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noun
- An unintentional fallacious argument or illogical conclusion
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| parousia |
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noun
- the second coming of Christ
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| particular |
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adjective - specific; discrete; a part or portion of something.
- Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
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| partition |
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noun
- something that divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another, especially a vertical structure that divides a room
- a part of something that had been divided
- the division of a country into two or more autonomous countries
- (computing) a section of a hard disk separately formatted
- (set theory) a collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets)
verb to partition
- To divide something into parts, sections or shares
- To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
- To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
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| perfectionist |
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noun
- One who has a propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
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| peripatetic |
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noun - One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
- A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
adjective - Walking about; itinerant.
- (usually capitalized) Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle or to his followers.
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| person |
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noun (plural: persons, people (by suppletion))
- Human being; individual.
- Specific human being.
- Where is the ?
- The physical body of a specified individual.
- Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his , is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang. " New York Times, 2004
- Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
- By common law a corporation or a trust is legally a .
- (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.
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| personalism |
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noun - (philosophy) A doctrine of subjective idealism that regards personality as the means of interpreting reality
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| perspectivism |
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noun
- The philosophical view that all perception always takes place from a specific perspective.
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| phenomenology |
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noun (phenomenolog, ies)
- (philosophy) A philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings
- (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
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| philosophaster |
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noun
- a pretender to philosophy; a petty or charlatan philosopher.
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| philosophe |
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noun
- any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th century French Enlightenment.
- (pejorative) an incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.
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| philosopher |
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noun
- A person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy.
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| philosophical |
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adjective
- of or pertaining to philosophy.
- a certain critical, creative way of thinking.
- ''Many novels have very advanced philosophical ideas within them.
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| philosophize |
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verb (philosophizes, philosophizing, philosophized, philosophized)
- To philosophically ponder or reason out.
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| philosophy |
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noun (philosophies, -)
- An academic discipline that is often divided into five major branches: logic; metaphysics; epistemology; ethics; and aesthetics.
- A comprehensive system of belief.
- A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
- a of government
- a of education
- A general principle (usually moral).
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| Platonic |
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adjective
- Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
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| platonic love |
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noun
- intimate, Intimate but non-sexual affection.
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| Platonism |
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noun
- The philosophy of Plato.
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| pragmatic |
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adjective
- Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory
- The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was , but unattractive.
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| pragmatics |
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noun - (linguistics) the study of the use of language in a social context
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| pragmatism |
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noun
- The compromising of one's ideals to better deal with the specifics of a situation.
- The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; utilitarianism.
- (philosophy) A philosophic school linking the meaning of beliefs to the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs to success of those actions in securing a believer's goals.
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| pragmatist |
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noun (pl.pragmatists)
- one who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism
- A pragmatist would never plant such a messy tree, but I like its flowers.
- one who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- I'm not a thief, I am a pragmatist. I need this bread to feed my family.
- We cannot trust him not to lie for his own gain, he's an opportunist and a pragmatist.
- one who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs are the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consist in the actions they entail successfully leading a believer to their goals.
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| predicate |
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noun
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject.
- In "The dog barked very loudly", the subject is "the dog" and the is "barked very loudly".
- (logic) A statement that may be true or false depending on the values of its variables.
- (computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.
verb (predicat, ing)
- (transitive) To announce or assert publically.
- (context, transitive, logic) To state, assert.
- (transitive) To suppose, assume; to infer.
- 1859: There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. " Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- 1881: Of anyone else it would have been said that she must be finding the afternoon rather dreary in the quaint halls not of her forefathers: but of Miss Power it was unsafe to so surely. " Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean
- (context, transitive, originally, US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- 1978: the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. " Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, p. 81)
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| predicate calculus |
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noun (uncountable)
- (logic) The branch of logic that deals with quantified statements such as "there exists an x such that..." or "for any x, it is the case that...", where x is a member of the domain of discourse.
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| premise |
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noun
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- (logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
- A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts (in this sense, used most often in the plural form).
- trespass on another"s premises
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| prime mover |
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noun
- (philosophy) The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
- The component of a power plant that transforms energy from thermal or pressure form to mechanical form; typically an engine or turbine.
- (automotive) The front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
- A military or heavy construction vehicle.
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| prolepsis |
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noun
- the assignment of something to a period of time that preceeds it.
- the representation of something which has ocurred before its time.
- I'm a dead man.
- A grammar, grammatical construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
- That noise, I just heard it again.
- A Philosophy, philosophical concept used in ancient epistemology to indicate a so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
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| proposition |
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noun (wikipedia, proposition, proposition (logic))
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
- (countable) (in business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable) (logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.
- In some states of the US, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- In mathematics, a proposition is an assertion formulated in such a way that it may be proved true or false.
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| propositional function |
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noun - (logic) An expression containing algebraic symbols that serve to represent words or other elements of a sentence or proposition
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| protasis |
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noun (protas, es)
- the first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced
- 1922: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, , epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. " James Joyce, Ulysses
- the antecedent in a conditional sentence
- example: In, "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "this weather holds up" is the
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noun
- A rule which guides how an activity should be performed.
- The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.
- The minutes, or rough draft, of an instrument or transaction.
- (context, diplomacy) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.
- (context, diplomacy) A convention not formally ratified.
- (context, diplomacy) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.
- (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data, especially across a network. A message syntax or electrical specification and a description 2 or more communication nodes: finite state machine, state machines, the transition function, transition functions of which take messages or times as input and, when then so triggered, may themselves send messages.
verb
- (obsolete), (transitive): To make a protocol of.
- (obsolete), (intransitive): To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
(Webster)
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| Psyche |
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noun
- In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person
- Psychidae, or Bagworms, a family of Lepidoptera
proper noun
- 16 Psyche, an asteroid
- A Gothic band
- An album by British band Ant and Dec
- A code name for Red Hat Linux 8.0
- (Greek and Roman mythology) name of a girl loved by Cupid (or Eros)
- In late Greek art and literature, a goddess who is the personification of the soul; she is primarily known for her role in the story of Cupid and Psyche, best attested in Apuleius' novel The Golden Ass
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| psychologist |
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noun
- An expert in the field of psychology.
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| Pythagoreanism |
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noun - (philosophy) the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
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