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=== Intransitive === | === Intransitive === | ||
An intransitive verb does not require a direct object (noun, pronoun, noun phrase) to designate the person or thing acted upon. | An intransitive verb does not require a direct object (noun, pronoun, noun phrase) to designate the person or thing acted upon.<ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intransitive</ref> | ||
Example: "The birds fly", flying is ''intransitive''. | Example: "The birds fly", flying is ''intransitive''. It does not require an object to act upon, like: "The eagle sees prey." | ||
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=== Manicheaism === | === Manicheaism === | ||
Originally, it refers to an ancient religious belief and | Originally, it refers to an ancient Persian religious belief and philosophy of ''dualism''. <ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Manichaeism</ref> | ||
Found in: ''On Anarchism'' by Noam Chomsky - One could argue that the United States two-party political system, the cold-war ''red scare'' and christian conservatism have contributed to manichaeist thinking-patterns | In everyday use, a "''manichaean'' belief" often refers to a dualistic view on things, black-and-white thinking and the belief in an absolute good and an absolute evil. | ||
Found in: ''On Anarchism'' by Noam Chomsky - One could argue that the United States two-party political system, the cold-war ''red scare'' and christian conservatism have contributed to ''manichaeist'' thinking-patterns in US-American culture, especially in political discourse. | |||
== π == | == π == | ||
Revision as of 13:26, 24 January 2025
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Apophatic
Knowing what something is by knowing what it is not.
Most often used in relation to christian theology; the belief that you can only know God through knowing what they are not.[1]
Etymology: From Greek apophatikΓ³s, meaning "denial".
Found in: On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky - Used in the context of anarchists defining anarchism apophatically, by describing anarchism only through what anarchism opposes.
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Concatenation
A series/string of interconnected things.
"A group of things linked together or occurring together in a way that produces a particular result or effect."[2]
Also Concat: A function combining texts/strings.
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Despotism
An oppressive and often cruel exercise of power (by a government).[3]
Stemming from the Greek word despot: an autocratic ruler.
Aristotle distinguishes despotism from tyranny; Defining tyranny as a form of governance that is acquired by force, maintained by violence, and therefore inherently unstable. Whereas despotism is a continuous oppressive rule of its abiding subjects by an absolute power, the only form of power they now. [4]
Dialectic
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Fabulation
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Hagiography
A term that refers to a biography which overtly and unjustifiably exalts its subject.
Also: The biography and study of a saint. [5]
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Inoculate
To inoculate is to introduce an infective agent into an organism, to treat, prevent or to immunize from a disease.[6]
It can also be used analogously to mean the introduction or implantation of a thought/idea into a mind.
Etymology/original use in Middle English: "to insert a bud in a plant for propagation."[6] π
Intransitive
An intransitive verb does not require a direct object (noun, pronoun, noun phrase) to designate the person or thing acted upon.[7]
Example: "The birds fly", flying is intransitive. It does not require an object to act upon, like: "The eagle sees prey."
*Add found in context*
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Manicheaism
Originally, it refers to an ancient Persian religious belief and philosophy of dualism. [8]
In everyday use, a "manichaean belief" often refers to a dualistic view on things, black-and-white thinking and the belief in an absolute good and an absolute evil.
Found in: On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky - One could argue that the United States two-party political system, the cold-war red scare and christian conservatism have contributed to manichaeist thinking-patterns in US-American culture, especially in political discourse.
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Ned Ludd
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Opprobium
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Panacea
Positivism
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Solipistic
Stultifying
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References
- β https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apophatic
- β https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concatenation
- β https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/despotism
- β https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095713235
- β https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hagiography
- β Jump up to: 6.0 6.1 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inoculate
- β https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intransitive
- β https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Manichaeism