(adjective) of, relating to, or suggestive of Bishop Berkeley or his system of philosophical idealism, whose fundamental proposition can be summed up as "esse est percepi" (Latin for "To be is to be perceived")
Imagine a Berkeleyan esse-est-percipi universe in which God is named Nielsen.
great quote in general
Imagine a Berkeleyan esse-est-percipi universe in which God is named Nielsen.
great quote in general
the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology
lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology
unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable
an ineluctably conditioned part of a pop-dominated culture
an ineluctably conditioned part of a pop-dominated culture
(adjective) highly pertinent or appropriate; apt
There's a marvelously apposite Heidegger quotation here, but I'll spare you.
love this quote. referring to our literary innocence being taken away without anything substantial to replace it
There's a marvelously apposite Heidegger quotation here, but I'll spare you.
love this quote. referring to our literary innocence being taken away without anything substantial to replace it
a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names
These novels carve out for themselves an interstice between flat-out fiction and a sort of weird cerebral roman à clef.
These novels carve out for themselves an interstice between flat-out fiction and a sort of weird cerebral roman à clef.
(noun) in philosophy: a property (as redness) considered apart from things having the property; individual instances of subjective, conscious experience
the piquant qualia of a lived, albeit bizarrely lived, experience
the piquant qualia of a lived, albeit bizarrely lived, experience
(noun; historical; law) the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony; (literary) Harold Bloom's term for when strong writers misinterpret their literary predecessors so as to clear imaginative space for themselves
a sustained error that practically compels misprision
a sustained error that practically compels misprision
(noun) an anatomical band or encircling ridge (plural: cingula)
flouts the ordinary cingula of "sense"
flouts the ordinary cingula of "sense"
referring to the verb "indite", which means to compose or write, or to treat in a literary composition
the conscious rendition of inditement not only rings true but serves essential functons
on Wittgenstein's Mistress
the conscious rendition of inditement not only rings true but serves essential functons
on Wittgenstein's Mistress
(adjective) previously mentioned / (verb) to mention previously
The other side of the prenominate 2-bind--the side rendered explicitly by WM's opening and close--is why people who write need to do so as a mode of communication.
The other side of the prenominate 2-bind--the side rendered explicitly by WM's opening and close--is why people who write need to do so as a mode of communication.