pelicanist

From pelican + -ist. Coined by Jerome Clark in reference to claims that Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO sighting was pelicans.

Kottmeyer and others who use the psychosocial hypothesis constantly produce evidence to support their ideas, whereas the ETH proponents can produce only cranky ideas about magnetic, anti-gravity or interdimensional saucers, accompanied by a constant whining about "sceptics" and "debunkers" (not to mention "armchair ufologists" and "pelicanists").

2000 November 22, “Blue Resonant Human” (username), “::: Should Saucers Spin? :::”, in alt.alien.research, Usenet

Meanwhile, those of us who’ve experienced UFOs in various ways are called mentally ill, intellectually challenged, spiritually needy, liars, drunks, drug users, attention getters, drama queens, and more. Those all are worse than being called a thug, skeptibunkie, or Pelicanist. (Pelicanist is a term coined by UFO researcher Jerome Clark.)

2006 September 12, “LordOfThyNight” (username), “The Usual Purple Tinged Hyperbole About UFOs”, in The Paranormal & Ghost Society, Usenet

As opposed to... Skepticism of the pelicanist flavor perhaps ?

2009 November 29, “Tom Booth” (username), “For Serena,”, in alt.fan.landmark, Usenet

(chiefly ufology, derogatory) Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.


Tall White

All of the Tall White scout craft were very high performance vehicles.

2007, Charles James Hall, Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours, AuthorHouse, page 322:

No one is sure when the Tall Whites arrived on earth, some saying in the Pre-Columbian period […]

2007, Gregory L. Reece, UFO religion: inside flying saucer cults and culture, I. B. Tauris, page 76:

However, in the years that followed, such descriptions became so common that this type of alien became known as the Tall White.

2011, Stuart A. Kallen, Aliens, ReferencePoint Press, page 26:

(ufology) A member of a certain race of extraterrestrials


antinihilistic

en-adj

antinihilistic (comparative more antinihilistic, superlative most antinihilistic)

more antinihilistic (comparative)
most antinihilistic (superlative)


Cabeiri

Cabiri (alternative)
Cabbiri (alternative)
Kabeiroi (alternative)
Kabiri (alternative)

(Greek mythology) A group of enigmatic chthonic deities worshipped by a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus.


intentional species

en-noun

intentional species (plural intentional species)

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


Baroko

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Bokardo

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

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

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


Ææa

Hence she is not merely the personification of the rosy morn, but also of twilight, for which reason her palace is placed in the west, on the island Ææa.

19th century, Unknown, Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, page 67:

(Greek mythology) Archaic form of Aeaea.


Andromache

From Latin Andromachē, from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομάχη (Andromákhē).


aboveness

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

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

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of being above.


belowness

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of being below.


besideness

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

1977, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Appearance:

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of being beside.


nahual

Borrowed from Spanish nahual, from Classical Nahuatl nāhualli (“sorcerer, spirit, animal form a person may take”).

der

She has a nahual for every day of the week.

They suspected that the man was a nahual.

(Mesoamerican mythology) A person who is able to take an animal form.


metaproperty

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

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

(computing, philosophy) A property of a property.


Anemoi

(Greek mythology) The four Greek gods of the winds (Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus, who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came), considered collectively.


Astra Planeta

(Greek mythology) The five Greek gods of the "Wandering Stars", (i.e. "planets"), (Phaenon (Saturn), Phaethon (Jupiter), Pyroeis (Mars), Eosphorus/Hesperus (Venus), and Stilbon (Mercury). They were the sons of the Eos (goddess of the dawn) and Astraeus (god of the dusk), and their siblings were the four Anemoi ("winds").


semiquadrate

(astrology) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other by half a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half.


Atreid

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀτρείδης (Atreídēs). By surface analysis, Atreus + -id.

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Ancient tradition said that Mycenae was founded by the Perseid dynasty and that the Atreids (Pelops, Atreus, Agamemnon) were outsiders.

1998, Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan War, page 157:

While in the Oresteia sacrifice operated as a metaphor for the intrafamilial murders of the Atreids, among the Taurians the metaphor takes on materiality.

1999, Barbara Goff, “The Violence of Community: Ritual in the Iphigenia in Tauris”, in Mark William Padilla, editor, Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece: Literature, Religion, Society, page 112:

The family history of the Atreids is so complicated you'd need a flow chart to get it; what's more, that chart would flow with the blood of doomed family members. Situated in Mycenae, the Atreids were a brutal and competitive bunch; they worked hard to outdo each other with generation after generation of heinous crimes.

2010, Chiron the Centaur, The Mythic Warrior's Handbook, page 28:

(Greek mythology) Any of the family and descendants of the mythical Mycenaean king Atreus, including either of his sons Menelaus and Agamemnon, who both feature in the Iliad.


heracleid

(Greek mythology) Any member of the Heracleidae, the descendants of Hercules.


Heraclid

(Greek mythology) One of the Heracleidae, or descendants of Heracles.


noncognitivism

en-noun

noncognitivism (countable and uncountable, plural noncognitivisms)

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


neleid

(Greek mythology) Any member of the Neleidae, the descendants of Neleus.


tyndarid

From Ancient Greek Τυνδαρίδας (Tundarídas).

(Greek mythology) One of the twins Castor and Pollux, sons of Tyndareus


water

water (countable and uncountable, plural waters)

waters (plural)
wahter (alternative)
wahtuh (alternative)

desc

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: wata

Aukan: wataa

Australian Kriol: woda

Belizean Creole: waata

Bislama: wota

Cameroon Pidgin: wata

Grenadian Creole English: wata

Gullah: wata

Islander Creole English: waata

Jamaican Creole: wata

Krio: wata

Nicaraguan Creole: wáta

Pichinglis: wàtá

Pijin: wata

Pitcairn-Norfolk: worta

Saramaccan: wáta

Sranan Tongo: watra

Tok Pisin: wara

→ American Sign Language: 6@Chin

→ Catalan: vàter

→ Spanish: váter

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
From Middle English water, from Old English wæter (“water”), from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”).
Cognates
Cognate with cf, North Frisian weeter (“water”), Saterland Frisian Woater (“water”), West Frisian wetter (“water”), Dutch water (“water”), Low German Water (“water”), German Wasser, Old Norse vatn (Swedish vatten (“water”), Danish vand (“water”), Norwegian Bokmål vann (“water”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic vatn (“water”), Old Irish coin fodorne (“otters”, literally “water-dogs”), Latin unda (“wave”), Lithuanian vanduõ (“water”), Russian вода́ (vodá, “water”), Albanian ujë (“water”), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), Armenian գետ (get, “river”), Sanskrit उदन् (udán, “wave, water”), Hittite 𒉿𒀀𒋻 (wa-a-tar).

cog

Northern England, dated; obsolete elsewhere

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

every miller draws water to his own mill

the mill cannot grind with water that is past

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

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

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

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

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

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

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


Menae

(Greek mythology) The 50 goddesses of the lunar months within a four-year Olympiad. They were the daughters of the Moon goddess, Selene, and her lover, Endymion, a mortal king. Their individual names are not attested in any sources. Singular: Mene.


partile

(astrology, of planets) joined in aspect by a perfect measure, with no variance


sentential logic

en-noun

sentential logic (plural sentential logics)

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


Skolemization

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

existential quantifier
existential quantifier

universal quantifier
universal quantifier

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


Herbrandization

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

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


double turnstile

double turnstile (plural double turnstiles)

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


emergentism

emergentism (countable and uncountable, plural emergentisms)

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


emergentist

(philosophy) One who subscribes to emergentism.


Phlegethon

/ˈflɛd͡ʒɪθɒn/

/ˈflɛd͡ʒɪθɑn/

From Latin Phlegethōn, from Ancient Greek Φλεγέθων (Phlegéthōn).

Firebrand of hell first tynd in Phlegeton, / By thousand furies, and from thence out throwen / Into this world, to worke confusion, / And set it all on fire by force vnknowen / Is wicked discord [...].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Consumed by the tongues ov fire / burning like Phlegethon / holy gardens reduced to ash

(Greek mythology) A river of fire in Hades.


superorganicism

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


superdupervenience

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

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


antihistoricism

antihistoricism (countable and uncountable, plural antihistoricisms)

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

anti-historicismo

any aesthetic that rejects traditions and historicism


analogon

From the neuter of Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (análogos).

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


Lernean

(Greek mythology, archaeology) From or pertaining to Lerna, a former coastal lake and Helladic site on the Peloponnese.


antizombie

antizombies (plural)
anti-zombie (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


bluecap

(mythology, mining) A tiny blue-skinned fairy that inhabits a mine and helps the miners.


stoichiology

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

uder

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


Daphnean

(mythology) Of or relating to the naiad Daphne in Greek mythology.


Good

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

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

calque

ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα

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


merrow

Hiberno-English, from Irish murúch (“mermaid”).

(Celtic mythology, mythology) A merman or mermaid in Scottish and Irish Gaelic folklore.


aretaics

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

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

1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals:

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


right to work

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

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

工作權 /工作权

the fundamental human right to have employment


absolute idea

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


Salamis

(Greek mythology) A nymph, the daughter of Asopus and Metope, who was carried away by Poseidon to the island that bears her name.


Yang

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


Achelous

From Latin Achelōus, from Attic Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios), Epic Greek Ἀχελώϊος (Akhelṓïos), which is probably from Akkadian aḫu/aḫû + illu/elu/ilu; see also Etruscan [script needed] (Axlei) and [script needed] (Αυκηλως), which are probably from Akkadian aklu (“chieftain”) and Sumerian akil.

Acheloos (alternative)
Akheloos (alternative)
Acheloios (alternative)

(Greek mythology) Deity of water; later, patron deity of the Achelous River.


Aether

From Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “upper air”). Doublet of Ether.

der

(Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.


quantum logic

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

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

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


Bors

(mythology) Either of two knights in Arthurian legend, an elder and a younger.


earthly branch

en-noun

earthly branch (plural earthly branches)

branca terrestre

set of twelve terms in East Asian cultures

One of the twelve terms used in East Asian cultures to represent

(astrology) The twelve animals representing the Chinese zodiac, (particularly) as a birthyear.


heavenly stem

One of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent

(historical or astrology) A day of the traditional ten-day week.

(mythology) One of the ten suns thought to appear in succession on its appointed day of the traditional week.


doctrine of necessity

duress of circumstances

principle of preservation of greater utilitarian value

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

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

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


Hemera

(Greek mythology) The personification and elemental goddess of the day. Her husband is Aether.


Pax

(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of peace and one of the Horae. She is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Justitia and Eunomia. She is the Roman counterpart of Eirene.


scepsis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Macaria

From Ancient Greek Μακαρία (Makaría, literally “she who is blessed”).

(Greek mythology) A little-known daughter of Hades.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Heracles/Hercules.


Melinoe

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(Greek mythology) An obscure figure, a daughter of Persephone and Zeus, or a daughter of Hades and Persephone, represented as a bringer of nightmares and madness.


Mania

From Latin Mania, related to manes (“spirits of the dead”).

(Roman mythology) The goddess of the dead and ghosts.


Procris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πρόκρις (Prókris).

(Greek mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, the daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and his wife Praxithea.


psychagogy

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

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

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

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

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

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

(religion, philosophy) Guidance of the soul.


nomic

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

der

(sciences, philosophy) Relating to a law.


Iacchus

Iacchos (alternative)
Iakchos (alternative)
Iakkhos (alternative)

(Greek mythology) A minor deity of some cultic importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries.


apodeictical

en-adj

apodeictical (comparative more apodeictical, superlative most apodeictical)

more apodeictical (comparative)
most apodeictical (superlative)


completory

completory (comparative more completory, superlative most completory)

more completory (comparative)
most completory (superlative)

completory of ancient presignifications

a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Suffered under Pontius Pilate”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:


permissivist

(epistemology) A supporter of permissivism.


Stygian

Stygian (comparative more Stygian, superlative most Stygian)

more Stygian (comparative)
most Stygian (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.


Priapean

Priapean (comparative more Priapean, superlative most Priapean)

more Priapean (comparative)
most Priapean (superlative)

Πρίαπος Πρίαπος

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Priapus or Priapos (Ancient Greek: Πρίαπος), a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia.


Tír na nÓg

Borrowed from Irish Tír na nÓg (literally “land of the young”), from Old Irish Tír inna n-Óc. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Tìr nan Òg, Manx Çheer ny Aeg.

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In the old Irish folklore, this is a land where no one gets old or sick and where heroes live in comfort and tranquillity. But the land of Tír na nÓg only materialises to mere mortals at certain times, under certain circumstances.

2013, John Jacob English, Fragile Blue, AuthorHouse, page 40:

Tír na nÓg is not an afterlife analogous to the Christian concept of heaven but an Otherworld of earthly paradise that is home to the genealogical ancestors of the fairies, the Tuatha Dé Danaan.

2016, Christopher Collins, Theatre and Residual Culture, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), page 261:

Grafting Tír na nÓg, the mythical land of eternal youth in Irish mythology, onto the Greek tragic tale is a stark and unexpected move.

2020, Isabelle Torrance, “Post-Ceasefire Antigones and Northern Ireland”, in Isabelle Torrance, Donncha O'Rourke, editors, Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016, Oxford University Press, page 338:

(Irish mythology) The Land of (eternal) Youth; one of the names for the Celtic otherworld (or possibly a part thereof).


akashvani

Borrowed from Sanskrit आकाशवाणी (ākāśavāṇī, “celestial announcement from the sky, or voice from the sky/heaven”); probably through Hindi आकाशवाणी (ākāśvāṇī) or another Indic language with schwa deletion.

bor

Hindi आकाशवाणी (ākāśvāṇī)

In Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology, akashvanis often featured in stories as a medium of communication from the heavens to mankind.

(Hinduism, mythology) A gift or message from heaven.

Akashvani (term)
Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages


postphenomenology

en-noun

postphenomenology (usually uncountable, plural postphenomenologies)

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


Hippocrene

Ancient Greek Ἱπποκρήνη (Hippokrḗnē, literally “horse spring”)

uder

O for a beaker full of the warm South, / Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, / With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, / And purple-stained mouth; […]

1819, John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 108:

Maddening draughts of Hippocrene.

1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Goblet of Life:

(Greek mythology) A fountain on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses and formed by the hooves of Pegasus, the waters of which were supposed to give poetic inspiration when imbibed.


reptoid

(ufology) A member of an extraterrestrial sapient species said to resemble a reptile, often ascribed shapeshifting capabilities and implicated in many conspiracy theories.


antiutilitarian

en-adj

antiutilitarian (comparative more antiutilitarian, superlative most antiutilitarian)

more antiutilitarian (comparative)
most antiutilitarian (superlative)


prioritarianism

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


antiutilitarianism

(philosophy) Opposition to utilitarianism.


eigenvariable

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


antipsychologist

(philosophy) A proponent of antipsychologism.


antiessentialism

(philosophy) Opposition to essentialism.


antiempiricist

(philosophy) One who opposes empiricism.


Niflheim

From Old Norse Niflheimr (literally “world of mist”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nibilaz (“dark, misty”), from *nebulaz (“fog, mist, darkness”) + *haimaz (“home, house, village”).

bor

(Norse mythology) In Germanic and Norse cosmology, the Norse underworld, location of the domain Hel and of the realm of Hel, the goddess of the dead.


efficient cause

en-noun

efficient cause (plural efficient causes)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


material cause

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

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


formal cause

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

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


final cause

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

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


Amun

From Coptic ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ (amoun), from Egyptian jmn (“the god Amun”). The variant forms Ammon and Amon are from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων (Ámmōn), from the same Egyptian source. The variant Amen is from Ȧmen, Lepsius’s obsolete 19th century transcription of the original Egyptian word.

Ammon (alternative)
Amon (alternative)
Amen (alternative)

The hornèd patriarch of the sheep,
 Like Egypt's Amun roused from sleep,
 Shook his sage head with gesture mute,
 And emphasized with stamp of foot.

1866, John G. Whittier, Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl:

(Egyptian mythology) An Egyptian wind deity associated with the town of Thebes; later (post-16th century BCE) the creator deity, often depicted with curling ram horns.


kolovrat

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolovortъ. In historical records, similar symbols were recorded as ладинец (ladinec) in Russian or słoneczko in Polish.
This spelling was influenced by Russian коловра́т (kolovrát), the more well-known form of the symbol invented by the neo-pagan leader Alexey Dobrovolsky in the 1990s.

In contrast, Krasnodar respondents were keen to differentiate between the kolovrat and the swastika, while recognizing the symbolic connections between them: […]

2009, George McKay, Michael Goddard, Christopher Williams, Neil Foxlee, editors, Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 284:

(paganism, politics, fascism, nationalism) An eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.


Fafnir

(Norse mythology) a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar, who killed his father, transformed into a lindworm, a type of dragon, and was subsequently slain by Regin and Sigurd.


Gullinbursti

Borrowed from Old Norse Gullinbursti (“Golden-bristled”); sometimes known as Slíðrugtanni.

bor+

(Norse mythology) A giant bronze mechanical boar forged by Brokkr and Eitri as a gift for the god Freyr.

Gyldenbørste

a mechanical male boar in Norse mythology


Jörmungandr

/ˈjɔɹmunˌɡɑndɹ̩/

The dragon Jörmungandr, for instance, was said to encircle the entire world of Midgard (where people live). To complete the circle, he bit his own tail.

2006, Stephen Krensky, Dragons, page 28:

The ultimate symbol of evil, the Midgard Serpent or Jörmungandr, was the offspring of the trickster Loki and the sorceress Angur-boda, who also gave birth to Hel (the queen of the dead) and the Fenris Wolf (see page 239).

2006, Ruth Binney, Nature's Ways: Lore, Legend, Fact and Fiction, page 234:

Thus the Aegypto-Greek Ourobouros or Norse Jörmungandr (Midgard serpent) surrounds the cosmos, biting its own tail in a symbol of perpetuity and infinity, never ending, always regenerating.

2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, page 70:

(Norse mythology) The World Serpent or Midgard Serpent, an offspring of Loki, which is thrown into the ocean by Odin but grows to encircle the world, and is finally slain during Ragnarok by Thor, who then succumbs to its poisonous breath.


Muninn

(Norse mythology) One of a pair of ravens, the other being Huginn, who fly throughout the entire world and report any unusual events back to Odin. They are essentially Odin's messengers.


Deianira

/ˌdiːəˈnaɪəɹə/

/ˌdeɪ.əˈnaɪəɹə/

From Latin Dēianīra, from Ancient Greek Δῃάνειρα (Dēiáneira, literally “hostile to her husband”).

der

(Greek mythology) The third wife of Heracles.


Deidamia

From Ancient Greek Δηϊδάμεια (Dēïdámeia).

(Greek mythology) the daughter of King Lycomedes of Scyros


Phlegyas

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φλεγύας (Phlegúas).


Semele

(Greek mythology) The mother of Dionysus.


archy

If archy in all forms has brought mankind grief, it follows that the remedy is repudiation. The repudiation of archy is anarchy. Anarchy is therefore the goal of freedom-seeking mankind. Whoever seeks freedom, advances anarchy.

1980, Frederic Trautmann, The Voice of Terror: A Biography of Johann Most, Praeger Pub Text:

It is not our intention here to settle the archy-versus-anarchy debate.

2010, Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J.Den Uyl, Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 338:

There are only two alternatives, in reality: political rule, or archy, which means: the condition of social existence where in some men use aggression to dominate or rule another, and anarchy, which is the absence of the initiation of force, the absence of political rule, the absence of the state.

2017, Edward P. Stringham, Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, Routledge, →ISBN, page 257:

(anarchism, usually derogatory) A political theory or practice that supports hierarchy and authority; the opposite of anarchy.


Bennu

Borrowed from Egyptian bnw. Doublet of phoenix.

1830, "E. H.", Fragments on Egyptian Literature, Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, page 349,
One compound name, of which it is an element, is that of the city, from which the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile was denominated Sebennu, that is, "the temple of Bennu," a god, who was represented in the form of a waterfowl, and whose phonetic name is of frequent occurrence.

2014, J. Daniel Gunther, The Angel & The Abyss, Nicolas-Hays, Inc. (Ibis Press), page 113,
15 The Uas Sceptre is the origin of the “Phoenix Wand”, which is the Wand of the Imperator of A!∴!A!∴,. The head of the wand was not originally a Bennu Bird, but the head of the god Set. The identification with the Bennu seems to have originated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

(Egyptian mythology, often with "the") A self-created deity with the form of a bird (in New Kingdom artwork, a heron) that features in the ancient Egyptian creation myth and is also described as the ba (soul) of Ra.


neutrosophic

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

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

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


navamsa

(astrology) In Vedic astrology, a ninth part or division of a zodiac sign.


intraterrestrial

(ufology) any of a race of sapient beings who live inside the Earth and operate UFOs


synesis

en-noun

synesis (usually uncountable, plural syneses)

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

uder

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


swamp gas

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* (hydrogen sulfide): So called because it is often emitted from wetlands such as swamps as a result of anaerobic bacteria, and is responsible for their foul “rotten egg” odor.
* (ufology): An explanation given by then-skeptic J. Allen Hynek for an alleged UFO sighting in Michigan near Lake Huron in 1966.

He explained away an especially peculiar sighting with another helping of good old swamp gas.

(ufology, sarcastic) A skeptical explanation that is provided in order to debunk a UFO sighting that a believer regards as ludicrous, illogical or disingenuous.


hupokeimenon

hupokeimena (plural)
hypokeimenon (alternative)

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

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


Amatsumara

Borrowed from Japanese 天津麻羅 (Amatsumara).

bor+

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) the Japanese god of the forge, metalcraft, and blacksmithing.


Kajishin

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) the Japanese god of the forge, metalcraft, and blacksmithing


Enma

From Japanese 閻魔 (Enma). Doublet of Yama.

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese name for Yama, the Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese god who presides over naraku (hell). A deity and/or personification of death. (Compare Izanami and the Shinigami.)


Konohananosakuya-hime

Borrowed from Japanese 木花咲耶姫 (Konohanasakuya-hime).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The goddess of Mount Fuji; the blossom-princess, and the symbol of delicate earthly life.


Ame-no-Uzume

Borrowed from Japanese 天宇受売命, 天鈿女命 (あめのうずめ, Ame-no-Uzume).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese goddess of the dawn, joy and of springtime.

أَمِه نُو أُوزُومِه

Japanese goddess of dawn, joy and springtime


Jurōjin

Borrowed from Japanese 寿老人 (Jurōjin), from Middle Chinese 壽 (dʒjùw, “longevity”) + 老 (láw, “old”) + 人 (nyin, “person”).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of longevity. One of the seven gods of luck.


Hotei

From Japanese 布袋 (Hotei), from Middle Chinese 布袋 (MC puH dojH, “cloth sack”) (compare Mandarin 布袋 (Bùdài), Vietnamese Bố Đại), by metonymy "Man with the cloth sack", the "Laughing Buddha" figure associated with the Maitreya Buddha.

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Chinese god Budai, the fat and happy god of abundance and good health, and one of the seven gods of luck.


Bishamonten

(mythology, Buddhism, Shinto) The Japanese name for the Buddhist god Vaiśravaṇa, guardian of the North and a patron god of warriors in Japan.


Daikokuten

(Japanese mythology, Buddhism, Shinto) The Japanese name for Mahākāla, a Buddhist god of wealth, commerce and trade. In Japanese folk tradition, he is one of the seven gods of luck. In Shinto, he is syncretized with the deity Ōkuninushi. Daikokuten is often depicted paired with Ebisu in statuary or in the form of masks on the walls of small retail shops.


Ebisu

Borrowed from Japanese 恵比須, 恵比寿, 夷, 戎 (Ebisu).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of fishing and commerce. One of the seven gods of luck.


univocity

en-noun

univocity (countable and uncountable, plural univocities)

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

Some analogies are deliberate equivocities and others are univocities.

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

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

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

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


Kagutsuchi

Borrowed from Japanese 迦具土 (かぐつち, Kagutsuchi), originally a compound of かぐ (kagu, obsolete verb root meaning “to shine, to sparkle”) + つ (tsu, Old Japanese possessive particle) + ち (chi, “power, life force”).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of fire, son of Izanagi and Izanami and brother of Amaterasu, Susanoo, Tsukuyomi and Ōyamatsumi; he burned his mother to death while being born.


Yakushi Nyorai

(Japanese mythology, Buddhism) The Japanese name for Bhaiṣajyaguru, the Buddha of medicine.


Nibelung

Nibelung (plural Nibelungs or Nibelungen)

From German Nibelung, singular form corresponding to plural Nibelungen; from Old High German nibel (“mist”) + patronymic ending -ung, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz + *-ungō.

[…] and at the same Time flattered himself, that the Lombards and People of Acquitaine, whom he had lately conquered, having Kings of their own, would not be so easily tempted to shake off the Yoke, as if their Countries were made Provinces of France. [footnote] Eginhard. in vit. Carol. Chron. Nibelung. in appendice. Annal. Moiffiac.

1759, Archibald Bower, The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to the Present Time, volume 4, London: Author, Hadrian, Ninety—Fourth Bishop of Rome, page 62:

The Song of the Nibelungen, and the Lament.

1814, Robert Jamieson, Walter Scott, Henry William Weber, Illustrations of northern antiquities, from the earlier Tentonie and Scandinavian romances: being an abstract of the Book of heroes, and Nibelungen lay; with translation of metrical tales, from the Old German, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandie languages; with notes and dissertations., Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Of the Teutonic Cyclus of Romance, page 25:

(Germanic mythology) A member of a supernatural underground race that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.

尼伯龙人

member of an underground, treasure-guarding race in Germanic mythology


infima species

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


methexis

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


Hachiman

(Japanese mythology, Shinto, Buddhism) the Japanese god of archery and tutelary deity of samurai.


preparadigmatic

en-adj

preparadigmatic (comparative more preparadigmatic, superlative most preparadigmatic)

more preparadigmatic (comparative)
most preparadigmatic (superlative)

preparadigmatic science: a science at a primitive stage of development, before it has achieved a paradigm and established a consensus about the true nature of the subject matter and how to approach it. […]

2018, American Psychological Association, APA Dictionary of Psychology, American Psychological Association:

(epistemology of science; of a field of inquiry) In an epistemic phase that precedes any truly rigorous scientific form.


Ryūjin

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) A dragon god also known as Watatsumi and Suijin, the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.


philosophy of mind

en-noun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


cognitive parallax

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

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

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


zimbo

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

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


precisification

precisification (countable and uncountable, plural precisifications)

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


eidos

(philosophy) Form; essence; type; species.


Titanomachy

From Ancient Greek Τῑτᾱνομαχίᾱ (Tītānomakhíā), from Τῑτᾱ́ν (Tītā́n, “Titan”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle”) + -ια (-ia).

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1966, M. L. West (editor), Hesiod, Theogony: edited with prolegomena and commentary by M.L. West, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 337,
A more important difference between the Titanomachy and Ragnarok is that the Norse gods, the Æsir, do not fight against other gods who are afterwards bound, but against an assortment of giants and monsters who have hitherto been bound […] .

His^([Thallus’]) history was arranged in three books, and, in part, by olympiads, and covered material from the Titanomachy (dated to 322 years before the Trojan war) to at least the Crucifixion.

2001, Benjamin Garstad, “Theophilus of Antioch, Pseudo-Justin, and Thallus' Treatment of Moses”, in M. F. Wiles, E. J. Yarnold, P. M. Parvis, editors, Studia Patristica, Vol. XXXVI: Papers presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, Peeters Publishers, page 207:

Likewise, the tragedy's treatment of the Titanomachy departs significantly from the Hesiodic account. It has been suggested that the PV^([Prometheus Vinctus]) may be informed by the Cyclic epic Titanomachy attributed to Eumelus (or Arctinus),⁷² especially since an entry in Hesychius' Lexicon⁷³ has led some to believe that both Prometheus' involvement in the Titanomachy and his change of allegiance were elements of that Cyclic epic.

2017, Zoe Stamatopoulou, Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE, Cambridge University Press, page 150:

(Greek mythology) The mythological war between the Titans and the Olympian gods.

Titanomachie

mythological war between Titans and Olympian gods


Nauplius

(Greek mythology) A son of the god Poseidon by Amymone, daughter of Danaus, and founder of the city of Nauplia.

But according to Lycophron, the last of the Greek poets, Penelope committed adultery with one of the suitors at the persuasion of the aged Nauplius, who avenged the death of his son Palamedes by enticing almost all the wives of the Greeks into prostitution.

2003, Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by Virginia Brown, Famous Women, page 81:

A scene from Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria (765-84) preserves a parody of the event which featured Palamedes' brother Oeax writing a message on oars in the hope that one will reach his father Nauplius with news of the betrayal and murder.

2013, Isabelle Torrance, Metapoetry in Euripides, page 145:

(Greek mythology) A descendant of the founder of Nauplia who ruled the city (alternatively, Euboea), was one of the Argonauts, and was father to Palamedes, who fought in the Trojan War.


Plutonic

en-adj

Plutonic (comparative more Plutonic, superlative most Plutonic)

more Plutonic (comparative)
most Plutonic (superlative)
plutonic (alternative)

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From Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches, wealth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; to flow; to run”)) + -ων (-ōn)) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). The English word is cognate with Middle French plutonique (modern French plutonique (“of or pertaining to Pluto, the underworld, or the interior of the Earth”)).

cog

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Synonym of Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal”)


Dainichi Nyorai

(Japanese mythology, Buddhism) The Japanese name for the sun Buddha, Vairocana, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.


Ashuku Nyorai

Vajra Division (kongō-bu): The eternal life force. The central deity is Ashuku Nyorai.

1988, Taikō Yamasaki, Shingon: Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, Shambhala, →ISBN, page 139:

Finally, behind Fukūjōju sits Ashuku Nyorai. Ashuku is the Buddha of the East. His left hand holds a piece of detached sleeve. His right hand hangs pendent in front of his right knee, palm turned inward, fingers pointing toward the ground.

2007, Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Koyasan, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 128:

It contains statues of Ashuku Nyorai, Hōshō Nyorai, Muryōju Nyorai, and Fukūjōju Nyorai surrounding a statue of Dainichi Nyorai.

2008, Tatsuro Muro, David C. Moreton, A Journey of the Soul, Education Publishing Center, →ISBN, page 14:

Establish the connection with the Imperturbable Buddha Ashuku Nyorai through the distant contact. Greet him with the words: “Dear Ashuku Nyorai, I come to you as a sick person and request healing. […]”

2006, Mark Hosak, Walter Luebeck, The Big Book of Reiki Symbols, Lotus Press, →ISBN, page 263:

On the left is a third guest Buddha, a seated image of Ashuku Nyorai carved in 1322 by Inkō, about whom little is known.

2021, Burritt Sabin, Kamakura: A Contemplative Guide, Partridge, →ISBN:

(Japanese mythology, Buddhism) The Japanese name for the Eastern Buddha, Akṣobhya, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.


Amida Nyorai

The Tendai may indeed be regarded as the mother sect of all later developments of Japanese Buddhism, and Amida Nyorai is even of greater importance in Japanese art than Sakya Muni, the founder of the religion.

1906, Edward Dillon, The Arts of Japan (Little books on art), Methuen, →OCLC, page 36:

The 13m-tall image represents Amida Nyorai, the future Buddha who receives souls into the Western Paradise, and was built under the orders of Minamoto Yoritomo to rival the larger Nara Buddha, near Kyoto.

2011 February 1, Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond, The Rough Guide to Japan (Rough Guide to...), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Pure Land Buddhism suggests that the problem of suffering should not be addressed as a spiritual matter but at the level of change in the social environment. The desired social environment is the peaceful and equalitarian environment envisioned by Amida Nyorai’s vows in the Larger Sūtra and especially in the First Vow.

2019, U. Dessì, “The Pure Land and this World in Hishiki Masaharu’s Shin Buddhist Ethics”, in G. T. Halkias, R. K. Payne, editors, Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 578:

(Japanese mythology, Buddhism) The Japanese name for the Western Buddha, Amitābha, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.


Hōshō Nyorai

As we face Dainichi, the Buddha seated at our near left is Hōshō Nyorai, the Buddha of the South.

2007, Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Koyasan, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 127:

The Hōshō Nyorai sculpture sits on a lotus base, which rests on the back of several seated, winged horses. The deity's left hand grasps the edge of the robe, the left rests on the knee, palm facing upward in the wish-granting mudra.

2010, Hillary Pedersen, The Five Great Space Repository Bodhisattvas (dissertation), University of Kansas, page 208:

Or if the dying person should manifest a sign presaging rebirth among any of the thirty-six kinds of hungry ghosts, the attendant should immediately intervene to save that person by performing the rites of Hōshō Nyorai, Kokūzō, Jizō, Thousand-Armed Kannon, Bodhisattva Perfection of Giving, and the rite of offering Deathbed Attendants

2016, Jacqueline I. Stone, Right Thoughts at the Last Moment, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, pages 289–290:

(Japanese mythology, Buddhism) The Japanese name for the Southern Buddha, Ratnasaṃbhava, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.


Fukūjōju Nyorai

(Japanese mythology, Buddhism) Fukūjōju Nyorai; the Japanese name for the Northern Buddha, Amoghasiddhi, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.


alief

en-noun

alief (countable and uncountable, plural aliefs)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Chione

From Ancient Greek Χιόνη (Khiónē), derived from χιών (khiṓn, “snow”).

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and Oreithyia, sister to Zetes, Calais and Cleopatra.


sileni

And so, while husbands are worshiping at their boyhood shrines, being the lawyers, merchants, or masterminds their parents wanted them to be, their wives, even after fourteen years of marriage and two fine children produced and raised, are still on the search for love - which can come to them only from the centaurs, sileni, satyrs, and other concupiscent incubi of the rout of Pan, either as in the second of the above-recited dreams, or as in our popular, vanilla-frosted temples of the venereal goddess, under the make-up of the latest heroes of the screen.

1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12:

(Greek mythology) A group of minor deities or demigods similar to fauns or satyrs.


Famine

(mythology) The personification of famine, often depicted riding a black horse.


Cottus

(Greek mythology) One of the Hecatoncheires (hundred-handed monster) of Ancient Greek mythology.


septile

(astrology) An angle of roughly 51.5° (1/7 of the 360° ecliptic).


Tao Te Ching

the Tao Te Ching (canonical)
Daodejing (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)
Dao De Jing (alternative Hanyu-Pinyin)

/ˌtaʊ ˌteɪ ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

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

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


Nietzscheanism

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

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

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


aroundness

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

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

(philosophy) The quality of being around.


Astyanax

From Ancient Greek Ἀστυάναξ (Astuánax, “city lord”), the nickname for the firstborn son of Hector, protector of Troy.

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1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, [adapted from 1667, Jean Racine, Andromaque], 1819, The Distrest Mother: A Tragedy, Act 1, Scene 1, page 3,
The jealous chiefs, and all the states of Greece, / With one united voice complain of Pyrrhus; / That now, forgetful of the promise giv'n, / And mindless of his godlike father's fate, / Astyanax he nurses in his court; Astyanax, the young, surviving hope / Of ruin'd Troy; Astyanax descended / From a long race of kings—great Hector's son.

After lying that the boy is dead and defying the threat of torture, she^([Andromache]) is unable to conceal her anguish for the boy's life and gives in to the threat that Hector's tomb will be destroyed if Astyanax is dead, that is, to the threat that both the sanctity of the tomb and the life of the boy will be destroyed together.

1983, Norman T. Pratt, Seneca's Drama, page 110:

In this passage, Andromaque sees Astyanax only through the memorializing lens of his attribution to Hector, his status as "gage."

2008, Roland Racevskis, Tragic Passages: Jean Racine's Art of the Threshold, page 85:

(Greek mythology) The nickname of Scamandrius, child son of Hector and Andromache.


Weltbild

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

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


antitheorem

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


Azhdahak

(Armenian mythology) An evil dragon-like figure, the reflex of Avestan Aži Dahāka in Armenian mythology and legend.


moral relativism

en-noun

moral relativism (usually uncountable, plural moral relativisms)

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

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


computationalism

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


darsana

darsanas (plural)
darśana (alternative)
darshan (alternative)
darshana (alternative)

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

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

(India philosophy) A philosophy, worldview.


contractionless

a contractionless logic


Salacia

(Roman mythology) The goddess of saltwater and the deep.


hyleg

From medieval Latin, from Arabic هيلاج (haylāj), from Middle-Persian ŠḆKWN-k' (hilag, “releaser”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἀφέτης (aphétēs).

(astrology) In Hellenistic astrology, the planet with the greatest essential dignity in five important natal chart positions: the degree of the Sun; the degree of the Moon; the Ascendant; the Lot of Fortune; and the prenatal syzygy (that is, New Moon or Full Moon, whichever most closely preceded the birth).


postpositivism

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


postfoundationalism

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


antifoundationalism

(epistemology) A philosophy that rejects foundationalism.

antifundacionalismo

a philosophy that rejects foundationalism


law of noncontradiction

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

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


principle of explosion

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


vacuous truth

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


doxastic logic

doxastic logic (countable and uncountable, plural doxastic logics)

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

doksastinen logiikka

a logic involving statements about beliefs


Chthonia

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Phoroneus or Colontas.

(Greek mythology) One of the Alkyonides.

(Greek mythology) An epithet for several chthonic deities, including Demeter, Hecate, Melinoe, and Nyx.

(Greek mythology) An ancient mythical and poetic name for Crete.


paraconsistent logic

paraconsistent logic (plural paraconsistent logics)

principle of explosion
principle of explosion

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

parakonsistentti logiikka

formal logical system without principle of explosion

parakonsistentti logiikka

study of logical systems without principle of explosion

(logic, uncountable) The study of such systems.


disjunctive syllogism

disjunctive syllogism (plural disjunctive syllogisms)

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


mujina

(Japanese mythology) A badger. In some regions the term refers instead to the Japanese raccoon dog. In Japanese folklore, like the fox and the tanuki, they are frequently depicted as a yokai that shapeshifts and deceives humans.


Amalthean

/æməlˈθiːən/

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Amalthea or Amaltheia, foster-mother of Zeus, in Greek mythology.


Amalthea

From Ancient Greek Ἀμάλθεια (Amáltheia).

(Greek mythology) The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph.


etymological argument

etymological argument (plural etymological arguments)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


antiphilosophy

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


antiphilosopher

(philosophy) A philosopher who practices antiphilosophy.

antifilósofo

a philosopher who practices antiphilosophy


substancehood

(philosophy) The quality of being a substance.


pampathy

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

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

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

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


Epione

From Latin Ēpionē, from Ancient Greek Ἠπιόνη (Ēpiónē), from Ancient Greek ἤπῐος (ḗpĭos).

(Greek mythology) Ancient Greek goddess of soothing of pain.


Tenjin

From Japanese 天神 (Tenjin), from 天 (then, “Heaven”) + 神 (zyin, “deity”, “god”).

af

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) A Japanese god of the heavens; also the Shinto kami of scholarship.


Raijin

From Japanese 雷神 (Raijin), from Middle Chinese 雷 (lwoj, “thunder”) + 神 (zyin, “deity”, “spirit”).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of lightning, thunder and storms, along with Fūjin and Susanoo.


Fūjin

From Japanese 風神 (ふうじん Fūjin), from Middle Chinese 風 (MC pjuwng, “wind”) + 神 (zyin, “deity”, “spirit”).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of winds and storms, along with Raijin and Susanoo.


Kajin

Borrowed from Japanese 火神 (かじん, Kajin, literally “fire god”).

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(Japanese mythology, Shinto) Kagutsuchi, the Japanese god of fire.


Suijin

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) A Japanese god of water; another name for Ryūjin.


Dojin

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) A Japanese god of earth, land or soil.


physis

en-noun

physis (countable and uncountable, plural physes)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis).

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

physis

nature, as contrasted with law or custom


antireductionism

(philosophy) A holistic viewpoint opposed to reductionism.

antireduktionismi

a holistic viewpoint opposed to reductionism


antireductionistic

en-adj

antireductionistic (comparative more antireductionistic, superlative most antireductionistic)

more antireductionistic (comparative)
most antireductionistic (superlative)

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


throughness

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

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

(philosophy) The state of being or going through.


Ōyamatsumi

Borrowed from Japanese 大山祇 (Ōyamatsumi, literally “great mountain god”).

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[…], this mountain was a cult site for the kami Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, and a shrine temple dedicated to these deities already existed there.

2003, Mark Teeuwen, Fabio Rambelli, Buddhas and Kami in Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, page 24:

When Saichō (767-822) established Enryakuji on Mount Hiei as his Tendai center he adopted the already enshrined kami of the cultic site, Ōmiwa Myōjin and Ōyamatsumi, as tutelary deities of the monastic center.

2008, Susan Zitterbart, Kumano Mandara: Portraits, Power, and Lineage in Medieval Japan, page 29:

[…], and ritually they create the world and beget Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Ōyamatsumi.

2009, Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan, University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 41:

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) A brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo and Kagutsuchi, and an important kami in charge of the mountains and the sea. Sometimes also viewed as in charge of sake brewing and war.


dragonking

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(fantasy, mythology) A king with the ability to control dragons.


painy

en-adj

painy (comparative more painy, superlative most painy)

more painy (comparative)
most painy (superlative)

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


Shinigami

/ˌʃɪn.ɪˈɡɑːmi/

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The deity and/or personification of death. (Compare Izanami and Enma).


Age of Aquarius

In 1904 we entered the Age of Aquarius, which will last another 2,000 years and will be an age of joy, of science and accomplishment, focused on the life of Christ.

1954 April 5, Robert Wallace, “Stargazer for Stars: Astrologer Richter does Hollywood's forecasts”, in Life, volume 36, number 14, retrieved 2013-10-24, page 155:

The unprecedented close grouping of seven planets in the sign of Aquarius at the time of the new moon of February 1962; an astronomical formation considered by some astrologers to mark the beginning of earth's entry into the Age of Aquarius.

1963, Natalie N. Banks, The Golden Thread: The Continuity of Esoteric Teaching (1999 reprint), p. 39 (Google preview)

(astrology) A historical period corresponding to the astrological sign of Aquarius, concerning the timing of which (past, present, or future) there is a wide range of views.


Hel

From Old Norse hel. Cognate with Old English hell (“hell”).

(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.

(religion, Norse mythology) The realm of the dead who did not die in combat, ruled by the goddess and located in Niflheim (one of the Nine Realms).


Epimethean

Epimethean (comparative more Epimethean, superlative most Epimethean)

more Epimethean (comparative)
most Epimethean (superlative)

(mythology) Of or relating to Epimetheus in Greek mythology.


paramodulation

en-noun

paramodulation (countable and uncountable, plural paramodulations)

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


nulliverse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Horae

From the Ancient Greek Ὧραι (Hôrai, “hours; seasons”).

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(Greek mythology) The goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of the times of the year, and the laws and orders of time; originally the personifications of nature in its different seasonal aspects, but in later times regarded as goddesses of order in general and of natural justice.

Ώρες

Greek goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time


Charites

Borrowed from Latin Charites, from Ancient Greek Χάριτες (Khárites).

(Greek mythology) The goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, and the patronesses of amusement and festivities; the retinue of Aphrodite.

Gracioj

Greek goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility


Furies

(Greek mythology) Synonym of Erinyes; the goddesses of vengeance.


Moros

From Ancient Greek Μόρος (Móros), from Ancient Greek μόρος (móros, literally “fate, doom”).

(Greek mythology) The personification of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate


Eileithyia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εἰλείθυια (Eileíthuia, “the bringer or deliverer”).

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Ilithyia (alternative)
Eleuthia (alternative)

(Greek mythology) The goddess of childbirth and midwifery; the daughter of Zeus and Hera; the Greek counterpart of the Roman Lucina.


Pandia

From Ancient Greek Πανδία (Pandía, literally “All Brightness”).

uder

(Greek mythology) A goddess of the full moon.


Hedone

From Ancient Greek Ἡδονή (Hēdonḗ, literally “Pleasure”).

(Greek mythology) The Greek goddess of sensual pleasures. She is the daughter of Eros/Cupid and Psyche, and the grandaughter of Aphrodite/Venus and Ares/Mars. Her Roman counterpart is Voluptas.


Voluptas

From Latin voluptas (“Voluptuous, Pleasure, Bliss”).

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of sensual pleasures. She is the daughter of Eros/Cupid and Psyche, and the grandaughter of Aphrodite/Venus and Ares/Mars. She is the Roman counterpart of Hedone.


Invidia

Coordinate term: Nemesis

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of divine retribution and vengeance; often accompanied by the Furies/Dirae. She is the Roman counterpart of Nemesis.


Kratos

From Ancient Greek Κράτος (Krátos, literally “Power, Strength”); see κράτος (krátos).

bor

(Greek mythology) The god and personification of power and strength.


Bia

From Ancient Greek Βία (Bía, literally “Force”).

der

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of force.


Zelus

From Ancient Greek Ζῆλος (Zêlos, literally “Zeal, Dedication, Emulation”).

(Greek mythology) The god and personification of zeal.


Polus

(Roman mythology) The personification of the celestial axis around which the heavens revolve, and the Titan of intelligence.


Caelus

(Roman mythology) The personification of the sky and heavens. Either the brother-husband or son-&-husband of Terra, with whom he fathered the Titans and the Cyclops. He is the Roman counterpart of Uranus.


Erinyes

/ɪˈɹɪniˌiːz/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρῑνύες (Erīnúes, literally “Avengers”).

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In six of the twelve Homeric passages in which Erinys or the Erinyes are mentioned, the common denominator is a crime or insult that occurs between blood kin: The Erinyes take action when a son steals his father's concubine, a son kills his father and marries his mother, two brothers argue, a son angers his mother, a man kills his mother's brother, or a son chases his mother out of her home.

1999, Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece, University of California Press, page 252:

2018, Stephen Rendall (translator), Jacques Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, [2008, Jacques Jouanna, Sophocle], Princeton University Press, page 393,
First, he now envisages several Erinyes: then he designates, using a poetic metaphor already employed by Aeschylus in The Libation Bearers,¹⁵⁴ that of hunting hounds pursuing game that cannot escape them.

Apollo's help and defence of Orestes is taken by the Erinyes as a threat to their own honour and to the perpetuation of their ancient privilege to pursue murderers (169–74).

2020, Bridget Martin, Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy, Liverpool University Press, page 161:

(Greek mythology) The Furies; the goddesses of vengeance against serious moral offence (such as oath-breaking), latterly known as protectors of Athens, of pre-Olympian origin and variously described as having sprung from the spilled blood of Uranus or as daughters of Nyx; identified with the Roman Dirae.

Érinyes

Greek goddesses of vengeance — see also Furies


Dirae

(Roman mythology) The goddesses of vengeance; they were also known to accompany Invidia. They are the Roman counterparts of the Furies/Erinyes.


Oneiroi

From the Ancient Greek Ὄνειροι (Óneiroi, “Dreams”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The gods and personifications of dreams; the sons of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.


Somnus

(Roman mythology) The god and personification of sleep; the Roman counterpart of Hypnos.


Pasithea

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites. She is the wife of Hypnos.


Aglaea

From Ancient Greek Ἀγλαΐα (Aglaḯa, literally “Splendour, Glory, Glow”).

der

Aglaia (alternative)
Aglaïa (alternative)

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites (the youngest, although Homer names another younger).

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Asclepius and goddess/personification of good health and the glow of health.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Mantineus, founder of Mantinea, the wife of Abas and mother of the twins Acrisius and Proetus; also known as Ocalea.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Thespius and Megamede who bore Heracles a son, Antiades.

(Greek mythology) A nymph who was mother of Nireus by Charopus, king of Syme.

(Greek mythology) The wife of Amythaon and mother of Melampus and Bias.


Antheia

From Ancient Greek Ἄνθεια (Ántheia, literally “flowers and flowery wreaths”).

bor

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites worshipped in Athens.


Auxo

From Ancient Greek Αὔξω (Aúxō), related to αὐξάνω (auxánō, “to increase”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Horae, and the goddess and personification of the season of Summer; she is the protector of vegetation and plants, and growth and fertility.


Charis

From Ancient Greek Χάρις (Kháris, literally “beauty, elegance, charm, grace”).

der

(Greek mythology) Aglaea, one of the Charites.


Cleta

From Ancient Greek Κλήτα (Klḗta, literally “fame and glory”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites worshiped in Sparta along with Phaenna.


Eudaimonia

/ˌjuːdɪˈməʊnɪə/

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

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Alternative forms: eudaimonia, eudaemonia, eudemonia, eudæmonia

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


Eudaimonia

/ˌjuːdɪˈməʊnɪə/


Hegemone

From Ancient Greek Ἡγεμόνη (Hēgemónē, literally “Mastery”).

der

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites and a goddess of flowers and fruit, worshipped at Athens along with Auxo and Damia.


Paidia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδιά (paidiá, “childish play, amusement”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).


Pandaisia

From Ancient Greek Πανδαισία (Pandaisía, literally “Banquet”).


Pannychis

From Ancient Greek Παννυχίς (Pannukhís, literally “Festivities and Parties”).


Phaenna

From Ancient Greek φαεινος (phaeinos, literally “benevolence and gratitude”).

uder

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites worshipped in Sparta along with Cleta.


Forseti

(Norse mythology) The Æsir god of justice


Phantasos

From the Ancient Greek Φάντασος (Phántasos, “Apparition”).

(Greek mythology) The god and personification of inanimate objects in prophetic dreams; the son of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.


Peitho

From Ancient Greek Πειθώ (Peithṓ, “Charming Speech, Persuasion”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites and a consort of Hermes.


polysyllogism

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

polisillogismo

propositions that together constitute a sequence of syllogisms


Orphne

(Greek mythology) A nymph who, with Acheron, had the child Ascalaphus.


Minthe

From Ancient Greek Μινθη (Minthē, literally “Mint”).

(Greek mythology) A nymph (associated with Mount Minthe in southern Greece) with whom Hades had an affair before the taking of Persephone and she complained in jealousy that she is more nobler in form than Persephone(his wife) and when Demeter(her mother) heard of it, she trampled the nymph under her foot and turned the her into herb mint.


Tisiphone

From Ancient Greek Τῑσιφόνη (Tīsiphónē, literally “Avenging Murder”).

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(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of the Erinyes/Dirae (Furies, the goddesses of vengeance), and a companion of Nemesis/Invidia.


Alecto

From Ancient Greek Ἀληκτώ (Alēktṓ, literally “Unceasing (Anger)”).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of the Furies.


meaningness

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


Alpheus

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

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Alfeios (alternative)
Alphaeus (alternative)
Alpheius (alternative)

(Greek mythology) The god or personification of the river Alpheus.


Ascalaphus

From Latin Ascalaphus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλαφος (Askálaphos, literally “Screech-owl”).

(Greek mythology) The orchardist of Hades, changed into a screech-owl by Demeter for telling Hades that Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds


hauntological

en-adj

hauntological (comparative more hauntological, superlative most hauntological)

more hauntological (comparative)
most hauntological (superlative)

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

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

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

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


withness

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

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

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

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

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


aurorean

aurorean (comparative more aurorean, superlative most aurorean)

more aurorean (comparative)
most aurorean (superlative)

/ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) + -ean.

(mythology) Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.


water carrier

water carriers (plural)
water-carrier (alternative)

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(astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.


superliminal

superliminal (comparative more superliminal, superlative most superliminal)

more superliminal (comparative)
most superliminal (superlative)
super-liminal (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Black Turtle

From Mandarin 玄武 (Xuánwǔ, literally “Dark Warrior”) + the primary animal representing it.

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(Chinese culture, Chinese mythology) a symbol of the element of water and direction north, typically depicted as a turtle entwined with a snake


selfy

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

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

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


Ananke

From Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē, “Fate”).

Coordinate term: Necessitas

“‘To tell you that the eternities beget chaos, and that the immensities are at the mercy of the divine ananke. Infinitude crouches before a personality. The mercurial essence is the prime mover in spirituality, and the thinker is powerless before the pulsating inanity. The cosmical procession is terminated only by the unknowable and unpronounceable’——

1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic:

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.

Ananké

Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate


truthbearer

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


optimalism

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

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


zweckrational

en-adj

zweckrational (comparative more zweckrational, superlative most zweckrational)

more zweckrational (comparative)
most zweckrational (superlative)

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


Fascist

In May 1929 Hitler successfully prosecuted a libel action against right-wing and left-wing opponents who had accused him of ‘betraying’ the South Tyrol in return for Fascist gold.

1978, Meir Michaelis, Mussolini and the Jews: German-Italian relations and the Jewish question in Italy, 1922–1945, Clarendon Press, page 46:

By the late 1930s Rome had new Fascist bridges, a new university, four new post offices and a number of new ministry buildings, which included, on Via Veneto, the Ministry of Corporations, that were to be Fascism’s answer to capitalist exploitation and Marxist class hatred.

2019, Matthew Kneale, “seven”, in Rome: A History in Seven Sackings, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, published 2017, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 305:

(fascism, history) Of or pertaining to the Kingdom of Italy from 1922–1943.


Fascist

(fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) A member of the National Fascist Party in Italy from 1922 to 1943.

The Fascists invaded the USSR, they occupied many cities, they killed millions of people, they destroyed half the country.

2010, German Sadulaev, I Am a Chechen!, Random House, →ISBN, section 10, page 199:

(fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) Synonym of Nazi


Alexiares

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξιάρης (Alexiárēs, literally “Warding-Off-War”), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend (against)”) + Ἄρης (Árēs, “War”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the sons of Heracles and Hebe, guardian, along with his brother Anicetus and his father, of the gates of Mount Olympus.


Anicetus

From Ancient Greek Ἀνίκητος (Aníkētos, literally “Unconquerable”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the sons of Heracles and Hebe, his brother is Alexiares. Along with their father, Anicetus and Alexiares are the guardians and gatekeepers of the gates of Mount Olympus.


Aceso

(Greek mythology) A goddess and personification of the healing process, daughter of Asclepius.


Iaso

From Ancient Greek Ἰᾱσώ (Iāsṓ), from ἴᾱσις (íāsis, “healing, recovering, recuperation”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of recuperation. She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.


Meditrina

From Latin medica (“health, longevity”).

(Roman mythology) The goddess/personification of health and longevity. She is a daughter of Aesculapius and Epione.


Machaon

(Greek mythology) A healer and a son of Asclepius and Epione.


Aratus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄρᾱτος (Árātos, literally “the one prayed for”).

(Greek mythology) A healer and a son of Asclepius and his lover, Aristodama, and the paternal halfbrother of Aceso, Aglaea, Hygieia, Iaso, Meditrina, Panacea, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros.


Podaleirios

From Ancient Greek Ποδαλείριος (Podaleírios).

Podaleirius (alternative)
Podalirius (alternative)


Telesphoros

From Ancient Greek Τελεσφόρος (Telesphóros, literally “Bringer of Completion”).

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(Greek mythology) A god/personification of recuperation from illness or injury. He is a healer and a son of Asclepius and Epione.


know thyself

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

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γνῶθι σεαυτόν

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

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

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

رحم الله امرَأً عرف قدر نفسه

be aware of both your strengths and limitations


Eirene

From Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, literally “Peace”).

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(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of peace and one of the Horae. She is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Dike and Eunomia. Her Roman counterpart is Pax.


Thallo

From Ancient Greek Θαλλω (Thallō, literally “New-Shoots, Blooming”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Horae, and the goddess and personification of the season of Spring; she is the protector of new growth.


Carpo

From Ancient Greek Καρπώ (Karpṓ) from καρπόω (karpóō, “bear fruit; reap or enjoy fruit”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Horae, goddess/personification of Autumn and of harvest time.


Core

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).

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(Greek mythology) The birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and the wife of Hades.


Justitia

Translingual: Justitia

From Latin iustitia (“Justice”). Doublet of justice.

(Roman mythology) One of the Horae, she is the goddess of justice. She is the daughter of Jupiter and Themis; her sisters are Pax and Eunomia. She is the Roman counterpart of Dike.


rational selfishness

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

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

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


Stymphalus

From Latin Stymphālus, from Ancient Greek Στύμφᾱλος (Stúmphālos).

(Greek mythology) Any of various mythological figures.


Stymphalian bird

en-noun

Stymphalian bird (plural Stymphalian birds)

(Greek mythology) A man-eating bird with a bronze beak and sharp metallic feathers it could launch at its victims, which infested Stymphalus. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.


Erymanthian Boar

(Greek mythology) a giant boar that ravaged the area round Mount Erymanthos; captured by Heracles


Augeas

/ɔːˈd͡ʒiːəs/

From Latin Augēās, from Ancient Greek Αὐγείᾱς (Augeíās).

(Greek mythology) A king of Elis, best known for his stables, the Augean stables.


Antigone

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From Latin Antigonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀντιγόνη (Antigónē).

(Greek mythology) the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology


Ascanius

From Latin Ascanius, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάνιος (Askánios).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A legendary king of Alba Longa, and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas.