cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
informee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informees
Etymology: From inform + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, what is being presupposed is not some pre-formed or innate quantity of relevant information in the head of the informee, but just the presence in a of some relevance-detecting capacity, implicit in the description of a as a rational agent.
ref: 2007 November 27, Luciano Floridi, “Understanding Epistemic Relevance”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 69–92:
glosses: One who is informed, who receives information.
Related terms: informer
informees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of informee
macrophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + physical.
Senses: examples: text: B&S argue that ordinary macrophysical facts, e.g., about water, are just such counterexamples.
ref: 2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H₂O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130:
glosses: Of or pertaining to macrophysics.
Derived terms: macrophysically
metainformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + information.
Senses: examples: text: Or a may simply be assumed to be reasonable enough to ask the appropriate question to obtain i, if provided with sufficient metainformation about the availability of i.
ref: 2007 November 27, Luciano Floridi, “Understanding Epistemic Relevance”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 69–92:
glosses: Information about information.
Related terms: metainformational
metainformational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + informational.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metainformation.
metaphilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaphilosophical
form: most metaphilosophical
Etymology: From meta- + philosophical.
Senses: examples: text: In essence, the issue at hand is the metaphilosophical question of whether all philosophical “analysis” involving hypothetical cases is “conceptual analysis.”
ref: 2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H₂O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130:
glosses: Of or pertaining to metaphilosophy.
Derived terms: metaphilosophically
metatheoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metatheoretical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Stalnaker-Lewis approach is far from being uncontroversial or devoid of problems, but it does allow one to avoid the circularity of having to establish what information is metatheoretically or contextually relevant to the agents in order to evaluate some further relevant information.
ref: 2007 November 27, Luciano Floridi, “Understanding Epistemic Relevance”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 69–92:
glosses: In a metatheoretical manner or context.
nomenklaturas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomenklatura
objectivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objectivistic
form: most objectivistic
Etymology: From objectivist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In this section we propose to contribute to the general project of connecting chance and credence by showing that Reichenbach’s objectivistic approach is intimately linked to subjectivistic Jeffrey conditionalization.
ref: 2008 April 4, David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg, “Reichenbach’s Posits Reposited”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 93–108:
glosses: Of or pertaining to objectivism.
Derived terms: objectivistically
Kantianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kantianists
Etymology: From Kantian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Kantianism.
Kantianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kantianist
showerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showerers
Etymology: From shower + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who showers.
showerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showerer
Blackstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈblækstən/
Etymology: From Old English blac (“black”) + stān (“stone”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A gritstone escarpment in the Pennine hills on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.
Derived terms: Blackstonian
blacktips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacktip
disuniformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disuniformities
Etymology: From dis- + uniformity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being disuniform.
disuniformities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disuniformity
equilibriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equilibrium
ninety-nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Forms: form: 99s
Senses: glosses: plural of ninety-nine
pipeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipemen
Etymology: From pipe + -man.
Senses: glosses: A firefighter.
glosses: One who smokes a pipe.
pipemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipeman
abelianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From abelian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being abelian.
autonymously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autonymous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This confusion, however, is harmless, for it is completely resolvable by context: Individual constants occurring to the immediate left or right of a triple bar denote themselves, autonymously; in all other contexts, they denote their usual denotations.
ref: 2008 September 6, Kai F. Wehmeier, “Wittgensteinian Tableaux, Identity, and Co-Denotation”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: In an autonymous fashion.
autonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: autonomous
Etymology: By surface analysis, auto- + -nym + -ous
Senses: qualifier: word; term; etc; word; term; etc
glosses: Exhibiting autonymy; used as a name for itself.
raw_tags: of a symbol
examples: text: Books may be classed under four heads, namely (1) Autonymous — (2) Polyonymous — (3) Pseudonymous, and — (4) Anonymous. ¶ 1. Autonymous, the first and most common is with the author's name either on the title-page, or if not on the title-page, signed to a preface, introduction, letter, or dedication, or in some part of the book, or at the end. Speeches though usually anonymous with regard to the reporting or editing, are frequently catalogued under the name of the speaker as autonymous. ¶ 2. Polyonymous, is with several authors' names. […] ¶ 3. Pseudonymous, without the author's name, but with a fictitious name or designation, […] ¶ 4. Lastly an Anonymous book is one without the author's name […]
ref: 1880, Ralph Thomas, Aggravating Ladies: Being a List of Works Published Under the Pseudonym of "a Lady", with Preliminary Suggestions on the Art of Describing Books Bibliographically, B. Quaritch, page 14:
synonyms: orthonymous
antonyms: pseudonymous
;
anonymous
glosses: Published under the author's autonym (true name): being an autonym.
raw_tags: of a creative work
Related terms: word: autological
word: autonymic
word: autonymously
word: autonymy
sense: a seme representing itself
word: use-mention distinction
autonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + -onymy.
Senses: glosses: The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
Related terms: word: autology
word: autonym
word: autonymous
word: autonymously
sense: a seme representing itself
word: use-mention distinction
bathetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bathetically
form: most bathetically
Etymology: From bathetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: No wonder the cosmic question whether to call two such world systems true should simmer down, bathetically, to a question of words.
ref: 2008 September 6, Ian McDiarmid, “Underdetermination and Meaning Indeterminacy: What is the Difference?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: In a bathetic manner.
can haz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kæn hæz/
Forms: form: can
form: has
form: can
form: have
Etymology: * Nonstandard variant form of can have, from the popular phrase (meme) "I can has cheezburger?" supposed to be uttered by cats on the Internet.
Senses: examples: text: If I go to the office, Joe can haz my porpoise if he wants.
glosses: To be able to have.
cognizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cognizers
Etymology: From cognize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: So although McDowell takes experiences themselves to justify perceptual beliefs, this task always requires the cognizer to form beliefs or judgments about how the world appears to him (henceforth, ‘appearance beliefs’).
ref: 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: One who, or that which, cognizes.
cognizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cognizer
decompositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃənəɫ]
Etymology: From decomposition + -al.
Senses: examples: text: To begin with, Reynolds’ decompositional strategy invoking sub-skills such as various visual recognitional capacities (as in Marr’s theory of vision) seems to be an appeal to the so-called ‘unconscious’ processes that lead up to experience and eventually to belief.
ref: 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
text: The Manelis and Tharp ( 1977 ) investigation failed to find a difference between affixed and nonaffixed words in either direction, a result that favored the independent entries hypothesis over either version of the decompositional hypothesis.
ref: 1980, Status Report on Speech Research - Issues 63-64, page 246:
glosses: Of or pertaining to decomposition.
Derived terms: decompositionality
decompositionally
THCV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tetrahydrocannabivarin.
Related terms: sense: tetrahydrocannabivarin
word: CBD
sense: tetrahydrocannabivarin
word: CBDV
sense: tetrahydrocannabivarin
word: CBV
sense: tetrahydrocannabivarin
word: THC
tetrahydrocannabivarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra + hydro- + cannab(is) + -i- + -varin.
Senses: glosses: A non-psychoactive cannabinoid found naturally in Cannabis sativa; an analogue of tetrahydrocannabinol with the sidechain shortened by two CH₂.
Synonyms: tetrahydrocannabivarol
THCV
Hypernyms: cannabinoid
varin cannabinoid
Derived terms: THCV
Related terms: cannabidivarin
cannabivarin
tetrahydrocannabinol
tetrahydrocannabivarol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra + hydro- + cannab(is) + -i- + -var(in) + -ol.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tetrahydrocannabivarin.
synonyms: word: tetrahydrocannabivarin
disquotational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disquotation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Halback ( 1999 ) points out that the disquotational notion of truth is just a tool for expressing infinite conjunctions and can contribute nothing to our knowledge of non-semantical facts.
ref: 2008 September 6, Ian McDiarmid, “Underdetermination and Meaning Indeterminacy: What is the Difference?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to disquotation.
explanationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explanationists
Etymology: From explanation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The explanationist strategy has to be supplemented with further constraints to identify genuine justifiers from among these candidates but Moser’s account lacks such a fastidious tendency.
ref: 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: One who subscribes to explanationism.
explanationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explanationist
explanationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From explanation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosophical system where beliefs are justified by their usefulness in explaining.
Related terms: explanationist
secretum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secreta
Etymology: From Latin sēcrētum. Doublet of secret.
Senses: examples: text: A personal Seal having a secretum is unusual; with armorial and monastic seals they are very common; […]
ref: 1774, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, page 334:
glosses: A special seal used for private correspondence.
hypercompute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypercomputes
form: hypercomputing
form: hypercomputed
form: hypercomputed
Etymology: From hyper- + compute.
Senses: examples: text: Whether physical processes can hypercompute, i. e. compute Turing uncomputable functions “ultimately depends upon the causal (versus formal) structure of the world” (p. 144).
ref: 2008 October 22, Sven Ove Hansson, “Adam Olszewski, Jan Wolenski, and Robert Janusz (eds): Church’s Thesis After 70 Years”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: To carry out hypercomputation.
hypercomputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypercompute
mediocreness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mediocre + -ness.
Senses: glosses: mediocrity
intertranslatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + translatability.
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that the mere existence of a sound and complete calculus for W-logic comes as no surprise at all, given the intertranslatability with FOL = .
ref: 2008 September 6, Kai F. Wehmeier, “Wittgensteinian Tableaux, Identity, and Co-Denotation”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being intertranslatable.
intertranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertranslations
Etymology: From inter- + translation.
Senses: examples: text: If all our acceptable theories are on similar evidential footings (neither the theory nor the theory language is fixed by the relevant evidence) then the distinction between notationally indeterminate theories and underdetermined theories comes down to just the fact that intertranslation is possible in the former but not the latter.
ref: 2008 September 6, Ian McDiarmid, “Underdetermination and Meaning Indeterminacy: What is the Difference?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Translation between multiple things.
intertranslations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertranslation
nonconceptualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconceptualists
Senses: examples: text: As more recent advocates of the traditional nonconceptualist view like to put it, the content of perceptual experiences is essentially noncompositional or iconic (Hanna 2008 ; Heck 2007 ).
ref: 2008 August 30, Josefa Toribio, “State Versus Content: The Unfair Trial of Perceptual Nonconceptualism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: One who subscribes to the philosophical doctrine of nonconceptualism.
terms of use
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The terms, conditions, or restrictions under which a person, commonly called an end user, may or may not utilize the aspects of a particular manufactured object, commonly called the end product.
Related terms: end user license agreement
terms of service
TOS
nondoxastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + doxastic.
Senses: glosses: Not doxastic.
nonconceptualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconceptualist
intratextual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + textual.
Senses: glosses: Within a single text.
Derived terms: intratextually
Related terms: intertextual
nonpropositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + propositional.
Senses: examples: text: 32 Moser offers a broadly foundationalist account of epistemic justification in which the justification of empirical propositions are ultimately provided by the nonpropositional evidential bases.
ref: 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Not propositional.
notationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃənəli/
ipa: /nə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃnəli/
ipa: /nə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃənli/
ipa: /noʊˈteɪʃənəli/
ipa: /noʊˈteɪʃnəli/
ipa: /noʊˈteɪʃənli/
rhymes: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From notational + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If all our acceptable theories are on similar evidential footings (neither the theory nor the theory language is fixed by the relevant evidence) then the distinction between notationally indeterminate theories and underdetermined theories comes down to just the fact that intertranslation is possible in the former but not the latter.
ref: 2008 September 6, Ian McDiarmid, “Underdetermination and Meaning Indeterminacy: What is the Difference?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: In terms of notation.
prescientifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prescientific + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The majority of what we prescientifically called ‘water’ has more than one microstructural feature that we could have concluded distinguishes the true from the spurious samples believed to be water.
ref: 2008 October 22, R. W. Fischer, “Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to established science.
rationalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rationalism
reducibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reducible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reducible manner.
subskill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subskills
Etymology: From sub- + skill.
Senses: examples: text: Writing is a subskill of overall literacy.
glosses: A skill that makes up part of a larger skill.
subskills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subskill
subrepresentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrepresentations
Etymology: From sub- + representation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: representation theory
glosses: Given a representation (W,ψ) of (say) a group G, a linear subspace of W which is preserved by the action of G in the sense that g · v ∈ V for all v ∈ V.
Related terms: subrepresentational
subrepresentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrepresentation
superselections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superselection
superselected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + selected.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, Landsman rejects the modal semantics in favor of the rule that all and only those observables whose operators are self-adjoint and are superselected in the sense that they belong to the center of the von Neumann algebra of observables have definite values.
ref: 2008 September 27, John Earman, “Superselection Rules for Philosophers”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Chosen through superselection.
nonobservable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + observable.
Senses: glosses: Not observable.
nonobservable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonobservables
Etymology: From non- + observable.
Senses: glosses: That which is not observable.
Related terms: nonobservability
nonobservables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonobservable
nonobservability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + observability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nonobservable.
supervaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervaluations
Etymology: From super- + valuation.
Senses: examples: text: In the domain of valuations which are supervaluations with respect to a certain partial valuation the axioms of classical logic remain valid.
ref: 2008 October 8, Holger Andreas, “Another Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Terms”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: The valuation of a logical expression according to supervaluationism.
supervaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supervaluation
underdescribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdescribed
form: most underdescribed
Etymology: From under- + described.
Senses: examples: text: LaPorte shows that some of these cases—like Putnam’s Twin Earth—are seriously underdescribed; others—like the jade/jadeite/nephrite example–are historically inaccurate.
ref: 2008 October 22, R. W. Fischer, “Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Not described with sufficient precision.
glosses: Described further on in the same document.
precations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precation
lipservice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The present inquiry therefore aims to pay more than lipservice to the notion of drama as performance, and to make more than a gesture towards the idea of theatre as a composite art, one that mixes music and mime, dance and song, painting and design, poetry and narrative, and much else. It is precation and response, and seeks out evidence of the manipulation of the audience and its powers of perception.
ref: 1996, J. L. Styan, The English Stage, →ISBN, pages xiii–xiv:
glosses: Alternative form of lip service.
metastory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastories
Etymology: From meta- + story.
Senses: examples: text: Once analytic units have been identified, the researcher will often combine the narratives of individual participants into a metastory.
ref: 2006, Frederick T. L. Leong, James T. Austin, The Psychology Research Handbook:
text: A game like chess, for example, may not really have a well-scripted narrative but its structure is certainly informed by a metastory of two armies (black and white, with varying significances) engaged in strategic battle.
ref: 2015, Souvik Mukherjee, Video Games and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books:
text: The Assassin's Creed franchise is framed within a present day metastory involving a major corporation that may or may not be run by Templars.
ref: 2017, David Owen, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames, page 148:
glosses: An overarching story having other stories embedded within it.
glosses: A story about stories themselves.
metastories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metastory
multidisciplinarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, multidisciplinar(y) + -ity, or, by surface analysis, multi- + disciplinar(y) + -ity.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: cross-disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity
synonyms: multidisciplinarianism
pluridisciplinarity
glosses: The quality of being multidisciplinary.
Related terms: disciplinarity
kissagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissagram
nonoriginalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonoriginalists
Etymology: From non- + originalist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an originalist (regarding the US Constitution).
nonoriginalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonoriginalist
unrecounted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recounted.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the untidiness that goes unrecounted in both physics and philosophy of science texts will be revealed in Sects. 11 and 12 .
ref: 2008 September 27, John Earman, “Superselection Rules for Philosophers”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: Not having been recounted; untold.
warrantedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From warranted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He has said “truth is one thing, warranted belief another”, and when talking about rival theories he says we (1992, pp. 94, 100) “can still be even handed about the cachet of warrantedness, if not of truth”.
ref: 2008 September 6, Ian McDiarmid, “Underdetermination and Meaning Indeterminacy: What is the Difference?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being warranted.
Related terms: justification
worthwhileness
illocutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to illocution.
physicalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From physicalistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: […] that the facts of parapsychology will be widely and fully accepted by the rank and file of physicalistically oriented scientists.
ref: 1937, The Journal of Parapsychology, volumes 1-17, Duke University Press, page 257:
text: Hence, any facts that are commonly admitted as physicalistically acceptable but that don’t fit C&J’s model are counterexamples to their view.
ref: 2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H₂O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130:
text: If, however, linguistic ability is sui generis (in the sense that it cannot be physicalistically reduced) and if the human person is essentially distinguished by his linguistic ability, then, in effect, empiricism is committed to the thesis that the "creature" that achieves language is not one and the same as the creature that first begins to acquire language.
ref: 2012, Joseph Margolis, Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism, page 99:
text: The proposition, as readily taken naturalistically as physicalistically, is to the effect that the meanings of at least certain terms in our thinking and feeling are in some unexpected way related to things outside our heads, certainly not just caused by them.
ref: 2014, Ted Honderich, Actual Consciousness:
glosses: In a physicalistic manner or context.
physicalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physicalism
prosentential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + sentential.
Senses: examples: text: ݛD]isquotationalism, minimalism, the redundancy theory, the prosentential theory, and more” (ibid.) are embraced by the term “linguistic deflationism”.
ref: 2008 April 2, Robert Mößgen, “Dirk Greimann and Geo Siegwart, Truth and Speech Acts. Studies in the Philosophy of Language (=Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. 5)”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to pro-sentences.
subjectivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subjectivist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In this section we propose to contribute to the general project of connecting chance and credence by showing that Reichenbach’s objectivistic approach is intimately linked to subjectivistic Jeffrey conditionalization.
ref: 2008 April 4, David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg, “Reichenbach’s Posits Reposited”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 93–108:
glosses: Of or pertaining to subjectivism.
Derived terms: subjectivistically
thingish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thingish
form: most thingish
Etymology: From thing + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: (However, Sellars vehemently rejects that this would imply they are merely ‘in the eye of the beholder’—despite starting as mere posits of a theoretician, once the theory acquires a certain social status, they become as thingish as a thing can be.)
ref: 2008 April 3, Jaroslav Peregrin, “Book Reviews”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 131–135:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Like a physical, tangible thing; objective.
usably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more usably
form: most usably
form: useably
Etymology: From usable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Such a sense is typically not presented to the subject in usably verbal form; one says things like ‘She would do that because she is that sort of person.’
ref: 2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H₂O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130:
glosses: In a usable manner.
usableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From usable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being usable.
Synonyms: usability
overbreadth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + breadth.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The excessive broadness of a statute that, in proscribing unprotected activity, also proscribes protected activity.
overinclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overinclusive
form: most overinclusive
Etymology: From over- + inclusive.
Senses: glosses: Too inclusive; tending to include too much.
Derived terms: overinclusively
Related terms: overinclusiveness
overenforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + enforcement.
Senses: examples: text: The application of substantive canons typically overenforces the Constitution. But because overenforcement in the context of statutory interpretation clips congressional prerogatives much less than overenforcement in the context of judicial review, the application of substantive canons is not in direct conflict with the limitations upon judicial review.
ref: 2010, Amy Coney Barrett, “SUBSTANTIVE CANONS AND FAITHFUL AGENCY”, in Boston University Law Review, volume 90, number 109, page 176:
antonyms: underenforcement
glosses: Excessive enforcement (of a law, statute, etc.).
Related terms: overenforce
overinclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overinclusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overinclusive.
overinclusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overinclusively
form: most overinclusively
Etymology: From overinclusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overinclusive manner.
overindulger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overindulgers
Etymology: From overindulge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overindulges.
overindulgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overindulger
postratification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ratification.
Senses: glosses: Following ratification.
preratification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ratification.
Senses: glosses: Prior to ratification.
reaffirmance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaffirmances
Etymology: From re- + affirmance, after reaffirm.
Senses: examples: text: [B]oth the one and the other were nothing more than a re-affirmance of the still more antient standing law of the kingdom.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 32:
topics: law
glosses: A second or subsequent affirmance; a reaffirmation.
reaffirmances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reaffirmance
standardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From standard + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a standard.
Related terms: standardlessness
stack off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stacks off
form: stacking off
form: stacked off
form: stacked off
Senses: examples: text: Only thing notable here is when I got crushed trying to take Barry's BB (I was SB). Raised him a couple thousand with K9s, then he went allin. I should have folded, as I needed to call about T7000 more, for about a T13500 pot, but without really thinking I stacked off on him. He had KQ, and I couldn't suck out. Next round, I raised him again, and he went allin on an ugly flop, so I lost a bunch more.
ref: 1995, zorak, “From Nonplused to Nihilistic (BARGE '95 TripReport)”, in rec.gambling.misc (Usenet):
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To play an all in pot; to commit all of one's chips to a pot.
raw_tags: of two or more players
standardlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From standardless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: While nihilism is usually understood as standardlessness and devaluation, and as the death of God, these perceptions are not the essence of nihilism.
ref: 1996, Howard Nelson Tuttle, The crowd is untruth:
glosses: The absence of a standard or standards.
treatymaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From treaty + making.
Senses: glosses: The making of legal treaties.
underenforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + enforcement.
Senses: synonyms: overenforcement
glosses: Inadequate enforcement (of a law, statute, etc.).
underinclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underinclusive
form: most underinclusive
Etymology: From under- + inclusive.
Senses: glosses: Not inclusive enough; tending to include too little.
Related terms: underinclusiveness
underinclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underinclusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being underinclusive.
antispinward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiːˈspɪnwɜ(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more antispinward
form: most antispinward
Etymology: From anti- + spin + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: To antispinward was the largest mountain men had ever seen.
ref: 1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152:
text: My fathers and mothers tell that we have been moving to antispinward since they were little. They remember that they had to go around a great sea, but they did not come too close, because the beasts would not eat the plants that grow around the shore.
ref: 1978, Galileo: Magazine of Science & Fiction, Boston, Mass.: Avenue Victor Hugo Publishers, page 77:
text: Laura imagined that he would expect them to flee along the beams, and she watched his narrow face searching the impenetrable shadows antispinward of where they hid.
ref: 1985, Nancy Kress, Trinity and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Bluejay Books, →ISBN, page 214:
text: Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...
ref: 2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: antispinward adv. in or toward the opposite direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating.
ref: 2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: "[…] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track."
ref: 2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
end user license agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛnd ˈjuːzəɹ ˈlaɪsəns əˈɡɹiːmənt/
Forms: form: end user license agreements
form: end-user license agreement
form: EULA
Etymology: From end user + license + agreement.
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: A contract between the manufacturer or copyright holder, also commonly called the licensor, of an end product and a person, commonly called the end user, that specifies the licenses under which the end user may utilize the end product, subject to restrictions as specified in the contract or agreement.
Related terms: terms of use
poisonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poisonable
form: most poisonable
Etymology: From poison + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being poisoned.
examples: text: poisonable heresies
ref: 1604, William Tooker, Of the Fabrique of the Church and Churchmens livings:
glosses: poisonous
Derived terms: unpoisonable
Nintendonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nintendinitis.
Nintendo thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nintendinitis.
noninstantaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + instantaneous.
Senses: glosses: Not instantaneous.
freedom of assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːdəm əv əˈsɛmbli/
Etymology: From freedom + of + assembly.
Senses: glosses: The right of citizens to freely congregate or assemble anywhere should they wish to.
Coordinate terms: freedom of association
freedom of movement
freedom of contract
freedom of speech
freedom of the press
freedom of religion
right to keep and bear arms
right to keep and bear arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the wording of the second amendment to the US Constitution: " […] the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Senses: examples: text: A well regulated Militia, being neceſsary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
ref: 1789, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution:
text: President Bush had vetoed an earlier version of the Brady bill because of the intense opposition of the NRA, which said it infringed on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
ref: 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120:
text: Two California counties violated the Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.[…]
Because buyers can obtain guns only by personally going to gun stores in California, Ventura County’s 48-day closure of gun shops, ammunition shops and firing ranges “wholly prevented law-abiding citizens in the County from realizing their right to keep and bear arms,” he wrote.
ref: 2022 January 20, Don Thompson, “California’s COVID gun store shutdowns ruled illegal”, in AP News, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2022:
text: Backers of the New York law say it ultimately prevents people from carrying guns on the streets, leading to less violent crime.
However, justices said the requirement violates the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms."
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority that the Constitution protects "an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home."
ref: 2022 June 24, “US rules Americans have right to guns in public”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2022, Law and Justice:
glosses: The right of individuals to possess firearms and armor.
Synonyms: right to bear arms
Coordinate terms: freedom of movement
freedom of contract
freedom of speech
freedom of the press
freedom of religion
freedom of expression
freedom of assembly
right to bear arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The National Rifle Association, one of the most effective lobbies in Washington, opposed the measure because it thought passage of the bill would lead to further government restrictions on the right to bear arms.
ref: 1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, pages 92–93:
text: Chip called from New Hampshire to tell me about Jack's representing me at the National Rifle Association meeting. Jack not only told them I was a hunter all my life and a good shot, but also said in a loud voice, "My daddy will approve anything you want to do in the woods."[…]
The key words were "in the woods." The NRA, basing its argument on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding the right to bear arms, has acquired tremendous influence within the U.S. Congress and among state and local governments.
ref: 2011 [1980 February 19], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 402–403:
glosses: Alternative form of right to keep and bear arms.
sham marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sham marriages
Senses: synonyms: fake marriage
false marriage
fictitious marriage
mock marriage
paper marriage
glosses: A marriage of convenience conducted by two persons who do not intend to live as a couple, generally for the purpose of gaining some advantage arising from married status.
twifold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪfəʊld/
Forms: form: more twifold
form: most twifold
form: twyfold
Etymology: From Middle English twifold, twifald, from Old English twifeald (“double, twofold”), from Proto-West Germanic *twifald, from Proto-Germanic *twifaldaz (“twofold”), equivalent to twi- + -fold. Cognate with Middle High German zwivalt (“double”), Old Norse tvífaldr (“double”), Icelandic tvöfaldur (“double”).
Senses: glosses: Twofold.
twifold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪfəʊld/
Forms: form: more twifold
form: most twifold
form: twyfold
Etymology: From Middle English twifold, twifald, from Old English twifeald (“double, twofold”), from Proto-West Germanic *twifald, from Proto-Germanic *twifaldaz (“twofold”), equivalent to twi- + -fold. Cognate with Middle High German zwivalt (“double”), Old Norse tvífaldr (“double”), Icelandic tvöfaldur (“double”).
Senses: glosses: In a twofold manner or measure.
twiforked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: twyforked
Etymology: From twi- + forked.
Senses: examples: text: Bid me go snatch a daring Thunderbolt, Or twi-fork'd lightning from the hand of Jove: […]
ref: 1881, Francis Quarles, edited by Alexander Balloch Grosart, The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles:
glosses: Bifurcate, biforked.
Related terms: three-forked
twiformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twiformed
form: most twiformed
form: twyformed
form: twiform
form: twi-formed
form: twyform
Etymology: From twi- + formed.
Senses: examples: text: On the very ground / Alone she sat, as she had there been left / A guard upon the wain, which I beheld / Bound to the twyform beast.
ref: 1897, Dante Alighieri, Oscar Kuhns, The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri:
glosses: Having a double form; biform.
twiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twiform
form: most twiform
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twiformed.
twifaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twifaced
form: most twifaced
form: twyfaced
form: twi-faced
Etymology: From twi- + faced.
Senses: examples: text: These two of whom I tell, from their first hours.
Or, like a twi-faced urn, which doth outflow With the same spring, […]
ref: 1860, B. P., Alice: and other poems, by B.P., page 2:
text: “E'en so, Æneas, do I swear by Stars, and Sea, and Earth,
By twi-faced Janus, and the twins Latona brought to birth, […]
ref: 1876, Publius Vergilius Maro, The Æneids of Virgil, done into English verse by W. Morris, page 353:
glosses: Having two faces.
examples: text: There is no time to measure motion by, There time is swallowed in eternity: Wry-mouth'd disdain, and corner-hunting lust, And twy-fac'd fraud, [...]
ref: 1861, Francis Quarles, Quarles' emblems:
glosses: Two-faced; deceitful.
twifallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twifallows
form: twifallowing
form: twifallowed
form: twifallowed
form: twyfallow
Etymology: From twi- + fallow.
Senses: glosses: To plow a second time, as fallow land, to prepare it for seed.
twifallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twifallows
form: twyfallow
Etymology: From twi- + fallow.
Senses: glosses: The process of twifallowing land.
protistologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protistologists
Etymology: From protistology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies protists.
Related terms: protistology
protist
protistologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protistologist
sham marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sham marriage
oranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orange
oranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orange
Nikolayev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nɪkəˈlaɪ.ɪf/
Forms: form: Nikolaev
form: Nikolaiev
Etymology: From Russian Никола́ев (Nikolájev), from Никола́й (Nikoláj, “Nicholas”). Compare Mykolaiv.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Никола́ев (Nikolájev)
glosses: A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Nikolayeva.
glosses: A khutor in Znamenka rural settlement, Morozovsk Raion, Rostov Oblast, Southern Federal District, Russia.
examples: text: He is worried for his parents, who live in Mykolaiv, a port city on the Black Sea where Abramenko was raised. […] “Fighting is already underway in Nikolaev,” Abramenko wrote, using an alternate spelling for the city.
ref: 2022 March 4th, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times, Russia–Ukraine War:
glosses: Russian name of Mykolaiv (four villages and two cities in the Ukraine)
glosses: Russian name of Mykolaiv (four villages and two cities in the Ukraine)
The former Russian name, from the 8th (O.S.) or 20th (N.S.) of October 1802 until the 15th (O.S.) or 27th (N.S.) of May 1803, of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire.
synonyms: Mykolaiv Governorate
umbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian umbone, from Latin umbō. Doublet of umbo.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of umbo.
synonyms: word: umbo
difficult nut to crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difficult nuts to crack
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hard nut to crack.
synonyms: word: hard nut to crack
wolfpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlfpæk/
Forms: form: wolfpacks
form: wolf pack
form: wolf-pack
Etymology: From wolf + pack.
Senses: glosses: A family or other group of wild wolves.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: During World War II, any of various marauding groups of submarines, especially German submarines that patrolled the North Atlantic and preyed upon merchant ships.
wolfpack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlfpæk/
Forms: form: wolfpacks
form: wolfpacking
form: wolfpacked
form: wolfpacked
form: wolf pack
form: wolf-pack
Etymology: From wolf + pack.
Senses: examples: 2017, September 6, Michael Gordon, "Online they were Heather, Megan and Kylie – adult men luring boys into making porn Sacramento Bee
If a boy refused to take part, the predators would team up – Anderson called it "wolfpacking" – until the target complied
glosses: To gang up on a solitary target, in the manner of a pack of wolves.
submarine pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submarine pitches
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch thrown with an underarm-to-sidearm motion.
know from a bar of soap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows from a bar of soap
form: knowing from a bar of soap
form: knew from a bar of soap
form: known from a bar of soap
Senses: examples: text: After she won the lottery, Marge had long-lost relatives she didn't know from a bar of soap come up to her to ask for money.
glosses: To know; to be acquainted with (a person).
best-kept secret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best-kept secrets
Senses: examples: text: Forget the Great Wall - Beijing's best-kept secret is its crazy taxi drivers.
antonyms: worst-kept secret
glosses: Something interesting or important but not well-known.
fingernail moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingernail moons
Senses: glosses: A lunula of a fingernail.
synonyms: sliver moon
thumbnail moon
glosses: The earliest phase of a crescent moon.
fingernail moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingernail moon