determined did not play a central role in this paper because this fact is well known.

2007 July 18, Thomas Sattig, “Identity in 4D”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI:

(philosophy) A philosophy of coincidents


worldmate

(philosophy) Any of a group of spatiotemporally related objects (i.e. objects in the same world, at the same time)


nonism

Neo-Platonism "tended to break the unity of life and thought which Christianity sought to establish," yet withal it prevented a too "facile nonism."

1904, The Hartford Seminary Record - Volume 14, page 238:

But it surely affects his theory of perception in that, with the espousal of neutral nonism, he had to abandon the sense-datum theory because he abandoned the relational character of sensation consisting of a subject and an object ie, a sense-datum.

1987 July, Sajahan Miah, “Russell's Theory of Perception (1905-1919)”, in Philosophy Dissertation at McMaster University:

Shakespeare, of course, called life "a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage..." and James Thurber continued: "It's a tale told in an idiom, full of unsoundness and fury, signifying nonism."

1997, Peter McWilliams, Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School - But Didn't, →ISBN, page 22:

I share Simmel's dialectical “neither-nor” position (not monism, but nonism), as formulated in the regulating principle of methodological pluralism: neither idealism, nor materialism, nor elementarism, nor emergentism. Taken individually, each of the metatheoretical permutation and theoretical positions based on them are insufficient, for each is biased; as a whole, however, they make it possible to construct a general, global and multidimensional theory of society.

2008, Frédéric Vandenberghe, A Philosophical History of German Sociology, →ISBN:

(philosophy) The stance that the nature of reality is unknowable because all information comes through the senses, which are unreliable.

Sir Oliver's standing as a scientist makes his book interesting as a statement of the reasons a scientist can give in opposition to the conclusions of materialistic nonism.

1906, The American Educational Review - Volume 27, Issue 10, page 519:

That philosophy of the relation of psyche and soma which may be called materialistic nonism, the philosophy most congenial to behaviorists, was as ancient as Greek thought.

1938, Willard Harrell, Ross Harrison, “The rise and fall of behaviorism”, in The Journal of general psychology, volume 18, number 2:

(philosophy) The denial of higher-level meaning beyond physical existence; materialism.

Not really: fundamentality is a red herring, and the proponents of nonism have avoided Hempel’s dilemma only at the cost of emptying their position of any distinctives that might give the anti-physicalist reason to reject it (which, naturally, is not to say that the anti-physicalist should accept it).

(philosophy) The belief in the existence of entities and events within a domain that can only be defined in terms of what it is not.


energeticism

(philosophy) A philosophy of energetics.


invariantism

Unger argues for semantic relativity by arguing that two general semantical theories, contextualism and invariantism, conflict.

1988, Joseph W. Smith, The Progress and Rationality of Philosophy As a Cognitive Enterprise: An Essay on Metaphilosophy:

When the agent and the attributer-with-audience have highly similar stakes in the matter in question, then sensitive invariantism and contextualism yields parallel verdicts.

2008 November 22, David Henderson, “Motivated contextualism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:

(philosophy) A philosophy of invariants, holding that knowledge is not context-sensitive.


matterer

Where matterers are concerned, we look for difference-making, […]

2012, Helen Steward, A Metaphysics for Freedom, page 214:

(philosophy) Something that matters; something of relevance.


justificationist

(philosophy) A proponent of justificationism.


justificationism

(philosophy) An approach that regards the justification of a claim as primary, while the claim itself is secondary; thus, criticism consists of trying to show that a claim cannot be reduced to the authority or criteria that it appeals to.


Epinomis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐπῐνομῐ́ς (Epinomís), from ἐπῐνομῐ́ς (epinomís, “an addition to a law”, “an appendix”).

A dialogue ascribed variously to Plato, his disciple–editor Philip of Opus, and to an unknown forger, and which forms an appendical thirteenth book to the former’s Laws.

Ἐπῐνομῐ́ς

dialogue ascribed (perhaps spuriously) to Plato, and which forms an appendical thirteenth book to his Laws


Anaximenean

en-adj

Anaximenean (comparative more Anaximenean, superlative most Anaximenean)

more Anaximenean (comparative)
most Anaximenean (superlative)

Of or relating to the Ancient Greek philosopher Anaximenes.


justificandum

(philosophy) That which is to be justified.


sequent calculus

en-noun

sequent calculus (plural sequent calculi)

(mathematics, logic) A set of inference rules for deriving true sequents from other true sequents.


atomic formula

atomic formula (plural atomic formulae or atomic formulas)

atomic formulae (plural)
atomic formulas (plural)

In predicate logic, an atomic formula consists of a predicate together with its arguments, its arguments being terms.

(logic) A formula which does not have smaller subformulas.


deonticity

(ethics, linguistics) The property of being deontic.


superpredicate

(logic) A kind of relation between predicates.


mathematicalism

And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre).

2004, Michał Kokowski, Copernicusʹs Originality: Towards Integration of Contemporary Copernican Studies:

(philosophy) The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.


propositional constant

propositional constant (plural propositional constants)

(logic) One of a set of letters or symbols which are assigned fixed truth values independently of any interpretation or valuation, and each of which qualifies as a prime formula of their language.


purging place

Originally as a calque or translation of various Latin or Spanish terms.

Is this, said I, the Papists purging place?

1603, Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame, l. 262:

A place where purging occurs, particularly:

(Christianity, now rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.


Purgatory

(Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.


actionness

That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).

2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma:

Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]

2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century:

(philosophy, linguistics) The property of being an action.


self-refutation

2009, Hales, Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy
I remember grappling with the self-refutation objection back in my undergraduate days in a philosophy of science course under Robert Frederick.


detotalize

en-verb

detotalize (third-person singular simple present detotalizes, present participle detotalizing, simple past and past participle detotalized)

detotalizes (present singular third-person)
detotalizing (participle present)
detotalized (participle past)
detotalized (past)

(transitive, philosophy, semiotics) To cause (something) no longer to be the total state of things, by means of adding something further that is not a part of it; to make incomplete by addition.


whataboutism

en-noun

whataboutism (countable and uncountable, plural whataboutisms)

And I'd no time at all for 'What aboutism' - you know, people who said 'Yes, but what about what's been done to us? ... That had nothing to do with it, and if you got into it you were defending the indefensible.

1994, Joe Austin, “The obdurate and the obstinate”, in Tony Parker, editors, May the Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast, Henry Holt & Co, →ISBN, page 136:

Soviet propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed 'whataboutism'.

2008 January 31, Edward Lucas, “Whataboutism - Come again, Comrade?”, in The Economist:

'Whataboutism' was a favourite tactic of Soviet propagandists during the old Cold War. Any criticism of the Soviet Union’s internal aggression or external repression was met with a 'what about?' some crime of the West, from slavery to the Monroe doctrine.

2008 December 11, Staff writer, “The West is in danger of losing its moral authority”, in European Voice, retrieved 2017-07-03:

Back in the Cold War, we had a term for this: 'whataboutism.' Whenever anyone criticized the Soviets about the gulags, their mouthpieces would start a sentence with 'What about...' and go on to talk about racism and poverty and whatever bad thing they could think of that was happening in the United States.

2014 August 25, Robert Tracinski, “Crime: Understanding Ferguson: Fort Apache, Missouri”, in The Federalist:

There's another attitude ... that many Russians seem to share, what used to be called in the Soviet Union 'whataboutism,' in other words, 'who are you to call the kettle black?'

2016 July 24, Jill Dougherty, “Olympic doping ban unleashes fury in Moscow”, in CNN:

what was known during Soviet times, as 'whataboutism'

2017, Andreas Umland, “The Ukrainian Government's Memory Institute Against the West”, in IndraStra Global, volume 3, number 3, →ISSN, retrieved 2017-07-04, page 7:

This particular brand of changing the subject is called 'whataboutism' — a simple rhetorical tactic heavily used by the Soviet Union and, later, Russia.

2017 March 17, Danielle Kurtzleben, “Trump Embraces One Of Russia's Favorite Propaganda Tactics — Whataboutism”, in NPR, retrieved 2017-05-20:

A logical fallacy where criticisms are deflected by raising corresponding criticisms of the opposite side.


V triad

From the V shape of a diagram of the relationship: a triangle with one side missing.

A triad in which one person is in a polyamorous relationship with two other people who are not in a relationship with each other.


descendentalism

Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life.

1974, Robert Currie, Genius: an ideology in literature:

(philosophy) A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.


four-dimensionalism

(philosophy) An ontological position stating that an object's persistence through time is like its extension through space.


amatonormativity

A compound of Latin amātō or amātus and normativity, modeled on heteronormativity and coined by philosophy professor Elizabeth Brake in 2011.

coinage

Amatonormativity is oppressive when it privileges members of one form of caring relationship at the expense of noncomformists, whose opportunities are thereby significantly worsened.

2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 98:

Casual amatonormativity is routine even in scholarly research.

2017, Carrie Jenkins, What Love Is: And What It Could Be, unnumbered page:

"I dislike [Valentine's Day] because I'm aromantic and it's very symbolic of the culture of amatonormativity," thesis student Aiden Juge commented.

2020 February 12, Sophia Brown, “Redefining Valentine's Day culture on campus”, in The Catalyst, New College of Florida, page 9:

(neologism) The assumption that all human beings pursue love or romance, especially by means of a monogamous long-term relationship.


cruelty-free

It can be particularly hard to tell what is and isn't cruelty-free, as the term isn't regulated; any brand can claim to be so. The only way a company can be totally cruelty-free is when no animal testing has happened at any point during production.

2020, Madeleine Olivia, Minimal: How to simplify your life and live sustainably, Random House, →ISBN:

Of cosmetics and similar products: made without harming animals.


Gandhism

Another critic observes Gandhism dreads the 'onslaught of technology' because it creates unemployment.

1945, Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, Gandhism Reconsidered, page 28:

In trying to curb modern political Machiavellianism, some of the more consistent humanists find this analogy in the ethical ideas and the political practice of Gandhiism.

1972, Aleksandr Ivanovich Titarenko, Morality and politics;: Critical essays on contemporary views about the relationship between morality and politics in bourgeois sociology, page 142:

(political science, philosophy) The philosophy and principles of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, encompassing the broad tenets of upholding truth, pacifism, and nonviolent activism; also rarely used for Gandhian economics.


nunc stans

Borrowed from Latin nunc (“now”) + stāns (“staying, remaining”).

But they will teach us that eternity is the standing still of the present time, a nunc-stans, as the schools call it; which neither they nor any else understand, no more than they would a hic-stans for an infinite greatness of place.

In other words, at the point where the infinite past and the infinite future collide into the present of a nunc stans they spark into existence, as it were, the mental phenomenon of a timeless present which overcomes all ordinary time constructions.

2009, Patricia Bowen-Moore, Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Natality:

In its radical transcendence of all finite states the subject enters into the space of a nunc stans, in the face of which all temporality becomes an unreal appearance.

2005, Robert Spaemann, Happiness and Benevolence:

(Christianity, philosophy) Eternal existence as an attribute of God.


Four Olds

Calque of Chinese 四舊／四旧 (Sìjiù, “the four old (things)”)

cal

(historical) The four traditional things targeted for destruction during China's Cultural Revolution, usually translated as old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.


problem of evil

(philosophy) The argument that an omnipotent and truly benevolent deity would not permit evil.


omniracial

(sociology, philosophy) Concerning or including every race.


hypolemma

en-noun

hypolemma (plural hypolemmas or hypolemmata)

hypolemmas (plural)
hypolemmata (plural)

From Latin hypolēmma, from Ancient Greek ὑπόλημμᾰ (hupólēmma, “supposition”), from ὑπο- (hupo-, “lesser”) + λῆμμα (lêmma, “assumption”).

affix

(logic, rare) A lesser proposition or subsumption within a larger syllogism.


principle of charity

Named by Neil L. Wilson in the late 1950s.

(philosophy, rhetoric) The principle according to which an argument should be evaluated in light of its best, strongest possible interpretation.


information-theoretic death

en-noun

information-theoretic death (usually uncountable, plural information-theoretic deaths)

From information theory + -ic + death, based on clinical death. Coined by American cryptographer and cryonicist Ralph Merkle.

coin

Information-theoretic death occurs several hours following clinical death. Dying is a process, and in the ideal case cryonics intervention procedures begin immediately after the heart stops beating and prior to brain death.

2021, Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen, Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 147:

The point at which a person's unique memories and individual personality traits are no longer present in a form that could be read or inferred by future technologies; the complete loss of the information that defines an individual.


throuple

The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during last week’s US Capitol riot had been in a “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports.

2021 January 14, Tamar Lapin, “Ashli Babbitt, Air Force vet killed at Capitol, was in a ‘throuple’”, in New York Post, retrieved 2021-07-22:

Nearly a year ago, I began dating two friends — I’ll call them Rachel and Dave — who were already themselves in a relationship. We all had no experience with polyamory. The throuple ended fairly quickly, with no one being at fault; the other two continued to date but broke up not too long afterward.

2023 April 21, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Our Throuple Fell Apart. What Are the Rules of the Breakup?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.

2024 August 2, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times:

“Honeybee, if you stare at that dividend check any harder, we're gonna officially be a throuple.” [chuckles] “I'm in.”

2024 May 17, Thomas Reyes, “The Mighty Pucks Adventure” (0:35 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):

(neologism) Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.


Münchhausen trilemma

(philosophy) The problem in epistemology that all three ways of providing a proof — circular argument, regressive argument, and axiomatic argument — may be regarded as unsatisfactory.


multiplism

Cook's multiplism thus privileges convergent truths through triangulation even as it provides spaces for divergence and difference, regarding such occurrences as troublesome "empirical puzzles."

2007, Jennifer C. Greene, Mixed Methods in Social Inquiry, →ISBN, page 23:

Part I offers revealing examples of apparently incompatible interpretations and, in the spirit of multiplism, offers several strategies for rendering them admissible.

2010, Michael Krausz, Is There a Single Right Interpretation?, →ISBN, page 5:

To put it briefly, multiplism thinks reality is multiply realizable. For example, the highest good is conceptualized in radically different ways in different schemas of life. Multiplism holds that it is not incoherent to maintain both that (i) these different ways are irreducible to a higher-order universal; and (ii) the validity of one does not imply the invalidity of others.

2013, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge, →ISBN:

(philosophy) The philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of multiple differing interpretations.


Gettiered

(philosophy) Of a belief: falling short of actual knowledge in the way illustrated by the Gettier problem.


Gettier case

(philosophy) A case where a person has a justified true belief of something but does not know it to be true, i.e. one that illustrates the Gettier problem.


Gettier intuition

en-noun

Gettier intuition (plural Gettier intuitions)

(philosophy) The intuitive judgment that the individual in a Gettier case does not know the thing of which he/she has a justified true belief.


Gettier problem

Gettier problem (plural Gettier problems)

Attributed to American philosopher Edmund Gettier.

(philosophy) The epistemological problem that a description of knowledge as “justified true belief” is not adequate: there are counterexamples where a person has justified true belief of something and yet does not know it to be true.


Ryle's regress

(philosophy) The paradoxical situation whereby, if one accepts the cognitivist theory that every action is preceded by a thought, each thought must also be preceded by another thought, and so thinking could apparently never begin.


ghost in the machine

ghost in the machine (plural ghosts in the machine or ghosts in machines)

ghosts in the machine (plural)
ghosts in machines (plural)

Coined by British philosopher Gilbert Ryle in 1949.

coin

Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.

1949, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Hutchinson, page 22:

The doctrines of the Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine—or, as philosophers call them, empiricism, romanticism, and dualism—are logically independent, but in practice they are often found together.

2002, Steven Pinker, chapter 1, in The Blank Slate, Penguin, →ISBN, page 10:

(philosophy) The mental activity that occurs in parallel with physical action, but with no known way for the two to interact, according to the theories of mind-body dualism.


graysexuality

From gray + asexuality, equivalent to graysexual + -ity.

As with graysexuality and grayromanticism, demisexual is not the same thing as demiromantic.

2015, Julie Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, →ISBN:

So far there isn’t a lot of data about how many people identify as graysexual, but creating language that describes being grasexual is necessary if we ever hope to grasp what graysexuality really looks like.

2015 October 20, Kirstin Kelley, “What Is 'Graysexuality'?”, in AlterNet:

Graysexuality falls somewhere between asexuality and sexuality; these people may or may not have a sex drive.

2016 March 31, Pallavi Bansal, “Find out if you're an asexual”, in Times of India:


preconventional

(ethics) Belonging to the earliest of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, focusing on self-interest and on obedience for the sake of avoiding punishment.


postconventional

(ethics) Belonging to the last of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, involving a social contract orientation and universal ethical principles.


paraconsistentization

Moreover, we study the case of paraconsistentization of propositional classical logic.

2016, Edelcio G. de Souza, Alexandre Costa-Leite, Diogo H.B. Dias, “On a paraconsistentization functor in the category of consequence structures”, in arXiv:

(logic, rare) Conversion to a paraconsistent form.


nonnaturalism

(ethics) The metaethical view that (i) ethical sentences express propositions; (ii) some such propositions are true; (iii) those propositions are made true by objective features of the world, independent of human opinion; and (iv) these moral features of the world are not reducible to any set of non-moral features.


dank meme

Born too late to explore the Earth; born too soon to explore the galaxy; born just in time to browse dank memes

I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky. If I tried to speak your marvellous language, I would produce sentences like, […]

2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:

(Internet, slang, often ironic) An Internet meme with a humorously tongue-in-cheek tone derived from gaudy or surreal aesthetics.


patriology

From Ancient Greek πατέρας (patéras, “father”) + -logy.

uder

(Christianity, theology) A discipline of Christian theology, involving the study of God the Father as revealed in Scripture.


contingentism

en-noun

contingentism (usually uncountable, plural contingentisms)

Necessitism is the view that necessarily everything is necessarily something (so ontology is non-contingent). Analogously, permanentism is the view that always everything is always something (so ontology is unchanging). Different ways of developing these views are distinguished. On the other side, contingentism is the negation of necessitism, and temporaryism is the negation of permanentism.

2013, Timothy Williamson, Modal Logic as Metaphysics:

Throughout this book, I use the term "contingentism" to denote a way of understanding existence that differs usefully from the standard essentialist view.

2015, Kriti Sharma, Interdependence: Biology and Beyond:

(philosophy) The philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.


Tao

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 道 (Dào, literally “The Way”): Tao⁴.

Nor is progress exclusively a Western invention. Many interpret the Tao of ancient China as a guide for those who wish to progress as they make their way forward in the world—though its conception of progress is very different from what emerged in the West.

2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xx:

(Chinese philosophy) In Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal way to live one's life.


Indophilia

A love or admiration for India or its people and culture.

indophilie

love of India, the Indians or Indian culture


pseudo-problem

(philosophy) A problem that arises solely as a result of a misuse of language


akh

Their abode is heaven; and the Akh, by contrast with the Ba, does not retain any relation to the body.… It is a deceased, a transcendent being, without earthly or material ties; and, as such, it is the most spiritualized of the various concepts of the dead.

1948, Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature, page 64:

After spending the night asleep in their tombs, the akhs would wake each morning at sunrise and “come forth from the necropolis” to enjoy an ideal life, free from the cares of physical existence.

2000, James P. Allen, Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, page 33:

The akh would later become the state achieved when the ba and ka are rejoined.

2005, Gary A. Stillwell, Afterlife: Post-Mortem Judgments in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, page 118:

If a person’s ka and ba were not reunited and akh failed to develop, then everlasting life would not occur.

2009, Janet Balk, “Egyptian Perceptions of Death in Antiquity”, in Clifton D. Bryant, Dennis L. Peck, editors, Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience, page 399:

Different postmortem aspects of the individual are mentioned in ritual texts, so that it is unclear how they relate to one another: the ka (what leaves the body when death occurs), the ba (the personality of the individual), and the akh (a glorified bodily form).

2015, “Afterlife”, in Eric Orlin, editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, page 17:

In Egyptian mythology, (roughly) a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed its transition to the afterlife.


Ruism

Partial calque from Mandarin 儒教 (rújiào, “Confucianism”): Mandarin 儒 (rú) + -ism.


probabilioristic

en-adj

probabilioristic (comparative more probabilioristic, superlative most probabilioristic)

more probabilioristic (comparative)
most probabilioristic (superlative)

In many cases, traditional arguments are represented as normative justifications that were never really meant as discursively justifying arguments, such as the formulations of moral systems in probabilistic or probabilioristic form, which do not arise from a context of norm justification.

2000, Martin Rhonheimer, Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy, Fordham University Press - New York, page 308:

Both to identify these issues and to respond to them, we need to adopt and institutionalize the use of a new casuistry that employs the probabilioristic standard to resolve doubts about the proper courses of action.

1996, Bernard P. Dauenhauer, Citizenship in a Fragile World, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC., page 130:

One of the most critical differences between tutoristic and probabilistic/probabilioristic reasoning is the role of opinions. As has been mentioned earlier, the Directory differed from other contemporary manuals, especially that of the Augustinian Navarrus.

2016, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism, Ashgate Publishing:

(rare, philosophy) Of or pertaining to probabiliorism; stochastic.


gynophile

One who loves women; a person who loves or is sexually attracted to women or to femininity.


Skate

But 'Skate' fans ended the series quite disappointed in him, as it seems that even after leaving with Kate, they couldn't be together.

2010, Robert Dougherty, Lost: It Only Ends Once: An Unofficial Last Look, page 294:

(I've never subscribed to either of the Kate ships on the show, but even I was almost a Skate convert in that moment.)

2010, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost, Season Six, unnumbered page:

And while, as a Skate fan, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed that my side of the love square ultimately didn't win out (Sawyer ended up with Juliet, Jack ended up with Kate), I have to say I adored this small scene between my couple!

2015, James O'Ehley, Erin Willard, editors, The Take2 Guide to Lost: The Ultimate Compendium, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.


Q clearance

(US) A security clearance issued by the United States Department of Energy, allowing access to top-secret material.


urinterpretation

en-noun

urinterpretation (countable and uncountable, plural urinterpretations)

From ur- + interpretation, coined by William Irwin.

(philosophy) An intentionalist form of interpretation that seeks to capture the author's intention but not necessarily the author's possibly flawed understanding.


SOCMINT

social media intelligence
social media intelligence#English

(espionage) Acronym of social media intelligence.


INT

INT (countable and uncountable, plural INTs)

(espionage) Abbreviation of intelligence.


social media intelligence

(espionage) Intelligence gathered from social media.


over nine thousand

From episode 28 of the anime TV series Dragon Ball Z ("Goku's Arrival", 1997), referring to Goku's increase in power level.

(humorous, Internet slang, idiomatic) off the charts; through the roof (beyond expectations)

List of Dragon Ball Z episodes (season 1)


sign of contradiction

sign of contradiction (plural signs of contradiction)

(theology) In Catholic theology, someone who, upon manifesting holiness, is subject to extreme opposition, traditionally supposed to point to the presence of the divine.


premove

en-verb

premove (third-person singular simple present premoves, present participle premoving, simple past and past participle premoved)

premoves (present singular third-person)
premoving (participle present)
premoved (participle past)
premoved (past)

Let it be assumed, then, that God does premove earthly phenomena, and let the further very obvious supposition be also made that He does not desire this premovement to be a visible and palpable fact.

1867, William George Ward, Essays on the Philosophy of Theism: Supplementary remarks on freewill, volume 2, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., published 1884, page 187:

(philosophy, theology, rare) To incite or cause someone to do something.


protology

en-noun

protology (countable and uncountable, plural protologies)

From Ancient Greek πρωτολογίᾱ (prōtologíā). By surface analysis, proto- + -logy.

And hence the progress of the history of salvation is the progress of protology in the progressive development of its starting-point.

1975, Karl Rahner, Encyclopedia of Theology: A Concise Sacramentum Mundi, →ISBN, page 320:

The Chalcedonian defender of thoroughgoing aphtharsia, driven into a corner, now seeks refuge in protology, that is, in referring to the original condition of Adam in Paradise, with whom he compares Christ.

1995, Aloys Grillmeier, Theresia Hainthaler, Christ in Christian Tradition, →ISBN, page 226:

Our task, in what must necessarily be a longer section than those previous, will be first to explore the eschatological dimension of the protological image, then to show how these dual dimensions of protology and eschatology ground Irenaeus' focus on history and salvation as 'recapitulation'.

2009, M. C. Steenberg, Of God and Man: Theology as Anthropology from Irenaeus to Athanasius, →ISBN:

(theology) The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.


reversalism

reversalism (usually uncountable, plural reversalisms)

(philosophy, theology, uncountable) The idea that what is true about the universe is the exact opposite of what a person or group of people believes.


reversalist

(philosophy, theology) Of or pertaining to reversalism or to reversalists.


reversalist

(philosophy, theology) A supporter of the idea of reversalism.


presuppositionalist

(theology) Of or pertaining to presuppositionalism.


presuppositionalist

(theology) A supporter of presuppositionalism.


Antisthenean

en-adj

Antisthenean (comparative more Antisthenean, superlative most Antisthenean)

more Antisthenean (comparative)
most Antisthenean (superlative)

Of or relating to the ancient philosopher Antisthenes.


analytic philosopher

en-noun

analytic philosopher (plural analytic philosophers)

(philosophy) Someone who practices analytic philosophy.


qualitiless

Hence the need to postulate the substratum, which is in itself (though of course it never exists naked and alone) quite qualitiless.

1950, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle:


Korrasami

Not only did the creators openly confirm that the ending was intended — and Korrasami shippers aren't just reading too much between the lines — a ton of artwork has been created and sold to benefit LGBTQ suicide prevention.

2015, Nick Havey, "Bisexual stereotypes need to go bi bi bi", The Daily Wildcat (Arizona University), Volume 108, Issue 119, 25 March 2015, page 4

The redeeming feature of Korrasami (as the pairing has become known among fans) is that the show's producers very clearly stated that both characters are bisexual and definitely in a relationship.

2018, Kate Harrad, editor, Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative, unnumbered page:

While the “Korrasami” pairing was confirmed at the ending, fans desired to see more and engaged in slash activities to portray the relationship.

2018, Nicolle Lamerichs, “When Production Is Over: Creating Narrative Closure in Fan Edits”, in Rebecca Williams, editor, Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures, page 147:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Korra and Asami from the animated series Avatar: Legend of Korra.


there are no atheists in foxholes

In reference to the use of foxholes as a shelter in wartime.

In times of extreme stress or fear, even those who do not believe in a benevolent higher power will hope that one exists.


korophilia

From Ancient Greek κόρος (kóros, “boy, youth”) and φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).

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In the age-differentiated type, as seen in ancient Greek and in Islamic pederasty, Spartan korophilia, pedophilia, [...] the older partner has something, namely adulthood and the knowledge that goes with it, that the younger is seeking to acquire.

1990, Wayne Dynes, Warren Johansson, William A Percy, Stephen Donaldson, Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, New York: Garland, →ISBN, Appendix:

Gerontophilia is the sexual attraction to the elderly, whereas Korophilia is the love of young men or boys.

2011, Jan Resnick, “Far-out Philias and Phobias”, in Psychotherapy in Australia, volume 17, page 65:


Kripkenstein

(philosophy) A posited person who holds Saul Kripke's unfaithful interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy


quaddition

(philosophy) An operation that is the same as addition unless one of its operands is 57 or greater, in which case it always yields 5; used by Saul Kripke in an argument against Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.


quus

But Kripke's dummy quus function is not the 'real' quus function.

2012, Rupert Read, A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes, page 83:

So where '2' quus '2' equals “4”, and “4” quus '2' equals “6”, “68' quus '57' equals “5”.

2013, M. Perlman, Conceptual Flux: Mental Representation, Misrepresentation, and Concept Change:

(philosophy) Indicates the quaddition operation.


Dharmism

(rare, theology) A belief system, historically originating in South Asia, based on the core concept of dharma.


autumn romance

Robin and Marian—Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.

2006, Susan Swartz, “Movies that know how to treat a tomato”, in The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, →ISBN, page 77:

Ms. Stuart and Mr. Ritchie also began an autumn romance that lasted until Mr. Ritchie's death in 1996 at the age of 91.

2010 September 27, Aljean Harmetz, Robert Berkvist, “Gloria Stuart, an Actress Rediscovered Late, Dies at 100”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-11-15:

It was an autumn romance in the September of my years
When the hourglass of my life was exactly three-quarters run through

2015, Pete Winslow, "O god of spring forgive me" in City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.), p. 146 (Google preview)

(idiomatic) A romantic relationship which occurs in a later stage of life.


autogynephile

/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/

Evidently, the woman did not get those signals from the men. (If instead of being the wife of an autogynephile, she were the sister of a homosexual transsexual, I doubt she would have asked an analogous question.)

2003, J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen:

Transsexual and Nontranssexual Autogynephiles Resemble Each Other. […] I knew, however, that attempting to draw a definitive line between autogynephilic transsexuals and nontranssexual autogynephiles was a difficult if not an impossible exercise, even though I believed there were legitimate reasons for trying to do so.

2012, Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, page 179:

First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.

2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation:


visual space

(cognition, philosophy, psychology) The visual world as subjectively perceived by an aware observer.


unessence

(philosophy) Lack of essence; that which is not essence.


Ramism

(historical, philosophy) A collection of theories on rhetoric, logic and pedagogy based on the teachings of Petrus Ramus.

ramismi

theories based on the teachings of Peter Ramus


Callipolis

From Latin Callipolis, from Ancient Greek Καλλίπολις (Kallípolis, “City of Beauty”). Doublet of Kallipolis, Gallipoli, and Gelibolu.

doublet

Synonym of Kallipolis in its various senses.


Philodemus

Borrowed from Latin Philodemus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φιλόδημος (Philódēmos).

Philodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher and poet


rule utilitarianism

(ethics) A form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good.


paradox of fiction

en-noun

paradox of fiction (plural paradoxes of fiction)

(philosophy) The paradox that (i) people have emotional responses to fictitious events, and (ii) one must believe that something truly exists in order to be emotionally moved by it, but (iii) nobody who considers an event to be fictitious can also believe it to be real.


Euthyphro dilemma

Euthyphro dilemma (plural Euthyphro dilemmas)

Found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?"

(philosophy) A dilemma as to whether things that are morally good are commanded by God because they are morally good, or whether they are morally good because they are God's commands.


yuanyang

yuanyang (countable and uncountable, plural yuanyangs)

Borrowed from Mandarin 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng, literally “male (鴛) and female (鴦) mandarin duck”).

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The yuanyang are the male and female respectively of Anas galericulata, commonly called by Europeans "Mandarin duck." These beautiful water-fowl manifest when mated a singular degree of attachment for each other, and they have hence been elevated into the emblems of connubial affection and fidelity.

1889, Congressional Serial Set, page 460:

Yuanyang, the Mandarin duck, mates for life, and is hence a symbol of conjugal felicity.

2006, Pi-Ching Hsu, Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly:

May the pair of yuanyang 鸳鸯 augur well for our proposed union with Dominant Duck," said Susie gaily.

2016, Matt Huang, Grace Hsu, Young China Hand, →ISBN:

(China) A pair of mandarin ducks, one male and one female, as a symbol of faithful union.


polyatheist

From poly- + atheist, based on polytheist.

A person who does not believe in multiple gods.


volunty

Coined by Robert Fludd from Latin voluntās.

(obsolete) The positive aspect of God, encompassing light, love, creation, etc.


Hume's law

Named after Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (1711–1776).

named-after

(philosophy) The idea that what ought to be the case cannot be deduced from what is already the case.


Philosothon

An annual competition where students explore philosophical and ethical issues.


rarepair

/ˈɹɛə(ɹ).pɛə(ɹ)/

Rare pairs might also slash together people or creatures that are considered unnatural, such as a human character with a magical creature such as a centaur or a house elf, or Dumbledore with any young student from Hogwarts.

2011, Nina Kaipia, "Drarry, Snarry and Snape: The Queerest of the Queer - Heteronormativity and Queer Theory in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Helsinki, page 61

If a Yuletide reader requested a rare pair (Silver Surfer/Aunt May?) in The Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers, that story will now assemble with its more popular Hulk/Iron Man and Captain America/Bucky Barnes fanfic colleagues in the Avengers tag.

2018, Anne Jamison, “Kant/Squid (The Fanfiction Assemblage)”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 534:

With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.

2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49

(fandom slang) A ship that generally receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks.


cosmism

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

A moral philosophy regarding the future of artificial intelligence, based on the writings of Hugo de Garis (born 1947).


superfalsity

(logic) In supervaluationism, the quality of being superfalse.


thrownness

Calque of German Geworfenheit as thrown + -ness.

(philosophy) The Heideggerian concept of individual human existence as a case of being thrown arbitrarily into the world.


horizonal

According to your exposition, the relation of the region to release is neither a causal relationship nor the horizonal transcendental relation

1986, Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche: The will to power as knowledge and as metaphysics:


vegansexual

en-adj

vegansexual (comparative more vegansexual, superlative most vegansexual)

more vegansexual (comparative)
most vegansexual (superlative)

He pointed out that had his current partner been strictly vegansexual, their relationship might never have started in the first place, as when they met, he was only vegetarian.

2017, Nathan Stephens Griffin, Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity, Springer, →ISBN, page 72:

Only having sexual relationships with other vegans.


preparationism

(theology) The view, in Christianity, that unregenerate people can take steps (such as praying, or reading the Bible) in preparation for conversion, and should be exhorted to do so.


Humianism

(philosophy) Alternative form of Humeanism


protothetic

In this paper, we present a system which is a natural deduction (in Fitch-Ja\'skowski's style) version of protothetic.

2015, Pierre Joray, “Teaching Leśniewski's Prothetic with a Natural Deduction System”, in arXiv:

(philosophy, logic) A particular theory of the relationships between propositions


Lewis's trilemma

One version was popularised by the scholar and writer C. S. Lewis.

(theology) An apologetic argument for the divinity of Jesus, claiming that if he was not divine then he must have been either evil or deluded.