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(adjective) lacking nutritive value / devoid of significance or interest; dull / naive, simplistic, and superficial

2

material that might strike the sophisticated reader as dated or jejune

—p.2 Introduction (1) by Neal Stephenson
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material that might strike the sophisticated reader as dated or jejune

—p.2 Introduction (1) by Neal Stephenson
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(North American) buttocks

9

ten hours a week commuting on her keister

—p.9 Arsebestos (4) by Neal Stephenson
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ten hours a week commuting on her keister

—p.9 Arsebestos (4) by Neal Stephenson
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(adverb or adjective) by virtue of or in the exercise of one's office or position; Latin for "from the chair"; related to the concept of papal infallibility

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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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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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(noun) the principle or aim of promoting unity among the world's Christian churches.

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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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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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Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin; in Ethics, laid groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe

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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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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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(noun) an elementary individual substance which reflects the order of the world and from which material properties are derived (coined by Leibniz)

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Leibniz calls these mind-atoms by the name of monads.

—p.44 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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Leibniz calls these mind-atoms by the name of monads.

—p.44 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existence is independent of us and our language, thought, and practices

47

primeness and all the other subject matter of mathematics have a reality independent of the human mind. This assumption goes under various names, one of which is Mathematical Platonism

—p.47 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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primeness and all the other subject matter of mathematics have a reality independent of the human mind. This assumption goes under various names, one of which is Mathematical Platonism

—p.47 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

53

It seems to inject a teleological aspect that is not present in the older formulation

on the "action principle" evolution of Newton's laws

—p.53 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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It seems to inject a teleological aspect that is not present in the older formulation

on the "action principle" evolution of Newton's laws

—p.53 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy

55

Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read

on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying

—p.55 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read

on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying

—p.55 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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(noun) a heavily armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece

58

Only a few of them were dressed as Greek hoplites.

At a showing of the movie 300

—p.58 It's All Geek to Me (58) by Neal Stephenson
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Only a few of them were dressed as Greek hoplites.

At a showing of the movie 300

—p.58 It's All Geek to Me (58) by Neal Stephenson
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