Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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Baruch Spinoza

Bertrand Russell called Leibniz's system "profound, coherent, largely Spinozistic, and amazingly logical."

—p.42 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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ecumenicism

In his philosophy he practiced an ecumenicism that in a lesser mind would strike us as suspicious or even craven.

On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

—p.39 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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ex cathedra

He published rarely but ex cathedra

on Isaac Newton; nice metaphorical use of this word here

—p.39 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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keister

ten hours a week commuting on her keister

—p.9 Arsebestos (4) by Neal Stephenson
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jejune

material that might strike the sophisticated reader as dated or jejune

—p.2 Introduction (1) by Neal Stephenson
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