lunar mansion

(astronomy, astrology) a segment of the ecliptic (often called a station or house) through which the moon moves in its orbit around the earth, often used by ancient cultures as part of their calendar system.

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a segment of the eliptic through which the moon moves


Hecuba

From Latin Hecuba, from Ancient Greek Ἑκάβη (Hekábē).

Hecabe (alternative)
Hekabe (alternative)

(Greek mythology) the wife of King Priam of Troy, the mother of Hector, Paris and Cassandra


Helenus

From Latin Helenus, from Ancient Greek Ἕλενος (Hélenos).

(Greek mythology) the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra.


Haemus

Borrowed from Latin Haemus, from Ancient Greek Αἷμος (Haîmos).

(Greek mythology) a king of Thrace, the son of Boreas, who was vain and haughty and compared himself and his wife to Zeus and Hera


Menelaus

From Latin Menelāus, from Ancient Greek Μενέλαος (Menélaos).

(Greek mythology) The king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, and the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War.


Hesperia

From Latin Hesperia, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερία (Hespería).

(Greek mythology) One of the Hesperides.


Hesperides

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From Latin Hesperides, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperídes).

(Greek mythology) A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.

(Greek mythology) The garden of the Hesperides.


Hesperid

(Greek mythology) any one of the Hesperides

Հեսպերիդ

any one of the Hesperide — see also Hesperides


Gordias

Borrowed from Latin Gordiās, from Ancient Greek Γορδίας (Gordías).

(Greek mythology) The name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia, the best-known of which was reputedly the founder of the Phrygian capital city Gordium, the maker of the legendary Gordian knot, and the father of the legendary king Midas.


roseness

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

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

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


flowerness

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

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

(philosophy) The quality of being a flower.


Keres

From Ancient Greek Κῆρες (Kêres, literally “Death Spirits, Doom, Heart”).

der

(Greek mythology) The goddesses of death, specifically cruel and violent deaths, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease. They numbered in the thousands and were the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, and the sisters of Thanatos and Hypnos. Their Roman counterparts were the Letum or the Tenebrae.


categorical proposition

en-noun

categorical proposition (plural categorical propositions)

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

mulisiping palagay

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


Afrasiab

Afrasiyab (alternative)
Afrasyab (alternative)

(Iranian mythology) A mythical king and hero of Turan.

[Book Pahlavi needed] (plʾsy̲d̲ʾp̄' /frāsiyāb/)


Chloris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χλωρίς (Khlōrís, literally “Greenfinch”), from χλωρός (khlōrós, “greenish-yellow, pale green”).

bor

(Greek mythology) A nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.


Karpos

From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, literally “Fruit”).

(Greek mythology) A god/personification of fruit.


Favonius

(Roman mythology) The god of the west wind. He is also the husband of Flora and the father of Karpos. He is the Roman counterpart of Zephyrus.


politruk

Borrowed from Russian политру́к (politrúk).

bor+

(communism, military) A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization; political commissar


Alala

From Ancient Greek Ἀλαλά (Alalá), from Ancient Greek ἀλαλή (alalḗ, literally “loud cry, war cry”).

der

(Greek mythology) A goddess, personification of the war cry/battle cry


Glaucus

From Ancient Greek Γλαῦκος (Glaûkos, from γλαυκός (glaukós, literally “greyish-blue, bluish-green, glimmering”)).

from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">γλαυκός</i> (glaukós, literally “greyish-blue, bluish-green, glimmering”)

(Greek mythology) A Greek prophetic sea-god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb. It was believed that he commonly came to the rescue of sailors and fishermen in storms, having once been one himself.

(Greek mythology) A mythical Lycian soldier and captain in the Trojan War.

(Greek mythology) Son of Sisyphus, and a mythical Corinthian king.

(Greek mythology) one of the sons of Priam.

(Greek mythology) One of the twelve younger Panes.


Taurine

Although it would seem that later Hindu Zodiacs began with the Ram also, established perhaps through Greek influence, yet early astromers testify to an ancient order in which Aquarius, on the banks of the Ganges, as in China, marked the Winter Solstice, an arrangement which as we have seen in our study of the "Yellow Way", would correspond to the Taurine Era of the Vernal Equinox.

1913, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, Popular Astronomy, volume 21, page 158:

Just as the world recently moved from a "Taurine Age" to a "Piscean Age," we are now in that hazy astrological area where the "Piscean Age" is ending and an "Aquarian Age" is beginning.

1990, Joyce Wilson, Canadian Book Review Annual, page 94:

Even within the code of such worship, the choice of a calf, redolent of the former zodiacal Taurine age, is an offensive and retardataire sign in the age of Ares and suggests spiritual and social reaction and cowardice.

1996, Trustees of Boston College, Religion and the Arts: A Journal from Boston College, volume 1, page 68:

(astrology) Of or pertaining to the zodiacal sign Taurus.


Stone space

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

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

topological space
topological space#English

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


posthumanism

en-noun

posthumanism (countable and uncountable, plural posthumanisms)

posthumanisms (plural)
post-humanism (alternative)

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


posthumanist

(philosophy) One who subscribes to posthumanism.


Meleagrian

en-adj

Meleagrian (comparative more Meleagrian, superlative most Meleagrian)

more Meleagrian (comparative)
most Meleagrian (superlative)

(Ancient Greek mythology) Of or relating to Meleager.


closed formula

en-noun

closed formula (plural closed formulas or closed formulae)

closed formulas (plural)
closed formulae (plural)

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


Herbrand universe

Herbrand universe (plural Herbrand universes)

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

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


Herbrand function

Herbrand function (plural Herbrand functions)

universal quantifier
universal quantifier

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


Skolem function

Skolem function (plural Skolem functions)

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

existential quantifier
existential quantifier

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


prenex normal form

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


Vígríðr

(Norse mythology) A plain that will be the site of a battle between the gods and Surtur during Ragnarok.


Wigrid

(Norse mythology, archaic) Vígríðr (plain that will be the site of a battle during Ragnarok)


techne

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

der

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


synechism

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

uder

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


Titanean

For Lightning she'd have strook: or by some Spell / The bold Titanean Brethren rais'd from Hell

1702, Edward Sherburne, The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher:

[The sandstone] is broken into immense angular fragments forty feet and less, in diameter, which lie about like the work of Titanean quarrymen.

1861, First biennial report of the progress of the geological survey of Michigan:

(mythology) Of the Titans, literally or figuratively.


Zagreus

(Greek mythology) An obscure figure in Greek mythology who, according to Orphic tradition, was the son of Zeus and Persephone who was destroyed by the Titans but reborn through the intervention of Zeus as Dionysus.


animal liberation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


animal liberationist

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


animal liberationist

en-noun

animal liberationist (plural animal liberationists)

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


Myrrha

From Latin Myrrha, from Ancient Greek Μύρρα (Múrrha).

Byblis lies motionless in mute desperation and her transformation is told only briefly, whereas Myrrha herself asks for her metamorphosis, gives a speech (10.483-7), and Ovid leads us step by step through her transformation (10.489-502).

1975, Karl Galinsky, Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects, page 89:

The resemblance between this Myrrhina and the Myrrha who seduces her father is all the greater in that in one of the versions of the myth of Adonis, his mother is transformed by metamorphosis into not a myrrh tree but a sprig of myrtle.

1977, Marcel Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology, page 63:

In the succeeding book, Ovid depicts another woman tortured by abnormal but not impossible passion: Myrrha, in love with her father, Cinyras.

2006, David M. Robinson, Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century, page 175:

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, who tricks her father into having sexual intercourse with her and escapes the king's wrath by being transformed into a myrrh tree, later giving birth to Adonis.

Smyrna

daughter of Cinyras and mother of Adonis


impredicative

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


thusness

thusness (countable and uncountable, plural thusnesses)

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


Lupercus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Lupercus.

Πὰν Λυκαῖος
Πὰν Λυκαῖος#Ancient_Greek

(Roman mythology) A god who protected flocks, in some sources identified with Faunus in the aspect of Innus, and by extension as the equivalent of the Greek Πὰν Λυκαῖος (Pàn Lukaîos, “Lycaean Pan”).


antirepresentationalist

(philosophy) One who opposes representationalism.


Balder

Sense 1 is borrowed from Old Norse Baldr.
Sense 2 is inherited from Old English Bealdhere (a male given name).

Baldr (alternative)
Baldur (alternative)

Among the Norse, the god Balder is the most closely associated with the solstices. In a myth that explains the actions of the midsummer and midwinter Sun, Balder, the son of the god Odin, was said to die at the hands of his evil brother, who wielded a mistletoe stake each summer solstice. He was reborn at the winter solstice, or what is still known in Germany as Mother Night (the 'mother' in question being the goddess who brings the new born Sun back into existence).

2005, A. Bhatnagar, William Charles Livingston, Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy, page 3:

It is difficult to understand how the author of The Traditions of the God Balder (Die Uberlieferungen vom Gone Balder) from 1920 in which he compared the Balder cult with earlier Mediterranean beliefs could come out so strongly in favor of Kossinna's ex Septentrione lux scarcely a decade later.

2008, Bernard Thomas Mees, The Science of the Swastika, page 175:

What he does not mention is that Balder is the Norse counterpart of Helios (the Greek forerunner of Sol); he was the god of light, son of Odin and Frigg, as Helios was the son of Hyperion and Theia.

2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, unnumbered page:

Balder, the radiant god of sunshine, reminds us not only of Apollo and Orpheus, but of all the other heroes of sun myths.

2010, H. A. Guerber, Hammer of Thor: Norse Mythology and Legends, page 246:

(Norse mythology) The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.


Astrape

From Ancient Greek ἀστραπή (astrapḗ, literally “lightning”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of lightning, sister of Bronte, and an attendant of Zeus. Her Roman counterpart is Fulgora.


Bronte

From Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) or Βρόντης (Bróntēs, “Thunderer, name of one of the cyclops”).

der

(Greek mythology) One of the Cyclops, who forged Zeus's thunderbolts.

(Greek mythology) The goddess personifying thunder.


Fulgora

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess/personification of lightning. She is the Roman counterpart of Astrape.


Thunor

Learned borrowing from Old English Þunor. Doublet of thunder.

lbor

The attributes of the most important deities of our distant ancestors, Tiw, Woden, and Thunor, whose names are perpetuated in those of three of our weekdays, are by no means clearly defined. It is not to be assumed that Woden and Thunor were identical with the Norse Odin and Thor, about whom more is known.

1962, John Godfrey, The Church in Anglo-Saxon England, page 63:

Thunor still survives in properly edited texts of Beowulf; on funeral stones, to ensure that the dead can rest in peace; on jewels and amulets as a charm; and he can even be spotted on a holy font 'perpetually preaching that the Christian soldier should FIGHT AS LEAST AS BRAVELY against Baseness as ever did the Hammer-wielder'.

2000, Andrew Wawn, The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain, page 232:

Many people consider Thunor to be the most approachable of the Saxon gods.

2009, Alaric Albertsson, Travels Through Middle Earth: The Path of a Saxon Pagan, page 27:

(mythology) An Old English deity identified with Thor and associated with Jupiter.


antigod

(mythology) A preternatural being opposed to the gods.


antirepresentational

en-adj

antirepresentational (comparative more antirepresentational, superlative most antirepresentational)

more antirepresentational (comparative)
most antirepresentational (superlative)


antirationalistic

antirationalistic (comparative more antirationalistic, superlative most antirationalistic)

more antirationalistic (comparative)
most antirationalistic (superlative)


antifoundational

antifoundational (comparative more antifoundational, superlative most antifoundational)

more antifoundational (comparative)
most antifoundational (superlative)


antiutopian

antiutopian (comparative more antiutopian, superlative most antiutopian)

more antiutopian (comparative)
most antiutopian (superlative)

(chiefly philosophy) Opposing utopian values.


antischolastic

antischolastic (comparative more antischolastic, superlative most antischolastic)

more antischolastic (comparative)
most antischolastic (superlative)


Cybele

From Latin Cybelē, from Ancient Greek Κυβέλη (Kubélē).

(Greek mythology) A mother goddess of the ancient peoples of Asia Minor.


Embla

(Norse mythology) The first female human in the Edda.


dianoia

Coordinate term: noesis

(philosophy) Discursive thought on mathematical or scientific subjects.


Fudō Myōō

(Japanese mythology) a guardian deity primarily revered in Vajrayana Buddhism as the principal of the Five Wisdom Kings, also known as Acala.


subtle body

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

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

(occult, parapsychology) The embodiment of the soul or mind; part of the bodymind of the human being in syncretic, esoteric philosophy.

(occult, theosophy) Those parts of the septenary, the 'seven principles of man' which constitute each human being, contrasted with the gross body, the physical human body.


naïve realism

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


masked man fallacy

en-noun

masked man fallacy (plural masked man fallacies)

masked man fallacies (plural)
masked-man fallacy (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


counterextension

counterextension (countable and uncountable, plural counterextensions)

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


alieve

en-verb

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

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

From alief, by analogy with belief and believe.

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

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

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


protogenos

From Ancient Greek πρωτόγονος (prōtógonos, “first-born”).

uder

(Greek mythology) Any of the first order of deities to come into existence, according to Greek cosmogony.


Eisa

(Norse mythology) A minor goddess, a daughter of Logi.


Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto

Borrowed from Japanese 大国主命 (Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good matches.


Toshigami

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The god of the coming year, celebrated at New Years.


Sanbō Kōjin

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen.


kodama

(Japanese mythology) A type of Japanese tree spirit.


Ōkuninushi

Borrowed from Japanese 大国主 (Ōkuninushi).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good love matches.


Helheim

(Norse mythology) The realm of the dead, (also known as Hel), the domain of the goddess Hel. Located beyond Niflheim, (one of the Nine Realms).


private language

en-noun

private language (plural private languages)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


private language argument

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

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


private language problem

private language problem (plural private language problems)

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


private language thesis

private language thesis (plural private language theses)

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


destructive sorites

destructive sorites (plural destructive sorites)

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

1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:

reductio ad absurdum
reductio ad absurdum

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


egology

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


evidentialism

evidentialism (countable and uncountable, plural evidentialisms)

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


artifactuality

artifactuality (countable and uncountable, plural artifactualities)

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

(philosophy) The quality of being artifactual.


Ersa

From Ancient Greek Ἕρσα (Hérsa, literally “Dew”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of the dew.


Argiope

(Greek mythology) Any one of several figures of Greek mythology.

A naiad, daughter of the river god Nilus, wife of Agenor and mother of Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix and Cilix.

In classical Greek mythology, Argiope was a NYMPH of Mount Parnassos in Phokis, central Greece. By the bard Philammon, she gave birth to an even greater musician, her son Thamyris.

2013, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, page 34:

A naiad, mother of Thamyris by Philammon and possibly daughter of the river god Cephissus.

A naiad of the town of Eleusis, mother of Cercyon by Branchus; sometimes identified with the above daughter of Cephissus.

A daughter of Teuthras, king of Teuthrania, who married Telephus, son of Heracles.


Bebhionn

From Irish Bébinn, seemingly from bean (“woman”) + binn (“melodious”). More at Bébinn.

(Irish mythology) A goddess of birth in Irish mythology.


Adrastea

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀδράστεια (Adrásteia, literally “inescapable”).

bor

(Greek mythology) The goddess of divine retribution


Thebe

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(Greek mythology) One of daughters of Zeus.


Himalia

(Greek mythology) A nymph, a mistress of Zeus.


Euporie

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess of abundance.


Euanthe

From Ancient Greek Εὐάνθη (Euánthē, from εὐ- (eu-, “good-, well-”) + άνθη (ánthē, “blossoms”)). Cognate with Evanthia.

bor

(Greek mythology) A goddess sometimes listed as the mother of the Graces.


Helike

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλίκη (Helíkē).

lbor

(Greek mythology) A nymph who took care of Zeus in his infancy on Crete.


Praxidike

(Greek mythology) The goddess of judicial punishment and the exactor of vengeance.


Hermippe

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Boeotus. She was married to Orchomenus but had a son with Poseidon.


Thyone

(Greek mythology) Semele, mother of Dionysus.


Taygete

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ταϋγέτη (Taügétē).

bor+

(Greek mythology) One of the Pleiades (daughters of Atlas and Pleione).


Eurydome

(Greek mythology) The mother of the Graces by Zeus.


Pasithee

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Pasithea


Sinope

From Latin Sinope, from Ancient Greek Σινώπη (Sinṓpē), from Hittite 𒅆𒉡𒉿 (Šinuwa).


Kiviuq

(mythology) A legendary hero in Inuit epics.


Ijiraq

(mythology) A monster in Inuit mythology.


Bergelmir

From the Old Norse name; the second element means "yeller," from the verb *gallmr, from Proto-Germanic *galmaz (“echo”). The first element has been variously interpreted as berg (“mountain”), berr (“bare”), and a variant of bjǫrn (“bear”).

(Norse mythology) A frost giant in Norse mythology.


Hati

(Norse mythology, patronymised Hróðvitnisson) The vargr (giant wolf) who chases Máni (the Moon) across the night sky until Ragnarök, when he will swallow Máni; son of Fenrir and brother of Sköll.


Surtur

From Old Norse Surtr (“the swarthy one”).

(Muspelheim, we suppose, with its numerous fiery inhabitants, and their mighty chief Surtur, the dark, the incomprehensible, the great evil principle, had no beginning; or if it had, the Odinian theologians were unacquainted with it.)

1839, Samuel Astley Dunham, History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, volume 2, page 44:

1847 [1770], Paul Henri Mallet, Thomas Percy (translator), I. A. Blackwell, Walter Scott (editors), Northern Antiquities, [1756, Paul Henri Mallet, Monuments de la mythologie et de la poesie des Celtes, et particulierement des anciens Scandinaves], page 496,
We must also remark, that in the Eddaic Poems there is no mention made of Surtur and the Elves of Light existing in Muspellheim previous to the formation of Ymir, […] .

In Journey into Mystery #97 (1963), writer/editor Stan Lee and artist/cc-plotter Jack Kirby introduced their version of Surtur, one of the greatest enemies of the gods in Norse mythology.

2006, Gina Renée Misiroglu, Michael Eury, The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood, page not identified:

(Norse mythology) A very powerful jotun (giant) and chief of Muspellheim, described in the Eddas as wielding a flaming (or shining) sword and as battling the gods and killing Freyr during Ragnarok.


Ymir

(Norse mythology) The first creature to come into being and the ancestor of all jötnar. Upon his death, the gods fashioned the world from his body.


Galatea

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Acis and Galatea (mythology)
Galatea
Galatea, New Zealand
Leucippus (daughter of Galatea)

/ˌɡæləˈtiːə/

(Greek mythology) Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.

(Greek mythology) Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.

(Greek mythology) Galatea; name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion.


Neso

(Greek mythology) Any of various figures in Greek mythology. See Neso (mythology).


Drighten

(historical, mythology) Alternative form of drighten.


fascistization

Felter Sartori’s colonial travelogue marks an important moment in the process of fascistization of Italian colonial discourse in general and of women’s discursive practice in particular.

2005, Cristina Lombardi‐Diop, “Pioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa”, in Ruth Ben‐Ghiat, Mia Fuller, editors, Italian Colonialism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 151:

This rupture emerged through a challenge to the status quo on a global scale and was followed by the fascistization of the Japanese polity through the incorporation of new forms of corporatism, militarism, and authoritarianism, as suggested by the ‘rejectionists’, but whose sum went well beyond any single one of these features.

2017 June 8, Louise Young, “When fascism met empire in Japanese-occupied Manchuria*”, in Journal of Global History, volume 12, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 279:

(fascism) The process of making or becoming fascist.


meanable

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

(chiefly philosophy) Capable of being meant.


intendable

(chiefly philosophy) Capable of being intended.


creative destruction

Calque of German schöpferische Zerstörung, popularized by economist Joseph Schumpeter.

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Like all major industrial advances, the telecomputer is an instrument of creative destruction. All the likely victims are mobilizing to prevent their own destruction. It is unsure how soon the creators will win.

1990, George F. Gilder, Life After Television, page 37:

There may be additional explanations for the acceleration of structural economic change. What counts, however, is the result: Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’ – the displacement of old skills, trades and entire industries with their dependent localities, by more efficient new skills, trades and entire industries – is now apt to span years, often very few years, rather than generations.

1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books, volume 16, number 07, →ISSN:

If creative destruction allows fast economic growth without generating serious inflation, then it might make sense, for example, to put high values on the shares of companies that will do well in such an unusual environment.

2000 June 10, Sharon Reier, “Half a Century Later, Economist's 'Creative Destruction' Theory Is Apt for the Internet Age”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

Creative destruction, the term coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe the workings of innovation and technology, justly became a buzzword of the New Economy. Many new companies have been created; almost as many will be destroyed.

2001 June 20, Daniel Gross, “Creative Destruction and the Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

New-media thinkers, with their appetite for disintermediation and creative destruction, implicitly endorse and advance this transformation.

2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

More than the much-remarked squeeze on working-class jobs in areas of the economy such as manufacturing, [Edward] Luttwak saw an accelerated “creative destruction” affecting clerical jobs in white-collar data-heavy industries such as banking that were being disrupted by capital's “Schumpeteresque” technology-assisted modernisation as they were digitised.

2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:

(economics, capitalism) The process of industrial mutation that continually revolutionizes the economic structure from within.


psychophysical parallelism

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


couchness

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


kourotrophic

(Greek mythology) Relating to the goddess Kourotrophos.


ageless sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdman Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, where-in the recipient is placed in a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.


eternal sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdmann Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.


OOO

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

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

object-oriented ontology
w:object-oriented ontology

(philosophy) Initialism of object-oriented ontology.


Aetna

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From the Latin Aetna, from either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aith-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *ai-dh, from *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”). Doublet of Etna.

(Greek mythology and Roman mythology) A nymph in Sicily who, according to legend, gave her name to the volcanic Mount Etna.


Phaedra

Euripides
Hippolytus (play)
Jean Racine
Phaedra (Seneca)
Phaedra (mythology)
Phèdre
Seneca the Younger

From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā).
The myth has been retold several times, in plays (in classical times in Euripides's Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's Phaedra, later in Racine's Phèdre), and more recently in other media.

We notice that Racine's Phaedra, like Euripides', displays high moral dignity because she considers her passion for Hippolytus to be abominable.

1981, Normand Berlin, The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy, page 46:

Why did Seneca decide to postpone his own Phaedra’s suicide until after Hippolytus' death? The question is by no means as futile as it may sound.

1993, Albert S. Gérard, The Phaedra Syndrome: Of Shame and Guilt in Drama, page 20:

I may add that the notion that Aphrodite is especially cruel because she destroyed Phaedra, who was an innocent victim, since she had no choice, is not a perception that would have been shared by the ancient audience. Not only is it at the very least arguable—in fact likely—that in ancient eyes Phaedra did have a choice,¹⁶⁶ but also the very notions "innocent victim since she had no choice" and "cruel because destroying an innocent victim" are unstable cultural concepts.

2003, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion, page 331:

(Greek mythology) The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).


Asclepiades

From Ancient Greek Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asklēpiádēs).

(Greek mythology) A child of Asclepius and Epione (or Aristodama).


Aegle

From Ancient Greek Αἴγλη (Aíglē, literally “brightness, gleam, glow, radiance, splendour—usually referring to the past”).

lbor

(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of good health and the glow of health, one of the daughters of Asclepius.


egregore

egregores (plural)
egregor (alternative)

From French égrégore (“spirit of a group”), from the Ancient Greek substantive of ἐγρήγορος (egrḗgoros, “wakeful”) meaning watcher, angel in the Book of Enoch.

In magical esoteric circles an egregore is commonly understood to be a magical psychic entity consciously or unconsciously created by a couple or a group as an encapsulation and merger of their collective aspirations and ideals.

2013, Anaiya Sophia, Sacred Sexual Union: The Alchemy of Love, Power, and Wisdom:

(occult) An autonomous psychic entity that is composed of, and influences, the thoughts of a group of people.


dahu

Perhaps still sore at being called crétins des Alpes by lowlanders, the Savoyards, in the early days of mass tourism, would sometimes take gullible visitors on dahu hunts. These entailed all-night vigils out in the open, where the would-be trophy hunter had to crouch and hide so as not to be seen by the sharp-eyed dahu.

2017, Stephen O'Shea, The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

(mythology) A legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.


Fomorian

Probably Old Irish fo- (“under”) + mor, mur (“ocean”).

(Irish mythology, mythology) A member of the semi-divine race that were said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Fomorian

(Irish mythology) Of or relating to the race of semi-divine creatures said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Fuxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the modern Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 伏羲 (Fúxī), variously understood and treated as a solar god, protoplast, culture hero, legendary emperor, and protohistorical tribal chief or as an imperial or prehistoric dynasty (氏, shì) in China before the Xia. The two characters may be phonetic but have the meaning "concealed from", "submitting to", or "prostrate before" 羲 (xī), a character that also appears in the name of the early solar goddess 羲和 (“Xīhé”), q.v.

Fu Xi (alternative)
Fu Hsi (alternative dated)
Fu-hsi (alternative dated)
Fo Hi (alternative obsolete)
Fo-hi (alternative obsolete)
Fo-Hi (alternative obsolete)
Fo-Hsi (alternative obsolete)
Fo-hsi (alternative obsolete)
Fou Hi (alternative obsolete)
Fou-hi (alternative obsolete)

The Chineſe ſay that Fo-hi, the Founder of their Monarchy, fix’d his Court in this Province; and began his Reign about the Year 2952, according to ſome Authors, whoſe Opinion if true confirms the Chronology of the Septuagint.

[1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE VII. HO-NAN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, page 102:

(Chinese mythology) A legendary ancient Chinese ruler and culture hero, typically the brother of Nüwa.


The Fish

(astronomy, astrology) Synonym of Pisces


Ophiotaurus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀφιόταυρος (Ophiótauros, “cow-serpent”).

bor

(Greek mythology) A mythical creature, part bull and part serpent.


Logos

Fjala

(Christianity) the word of God as incarnate

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

logos

rational principle in Ancient Greek philosophy


do no harm

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, consider the moral minimum, do no harm.

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ianthe

From Ancient Greek Ἰάνθη (Iánthē, literally “purple/violet flower”).

der

(Greek mythology) One of the 3,000 Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.

(Greek mythology) The Cretan girl who married Iphis after Isis turned Iphis from a woman into a man.


Arethusa

/ˌæɹɪˈθjuːzə/

From Ancient Greek Ἀρέθουσα (Aréthousa, literally “The Waterer”).

uder

(Greek mythology) A nereid nymph, who became a fountain.

(Greek mythology) One of the Hesperides nymphs.


Antiope

90 Antiope
Antiope (Amazon)
Antiope (mother of Amphion)

(Greek mythology) An Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe and Hippolyte, (and possibly Orithyia), queens of the Amazons,. She was the wife of Theseus, and the only Amazon known to have married.

(Greek mythology) The daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus, according to Homer.

Antíope

the daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus


Thisbe

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of a pair of ill-fated lovers, whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses.


Klytia

(Greek mythology) An Oceanid, who was known for her unrequited love for Helios.


Feronia

(Roman mythology) A Roman goddess of wildlife, fertility, health and abundance.


Panopaea

(Greek mythology) two of the Nereids. Panope is also the name of one of the daughters of Thespius and Megamede and mother of Heracles' son, Threpsippas.


Danae

(Greek mythology) The mother of Perseus by Zeus.


Elpis

From Ancient Greek Ἐλπίς (Elpís, literally “Hope”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of hope.


Concordia

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Concordia
Concordia (mythology)

(Roman mythology) The goddess of harmony and concord. She is the Roman equivalent to Harmonia.


Melete

Translingual: Melete

From Latin Melete, from Ancient Greek Μελέτη (Melétē).

(Greek mythology) The Muse of meditation, one of the three original Boeotian muses.


Nysa

(Greek mythology) A mythical land in Greek Mythology.


Pales

(Roman mythology) The deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock in Roman mythology.


Mellona

(Roman mythology) The goddess of bees, and honey.


Aristaeus

/æɹɪˈsteɪəs/

/æɹɪˈstiːəs/

/əˈɹiːstɪəs/

From Ancient Greek Ἀρισταῖος (Aristaîos, literally “Most Excellent, Most Useful”).

bor

Aristæus (alternative obsolete)
Aristaios (alternative)
Aristeus (alternative)

(Greek mythology) A minor god of rustic, rural arts such as beekeeping, herding and hunting.


Tyche

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τύχη (Túkhē), from τύχη (túkhē, “fortune”). Compare Latin Tychō.

The goddess Tyche was a very important deity in the Hellenistic world.¹⁵ "She was not blind chance, but some order of affairs that men could not comprehend."¹⁹ Tyche played her part in great events and in small ones[…].

1933, Richard Mansfield Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus, Johns Hopkins Press, page 12:

2000, Terence L. Donaldson (editor), Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 113,
At Caesarea, several gems depicting a Tyche, as well as a possible statue of Tyche found at Caesarea, show attributes of Isis.

(Greek mythology, in the singular) The goddess of luck/fortune; counterpart of the Roman Fortuna.


Stheno

Ancient Greek Σθενώ (Sthenṓ, literally “forceful”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The eldest and most ferocious of the gorgons.


Pistis

From Ancient Greek Πίστις (Pístis) from Ancient Greek πίστις (pístis, “faith, trust”).

(Greek mythology) A goddess personifying trust, faith and trustworthiness, corresponding to Roman Fides.


Dies

(Roman mythology) One of the Protogenoi, the Protogenos personification of day. She is the daughter of fellow Protogenoi, Nox/Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness), and sister-wife of Aether. She is the Roman counterpart of Hemera.


semifactual

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

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


phren

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

der

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

(philosophy, historical) The brain or mind.


becauseness

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

1964, Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation:

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

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

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


demihuman

No wonder Columbus was dubious. Though perfectly charming, in a Droopy-esque way. it would take a lot of imagination (or desperation) to convert this into a demihuman sex siren.

1986, BBC Wildlife, volumes 4-5, page 393:

Halflings look upon other demihuman and humanoid races as stock for the stew pot.

1991, Roger E. Moore, Dragon Magazine, TSR, →ISBN:

In the AD&D game, humans are more motivated by ambition and the desire for power than the demihuman races are. Thus, humans advance further and more quickly. Demihumans can attain significant levels in certain classes, but they do not ...

1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Steven E. Schend, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, TSR:

In one version we learn that the people who built Nan Madol settled at the site because they were "constantly afraid of the people of the center of Pohnpei," both the various demihuman, cannibalistic creatures and "real people" who resided ...

1995, Isla: A Journal of Micronesian Studies:

... fact from the moment he first lays eyes on the demihuman M'ling, before he has any notion of Moreau or his surgical feats. "I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet — if the contradiction is credible — I ...

2002, Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy, →ISBN:

We can watch this happen, on page and screen, in werewolves. We can safely say that the werewolf is a widespread figure, not exclusive to European mythology. But it is also not a generic manifestation of the global demihuman.

2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 207:

features of a thousand faces upon that awful head: human faces, demihuman, reptilian, serpentine, batrachian, vulpine. […]and many others for which I have no ready descriptive terms.

2009, Brian Stableford, The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 89:

Demihumans, like . . . yourself . . . the vampires . . . orcs, dwarves, trolls, demons, pixies, all of them have a stake in the fate of humanity . . .”

2010, Marc Mattaliano, The Demihuman Archives, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 120:

(fantasy, mythology) A member of a human-like race; in fantasy, sometimes distinguished from the more bestial humanoid races.


Erebos

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos).

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Erebus


Eumolpus

Translingual: Eumolpus

(Greek mythology) The son of Poseidon and Chione, who became one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the founders of the Eleusinian Mysteries.


skinwalking

(folklore, mythology) In certain Native American mythologies, the ability to transform into any animal when wearing its pelt.


Fames

(Roman mythology) A goddess who is a personification of famine and hunger. She is the Roman counterpart of Limos.


world egg

2009, David A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z, page 183:

With this shaping of chaos into a world-egg, or earth-sphere, arises then, according to the representation of these cosmogonies, the first being, the 'first-born,' or the first man.
In Africa a Dogon myth says that in the beginning, a world egg divided into two birth sacs, containing sets of twins fathered by the creator god, Amma, on the maternal egg.

1868, Johann Peter Lange, Genesis, Or, the First Book of Moses, page 181:

The Mande people say that in the beginning the creator placed various kinds of seed in the world egg.

2010, David Adams Leeming, Creation Myths of the World: Parts I-II, page 313:

(mythology) A mythological motif, found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations, of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is "hatched".


ayanamsa

ayanamsas (plural)
ayanamsha (alternative)

(Vedic astrology) The amount of precession.


Xuthus

(Greek mythology) A son of Hellen and Orseis, and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations.


ratio formalis

en-noun

ratio formalis (plural rationes formales)

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

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


Óðr

From Proto-Germanic *wōþuz (“rage, manic inspiration, furor poeticus”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet-. Cognate with Old English wod and German Wut.

der

(Norse mythology) In Norse mythology, the husband of Freya and father of Hnoss and Gersemi.


metavariable

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

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

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

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

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


wolfwoman

(fantasy, mythology) A female werewolf or female lycanthrope.


Ullr

2013, Samantha-Rae Tuthill, Where Did Old Man Winter, Jack Frost Come From?. Accuweather.com.
"For the Norse mythologies, Ullr was the god of winter. Son of a frost giant, he would rule Asgard in Odin's absence in the winter."

2014, Norse Mythology for Smart People, Ullr
"...Ullr is an excellent archer, hunter, skater, and skier, handsome, warlike, and an especially apt deity to invoke before a duel."

"Ullr is a very old god of the northern lands, so old that by the time the Iron Age Norse myths were written down, not much more was known about him except that he was a god of archery, hunting, and the winter."

2014, Raven Kaldera, Ullr Lord of Winter:

(Norse mythology) An Áss associated with archery and skiing; the stepson of Thor.


sciapod

To the modern viewer, though, it is the weirdness that most enthrals: the rich, demonic and comical features, like the sciapod – a man deploying his single swollen foot to shield himself from the sun.

2012, Simon Garfield, On the Map, Profile Books, page 48:

(Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of humans living in Africa, who have one single, large foot which they use to shade themselves from the rays of the sun.

ciápode

a member of a mythical African race, who have a single, large foot


ultimism

Introduced by Canadian philosopher J. L. Schellenberg.

Schellenberg's thinking on religion begins with what he calls “ultimism.” “Ultimism,” for him, is the claim that: There is a metaphysically and axiologically ultimate reality (one representing both the deepest fact about the nature of things and the greatest possible value), in relation to which an ultimate good can be attained.

2017, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Religious Genius: Appreciating Inspiring Individuals Across Traditions:

(religion, philosophy) The quasireligious proposition that there is some ultimate phenomenon that is the source of good.


conservative extension

en-noun

conservative extension (plural conservative extensions)

(mathematics, logic) An extension of a logical theory such that every theorem expressible in the original theory is also derivable within the original theory.


Seshat

From the Ancient Egyptian šsꜣ "scribe" + feminine determinative t; šsꜣ.t "female scribe".

Safkhet (alternative)
Sesat (alternative)
Seshata (alternative)
Seshet (alternative)
Sesheta (alternative)

Seshat represents the organizational capacity of keeping records—knowledge, information, etc.
Seshat is depicted carrying the reed pen and palette, and records deeds in eternity/space, i.e. memory. As such, Seshat is referred to as: The Enumerator, Lady of Writing(s), Scribe, Head of the House of the Divine Books (Archives), Lady of Builders...

2001, Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are the One, page 50:

The link between the measurement of space and measurement of time is also clear from early periods in the activities of the goddess Seshat, the goddess associated with the foundation ceremony, during which the orientation of buildings was established.

2010, Kate Spence, “Establishing direction in early Egyptian burials and monumental architecture”, in Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew, editors, The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies, page 176:

At least eight separate Egyptologists, in addition to myself, have suggested that the ancient Egyptians directly identified Seshat as a form or aspect of Nebt-het (101).

2010, Tamara L. Siuda, Nebt-het: Lady of the House, 2nd edition, page 14:

The most important of these scenes shows the king leaving his palace with the goddess of writing, Seshat, in order to lay out the foundations for the temple.

2010, Zahi A. Hawass, Wonders of the Horus Temple: The Sound and Light of Edfu, page 8:

(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian goddess of writing and wisdom, often depicted as a scribe or recordkeeper.


Sokar

Seker (alternative)
Socharis (alternative)
Sokaris (alternative)

(Egyptian mythology) An Ancient Egyptian hawk god of the Memphite necropolis.


Vertumnus

Vertimnus (alternative)
Vortumnus (alternative)

(Roman mythology) The Ancient Roman god of seasons, change, and plant growth, capable of changing his form at will.


one-to-many

"Being a genetic mother of" is a one-to-many relation from the set of cats to the set of cats.

(mathematics, logic, of a relationship between two sets) Having the property that an element of one set may be assigned by the relationship to several elements in the other set, but that a given element in the second set can have only one member of the first set assigned to it.


many-to-one

(mathematics, logic, of a relationship between two sets) Having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to one element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can be assigned by only one member of the second set.


many-to-many

"Is a fellow citizen with" is a many-to-many relationship on the set of people (from the set of people to the set of people).

(mathematics, logic, of a relationship between two sets) Having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to any element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can also be assigned more than one member of the second set.


axiogenesis

Representing a hypothetical Ancient Greek etymon of the form *ἀξιογένεσις (*axiogénesis, “generation according to value”), coined from the extant roots ἀξία (axía, “worth, value, also estimate of [a thing’s] worth”) + γένεσις (génesis, “production, generation, coming into being, creation, formation, origination”).

compound

worth, value, also estimate of 􂀿a thing’s􂁀 worth

/ˌæksɪəˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/

(philosophy) A form of metaphysical optimism in which the state of affairs actually obtains which is the one most favourable (of all possible states of affairs) to the development of intelligence and the interests of intelligent beings.


monadic second-order logic

en-noun

monadic second-order logic (countable and uncountable, plural monadic second-order logics)

universe of discourse
universe of discourse

(logic) A formal deductive system which extends first-order logic by the ability to quantify over unary predicates over individual members of the universe of discourse.


elementary equivalence

elementary equivalence (plural elementary equivalences)

(logic) A relation between two structures which have the property that every first-order formula is valid in one structure if and only if it is valid in the other.


womanifesto

womanifesto (plural womanifestos or womanifestoes)

womanifestos (plural)
womanifestoes (plural)

Two centuries later, feminist literary critics analyzed these feminist polemics, or womanifestos, as texts that embody a struggle between reason and emotion.

2002, Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself, page 28:

On that date, whatever else we demonstrate, let us not fear to demonstrate by our presentation of womanifestos everywhere that feminism has universal potential and imperatives.

1992, Contemporary American Voices, page 316:


smallfolk

(fantasy, mythology) Small humanoid creatures, such as gnomes and halflings.


Hawaiki

Borrowed from Maori Hawaiki, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki, Doublet of Hawaii and Savai'i.

(mythology) The original home of the Māori, before they travelled across the sea to New Zealand. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories.


Midgardian

(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Midgard


Midgardian

en-adj

Midgardian (comparative more Midgardian, superlative most Midgardian)

more Midgardian (comparative)
most Midgardian (superlative)


Asgardian

(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Asgard


Asgardian

Asgardian (comparative more Asgardian, superlative most Asgardian)

more Asgardian (comparative)
most Asgardian (superlative)


Alectryon

And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.

1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:

(Greek mythology) A youth charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite. He fell asleep and was transformed into a rooster as punishment.


neocriticism

(philosophy) A philosophy that rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories


neocriticist

(philosophy) A proponent of neocriticism


Stirnerian

Stirnerian (comparative more Stirnerian, superlative most Stirnerian)

more Stirnerian (comparative)
most Stirnerian (superlative)

(philosophy) Relating to or characteristic of the German philosopher Max Stirner (1806–1856).


platformism

From platform + -ism, after the 1926 Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists draft.

(anarchism) An anarchist tendency stressing the need for organizations that can influence working-class and peasant movements through ideological and tactical unity, collective responsibility, and federalism.


matristic

matristic (comparative more matristic, superlative most matristic)

more matristic (comparative)
most matristic (superlative)

(feminism) Being or relating to a prehistoric female-led society based around Mother Goddess worship.


projectionism

(philosophy) The idea that individuals form an idea of the external world by projecting their own internal beliefs onto it.


aracial

(sociology, philosophy) Without race or race distinctions.


quodlibetical

(philosophy) Of or relating to quodlibet; of a question, posed extemporaneously.


liar paradox

liar paradoxes (plural)
liar's paradox (alternative)

Graham Priest has argued the liar paradox is a true dialetheia.

(philosophy, logic) A paradox involving statements such as "this sentence is false", or "the following statement is true: the previous statement is false", which cannot be meaningfully regarded as either true or false.


principle of Pseudo-Scotus

principle of explosion
principle of explosion


antinominalism

(philosophy) A doctrine that is counter to nominalism

antinominalismo

a doctrine that is counter to nominalism


antinominalist

(philosophy) A supporter of the philosophy of antinominalism.


evaluativism

Most who have argued for evaluativism have been interested in establishing skepticism, and have assumed that evaluativism implied skepticism.

1989, Raymond Martin, The Past Within Us: An Empirical Approach to Philosophy of History, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 97:

[E]valutivism makes plain that any attempt to justify a rule (ultimately by a rule-circular argument) will be an attempt for rules we value and will depend on rules we value (our basic inferential rules).

2007, Stathis Psillos, “Putting a Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of van Fraassen's New Epistemology”, in Bradley Monton, editor, Images of empiricism: essays on science and stances, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 154:

There is prima facie something deeply unappealing about evaluativism: our intuitions rebel at the suggestion that reasonableness is 'not a factual property' and that '[i]n calling a rule reasonable we are evaluating it, and all that makes sense to ask about is what we value'.

2008, Carrie S Jenkins, Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

(epistemology) The belief that certain disagreements (even about facts) ultimately stem from differing values, and therefore cannot be resolved as factual disagreements.


Eumenides

From Ancient Greek Εὐμενίδες (Eumenídes, “gracious ones”).


wertrational

en-adj

wertrational (comparative more wertrational, superlative most wertrational)

more wertrational (comparative)
most wertrational (superlative)

Borrowed from German wertrational. Used by Max Weber.

(philosophy, of an action) Pursued because of reasons or motives intrinsic to the actor.


zweckrationality

(philosophy) Quality of being zweckrational.


wertrationality

(philosophy) Quality of being wertrational.


antireductionist

(philosophy) A proponent of antireductionism


reism

(philosophy) A form of concretism stating that (i) every object is a body and (ii) no object is a state or relation, or property.


nondifference

en-noun

nondifference (countable and uncountable, plural nondifferences)

(philosophy, uncountable) Absence of difference.


Philomela

From Latin Philomela, from Ancient Greek Φιλομήλη (Philomḗlē), from φίλος (phílos, “love”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; fruit; sheep”), but folk-etymologized since at least Ovid's time as "lover of song".

affix

(Greek mythology) the sister of Procne who is raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus and supposedly transformed into a bird by the gods.


Mímir

From Old Norse Mímir, meaning “the rememberer” or “the wise one”.

(Norse mythology) A figure in Norse mythology renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, beheaded during the Æsir-Vanir War, after which Odin receives secret knowledge and counsel from the severed head.


human enhancement

en-noun

human enhancement (countable and uncountable, plural human enhancements)

(philosophy) A social philosophy which advocates for the use of technology or natural means to overcome the limitations of the human body.


Agarthan

en-adj

Agarthan (comparative more Agarthan, superlative most Agarthan)

more Agarthan (comparative)
most Agarthan (superlative)

(mythology) Of or relating to the legendary city of Agartha.


Agarthan

(mythology) A native or inhabitant of Agartha.


Laelaps

(Greek mythology) A dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting.


Levana

(Roman mythology) An Ancient Roman goddess involved in rituals relating to childbirth.


meantness

Mere meantness as the correlate of the relation between judging and the proposition marks the situation in which such meantness has yet to be confirmed or denied.

2012, Marcus Brainard, Belief and Its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I:

(philosophy) The state or quality of being meant or intended.


antilogism

(logic) A false syllogism in which two premises contradict the third


antisubjectivism

(philosophy) Any philosophy opposed to subjectivism


Endymion

Endymion
Endymion (poem)
John Keats
Sebastiano Ricci

The heavenly bodies may keep their secrets two or three thousand years yet; but one or other of them will betray them to some wakeful favorite, some Endymion beyond Latmos, perhaps in regions undiscovered, certainly in uncalculated times.

a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, published 1905, page 82:

(Greek mythology) A man described variously as a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king, who was loved by Selene or Artemis (the two being often conflated) and was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis, as well as venerated and said to reside in Caria, southwest Asia Minor, on Mount Latmus.


anthropometrism

(philosophy) The philosophical doctrine founded on the principle of Protagoras that man (humanity) is the measure of all things


Aramaneak

Transliteration of Old Armenian Արամանեակ (Aramaneak).

translit

Armenak (alternative)
Aramanyak (alternative)

(Armenian mythology) A legendary patriarch of the Armenian nation, the eldest son of Hayk.


noneism

From none + -ism, coined by Richard Routley.

(logic, metaphysics) The theory that some things do not exist, and it is possible to quantify over non-existent things using the particular or existential quantifier.


cowalker

(mythology) A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.


ergon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon). Doublet of erg and work.
In philosophy, the word is loaned in its capacity as a technical term in Aristotelianism, in English usage following Alexander Grant, The Ethics of Aristotle (1857).
In classical thermodynamics, the term is coined as translating German Werk. Rudolf Clausius (1864) made a technical distinction between Werk and Arbeit, both translating to English "work", and suggested Ergon for the purposes of the translation of his terminology into other modern languages.
The author has used the German word Werk, which is almost synonymous with Arbeit, but proposes the term Ergon as more suitable for introduction into other languages. The Greek word ἔργον is so closely allied to the English word work, that both are quite well suited to designate two magnitudes which are essentially the same, but measured according to different units.
—T.A.H.", T. A. Hirst (trans.), The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867), Appendix A. to Sixth Memoir [1864], "On Terminology" (translator's note), p. 254.

blockquote

T.A.H.", T. A. Hirst (trans.), The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867), Appendix A. to Sixth Memoir 􂀿1864􂁀, "On Terminology" (translator's note), p. 254.

"O where is that humming stuff now / With Irish 'vis' and 'vir' gone? / We haven't brain enough now / For Aristotle's ergon!"

(Classical philosophy) A task or function of a creature.


Neo-Kantianism

(philosophy) A revived philosophy along the lines of that laid down by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, or more specifically by Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy in his work The World as Will and Representation (1818), as well as by other post-Kantian philosophers. It has some more specific reference in later German philosophy.


Dao

From the pinyin romanization of Chinese 道 (dào, literally “The Way”).

(Chinese philosophy) Alternative form of Tao (“the way of nature, or ideal way to live one's life”)


cosmic egg

Some say that Amma was the cosmic egg and fertilized himself.

2009, David A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z, page 183:


thread of life

threads of life (plural)
lifethread (alternative)
life thread (alternative)

(Greek mythology) A metaphor for a person’s lifespan, as generated by Clotho, measured out by Lachesis, and terminated by Atropos.

livstråd

metaphor for the lifespan of an individual


athanatism

But its roots were destroyed when Copernicus refuted the geocentric theory in 1545; and athanatism became quite untenable when Darwin shattered the dogma of anthropocentricism.

1904, Ernst Haeckel, Wonders of life, page 66:


serpopard

(Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology) A mythical animal resembling a serpent-necked leopard, known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian depictions.


switching function

en-noun

switching function (plural switching functions)

Boolean function
Boolean function#English


autoctisis

A neologism based on the Ancient Greek roots αὐτός (autós, “self”) + κτῐ́σῐς (ktĭ́sĭs, “creation”), introduced by Giovanni Gentile.

compound

(theology, philosophy) The “pure act” of self-creation through being conscious of oneself.


Nephthys

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νέφθυς (Néphthus), from Egyptian nbt-ḥwt, O9 t:H8

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Set and sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, worshiped as a protective goddess and nurse of the pharaoh and associated with funerary rites and the transition from life to death.

Νέφθυς

ancient Egyptian funerary and protective goddess


contrapose

en-verb

contrapose (third-person singular simple present contraposes, present participle contraposing, simple past and past participle contraposed)

contraposes (present singular third-person)
contraposing (participle present)
contraposed (participle past)
contraposed (past)

We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language.

2005, Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking, →ISBN, page 214:

To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements.

2006, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 461:

But subjunctive conditionals do not contrapose, and we are misled into accepting a sensitivity condition by confusing it with a safety condition.

2015, Ernest Sosa, Judgment and Agency, →ISBN, page 120:

(transitive, logic) To place in contraposition.


contraposed

Inductive extrapolation, in effect, is grounded in the contraposed universal generalisation 'where the reason, so the target.'

2001, Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason, →ISBN, page 118:


antiteleological

en-adj

antiteleological (comparative more antiteleological, superlative most antiteleological)

more antiteleological (comparative)
most antiteleological (superlative)


antinaturalistic

antinaturalistic (comparative more antinaturalistic, superlative most antinaturalistic)

more antinaturalistic (comparative)
most antinaturalistic (superlative)

(philosophy, sociology) Of or relating to antinaturalism; opposing naturalism.


law of identity

The law of identity states that an apple is an apple.

(logic) The logical principle that anything equals itself, expressed by the symbolic equation A=A.


woman-born-woman

women-born-women (plural)
womyn-born-womyn (alternative)
WBW (alternative)

Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.

To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.

(feminism) A cisgender woman; a cis woman.


adlet

Adlets are wont to hunt on all fours, and so were born stories of giant black dogs that accost travelers.

2006, Aaron Rosenberg, Various, Chosen RPG, Impressions, →ISBN:

An adlet is part-human and part-canine, […]. They can be cannibals, eating other dogs. When they first hunt prey they go for the victim's throat and drink the fresh blood.

2012, Lisa Regan, Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies, Amber Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:

... that one of their ancestors has been married to a dog and that they have canine blood in their veins. This does not mean, of course, that they can transform themselves into an Adlet or that they enjoy any special protection from its attentions.

2016, Dr. Bob Curran, Andy Paciorek, The Carnival Of Dark Dreams, →ISBN, page 56:

"We could mate with humans, but then we'd have to expose our existence, and there's no guarantee that the baby will be an adlet." She cleared her throat. "Of course, I'd love a human baby just as much as an adlet, but we need more halflings […]"
[…]
The dogs mated with other dogs and stayed in their canine form, but the halflings mated with both humans and dogs and so the adlets continued to spread across the land, always evolving. Some adlet families are more human than dog, ...

2019, Laura Greenwood, Skye MacKinnon, Under the Ice, Peryton Press:

(cryptozoology, mythology) A cryptid in Inuit mythology and folklore in Canada and Greenland, a tall, dog-legged humanoid (sometimes identified with inland Native Americans).


law of nontriviality

Aristotle argued the law of non-triviality was an inevitable belief for all people because denying it is not possible if a person is going to behave in a discriminating way.

(logic) The rule that states that not all propositions are true, the opposite of trivialism.


BUF

(fascism) Initialism of British Union of Fascists. (A political group of the 1930s.)


will to power

Yet the driving force of the whole process from humblest plant to possible superman is will to power, will not to be, but to be more.

1915 April, William Mackintire Salter, “Nietzsche's Moral Aim and Will to Power”, in International Journal of Ethics, volume 25, number 3, page 377:

(philosophy, Nietzscheanism) The vital energy in all living things which propels them to seek to grow, create, and thrive.


lares and penates

A calque of Latin lares et penates. See lar and penates.

The particular gods of the household were its lares and penates.

1995, Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction, page 87:

(Roman mythology) The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms.


neo-historicism

neo-historism (alternative)
neo-Historism (alternative)
Neo-Historism (alternative)
neo-Historicism (alternative)
Neo-Historicism (alternative)

(philosophy, art, architecture) A movement that draws inspiration from classical historicism


Danaus

From Latin Danaus, from Ancient Greek Δᾰνᾰός (Dănăós).

(Greek mythology) a mythical king who founded Argos


factual relativism

(philosophy of science) The view that scientific facts about the world are not absolute, but are relative to historical eras and to evolving scientific theories.

factual relativism ... attempts to argue that the world itself, or the “facts,” are different for different individuals (groups, cultures). Hence truth, too, is relative.

2013, Henrik Rydenfelt, Constructivist Problems, Realist Solutions, in J. Kegley and K. Skowronski, eds. Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 164

Factual relativism, according to which the facts ... may differ across perspectives — that is, different facts obtain relative to different perspectives.

2005, Iris Einheuser, “Varieties of Relativism: Indexical, Propositional and Factual”, in Varieties of Relativism: Indexical, Propositional and Factual:

Whereas moral relativism deals with matters of value, cognitive relativism deals with matters of fact (although sharp distinctions may at times be difficult to make) (Hollis and Lukes 1982, p. 2).

2001, Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal, “Chapter 3: Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace”, in Jay A. Labinger, Harry M. Collins, editors, One Culture?: A Conversation about Science, page 38:

(philosophy, sociology) The claim that the world itself, or the facts about the world, are different for different individuals, or groups, or cultures.


Icarus

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From Latin Īcarus, from Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).

(Greek mythology) A Greek mythological figure, son of Daedalus, who escaped from the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings made from feathers and wax, but flew too near to the sun, which melted the wax in the wings, so he fell down and drowned in the Aegean Sea.


operationism

en-noun

operationism (countable and uncountable, plural operationisms)

(philosophy) The doctrine that the meaning of a term consists of the operation(s) performed in defining it


vimana

(mythology) A mythological flying palace or chariot described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics.


Nausicaa

/nɔːˈsɪkeɪə/

From Latin Nausicaa, from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

Nausicäa (alternative)
Nausicaä (alternative)

But no catastrophe occurred. I lived to watch on a strange shore a black and youthful Nausicaa, with a joyous train of attendant maidens, carrying baskets of linen to a clear stream overhung by the heads of slender palm-trees.

1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:

(Greek mythology) A princess who aids Odysseus.


Zalmoxis

(mythology) A divinity among the Getae, an ancient people of the lower Danube.


billow maiden

(mythology) Any of the nine daughters of the sea-god Ran in Norse mythology.


Warharmi

From the figure's name in Yuman languages (Yuma, Kumeyaay, etc).

(mythology) An ambiguously gendered figure in Yuman (Kumeyaay, Yuma, etc) mythology who brought the Yumans seeds, the techniques of agriculture, and the tradition of painting oneself before war.


transmisogynist

en-adj

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

Ropchan's assessment of the situation displays transmisogynist bias in the intentional misuse of the pronoun 'he,' […]

2012 April 4, Jil Jorgensen, Alexa DeGagne, “University must do more for transgendered people”, in The Gateway, volume 102, number 28, University of Alberta, page 10:

Well, speaking for myself as a trans woman: Certainly it's hard to argue that it doesn't repeat and reinforce all sorts of tired transmisogynist tropes, or that the song doesn't have a nasty hetero-cis sneer underneath it.

2012, Rachel Zall, quoted in Andrew Hickey, Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, Lulu.com (2012), page 137, published 2 September 2012

Transwomen grow up in an incredibly transmisogynist culture, where we receive relentlessly negative messages about our identities, […]

2013, Leela Ginelle, "Parker Marie Molloy Elaborates on 'Gay Dudes, Can You Just Not?'", PQ Monthly, Volume 2, Number 12, December 2013/January 2014, page 12

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


transmisogynist

transmisogynists (plural)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) One who exhibits transmisogyny.


turbocapitalism

From turbo- + capitalism, popularized by Edward Luttwak in Turbo-Capitalism (1998).

Coordinate term: hypercapitalism

It was not until the end of the 1970s that today's roaring turbo-capitalism was unleashed by the abolition of anti-competition laws and regulations left over from the 1930s, by the technological innovations thus allowed, by the privatization of whatever could be privatized, and by the removal of most important barriers.

1999, Edward Luttwak, Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy, New York: Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:

Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.

2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian:

David Cameron has marched onto territory staked out by Ed Miliband by promising that there would be no return to the "turbo-capitalism" of recent decades.

2012 January 19, Nicholas Watt, “David Cameron pledges era of ‘popular capitalism’”, in The Guardian:

As in China, nominally communist Vietnam has embraced brakes-off turbocapitalism, and the old dream of society has been picked clean.

2017 September 27, Jason Farago, “Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(capitalism) An accelerated form of capitalism that lacks measures to keep the system in equilibrium and prevent social unrest.


substantivalism

Several philosophers of science have argued that the general theory of relativity actually supports spacetime substantivalism (if not separate spatial and temporal substantivalisms) since it allows solutions consisting of nothing but a differentiable manifold with metric tensor field […]

1994, John Stachel, edited by John Earman, Allen Janis, and Gerald J. Massey, Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds, →ISBN, page 143:

In it, Clarke defends on behalf of Newton a form of substantivalism according to which (absolute) space exists independently of matter and is as real as matter.

2007 October 30, Gabriele Contessa, “A Note on the Nomic Possibility of a Dynamic Shift”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:

(philosophy) The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.


possibilist

actualist

antonym(s) of “someone who believes that things do not need to exist in order to have properties”

Unless the actualist can adduce reasons to believe an explanation for @’s actuality, therefore, she will be at a disadvantage to the possibilist who believes all worlds to be on metaphysical par.

2015 January 8, Leo Carton Mollica, “Explanation and nowness: an objection to the A-Theory”, in Philosophical Studies, →DOI:

(philosophy) Someone who advocates possibilism, the position that things do not need to actually exist in order to have properties.

As early as 1881, the possibilists had won considerable backing in Parisian municipal elections;

1991, Gary P. Steenson, After Marx, Before Lenin, page 130:

(socialism, historical) A socialist who advocates focusing on small, achievable forms of immediate progress rather than an all-or-nothing commitment to revolution.

People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.;

2017, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think:

(philosophy) Someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason. Someone who uses analysis of data to understand the relative probability of future possibilities, instead of relying on intuition, emotions, personal experience, dogma, superstition, mainstream thought, or mental models (e.g., pessimism or optimism).


descriptionist

(philosophy) One who subscribes to descriptionism.


descriptionist

The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.

(philosophy) Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.

(philosophy) Of or relating to descriptionism (theory of truth).


dialetheist

Of course, dialetheists, who hold that some sentences are true with true negations, also provide a response that purports to resolve the paradoxes […]

2014, Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot, Unity, Truth and the Liar: The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the […] , […] :

(philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates dialetheism, the logical or metaphysical theory that two contradictory propositions can both be true.


temporalism

en-noun

temporalism (countable and uncountable, plural temporalisms)

As stated, this argument assumes a form of propositional temporalism: it assumes that the proposition expressed by my sentence for A-THEORY* has different truth values relative to different times.

(philosophy) The position that the truth value of a proposition can vary across time.


Ctimene

(Ancient Greek mythology) The younger sister of Odysseus, the legendary king of Ithaca.


oikeiosis

(philosophy, ethics) The perception of something as being one's own, or belonging to oneself.


sickness unto death

sickness unto death (countable and uncountable, plural sicknesses unto death)

Søren Kierkegaard
The Sickness Unto Death

From the book The Sickness Unto Death (1849) by Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).

Kafka's illnesses are more existential than physical; they are like Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death."

1990 April 1, Anatole Broyard, “Good Books about Being Sick”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-19:

(philosophy, existentialism, Kierkegaardianism) Personal despair over the disquieting circumstances of human existence.


Kierkegaardianism

/ˌkɪəkəˈɡɑːdɪ.ənɪzəm/

/ˌkɪɹkəˈɡɑɹdi.ənɪzəm/

(philosophy, religion) The philosophical or religious views of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855).


Chelone

From Ancient Greek χελώνη (khelṓnē, “tortoise”).

uder

(Greek mythology) A woman who became the tortoise as punishment for disobeying a summons from the gods.


anarcha-feminism

(politics, feminism) A political and philosophical theory combining anarchism and feminism, which typically views the state as patriarchal and oppressive.


anarcho-pacifist

(anarchism) Of, supporting, relating to, or advocating anarcho-pacifism.


anarcho-pacifist

anarcho-pacifists (plural)
anarchopacifist (alternative)

(anarchism) a person who advocates anarcho-pacifism.


libertarian communism

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of anarcho-communism


anarcho-pacifism

(anarchism) an anarchist tendency supporting pacifism instead of violence in order to achieve anarchist goals


existentialist anarchism

(politics, philosophy) the combination of anarchism and existentialism, prompted by some philosophers


Fintan

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the father of Cethern.


Danu

Learned borrowing from Old Irish, from a reconstructed nominative form of the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand).
In particular, Danann is attested in the term Tuatha Dé Danann, which is typically translated "tribe of Danu" but used as the collective name for certain Irish gods (or, more prosaically, the people of a particular wave of immigration to Ireland, in the traditional history).
The etymology is controversial and has been debated since the 19th century. Some scholars identify Danu with the goddess Anu, perhaps as a contraction of día Anu ("goddess Anu").

This [battle] appears in Celtic history as that in which the Tuatha dè Danann, the tribes of the goddess Danu fought and conquered the Fir Bolg on Midsummer's Day.

1897, The Westminster Review, Volume 148: July-December 1897, page 17:

The old poets thought that the tribes of the goddess Danu were of a perfect beauty, and the creators of beautiful people and beautiful arts.

1897, W. B. Yeats, “The Tribes of Danu”, in The New Review, Volume 17: July-December 1897, William Heinemann, page 550:

1987, Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Ireland's Fairies, C. Smythe, page 52,
She may be the same as Danu, or she may be the same as the Morrigu.

(Irish mythology) A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.


werejaguar

The rain god appears as a werejaguar, part human, part snarling beast.

A pottery figure of a Mexican god who was thought to assume the shapes of many animals. Here he is shown as a werejaguar.

1973, Nancy Garden, Werewolves, Lippincott (1973), page 115 (image caption)

Before your eyes, the shaman has transformed himself into a werejaguar!

2008, Buried Treasures: Young Explorers' Guide, QA International, →ISBN, page 33:

(fiction, mythology) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a jaguar.


equisatisfiable

The "isomorphic" PPTL formulas can be obtained by first an equisatisfiable translation and then an isomorphic mapping.

2015, Xu Lu, Zhenhua Duan, Cong Tian, “Extending PPTL for Verifying Heap Evolution Properties”, in arXiv:

(logic) Of a pair of formulas, where one formula is satisfiable whenever the other is satisfiable (either both formulas are satisfiable or both are not).


equisatisfiability

(logic, of two formulas) The condition of being equisatisfiable.


Grendel

(mythology) A monster or giant slain by Beowulf in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.


doingness

(philosophy) The state of doing something; action.


Autolycus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αὐτόλυκος (Autólukos).

(Greek mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a son of Hermes and Chione. A successful robber, he was capable of changing his own form and that of the goods he stole.


Clytemnestra

From Latin Clytaemnēstra, Ancient Greek Κλυταιμνήστρα (Klutaimnḗstra).

der

Κλυταιμνήστρα

(Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed after the Trojan War, whereupon was killed herself by their son Orestes


divine command theory

(philosophy) A metaethical theory stating that an action is morally good if commanded by God and morally bad if forbidden by God.


Bubastis

Borrowed from Latin Bubastis, from Βούβαστις (Boúbastis), from pr (“house”) + bꜣstt (“Bastet”).

1861, Bubastis, entry in W. Smith (editor), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume 1, John Murray, page 515,
But it seems more natural to suppose here, as in other instances of Egyptian religion, that the worship of Bubastis was originally the worship of the cat itself, which was subsequently refined into a mere symbol of the goddess. The fact that the ancients identify Bubastis with Artemis or Diana is to us a point of great difficulty, since the information we possess respecting the Egyptian goddess presents little or no resemblance between the two divinities.

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess Bastet.


Thyonian

en-adj

Thyonian (comparative more Thyonian, superlative most Thyonian)

more Thyonian (comparative)
most Thyonian (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Thyone.


antimetaphysics

Antimetaphysics is basically a Machian heritage.

1999, Maria Carla Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini, Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation, →ISBN:

Almost nothing is more striking than the antimetaphysics imputed to Wittgenstein by those interpreters who, indeed, see him as so clearly antimetaphysical.

2003, Anat Biletzki, (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein, →ISBN:

At logical positivism's heart is antimetaphysics, or, to put it positively, a spirit of enlightenment and anti-metaphysical factual research

2006, Sahotra Sarkar, Jessica Pfeifer, The Philosophy of Science, →ISBN, page 459:

(philosophy) The belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.