Eurystheus

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Εὐρυσθεύς (Eurustheús).

"But why hasn't Iolaus killed Eurystheus?," she asks. In a witticism very much akin to Electra's "But where are the messengers?," Euripides has Alcmene ask, essentially, why the plot she is part of has just swerved from its expected course: Iolaus is supposed to kill Eurystheus, by tradition.

1991, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Scholars Press, page 129:

Already we have seen from Iliad 19 and the birth of Eurystheus that at an early stage of the tradition Herakles was destined to be subordinate to his cousin.

1993, Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Volume 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 381:

There is a different kind of religious reference at 989-90, where Eurystheus claims that it was Hera who had afflicted him with the enmity towards Heracles.

2003, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 323:

(Greek mythology) A Mycenaean king of Tiryns (or, according to some authors, of Argos), in Argolis, who imposed the twelve labours on Heracles.


Phorcys

Sophocles calls them^([the sirens]) the daughters of Phorcys.

1836, Leigh Hunt, The Sirens and Mermaids of the Poets: The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 2, page 273:

But what of Phorcys as father of Persephone?
Phorcys too has a role in Orphic genealogy, already known to Plato: he belongs to the Titan generation, together with Kronos and Rhea (Tim. 40e = Orph. fr. 24 Bernabé / 16 Kern).

2010, Noel Robertson, Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene, Oxford University Press, page 126:

Now, Phorcys, it is known, was a variation of Orcus, the equivalent of Hades in the Uranid pantheon. Phorcys belonged to the Atlantean group of deities or monsters, who was reputed to carry off men to the Inner world and keep them imprisoned there, which was possibly a folklore memory of subterranean temples for magic rites.

2016, Comyns Beaumont, Britain: The Key to World History, Resonance BookWorks, page 287:

(Greek mythology) A primordial sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia, who by Ceto fathered numerous monsters including Echidna and the gorgons.

But the Phrygians are ſometimes mentioned as ſeparate from the Trojans: in the catalogue of the Trojan allies they are led from the distant Aſcania by Phorcys and Aſcanius, whose names are not derived from Greek, and we learn that ſome of the Phrygians spoke a different language.

1798, John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians Who Have Recorded the Ancient Siege of Troy, page 52:

(Greek mythology) Phorcys of Phrygia, a Phrygian ally of the King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War.

Forci

Phrygian ally of Priam in the Trojan War


enactivism

(philosophy) The theory that cognition arises through enaction between an organism and its environment.


tree nymph

(Greek mythology) In Greek myth, a female tree spirit; a dryad.


ought-not-ness

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of an action being morally obligatory not to perform.


indifferentistic

en-adj

indifferentistic (comparative more indifferentistic, superlative most indifferentistic)

more indifferentistic (comparative)
most indifferentistic (superlative)

(philosophy, religion) Expressing or relating to indifferentism.


Boolean atom

This is a consequence of a fact established earlier, namely, that any set C formed by choosing one formula from each Sⱼ must contain some formula πB and its conjugate, where B is a Boolean atom of X.

1975, Sue Ann Toledo, Tableau systems for first order number theory and certain order theories, page 234:

If C is a Boolean atom, the claim is obviously true.

1982, Krister Segerberg, Classical propositional operators, page 55:

A list is a bit vector if each of its members is a Boolean atom.

1994, Specification and Verification of Gate-level VHDL Models of Synchronous and Asynchronous Circuits, page 4:

(logic) A logical proposition that cannot be derived from other logical propositions by a Boolean operation.


nonrepresentationalism

(philosophy) A philosophical approach denying that something is representational.


socialism in one country

(socialism) The theory and practice of attaining socialism without world revolution.


unmaterialist

unmaterialist (comparative more unmaterialist, superlative most unmaterialist)

more unmaterialist (comparative)
most unmaterialist (superlative)


therianthropy

/ˌθɛɹiˈænθɹəpi/

(mythology) Shapeshifting between human and animal forms.


endoconsistency

en-noun

endoconsistency (countable and uncountable, plural endoconsistencies)

Now, according to the two aspects of Gödoel's theorem, proof of the consistency of arithmetic cannot be represented within the system (there is no endoconsistency), and the system necessarily comes up against true statements that are nevertheless not demonstrable, are undecidable (there is no exoconsistency, or the consistent system cannot be complete).

1996, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?, →ISBN, page 137:

The concept just always is its consistency in its variations: “the concept is defined by its consistency, its endoconsistency and exoconsistency, but it has no reference; it is self-referential.”

1998, Lohren David Green, Interpreting Nietzche: The Role of Style in the History of Philosophy:

Components, or what defines the consistency of the concept, its endoconsistency, are distinct, heterogeneous, and yet not separable.

2000, South African Journal of Philosophy - Volume 19, Issues 2-4, page 291:

The concrete machinic assemblage, according to Deleuze and BGuattari, has an internal or endoconsistency that 'renders components inseparable within itself'.

2012, Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, →ISBN, page 126:

(philosophy) Internal consistency; the fusion of components into an inseparable whole.


exoconsistency

exoconsistency (countable and uncountable, plural exoconsistencies)

The exoconsistency between concepts depends on their being able to inhabit the same plane.

2002, Linda Pavlovski, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, →ISBN, page 130:

However, just as it was impossible to understand the concept of solidarity in Deleuze and Guattari without the concept of 'exoconsistency' (that bridged the concrete machines between different abstract machines), so it is impossible to understand the concept of solidarity in Zapatismo without also understanding the concept of puentes or 'bridges' that connect the concrete actions and consequences of different political events.

2012, Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, →ISBN, pages 174–175:

(philosophy) Consistency with external elements; semantic compatibility.


neoclassical liberalism

Jardine says the neoclassical liberalism of the postindustrial economy contained two major postulates: a return to laissez-faire economics and a revival of Protestant morality to counteract the growing moral permissiveness.

2013, Arthur W. Hunt with Anthony Selvaggio, chapter 5, in Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 68:

(capitalism) Capitalist ideology which stresses the importance of deregulation and private ownership over the means of production.

(capitalism) Capitalist ideology that focuses on the compatibility of support for civil liberties and free markets on the one hand and a concern for social justice or the worst-off’s well-being on the other.


Aramazd

Transliteration of Old Armenian Արամազդ (Aramazd). Doublet of Ahura Mazda.

translit

(Armenian mythology) The chief and creator god in pre-Christian Armenian mythology, thought to be a syncretic deity, a combination of an autochthonous figure and the Iranian Ahura Mazda.


polycontextural

(philosophy) Of or relating to polycontexturality.


Libertas

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Lībertās. Doublet of liberty

(Roman mythology) the Roman goddess and personification of liberty; equivalent to the Greek goddess Eleutheria.


Venusberg

(mythology) A subterranean temple of Venus, in Teutonic myth.


Jovial

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/

I know the ſhape of's Legge: this is his Hand: / His Foote Mercuriall: his martiall Thigh / The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face— / Murther in heaven?

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 390, column 1:

It was pointed out in chapter 3 that [C. S.] Lewis liked to regard Jupiter as his personal presiding deity, but Mercury would have been almost as apt a choice, for Lewis had been extraordinarily favoured by that Intelligence whom, in ‘The Planets,’ he calls the ‘Lord of language’: both as a speaker and as a writer Lewis was uncommonly fluent. However, despite these talents, despite the fact that he saw Mercurial as well as Jovial strains in his paternity, and despite his opinion that Mercury shared with Jupiter a special need of rehabilitation, Lewis claimed no special relationship with the planet of the second sphere. In fact, he confesses that the Mercurial essence is almost beyond his grasp: […]

2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(Roman mythology, obsolete) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus), the god of the sky and thunder and the king of the gods; Jovian.


Italian Social Republic

collaborationist state
collaborationist state

(fascism) A collaborationist state that existed from 1943 to 1945.


antivertex

(astrology) The point exactly opposite the vertex.


micropsychism

The resulting all-inclusive potential explanatory advantage of protophenomenalism over phenomenal micropsychism is offset by the liability that it proposes properties of which we currently have at best only a minimal conception.

2013, Uriah Kriegel, Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind, →ISBN:

According to Strawson, micropsychism is a position similar to property dualism insofar as it takes mentality to be a fundamental property of physical systems.

2013, Michael Blamauer, The Mental as Fundamental: New Perspectives on Panpsychism, →ISBN:

Either materialism, dualism, neutral monism, or micropsychism provides the best explanation of consciousness.

2015, Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, →ISBN:

(philosophy) The belief that the physical world is independent of the mind, and that some ultimates have experiential properties that are fundamentally necessary in the explanation of consciousness.


Robin Goodfellow

(mythology) Puck (the mischievous sprite)


nomothetics

en-noun

nomothetics (countable and uncountable, plural nomothetics)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).

bor

1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press.
The antimony that reveals itself in the application of the law is for our limited wisdom the best way to test nomothetics[.]

(philosophy, rare) system defining laws or rules


major term

(logic) In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.


minor term

minor terms (plural)
minor (alternative)

The minor term in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is Socrates; the major term is mortal.

(logic) The subject of the conclusion in a categorical syllogism.


metatheorem

From these observations we conclude that we have the following metatheorem. Metatheorem 3: If φ is a theorem of second-order monadic predicate logic, then trs'(φ) is a theorem of our present conceptualist logic.

2007, Nino B. Cocchiarella, Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 224:

The metatheorem of deduction will play an essential role ...

2008, Walter Carnielli, Marcelo Coniglio, Dov M. Gabbay, Paula Gouveia, Cristina Sernadas, Analysis and Synthesis of Logics: How to Cut and Paste Reasoning Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 70:

This paper presents a metatheorem with the following property: Given a proven axiom-free lemma, which interrelates some of the elementary properties of a binary relation, the metatheorem mechanically transforms this lemma into its uniquely corresponding complementary lemma.

(logic) A statement about theorems proven in a metalanguage.


maraka

(astrology) In Hindu astrology, a planet that causes death at the end of a person's lifespan.


psychocentric

en-adj

psychocentric (comparative more psychocentric, superlative most psychocentric)

more psychocentric (comparative)
most psychocentric (superlative)

The adjective is derived from psycho- (prefix meaning ‘relating to the mind or soul’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
Adjective sense 2 (“of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks”) and the noun sense (“tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks”) were coined by the American travel researcher Stanley C. Plog in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972, which was later published in February 1974: see the quotation.

coinage

I have confessed that I feel drawn to you by many psychocentric influences.

1890 January 11, “His Choice”, in Pick-Me-Up, volume III, number 67, London: […] Wertheimer, Lea & Co., […]; and published by Henry Reichardt, […], →OCLC, page 244, columns 1–2:

For the issue between realism and subjectivism does not arise from a psychocentric predicament—a difficulty of conceiving of objects apart from any consciousness—but rather from the much more radical 'ego-centric predicament,' the difficulty of conceiving known things to exist independently of my knowing them.

1912 August, Edwin B[issel] Holt et al., “Introduction”, in The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section I (The Historical Significance of the New Realism), page 7:

My view is psychocentric in that a judgment which appears to have an objective reference is found psychologically to have a reference, unsuspected by the person judging, to himself. But an account of it is not a complete psychocentric exposition until one or two gaps are filled in. […] I have chosen to illustrate the psychocentric concept by means of right rather than good merely because this concept has been taken as the more fundamental in modern ethics.

1936, J[ohn] O[ulton] Wisdom, “Towards the Psychocentric Conception of Right”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, volume XXXVI (New Series), London: Harrison and Sons, […], →JSTOR, →OCLC, section III, page 73:

[T]his alienation was a result of the introduction of rational calculation and power as a socially and economically determining factor, which implied the elimination of the Christian (and older) psychocentric traditions, faiths, social and personal relations.

1959, Liberation, New York, N.Y.: Liberation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:

But there is a fundamental difference between Greek and Gothic sculpture, despite the very similar treatment of draperies and the human form. To the Greeks, the face was merely part of the body. The Gothic makes it the 'window of the soul'. Gothic faces are psychocentric, dominated by the soul, which speaks through the eye.

1963, Hans Weigert, “[Introduction]”, in Peter Gorge, transl., edited by Harald Busch and Bernd Lohse, Gothic Sculpture (European Sculpture), New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, →OCLC, page vii:

In most psychocentric religions, the cosmic forces or gods not only create and control physical processes, they are often embodied themselves; in physiocentric religions the cosmic forces, however mindless, create human consciousness and determine human will.

1990, Gavin I. Langmuir, “Physiocentric Religion”, in History, Religion, and Antisemitism, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., Oxford, Oxfordshire: University of California Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Proposals for a Historiographic Solution), page 230:

Surrogationalism holds that words stand for things or ideas, and therefore emphasizes the function of language. […] He [Roy Harris] likewise divides surrogationalism into two types, "reocentric", which "supposes that the things words stand for are to be located 'out there' in the world external to the individual language-user", and "psychocentric", which "supposes that what words stand for is to be located internally, that is to say in the mind of the language-user"[…].

1997, John E. Joseph, “The ‘Language Myth’ Myth: Roy Harris’s Red Herrings”, in George Wolf, Nigel Love, editors, Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and His Critics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV; Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 148), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 14:

In the work of individual theorists, psychocentric and reocentric assumptions are often combined in various ways. If you think that the word copper is to be defined by reference to the actual properties of a certain metal, your definition will be reocentric. But if you take it to be defined by reference to certain conceptions of, or beliefs about, a metal (whether such conceptions or beliefs are mistaken or not), your definition will be psychocentric.

2005, Roy Harris, “Introduction”, in The Semantics of Science, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 3:

[I]ntensive logging would inevitably cause non-humans to suffer during the activity of logging itself and as a longer-term consequence of habitat destruction. A psychocentric ethic would count this as an ethical minus, which must be taken into account in evaluating the logging policy, in addition to how things will be for humans.

2009, Robert Charles Elliot, “Ethics and Values”, in Robert Charles Elliot, editor, Institutional Issues Involving Ethics and Justice (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems; 3), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Eolss Publishers, →ISBN, section 5.2 (Psychocentric Ethics), page 264:

(philosophy) Primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.


Hecatoncheires

/ˌhɛkətɒŋˈkaɪɹiːz/

From Ancient Greek ἑκᾰτόν (hekătón, “hundred”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”), compare the adjective ἑκατόγχειρος (hekatónkheiros, “hundred-handed”). The putative *Ἑκατόγχειρες (*Hekatónkheires) is unattested in Hesiod's Theogony, which instead describes the giants with the phrase ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες (hekatòn mèn kheîres).

lang

τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπ’ ὤμων ἀίσσοντο, ἄπλαστοι, κεφαλαὶ δὲ ἑκάστῳ πεντήκοντα ἐξ ὤμων ἐπέφυκον ἐπὶ στιβαροῖσι μέλεσσιν· ἰσχὺς δ’ ἄπλητος κρατερὴ μεγάλῳ ἐπὶ εἴδει.

The three Hecatoncheires were named Cottus, Briareus (or Aegaeon) and Gyges (or Gyes).

1840, George Cornewall Lewis (translator), John William Donaldson (translator, later chapters), Karl Otfried Müller, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates, Robert Baldwin, page 92,
[…] nor is it until the poet has related how Zeus set free these Hecatoncheires, by the advice of the Earth, that we are introduced to the battle with the Titans, which has already been some time going on.

But then Zeus went down to Tartarus and released the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed monsters. The Cyclopes awarded Zeus their weapons of thunder and lightning, and the Hecatoncheires pelted the Titans with boulders.

1973, James Weigel, James L. Roberts, Mythology, CliffsNotes, page 50:

1993, Tim Parks (translator), Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, [1988, R. Calasso, Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia], Random House (Vintage), page 202,
By this time many beings had spread out across space, both on high and below: the Titans, the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires.

(Greek mythology) Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy.


Centimanes

From Latin centimanus, a calque of Ancient Greek Ἑκατόγχειρες (Hekatónkheires, “the Hundred-Handed”) from centi- (“100”) + manus (“hand”).

der

Ἑκατόγχειρες

1882, The Chautauquan, Volume 3, Chautauqua Press, page 486,
The Titans with the Cyclops and Centimanes (hundred-handed), were giants and the first inhabitants of the earth. Strictly the hundred hands belong to the brothers of the Titans, the Centimanes.

Of the three Centimanes enumerated by Hesiod, Brisareus only is mentioned in Homer, and, to all appearance, not as the son of Uranos, but as the son of Poseidṑn; not as aiding Zeus in his combat with the Titans, but as rescuing him at a critical moment from a conspiracy formed against him by Hḕrḕ, Poseidṑn and Athḕnḕ.

1906, George Grote, A History of Greece, Volume 1, Dent, page 54:

1998, Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago, 2nd Edition, Random House (Arrow), page 325,
‘"From their shoulders sprang a hundred invincible arms and above these powerful limbs rose fifty heads attached to their backs." For this reason they were called the Hecatoncheires or Centimanes,’ as we are reliably told.

(Roman mythology) Synonym of Hecatoncheires.


negative utilitarianism

(ethics) A form of utilitarianism that says we should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that we should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maximize the total amount of happiness.


antispeciesism

(philosophy, ethics) An ethical stance which opposes the unjustified consideration or treatment of sentient individuals who are not classified as belonging to a certain species.


Kisshōten

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese version of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi: goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities.


Wyrd

Learned borrowing from Old English Wyrd (“Fate”).

lbor

Both Wyrd (2574, 2526) and the Mighty Maker (979) measure out dooms, though God is said to control fate (1056).

1925, Caroline Harris Stevens, The Treatment of Death in Anglo-Saxon Poetry, page 18:

At last she spoke, “My name is Anawin. I am the valla. I am the keeper of secrets. I am the teller of truths. I speak for the Wyrd, the three goddesses of fate. I speak for past, for present, for future. What is it that you wish to know?”

2007, Holly Taylor, Crimson Fire: Book Two in the Dreamer's Cycle Series:

He recognises these women, and with dawning realization so do I. The Queen within, is the Wyrd, Goddess of chance, destiny and death.

2015, CJ Moseley, Chronoclysm: The Paradox War:

(mythology) An Old English deity, goddess of fate.


meta-induction

(logic, philosophy) The use of inductive reasoning to select the best choice from a number of different methods of prediction.


factiality

(philosophy) In the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux, the principle that things could be other than they are — we can imagine reality as being fundamentally different even if we never know such a reality — part of a critique of correlationism.


point-instant

But out of time and space came point-instants, and out of point-instants came a universe.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 57:

(physics, philosophy) The smallest unit of space-time; a particular point along the continua of space and time.


dynamilogy

The plan of the book as to speculative philosophy has, unless we are greatly mistaken, been adapted in the main from Sanseverino, and if so, we only regret that the great master has not been followed in his arrangement which places dynamilogy immediately after formal logic.

1894, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review - Volume 10, page 77:

In short, the present volume covers the ground which is generally known as Dynamilogy, and has for its subject matter the various powers of the soul and their respective acts.

Metaphysics. — Dynamilogy or the faculties of the soul: — intellect, will, sensibility, (organs of sensibility: the senses).

1899, Québec (Province). Dept. of Public Instruction, Report of the Superintendent of Education of the Province of Quebec for the Year 1898-99, page 376:

Archelogia philosophies nova, or, New principles of philosophy containing philosophy in general, metaphysicks or ontology, dynamilogy or a discourse of power, religio philosophi or natural theology, physicks or natural philosophy.

1990, University Microfilms International, Early English books, 1641-1700:

(philosophy, archaic) The study of the powers of the soul; the study of the capabilities of living or sentient beings.


Logi

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Logi (“jötunn of fire”),
personification of logi (“flame, blaze”), from
From Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame”). Related to Middle High German lohe, more distantly to Latin lucere (“to shine, to light”), Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”). All ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Compare Old Norse Hálogi.

(Norse mythology) also known as Hálogi he is the jötunn (giant of Norse mythology) of fire; he is the personification of fire in Norse mythology.


Iambe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάμβη (Iámbē).

(Greek mythology) A Thracian woman, daughter of Pan and Echo, granddaughter of Hermes.


radical empiricism

(philosophy) A theory of knowledge championed by William James which contested that the relations between objects are as real as the objects themselves and values experience as a way of knowing.


Stirneresque

en-adj

Stirneresque (comparative more Stirneresque, superlative most Stirneresque)

more Stirneresque (comparative)
most Stirneresque (superlative)

(philosophy) Reminiscent of the works of the German philosopher Max Stirner (1806–1856).


Okeanos

/əʊˈkeɪənɒs/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós). Doublet of Oceanus and ocean.

bor+

(Greek mythology) Synonym of Oceanus (“god and personification of the world ocean”)


sitiogonic

en-adj

sitiogonic (comparative more sitiogonic, superlative most sitiogonic)

more sitiogonic (comparative)
most sitiogonic (superlative)

From Greek σῖτος (sîtos, “food, grain”) + γόνος (gónos, “creation”).

2005, Robert Campany, The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China, Brill, Leiden, 2005:

[Bruce] Lincoln ... coins the term sitiogonic to mean 'explaining the origin of food'

1993, Anne Birrell, Chinese Mythology, Johns Hopkins, page 12:

(mythology) Concerned with the mythological motif of the origins of foods, food sources, or food-related aspects of human culture.


UFO nest

(ufology) A crop circle, regarded as a landing site for UFOs.


Epigoni

From Latin Epigonī, itself from Ancient Greek Ἐπίγονοι.

(Greek mythology) The legendary sons of the Argive heroes of the first Theban War, who as legend has it, were themselves prosecutors of the second Theban War.


ufonaut

(ufology) A pilot or passenger of a UFO.


Vejovis

From Latin Vējovis, a later spelling of Vēiovis, from Old Latin Vēdiovis, from vē + Diovis from Proto-Italic *djous, *djowes, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.

Vediovis (alternative)
Vejove (alternative)

(Roman mythology) an ancient Italic Roman deity of Etruscan origin considered to be an underworld counterpart of Jupiter; literally “Little Jupiter”, “Anti-Jove”


dullahan

dullahans (plural)
Dullahan (alternative)
dullaghan (alternative)
Dullaghan (alternative)

From Irish dulachán, from dubh (“black”) + another word (compare lucharachán (“elf, dwarf”)), possibly originally a term for a dark or sullen person (compare the surname Dullahan) and only subsequently applied to the spirit.

The dullahans always came in a mist. But Devin wasn't afraid of dullahans. If he saw one, he would club it over the head. But then Devin remembered that dullahans didn't have heads. He grasped his stick a little tighter in his hand, […]

1990, Elona Malterre, The Last Wolf of Ireland, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 3:

“A dullahan,” both Phelan and Coriel whispered. Coriel looked her square in the eye, “You did remember the gold, right?” ML blushed, “No, I didn't. I was so scared I just started running.” “Then how did you escape?” “My pocket tore on a bush. […] “You're lucky you're not dead anyway. The dullahan could have stopped or spoken your name, or both.”

2008, Jessica Borchardt, A Fairy Yarn, →ISBN, page 53:

There is no way to bar the road against a dullahan. All locks and gates open on their own when it approaches. Dullahans do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so […]

2014, Tony Locke, Mayo Folk Tales, The History Press, →ISBN:

But the values of a fairy manifested into physical form in this city—a dullahan.” Celty Sturluson was not a human being. Celty was a type of fairy known as a dullahan that appeared to those close to death, signaling their impending demise.

2015, Ryohgo Narita, Durarara, volume 1, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

Because she is a dullahan, her head is not connected to her body—it's held in place by her gear.

2017, Kugane Maruyama, Satoshi Oshio, Overlord, volume 4, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

(fantasy, Irish mythology) A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)


NHI

(ufology, astrobiology) Initialism of non-human intelligence.


decanate

Of decan + -ate. Attested from the 17th century.

If any planet be in his decanate, or face, he has the least possible essential dignity

1852, William Lilly, An Introduction to Astrology, page 70:

Each 30° sign is divided into three 10° sections called decanates (figure 11 and chart 5).

2007, Kris Brandt Riske, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Astrology, page 31:

(astrology) Face, one of three parts into which each zodiac sign is divided; a decan.


fenghuang

fenghuangs (plural)
feng-huang (alternative)
fung-hwang (alternative)

(Chinese mythology, Japanese mythology) A phoenix found in Asian mythologies, which reigns over all other birds, often of female sex and frequently found paired with the Chinese dragon.


drogulus

Coined by the English philosopher A. J. Ayer.

(philosophy) Something that exists but whose existence cannot be verified because it is completely intangible.


Tenes

(Greek mythology) The eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos.


Tennes

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Tenes


bookness

[…] implies a philosophical distinction between bookness and tableness. There is no more requirement to show why an experience cannot be a brain-state than there is to show why a book cannot be a table.

1969, Gerald Eugene Myers, Self: An Introduction to Philosophical Psychology, page 47:

(philosophy) The quality of being a book.


view from nowhere

en-noun

view from nowhere (plural views from nowhere)

(philosophy) A purely objective description of something, without any subjectivity.


Ustashe

Ustache (alternative)
Ustachi (alternative)
Ustase (alternative)
Ustaše (alternative)
Ustashi (alternative)
Ustasi (alternative)
Ustaši (alternative)

(fascism, history) Of or pertaining to Croatian ultranationalism.


Ustashe

Ustashe (countable and uncountable, plural Ustashes)

Ustashes (plural)
Ustache (alternative)
Ustachi (alternative)
Ustase (alternative)
Ustaše (alternative)
Ustashi (alternative)
Ustasi (alternative)
Ustaši (alternative)

(fascism, history, uncountable) A Croatian ultranationalist force active from the 1920s to the mid-1940s.

(countable, fascism, history) A Croatian ultranationalist.


reistic

en-adj

reistic (comparative more reistic, superlative most reistic)

more reistic (comparative)
most reistic (superlative)


Pandemic

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος (Aphrodítē Pándēmos, “Aphrodite Pandemos”), from πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). See further at pandemic (etymology 1).

der

Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος

[page 64] The Love, therefore, which attends upon Venus Pandemos is, in truth, common to the vulgar, and presides over transient and fortuitous connexions, and is worshipped by the least excellent of mankind. The votaries of this deity seek the body rather than the soul, and the ignorant rather than the wise, disdaining all that is honourable and lovely, and considering how they shall best satisfy their sensual necessities. […] [page 67] That Pandemic lover who loves rather the body than the soul is worthless, nor can be constant and consistent, since he has placed his affections on that which has no stability.

a. 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Banquet. Translated from Plato.”, in Richard Herne Shepherd, editor, The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Original Editions […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Chatto and Windus, […], published 1888, →OCLC, pages 64 and 67:

The same distinction between an Uranian and a Pandemic Venus runs, as all those who have any acquaintance with the sculptures of the Greeks know, through their whole art. […] The latter [the Capitoline Venus] is the true Pandemic Venus, the perfect type of voluptuousness, soulless, animal beauty,— […]

1840 January–June, “Shelley’s Translation of ‘The Banquet’ of Plato”, in The Monthly Chronicle; a National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, pages 316–317:

That was spoken of the celestial Aphrodite, whose symbol is the tortoise, the emblem of domestic modesty and chastity: not of that baser Pandemic one.

1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “She Stoops to Conquer”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 109:

The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds. Her Garden has the voluptuousness necessary to ensure this, and this is 'the first seminarie / Of all things that are borne to live and die / According to their kindes.' [Quoting from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.]

1967, Frank Kermode, “World Without End or Beginning”, in The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (The Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities; 1965), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC; new edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2000, →ISBN, page 76:

For the complicated history of the Uranian and Pandemic Aphrodite of whom the Venus genetrix, the creative and vivifying force of nature, and Venus, the goddess of erotic passion, are Roman versions, see "Aphrodite" and "Venus" in Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, […]. [Allen] Tate sees the attempt to reconcile the claims of the Uranian and Pandemic Aphrodite as the lifelong concern of [John] Keats.

1969, Gerhard Joseph, “From Fatal Goddess to a God of Love”, in Tennysonian Love: The Strange Diagonal, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →OCLC, footnote 8, page 141:

The Symposium [of Plato] presents strong and varied opinions on Aphrodite. Aristodemus reports Pausanias's speech on the Homeric and Hesiodic versions of the goddess's origins, and differentiates between the two loves and the two Aphrodites—the Pandemic one, daughter of Zeus, and the heavenly Uranic Aphrodite.

2015, Nora Clark, “Aphrodite and Venus: Myth Timeless and Temporal”, in Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.

Aphrodite Pandemos
Capitoline Museums
Capitoline Venus


Rona

(mythology) In Māori mythology, a legendary woman who cursed the moon.


early Showa

(fascism, history) Pertaining to the Empire of Japan’s history spanning from December 1926 to September 1945.


open texture

Coined by Austrian philosopher Friedrich Waismann in 1945.

coin

(philosophy) A philosophical concept that refers to the universal possibility of imprecision in empirical statements.


open-textured

en-adj

open-textured (comparative more open-textured, superlative most open-textured)

more open-textured (comparative)
most open-textured (superlative)

(philosophy) evading a precise or holistic definition


Adlet

(cryptozoology, mythology) Alternative letter-case form of adlet (“half-human, half-dog cryptid”)


Cytherea

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), via Latin Cytherea.

The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

(Greek mythology) The goddess Aphrodite.


personocentric

personocentric (comparative more personocentric, superlative most personocentric)

more personocentric (comparative)
most personocentric (superlative)

(philosophy) Personhood-biased; Deeming personhood the core attribute within any cosmos, physical or transcendental.


anthropics

(philosophy) Reasoning using the anthropic principle or related considerations about the presence of an observer constraining the nature of the reality that can be observed.


self-luminous

self-luminous (comparative more self-luminous, superlative most self-luminous)

more self-luminous (comparative)
most self-luminous (superlative)

The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.

1909, William James, A pluralistic universe. Hibbert lectures, page 347:

But as difference is a positive condition of the reason, I cannot deduce it without presupposing it; I cannot explain it except by itself, because it is an original, self-luminous, self-attesting reality.

2012, Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, page 72:

"The necessity to assent to them", according to Stumpf's paraphrase: is not rooted in a blind psychological compulsion, but rather in their inner, self-luminous evidence. [...] He [Brentano] conscluded further that what is evident is true not only for our understanding, but for every possible understanding, for it is only the special light of the thing itself.

2013, Robin D. Rollinger, Husserl’s Position in the School of Brentano, page 84:

(philosophy) Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.

Finally, life emerges as a self-conscious, self-luminous Intelligence in man who not only thinks, feels and moves but is also conscious of being the subject, the knower of thinking, feeling and willing and controls, directs all these fluctuating States and processes of mind either towards the service of the self or towards bondage to mundane values.

1978, Nundo Lall Kundu, Constructive Philosophy of India: Tantra, page 116:

A cognition is an illuminator in respet of its content only and this content, as the illuminated, is always other than itself. But a cognition is also aware of it as an act. but this is only in distinction from its content as other than itself. In other words, it is never its own content (visaya) and is not self cognitive or self-luminous in that sense.

2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, page 267:

The self is self-luminous and so it does not need another cognition to become known.

2007, Śaṅkaṙa-bhāratī - Volume 32, page 162:

According to the Buddhist idealist, a cognition is self-luminous ; it apprehends itself but not an external object as there is no such object ; a cognition is not apprehended by the self because there is no self at all.

2013, Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology Perception, page 199:

(philosophy, India) Self-aware; knowable by itself.


Charonic

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to the mythological Charon.


antitranscendentalism

The positivist is driven to either "pure facts" or "pure formulas" by his antitranscendentalism of the dogmatic variety.

1990, Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Anthropology and Historiography of Science, page 120:

One hitch here is that this deflationary attitude and extreme anti-transcendentalism might appear to paint Quine's naturalism into a corner.

2019, Robert Sinclair, Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures:

(philosophy) A position that opposes transcendentalism.


catasterize

en-verb

catasterize (third-person singular simple present catasterizes, present participle catasterizing, simple past and past participle catasterized)

catasterizes (present singular third-person)
catasterizing (participle present)
catasterized (participle past)
catasterized (past)
catasterise (alternative)

From Ancient Greek καταστερισμός (katasterismós, “star legend”), from καταστερίζω (katasterízō, “to place among the stars”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).

uder

καταστερισμός

Erigone, daughter of Icarius, was catasterized into the constellation Virgo.

(Greek mythology, transitive) To turn into a star, constellation, comet or other celestial object.


catasterismus

καταστερισμός

... the absence of Phaethon's catasterismus in the Metamorphoses.

(Greek mythology) The state of being transformed into a star, constellation, comet or other celestial object.


UAP

UAP (plural)
UAPs (plural)
UAP's (plural)

During World War II (and probably before), high flying pilots were reported to have observed unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), often now called transient luminous events (TLE’s), particularly in the vicinity of thunderstorms.

2012 September 17, Don Lipman, “Red sprites, blue jets, and elves What are these mysterious, elusive phenomena?”, in The Washington Post:

“You know, there’s a new name,” Mrs. Clinton said in the March appearance. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said. “U.A.P. That’s the latest nomenclature.”

2016 May 10, Amy Chozick, “Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The founders say they believe “there is sufficient credible evidence of UAP [unidentified aerial phenomenon] that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human experience.”

2017 December 16, Bryan Bender, “The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs”, in Politico Magazine, →ISSN:

This is an effort that I believe is rare and timely given current events, such as the apparent increase in UAP incidents through official military channels.

2019 October 23, M J Banias, “This Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast”, in Vice Magazine, →ISSN:

The spokesman at the time said UAP was preferred over UFO because of the stigma surrounding the latter term.

2020, Jordan Culver, Adrianna Rodriguez, “Pentagon declassifies 3 leaked US Navy UFO videos”, in USA Today:

Pentagon officially released three videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

2020, “To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science Acknowledges the Pentagon's Official Release of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Video Footage”, in Baker City Herald:

The US military is worried some of the UAPs spotted by military pilots in the past may represent technologies of strategic rivals unknown to US scientists.

2023 January 12, “US government logs more than 500 UFO reports with hundreds unexplained”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

unidentified aerial phenomenon
unidentified aerial phenomenon#English

(ufology) Initialism of unidentified aerial phenomenon; synonym of UFO (“unidentified flying object”)


BIW

(business, philosophy, economics) Abbreviation of business is war.


axiomization

(sciences, philosophy) To deem as fact without proof; To deem self-evident.

(sciences, philosophy) To select and define the axioms within a specific field.


Ammit

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the Devourer of the Dead.

أمت

Egyptian funerary deity, the Devourer of the Dead


Anhur

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian war god


diallelus

(epistemology) The argument that any proposition requires a justification, but the justification itself requires support, which leads to infinite regress.


aporematic

en-adj

aporematic (comparative more aporematic, superlative most aporematic)

more aporematic (comparative)
most aporematic (superlative)

(philosophy) Of or relating to an aporeme.


aporeme

(philosophy) A form of dialectical argument that affirms two opposing ideas and thus seems to prove a contradiction.


Anput

From Egyptian jnpwt as rendered in the outdated 19th-century transcription scheme developed by Karl Richard Lepsius (ȧnput).

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Anubis


state of exception

en-noun

state of exception (plural states of exception)

Calque of German Ausnahmezustand, primarily as used by the German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt; popularised in English by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the 1990s–2000s.

Out of such rhetoric emerged an American state of exception, and with it, the disturbing outlines of inquisitorial behavior.

2006, Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism, page 127:

Regardless of how we conceive of them, rights are just abstract entitlements that, given a state of exception, can be suspended at will by the very same states that profess a belief in the universality and inalienability of these rights!

2010, Flora Sapio, Sovereign Power and the Law in China, page 252:

The progressive normalization of the state of exception has eroded rule-bound procedures that give substance to conventional regulatory regimes.

2017, Martin J. Murray, The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century, page 311:

(law, philosophy) A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority.


Satis

(Egyptian mythology) A war, hunting, and fertility goddess


Apep

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Apophis


Jötunheimr

(Norse mythology) the realm of the Jötnar gods


Svartálfaheimr

(Norse mythology) the realm of the Svartálfar gods, also known as the Myrkálfar


Nidavellir

(Norse mythology) the realm of the dwarves, one of the nine realms


Vanaheimr

(Norse mythology) the realm populated by the Vanir gods, one of the nine realms


Kunlun

Kunlun
Kunlun (mythology)#Name
Wikipedia
Zhengzhang Shangfang

From the Mandarin 崑崙 /昆仑 (Kūnlún) and 崑崙山／昆仑山 (Kūnlún Shān), with the character 山 (shān) being an ambiguous reference to any raised place, inclusive of islands, hills, mountains, and mountain ranges. The characters 崑崙 /昆仑 (Kūnlún) are phono-semantic compounds adding 山 (shān) as a semantic component (形旁 (xíngpáng)) to the characters 昆 (kūn) and 侖／仑 (lún), which were presumably also homophones for Kunlun in Old Chinese—Zhengzhang's reconstructed pronunciation being /*kuːn.run/—but leaving its further development or original meaning uncertain. See also the Name section of the Wikipedia entry on the mythological Kunlun.

zh-l

崑崙山／昆仑山 (Kūnlún Shān)

Kun Lun (alternative)
K'un-lun (alternative)
Kuen Lun (alternative)
Kwenlun (alternative)

崑崙 /昆仑

Mythological Chinese mountain or mountain range

...the Yellow Riuer... is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.

1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:

(Chinese mythology) A mythical mountain or mountain range somewhere west of the North China Plain believed to be the home of Xiwangmu and the Peaches of Immortality, as well as other gods and Taoist immortals, and previously believed to help support the dome of the sky.


Bes

The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile.

2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, SAGE, →ISBN, page 121:

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.


law of contradiction

law of noncontradiction
law of noncontradiction#English

(logic) Synonym of law of noncontradiction


monadicity

(philosophy, chemistry, biology, mathematics) The condition of being monadic


sunrise problem

(philosophy) The difficulty of using statistical probability to evaluate the plausibility of a statement such as "the sun will rise tomorrow" based only on prior observations.


Nefertem

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, who represented the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower


Deucalion

From Ancient Greek Δευκαλίων (Deukalíōn).

(Greek mythology) The son of Prometheus, husband of Pyrrha. Both survived a deluge sent by Zeus to punish the human race.


Heisenberg cut

Heisenberg cuts (plural)
Heisenberg's cut (alternative)

Named after Werner Heisenberg, who contributed to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, and specifically to the theory of wavefunction collapse.

The original "Copenhagen" way of describing the collapse process was tied to a mysterious thing called the "Heisenberg cut". Everything lying "below" this cut was supposed to be described in the mathematical language of quantum mechanics, whereas everything lying "above" the cut was described either in the language of classical physics, or in psychological or mental terms.[…]A principal move made by von Neumann was to show that the Heisenberg cut could be moved all the way up, so that reality was unambiguously separated into a purely mental part, and a part described in the mathematical language of quantum mechanics.

2014, Henry P. Stapp, “Quantum Physics and Philosophy of Mind”, in Antonella Corradini, Uwe Meixner, editors, Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind, Walter de Gruyter, page 9:

Another idea is to question the impermeability of the Heisenberg cut: Is the separation between the macro and micro worlds really as sharp as Heisenberg and Bohr assumed?

2018, Lars Jaeger, The Second Quantum Revolution, Springer, page 252:

The location of the Heisenberg cut is arbitrary, but it must be at a point where classical physics assuredly holds.

2021, Carl S. Helrich, The Quantum Theory—Origins and Ideas, Springer, page 192:

(quantum mechanics, philosophy of physics) A conceptualised division separating the quantum system being observed from the classical system that comprises the observer's information, knowledge and conscious awareness.

Heisenbergscher Schnitt

conceptualised division between quantum and classical realms


monosyllogism

(logic) An argument expressed as a single syllogism


superinformation

en-noun

superinformation (countable and uncountable, plural superinformations)

superinformations (plural)
super-information (alternative)

(philosophy) The integration of ontological categories of a lower level with that of a higher level.


Raglan scale

(mythology) A series of twenty-two tropes common among fictional protagonists.


perceptionism

(philosophy) The philosophy that reality is based on our sense of perception


Gödel numbering

Gödel numbering (plural Gödel numberings)

(logic) A function assigning a Gödel number to each well-formed formula of some formal language.


Gödelization

From Kurt Gödel (or Gödel number) and -ization.

2013, Encyclopedia of Mathhttps://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Gödelization
Gödelizations with bijective mapping β are of special interest.


problematicism

(philosophy) A branch of philosophy that considers existence to be a constant evaluation of problems


seal-man

I have heard of seal-men in Iceland and the Esquimo lands of the far north.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 117:

(mythology) A person who can transform into a seal (the animal) and back again.


Vanth

From Etruscan [script needed] (vanθ). The moon was named after the goddess in an online voting in 2009, the name Vanth was first suggested by American writer Sonya Taaffe.

(mythology) In Etruscan mythology, a chthonic goddess who guides the souls of the dead to the underworld, often shown in various forms of funerary art.


Graeae

the Graeae (canonical)
Graiae (alternative)
Graiai (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Γραῖαι (Graîai), from γραῖα (graîa, “old woman”), perhaps from γραῦς (graûs).

(Greek mythology) Three sisters, old women with grey hair — Deino (or Dino), Enyo, and Pemphredo (or Pephredo) — who shared a single eye and a single tooth. They were daughters of the sea-deities Phorcys and Ceto.


Phorcides

(Greek mythology) Synonym of Graeae (“mythological sisters”)


res cogitans

(philosophy) A nonphysical substance of which minds are composed, separate from res extensa, according to Cartesian dualism and idealism.


violinist argument

The argument was first used in the essay “A Defense of Abortion” by Judith Jarvis Thomson, first published in the Philosophy & Public Affairs journal in 1971.

(philosophy) An argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is unplugged, he will die, but if he stays plugged into the kidnappee for nine months, he will recover from his ailment. The argument assumes that in this hypothetical scenario, the kidnappee has the right to unplug themselves from the violinist at any time even if this will cause his death, because the violinist does not have a right to the kidnappee’s body.

A Defense of Abortion
A Defense of Abortion#The violinist
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Philosophy & Public Affairs


Antaeus

(Greek mythology) The son of Poseidon and Gaea.


compulsory heterosexuality

In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of "preference" or "innate orientation" even indirectly questioned.

1980 Summer, Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Signs, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 633:

How could I have missed this milestone of compulsory heterosexuality? Who would teach my daughter whatever girls with fathers learned on these dates and dances, like how to wait for doors to be opened or hold a fork like an unmistakable catch?

2019 April 26, Asha French, “A ‘Daddy-Daughter Date,’ Queer Single Mom-Style”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(feminism, LGBTQ) The idea that heterosexuality is often assumed and forced upon individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.


comphet

comp-het (alternative)
comp het (alternative)

Because heterosexuality is, by and large, presented as the only acceptable sexuality to have, comp het assumes that one might choose heterosexuality by default, even if one is not strictly hetero, in order to escape such punishment.

2019 June 3, Anna Pulley, “Ask Anna: Am I really attracted to men, or just responding to heteronormativity?”, in Chicago Tribune:

compulsory heterosexuality
compulsory heterosexuality#English

(feminism, LGBTQ) Abbreviation of compulsory heterosexuality.


funishment

funishment (countable and uncountable, plural funishments)

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I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating.

2013, Gregg D. Caruso, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, page 107:

Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping.

2014, Derk Pereboom, Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life, page 172:

If constraint, no matter how minimal, involves an adverse element that is undeserved punishment, quarantine advocates must provide, in [Saul] Smilansky's words, compensatory “funishment.”

2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

(ethics, uncountable) A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.


JTB

JTB (countable and uncountable, plural JTBs)

(philosophy) Initialism of justified true belief.


Coronis

(Greek mythology) Any of several figures from Greek mythology


Neith

(Egyptian mythology) The primeval goddess of war and creator deity.


pancosmism

(philosophy) The belief that nothing exists except the physical and temporal universe. [from 19th c.]


Pichal Peri

From Urdu پچھل پيری, Persian پیچھل پری, meaning "reverse-footed".

der

Urdu پچھل پيری

Persian پیچھل پری

(mythology) A creature from Pakistani/Arabian culture, who's said to be reverse-footed and demonic.


Marcion

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃən/

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃʌ̈ʊ̯n/

From Late Latin Mārciōn (from Koine Greek Μᾱρκῑ́ων (Mārkī́ōn, diminutive of Ancient Greek Μᾶρκος (Mârkos, from Mārcus (from Mārs + -cus)))), from Old Latin Māvors and Proto-Indo-European *-kos.

(Christianity, Gnosticism, philosophy, history) Marcion of Sinope, 2nd century AD theologian, philosopher, preacher and founder of Marcionism, a Hellenistic Christian religious belief system influenced by Gnostic theology; compiled the first Biblical canon, consisting solely of Greek New Testament scriptures, totally rejecting the scriptural authority of the Hebrew Tanakh adopted as the canonical Old Testament of the Christian Bible


werewildcat

[…] Rozika, part vampire, part were-wildcat, who spits and yowls, […]

1966 April 14, “Community Senior Play To Be Presented Friday and Saturday”, in The Wylie News, page 7:

In Scotland there was a were-wildcat, in Russia a were-bear, and throughout Africa tales of were-lions or were-leopards abounded.

1981, Daniel Cohen, Everything You Need to Know About Monsters and Still Be Able to Get to Sleep, page 25:

Celican - werewildcats. Thought extinct in the Middle Ages, now almost _certainly_ wiped out by the Black Spiral Dancers

2000 November 22, I. Inayat, “The Splats: A Quick Guide”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wildcat or a wildcat-like human.


Andersonian

(logic) Of or pertaining to Alan Ross Anderson (1925–1973), American logician, or his work in relevance logic and deontic logic.


sufficientarian

(philosophy) One who believes that justice involves everybody having sufficient resources for their needs, rather than the overall situation being as good as possible.


Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream which seeks to synthesize Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and which proponents believe is the highest stage of Marxism. It was systematized by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) and developed by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its adherent parties.


non-deontological

en-adj

non-deontological (comparative more non-deontological, superlative most non-deontological)

more non-deontological (comparative)
most non-deontological (superlative)

(ethics, philosophy) Not relating to deontology, against deontological principles.


information hazard

en-noun

information hazard (plural information hazards)

Coined by philosopher and writer Nick Bostrom.

coin

Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm. Such hazards are often subtler than direct physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked.

2011 August, Nick Bostrom, “Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge”, in Review of Contemporary Philosophy, volume 10, →ISSN:

He thinks the scientific enterprise needs better norms around potentially dangerous information. First: Don’t spread it. Second: If someone tells you that your work represents an information hazard, “you should seriously respect their call.”

2018 October 4, Ed Yong, “A Controversial Virus Study Reveals a Critical Flaw in How Science Is Done”, in The Atlantic:

In cases where one expects a few highly sophisticated bad actors, easy‐to‐discover information hazards can be shared widely: good actors may benefit, and bad actors likely already know or are likely to rediscover the information hazard themselves.

2019 May, Gregory Lewis with Piers Millett, Anders Sandberg, Andrew Snyder‐Beattie, and Gigi Gronvall, “Information Hazards in Biotechnology”, in Risk Analysis, volume 39, number 5, →DOI, pages 975–981:

(philosophy) A risk arising from the dissemination of true information.


clausify

en-verb

clausify (third-person singular simple present clausifies, present participle clausifying, simple past and past participle clausified)

clausifies (present singular third-person)
clausifying (participle present)
clausified (participle past)
clausified (past)

(logic) To convert logic statements into standard clauses


clausification

(logic) The process of converting logic statements into standard clauses.


clausifier

(logic) A method, algorithm or program that converts logic statements into standard clauses.


empiriocriticism

(philosophy) A philosophy based on knowledge and experience without any metaphysics


Tanit

Of Semitic origin, from Punic 𐤕𐤍𐤕 (tnt). Found in Ancient Greek as Θινιθ (Thinith), Θεννειθ (Thenneith).

Tanit, the moon goddess, her sacred veil, the zaïmph, and Salammbó are a poetic rendering of a threefold reality, similar to the notion of antiquity concerning the three faces of Diana (Thibaudet 138).

2001, Laurence M. Porter, editor, A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 320:

(mythology) A Punic and Phoenician goddess, the chief deity of Ancient Carthage alongside Baal-Hamon.


code of ethics

(ethics) A list of statements or exemplars used by organizations to guide their members in differentiating between right and wrong and in applying understandings to their decision making.


ravenness

Not only are shoes and ravens not exchangeable, but it is to say the least questionable whether we should regard ravenness as positively relevant to blackness on the evidence of the white shoe.

1974, Mary B. Hesse, The Structure of Scientific Inference, page 160:

(philosophy) The quality of being a raven.


antipragmatist

(philosophy) One who rejects pragmatism.


antipragmatism

(philosophy) A viewpoint that rejects pragmatism.


antipragmatic

en-adj

antipragmatic (comparative more antipragmatic, superlative most antipragmatic)

more antipragmatic (comparative)
most antipragmatic (superlative)

(philosophy) Opposing or rejecting pragmatism.


himpathetic

Blend of him + sympathetic, or of himpathy + sympathetic.

Yet it would be a mistake to view them as on a different plane of moral obtuseness, as opposed to merely being on the extreme end of a himpathetic spectrum on which many of us lie. Brock Turner's defenders exhibited forgiving tendencies, ...

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200:

But in a himpathetic world view this does make sense because the question we are invited to ask is what does it mean for him? That Kavanaugh's (and, to an extent, Thomas's) privilege is such that his greatest fear is the loss of his name […]

2019, Karen Boyle, #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:

This was picked up and repeated by women in the media who were “himpathetic” to the idea. Trump's win “gives us an opportunity to reflect on how badly misogynist forces can distort our thinking and bias our reasoning” (Manne 2019, 250).

2019, Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

When a woman fails to give a man what he's supposedly owed, she will often face punishment and reprisal — whether from him, his himpathetic supporters, or the misogynistic social structures in [society].

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 11:

(feminism) Exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


himpathize

en-verb

himpathize (third-person singular simple present himpathizes, present participle himpathizing, simple past and past participle himpathized)

himpathizes (present singular third-person)
himpathizing (participle present)
himpathized (participle past)
himpathized (past)

Blend of him + sympathize, or of himpathy + sympathize.

As Manne (2017) and Solnit (2017) have shown, we tend to sympathize (or 'himpathize') too much with men and their standpoints, and not enough with women and their standpoints. This results in a tendency to downplay men's transgressions ...

2019, Michelle Ciurria, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility, Routledge, →ISBN:

... move in the political realm, particularly when they are challenging male authority. Female misogynists have made themselves visible in this era, being willing to exonerate, himpathize, and dismiss other women's concerns and accusations, were crucial to the outcome.

2019, L. H. Blumenfeld, Female Misogyny and Political Power, in Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, page 4

So here, as elsewhere, we ought to resist the pressure to himpathize. Incels have generated many headlines recently. It's easy to understand why, given the egregiously violent acts of misogyny some incels have committed.

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:

(feminism, rare) To exhibit himpathy; to inappropriately sympathize with men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


Cherufe

(mythology) A mythical man-eating creature in Mapuche mythology made of rock crystals and magma that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.


werebird

(fantasy, mythology) A being that can change between human and bird form.


Dyeus

Learned borrowing from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Jove and Zeus.

learned borrowing

Varuna may be related to Οὐρανός, and the inversion of the rôles of this deity and Dyeus as between India and Greece may indicate an ancient rival of the Sky-Father.

1926, V. Gordon Childe, The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins, page 81:

But these myths are on the whole of purely Greek origin, where the original Dyeus was associated with the Sun- and the Moon-myths.[…]Thus among the I.E.s we first have Dyeus, the god of the sky, who was the god of the sum total of the phenomena observed in the sky, the original conception, however powerful, being as yet too confused to have any definiteness about it.

1933, Panjabrao Deshmukh, The Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature, Oxford University Press, pages 93, 126:

ARYAN RELIGION, the religion of the Aryans who settled India and Iran in pre-Zoroastrian times evolved around a supreme sky god known as Dyeus, who was the Allfather of both gods and men and the consort of the Mother Earth.

1985, Roger Pearson, Anthropological Glossary, →ISBN, page 16:

Four or five thousand years ago (around 2500 b.c.) the Aryans, or Indo-Europeans, settled in Iran and India. Their supreme god was Dyeus (thence Zeus, deus, deity, and other words). Dyeus was the shining God of Sky, the giver of rain, the vanquisher of enemies with thunderbolts.

1990, Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 119:

“God” to the Aryans was male and took on many forms. Their major gods were connected to the sun, the most important were Agni, Indra, and Varunai. Their main god was Dyeus (Sky God).[…]Dyeus / The God of the Aryans.

2003, Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God: An A-Z Guide to Thoughts, Ideas, and Beliefs about God, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 23, 68:

The PIE peoples had called their chief god by almost the same name: Dyeus. Like Zeus, Dyeus was a male god of sky and thunder. The Romans picked up on Dyeus too. The name “Jupiter” came from dyeu-pater, PIE for god-father. Later on, the Romans equated Jupiter with Zeus, a kind of double derivation from Dyeus.

2018, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, “Chapter 2: Nature Before Nature”, in City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right, Princeton University Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page 19:

(linguistics, anthropology, mythology) The daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.


by extension

He argued that the failure of a democratic government, by extension, meant the failure of the people.

(logic) Used to connect the internal logic of two statements.


liberal feminism

en-noun

liberal feminism (countable and uncountable, plural liberal feminisms)

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism defined by its focus on achieving gender equality within the framework of liberal democracy and through political and legal reform


earth-diver

earth-divers (plural)
earth diver (alternative)

(mythology) A common character in various traditional creation myths who is sent by a supreme being into the primal waters to find substance (often sand or mud) with which to build habitable land.


neo-Fascism

Italian Social Republic
Italian Social Republic

(fascism, history) The ruling ideology of the Italian Social Republic.


theofascist

en-adj

theofascist (comparative more theofascist, superlative most theofascist)

more theofascist (comparative)
most theofascist (superlative)

(fascism, uncommon) Of or pertaining to theofascism; theocratically fascist.


theofascist

(fascism, uncommon) A proponent of theofascism; a theocratic fascist.


purposivism

(philosophy, religion) philosophy, especially religious, that treats will or conscious intent as a basal fact


Minyan

From Latin Minyes (from Ancient Greek Μινύες (Minúes)) + -an.

(Greek mythology) A member of a race said to be autochthonous to the Aegean area.


substituend

Borrowed from Latin substituendus; compare substituendum.

Each substituend SN, it seems, would amount to the same thing as its corresponding UN in SOME not very strained context.

1972, John King-Farlow, W.N. Christensen, “Probability and the 'Will to Believe'”, in Logic, Identity, and Consistency, D. Reidel, →ISBN, page 177:

Note that a variable is a substituend of a variable only in a vacuous sense , and so we shall be ignoring them while speaking of the substituends of a given variable.

1998, Pranab Kumar Sen, Logic, Identity, and Consistency (Studies in Philosophical and Non-Standard Logic; II), Allied Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:

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:

(logic, linguistics) A substitute; something that substitutes for another.


Aeaean

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to the mythical island of Aeaea.


teleophobia

From German Teleophobie in the late 19th century. The OED considers the word modern Latin, but the earliest appearance is in the writing of Karl Ernst von Baer in German in the 1860s. Whatever the immediate source it can be analyzed as teleo- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “purpose”) + -φοβία (-phobía, “-phobia”).

1912, Friedrich Paulsen, translated by Frank Thilly, Einleitung in die Philosophie [Introduction to Philosophy]:

v. Baer is evidently right: the current view is afflicted with teleophobia. It seems to me that he is also right in finding the reason for it, not in nature, but in the natural scientist's fear of a false teleology. Teleophobia is the reaction against the old teleology of design, which repudiated and wished to replace a causal explanation.

In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”

[1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, →DOI:

[…]the teleophobia of biologists and physicists should not be carried over to the human sciences.

1960, “New Books”, in Philosophy, volume 35, number 133:

(philosophy) Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.


snowmanness

It cannot be regarded as a spatio-temporally dispersed individual (like a football team) which has different properties (such as polar bearness or snowmanness) in different spatio-temporal regions.

1992, S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies, volume 4, page 68:

Or maybe being-a-snowman is just a way of describing some more fundamental property upon which snowmanness supervenes?

2010, Tamar Szabó Gendler, “Part II. Pretense, Imagination, and Belief”, “Imaginative Resistance”, “9. The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance (2000)”, in Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 193:

Furthermore, we can rate the degree of fuzziness. If something is a definite fact, it is given a value of 1. If it is definitely untrue, it is given the value of 0. For our snowman, if it is a perfect snowman it has the value of 1 and if it is a blob it has a value of 0. As the weather gradually wears away its snowmanness, its fuzzy value slowly moves from 1 down to 0.

2013, Ayub V. O. Ofulla, “Chapter One: Chaos-Order Relationships and the Ancient Concepts of Continuous Creations”, in The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge: How Understanding Things in the Physical Realm Nurtures Life, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 18:

(philosophy) The quality of being a snowman.


analysandum

(philosophy) A theory that lacks any fundamental explanation required for said theory to be sound

(philosophy) A misconception created by explaining without defining, or concluding without explaining

(philosophy) A certain way of speaking about a phenomenon, a way that creates logical and intuitive problems


Fólkvangr

(Norse mythology) A meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja, the afterlife for half of those people dying in combat, the other half going to Valhalla.


Hengist

Their captains were two brothers, called Hengist and Horsa.

1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 37:

(mythology) One of a pair of brothers (the other being Horsa) said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century, and to have been the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.


Querquetulanae

These Querquetulanae have an apparent, or barely possible, survival in the spirits called Querkeln in Bavaria.

2002, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion, page 106:

There weren't demons or vampires or fairies or shellycoats or Querquetulanae or any of that stuff.

2018, W. Stone Cotter, Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures:

They are partly associated with the Querquetulanae, the Roman nymphs of the oak grove.

2019, Maria Papachristos, Muses - Nymphs - Other Gods, page 55:

(Roman mythology) The nymphs of the oak grove.


Andvaranaut

(Norse mythology) A magical ring useful in locating sources of gold.


contrapositively

(logic) By the inverse of the converse of a given proposition.


alux

aluxes (plural)
aluxob (plural)
aluxe (alternative)

Borrowed from Yucatec Maya alux or via Spanish alux.

(mythology) A kind of sprite in the folklore of certain Maya peoples.


yinglong

(Chinese mythology) a winged dragon and rain deity in Chinese mythology


hulijing

(Chinese mythology) nine-tailed fox in Chinese mythology


epitheory

(philosophy of science) A theory based on a more fundamental theory or on a metatheory; A theory which doesn't describe all causes; handling some of them as givens, especially when other theories do analyze these givens.


Proserpine

(Roman mythology) Alternative form of Proserpina (“Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera”)


ban-hound

[T]hose dames were wont to make their appearance, arrayed in green, in the neighbourhood of Llyn Barfog, chiefly at eventide, accompanied by their kine and hounds, and that on quiet summer nights in particular, these ban-hounds were often to be heard in full cry pursuing their prey[.]

1853 July 12, Archaeologia Cambrensis, London: W. Pickering, page 203:

`Rash man!' she said; `like Actæon, thou hast had thy will; be careful lest, like Actæon, thou too dost perish miserably, torn to pieces by the ban-hounds of thine own passions.'

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(mythology) A dog that fulfills or executes a curse (ban).


aspective

The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.

1915, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind, page 507:

We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.

1977, William Powell Tuck, The Struggle for Meaning, page 78:

While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.

1985, Wallace Charles Smith, The Church in the Life of the Black Family, page 50:

The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.

2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism:

(philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.


Sag

For example, a Sag girl living on a farm could pick and chop cotton better than her brothers.

1996, Thelma Balfour, Black Sun Signs: An African-American Guide to the Zodiac, page 180:

If you have a Sag cat, it's going to be hard keeping it inside all the time - or even half the time. If you've got an animal that traditionally stays in cages, don't expect to have a real happy enclosed Sagittarian critter.

1998, Diana Nilsen, Your Pet's Horoscope, page 75:

(astrology, informal) Clipping of Sagittarius.


Mars effect

(astrology) A purported statistical correlation between a person's athletic success and the position of the planet Mars relative to the horizon at the time and place of their birth.


appeal to motive

en-noun

appeal to motive (plural appeals to motive)

(philosophy) A form of an ad hominem attack consisting of questioning someone's motives to dismiss their claim.


coalternate

(logic, of a set of propositions) mutually alternate


flaming sword

Acala
East Asian Buddhism
Flaming sword (mythology)
Khön clan of Sakya

He spake; and, to confirm his words, outflew
Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
Far round illumined Hell.

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost:

The dexter figure has five stars round the verge of his head, and a flaming sword in the left hand. The sinister figure has the same flaming sword coupled with a branch of olive.

1861 March 2, Patonce, Notes and Queries (2), volume 11, number 270, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, Queries, page 172:

A pair of scales are also used as a single symbol, excepting the flaming sword mentioned by your correspondent Mr. Vincent, to typify the Archangel Michael, in the same way that the white lily denotes the Archangel Gabriel. He is always represented by the ecclesiastical Byzantine painters as a young warrior of surpassing beauty, standing on the body of an old dead man, with wings expanded, and holding a flaming sword in his right, and a pair of scales in his left hand, in order to show that with the first he took his soul, and with the second he weighs the good and bad actions which the man had accomplished during his stay on earth.

1866 March 3, Rhodokanakis, “Saint Michael”, in Notes and Queries (3), volume 9, number 218, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, pages 181–182:

(mythology) A metal sword wreathed in or emitting flames, appearing as a symbol or supernatural weapon in many mythologies.

short sword customarily made with a flaming

(mythology) A sword with a blade composed of supernaturally solidified flames, appearing as a symbol or weapon in many mythologies.


hill-troll

There is a hill on the lands of Skjelverod near Bingsted called Kirsten's-hill (Kirsten's Bjerg). In it there lived a Hill-troll whose name was Skynd, who had from time to time stolen no less than three wives from a man in the village of Englerup.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 198:

"What shall I do now? he said. As soon as the king had had time to consider, he told him that he must go the hill-troll, who had taken his grandfather's sword.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:

(mythology) A troll that lives in or under a hill.


quodlibetal

(philosophy) Of or relating to quodlibet.


contrantiscion

(astrology) The point opposite an antiscion, having the opposing sign and degree.


uruisg

(European folklore, mythology) A brownie in Scottish folklore.


Absyrtus

(Greek mythology) A Colchian prince, the son of Aeëtes.


Apsyrtus

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Absyrtus


hedgehoggy

en-adj

hedgehoggy (comparative more hedgehoggy, superlative most hedgehoggy)

more hedgehoggy (comparative)
most hedgehoggy (superlative)

/ˈhɛd͡ʒhɒɡi/

For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."

2000, Charles H. Kramer, Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers, →ISBN, page 76:

The wary reader will at this point justifiably ask whether an endorsement of Hardin's model may commit us to the hedgehoggy, unidimensional thinking of apocalyptic ecologists and their IPAT equation, a position we found too rigid

2010 November 15, Bryan G. Norton, Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 233:

(chiefly philosophy) With a worldview based on a single overarching idea.


fascistlike

fascistlike (comparative more fascistlike, superlative most fascistlike)

more fascistlike (comparative)
most fascistlike (superlative)

Winterbotham introduced Rosenberg to Oliver Locker-Lampson, who was then the leader of a fascistlike organization called the Blueshirts.

1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 7, in Who Financed Hitler, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 308:

(fascism) Reminiscent of the Fascists; somewhat fascist.


bicorporeal

(astrology) Synonym of mutable (“being one of the signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, associated with adaptability, flexibility and sympathy”)


Bilskirnir

(Norse mythology) The hall of the god Thor in Asgard, containing 540 rooms.


Aaru

Learned borrowing from Egyptian jꜣrw (“reeds”) as rendered in the outdated 19th-century transcription scheme developed by Karl Richard Lepsius (ȧaru), part of the complete term sḫt-jꜣrw (literally “field of reeds”).

lbor

(Egyptian mythology) In ancient Egyptian mythology, the heavenly paradise where Osiris rules, described as boundless reed fields like those of the Nile Delta.


Aeacus

(Greek mythology) A king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, one of the three judges in Hades.


alchochoden

To his judicial astrology , And trowl the Trine , the Quartile , and the Sextile , Platic aspect , and Partile , with his Hyleg , Or Alchochoden , Cuspes , and Horoscope

1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(obsolete, UK, dialect, astrology) The planet which bears rule in the principal places of an astrological figure when a person is born.


monosyllogistic

(logic) Relating to, or expressed as a monosyllogism


Antilochus

From Ancient Greek Ἀντίλοχος (Antílokhos).

(Greek mythology) A prince of Pylos and one of the Achaeans in the Trojan War.


noninstrumentalist

(philosophy) One who opposes instrumentalism.


henism

(obsolete, philosophy) The theory that mind and matter are all the one type of substance


retrogradant

(obsolete, astronomy, astrology) retrograde


superfact

(philosophy) A fact that surpasses all others


metaphenomenal

(philosophy) That can only be perceived through abstract thought rather than by the senses.


pseudoproposition

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(philosophy, logic) A spurious or meaningless proposition


Velchanos

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ϝελχάνος (Welkhános). Possibly cognate with Chania on Crete. Also compare Veles, a Slavic god of nature and the underworld.

Welchanos (alternative)
Gelchanos (alternative)
Elchanos (alternative)

(Greek mythology) A god of the ancient Minoans, originally associated with vegetation but later conflated with Zeus.


quoddity

Coordinate term: quiddity

They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――

1744, A Dialogue Between the Rev. Mr. Jenkin Evans and Mr. Peter Dobson, concerning Bishops., London: M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row, →OCLC, page 37:

(philosophy) The individual identity of something.


Iphimedeia

From Ancient Greek Ἰφιμέδεια (Iphimédeia).

(Greek mythology) A Thessalian princess, the daughter of Triopas of Thessaly (a son of Poseidon and Canace).


Firbolg

Firbholg (alternative)
Fir Bholg (alternative)
Fir Bolg (alternative)

(Irish mythology) The fourth group of people to settle in Ireland, descended from the Muintir Nemid, an earlier group who abandoned Ireland and went to different parts of Europe.


eubouliatic

From Ancient Greek εὐβουλία (euboulía) + -tic.

On the basis of the last square of opposition, Anderson [1968] suggests christening the topic (provided that it is worth pursuing) eubouliatic logic, the logic of prudence and related concepts, just as deontic logic is the logic of obligation and related concepts.

1987, Introduction to Deontic Logic and the Theory of Normative Systems:

(logic, rare) Pertaining to the modality of safety or prudence.


Jupiterian

en-adj

Jupiterian (comparative more Jupiterian, superlative most Jupiterian)

more Jupiterian (comparative)
most Jupiterian (superlative)

(astrology, rare) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.


Moism

(Chinese philosophy) Alternative form of Mohism


aprioricity

On the other hand, positive philosophy is empirical aprioricity, or it is the empiricism of the a priori, to the extent that it proves itself the prius per posterius as God.

2010 July 21, Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1-15, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 695:

He claims that Kant's transcendental proofs, at least of the necessity of the law of causality, are not directed towards establishing the truth or validity of causal law, but only its aprioricity.

2015 January 30, Dale Jacquette, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Routledge, →ISBN:

(philosophy) Alternative form of apriority.


sorites paradox

en-noun

sorites paradox (plural sorites paradoxes)

(logic) A paradox arising from vague predicates and repeatedly applying a small difference. For example, removing one grain from a heap of sand still leaves a heap, yet removing enough grains will eventually not leave a heap.


self-recognition

(philosophy) The experience of one's own life, personality, etc.; recognition of oneself as a full-bodied individual.


effective altruism

This is the language of effective altruism — or E.A. — a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to do good. Bankman-Fried had long flaunted his E.A. bona fides to distinguish himself from other crypto billionaires.

2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times:

He is a supposedly serious young man who was celebrated in the corridors of power not only as a financial savant but also—through his highly publicized philanthropy and conspicuous association with the “effective altruism” movement—as a moral genius.

2023 January 25, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The People Who Don’t Read Books”, in The Atlantic:

(ethics, philosophy) A philosophy and social movement that advocates the use of evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others.


hyperproperty

(logic, physics) A generalisation of a property (or sets of properties)


Melqart

From Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕 (mlqrt), probably from 𐤌𐤋𐤊 (mlk, “king”) + 𐤒𐤓𐤕 (qrt, “city”) (compare Hebrew קרת (qeret)), literally meaning "king of the city".

Melcarth (alternative)
Melicarthus (alternative)
Melkart (alternative)

(mythology) The Phoenician god of the city of Tyre


paralogistic

(logic) Relating to paralogy; fallacious


metacogitate

en-verb

metacogitate (third-person singular simple present metacogitates, present participle metacogitating, simple past and past participle metacogitated)

metacogitates (present singular third-person)
metacogitating (participle present)
metacogitated (participle past)
metacogitated (past)

(philosophy) To think about thought itself


Dahut

(mythology) The daughter of Gradlon, king of the city of Ys.


Poseidonia

From Latin Poseidonia, from Ancient Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidōnía); or directly from Greek Ποσειδωνία (Poseidonía). From Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn) + -ία (-ía). Equivalent to Poseidon + -ia.

(Greek mythology) Synonym of Athens, from the myth The Gift of Athena about the origin of Athens.


ideogenetic

In such an ideogenetic theory, the mind does not form the species, as Matthew claims, but sensation begins with a reception.

1960, Helen Marie Beha, Matthew of Aquasparta's Theory of Cognition:

This extreme ideogenetic view would make the function of divine illumination that of a kind of separate active intellect: in fact, God would Himself be an ontologically separate active intellect which infuses ideas into the human mind […]

2003, Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy, page 64:

In his ideogenetic view, these fixed ideas constitute the very heart of the symptoms of the disorder. A patient with traumatic hysteria with a paralyzed leg would thus have developed the fixed idea that his leg had become paralyzed […]

2015, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, The Trinity of Trauma, page 30:

(philosophy) Originating ideas or images.


Hlidhskjalf

(Norse mythology) Odin's cloud-throne above Asgard.


primitive notion

en-noun

primitive notion (plural primitive notions)

In geometry, points and lines are primitive notions.

We do not find the primitive notion of cause in the action of the will on our nervous and muscular organization, and much less in the force communicated by the muscles to external objects. A perfect paralysis of the muscles could not prevent the internal act of the will. The primitive notion of personal cause, to wit, our own will, becomes the type and condition of the notion of cause in general, and of external impersonal causes.

1874, Louis Eugène Marie Bautain, Epitome of the history of philosophy, New York:Harper:

(philosophy) A concept that cannot be defined in terms of other concepts.


kenlore

From ken + lore, used by William Kingdon Clifford to translate the German Erkenntnistheorie.

(philosophy) epistemology; theory of knowledge


metaphysical naturalism

(philosophy, metaphysics) Philosophical worldview which holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences.

naturalisme métaphysique

the view that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations


onticity

(philosophy, metaphysics) One's ontic attributes.


double effect

(philosophy) The situation where an otherwise legitimate act (for example, relieving a terminally ill patient's pain) may also cause an effect one would otherwise be obliged to avoid (e.g. sedation and a slightly shortened life).


Lityerses

From Ancient Greek Λιτυέρσης (Lituérsēs).

(Greek mythology) An illegitimate son of Midas (or of Comis) and Demeter, who challenged people to harvesting contests and beheaded those he beat, putting the rest of their bodies in the sheaves. Heracles won the contest and killed him.


Pygmalion

From Ancient Greek Πυγμαλίων (Pugmalíōn), from Phoenician 𐤐𐤏𐤌𐤉𐤕𐤍 (pʿmytn /puġ‘mayaton/), from Phoenician 𐤐𐤌𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤍 (pmyytn /pumayyaton/, “Pumay has given”), from Phoenician 𐤐𐤌𐤉 (pmy, “Pumay”) + Phoenician 𐤉𐤕𐤍 (ytn /yaton/, “to give”).

der

(Greek mythology) A legendary sculptor who was granted the wish of having life given to a sculpture of his which he fell deeply in love with.


Mixcoatl

(mythology) The god of the hunt, identified with the Milky Way, stars, and heavens, in several Mesoamerican cultures.


Camaxtli

(mythology) Synonym of Mixcoatl (“Mesoamerican god of the hunt”)


Campe

(Greek mythology) A female monster, the guard in Tartarus of the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers, whom Cronus, ruler of the Titans, had imprisoned there.


Skinfaxi

Coordinate term: Hrimfaxi

(Norse mythology) The horse ridden by Dagr (day).


Hrimfaxi

Coordinate term: Skinfaxi

(Norse mythology) The horse ridden by Nótt (night).


otherwiseness

The invalidity of a cognition is the otherwiseness of its object, and is known by a sublating cognition. The illusory cognition of silver knows illusory silver, but does not know its otherwiseness.

1973, Jadunath Sinha, A History of Indian Philosophy, volume 4, page 174:

(philosophy) The quality of being otherwise.


Elatha

Elotha (alternative)
Elier (alternative)
Elada (alternative)

(Irish mythology) A king of the Fomorians and the father of Bres by Ériu of the Tuatha Dé Danann, as well as Delbaeth, Ogma, Elloth (grandfather of Manannán mac Lir), and the Dagda by an unnamed mother.


Eteoclus

(Greek mythology) The son of Iphis, who participated in the war on Thebes.


dialogicity

(philosophy) The state in which the self is fundamentally connected to others, oneself, and the world, via dialogue.


Glitnir

(Norse mythology) The hall of Forseti, the Norse god of law and justice, and the seat of justice amongst gods and men.


Phthonus

From Ancient Greek Φθόνος (Phthónos, “Phthonos, god of envy and jealousy”), from φθόνος (phthónos, “envy, jealousy”).

bor

Coordinate term: Invidia

(Greek mythology) The god of jealousy and envy.


karmic debt

en-noun

karmic debt (countable and uncountable, plural karmic debts)

From karmic + debt. First use appears c. 1888.

(New Age, mysticism, metaphysics, spirituality) The accumulation of negative energy resulting from misdeeds in one's past.

metaphysics; spirituality; metaphysics; spirituality


Buridan's bridge

(philosophy) A self-referential paradox involving a proposition pronounced about an event that might or might not happen in the future. Socrates wishes to cross a bridge guarded by Plato, who says that if the next proposition Socrates utters is true, Socrates will be permitted to cross, but otherwise he will be thrown into the water. Socrates replies, "You will throw me into the water." Plato is then in a paradoxical situation regarding how to treat Socrates.


Polymestor

From Ancient Greek Πολυμήστωρ (Polumḗstōr).

(Greek mythology) A king of Thrace whose wife was Ilione, the eldest daughter of King Priam.


Polymnestor

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Polymestor


modus morons

1. If P, then Q.

2. Q.

3. Therefore P.

(logic) An invalid argument, which has this form:


Jinnestan

Jinnestan was the common appellation of the whole of this ideal region.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 28:

(mythology) The mythical realm of the jinn.


Nephele

(Greek mythology) A cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle.


Tritoness

(Greek mythology) A female spirit of the sea.


Buridan formula

Named in honour of the medieval philosopher Jean Buridan.

(logic) In quantified modal logic, the formula ◇∀xFx→∀x◇Fx, meaning "if possibly everything is F, then everything is possibly F".


Barcan formula

Introduced by the logician Ruth Barcan Marcus.

(logic) In quantified modal logic, the formula ∀x□Fx→□∀xFx, meaning "if every x is necessarily F, then it is necessary that every x is F".


fuzzy math

(logic) A form of logic based on the concept of a fuzzy set.


Heroic Age

(mythology) One of the five Ages of Man, the period at which semidivine and human heroes are purported to have lived, between the arrival of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek return from Troy.


ontology alignment

(philosophy, information science) The process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies.


Hume's fork

Named after philosopher David Hume (1711–1776).

named-after

Hume's Fork would belong to the category of sophistry and illusion. As Hume's Fork is presented as a tool with which knowable propositions can be distinguished from nonsensical ones, critics need to show that the two categories of knowable propositions are inadequate, or that nonsensical propositions can be true or false.

2020, Jean-Etienne Joullié, Robert Spillane, The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 105:

(epistemology) A tenet asserting that all statements are exclusively either "analytic a priori" (universally true by mere definition) or "synthetic a posteriori" (unknowable without exact experience).


Idomenean

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Idomeneus.