jejune
(en)
(adjective) lacking nutritive value / devoid of significance or interest; dull / naive, simplistic, and superficial
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material that might strike the sophisticated reader as dated or jejune
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material that might strike the sophisticated reader as dated or jejune
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keister
(en)
(North American) buttocks
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ten hours a week commuting on her keister
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ten hours a week commuting on her keister
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ex cathedra
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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
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He published rarely but ex cathedra
on Isaac Newton; nice metaphorical use of this word here
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ecumenicism
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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
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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
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Baruch Spinoza
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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."
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Bertrand Russell called Leibniz's system "profound, coherent, largely Spinozistic, and amazingly logical."
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monad
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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.
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Leibniz calls these mind-atoms by the name of monads.
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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
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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
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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
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teleological
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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
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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
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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
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prolix
(en)
using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy
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Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read
on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying
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Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read
on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying
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hoplite
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(noun) a heavily armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece
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Only a few of them were dressed as Greek hoplites.
At a showing of the movie 300
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Only a few of them were dressed as Greek hoplites.
At a showing of the movie 300
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