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aleatory

ethics, seeking its sources and sanctions, experiences shock when it learns that it originated in the aleatoric chemistry of nucleic acids

—p.179 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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ontic

Therefore a constant factor of all your theodictic, ontic, and sacralizing work was the continued endeavor to assimilate data in a divergence of explanations:

—p.177 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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belles-lettres

That is surely why it has no regard for belles-lettres.

—p.114 Golem XIV: Foreword (99) by Stanisław Lem
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peremptory

participating in conversations with GOLEM requires people to have patience and above all self-control, for from our point of view it can be arrogant and peremptory.

—p.113 Golem XIV: Foreword (99) by Stanisław Lem
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theodicy

all of which, translated into conventional theodicean language, signifies the coexistence in the same Universum of God, his total absence, and his complete opposite in Satan.

—p.73 Juan Rambellais et. al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I:Introduction to the Second Edition (70) by Stanisław Lem
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