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epignosis

We shall conclude with epignosis (a theological term that designates knowledge which is believed, engaging us in our acts, subjectively assumed)

—p.4 Introduction (1) by Slavoj Žižek
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belie

That wage earners, without social position or higher education or wealth, are of inferior intellect is surely belied by the fact that two of the most splendid writers and speakers on the deepest subjects in American history are self-taught workmen.

—p.10 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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declension

The thinking behind Proud Boys features some of the general declension narratives shared by the alt-right and the conservative tradition

i.e., Western decline

—p.96 Chapter Six: Entering the manosphere (86) by Angela Nagle
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apostate

Because of her militant secularism and open apostasy as an ex-Muslim

—p.79 Chapter Five: From Tumblr to the campus wars: creating scarcity in an online economy of virtue (68) by Angela Nagle
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apotheosis

a liberal preference for 'recognition of diversity over economic inequality' reached its most absurd apotheosis with a politics based on the minutia and gradations of rapidly proliferating identities

I think minutia is [sic] but, unsure

—p.69 Chapter Five: From Tumblr to the campus wars: creating scarcity in an online economy of virtue (68) by Angela Nagle
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