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  2. Indeterminacy (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    It is easy to find loops of definition in any dictionary, because this seems to be the only way that certain concepts, and generally very important ones such as that of existence, can be defined in the English language. A definition is a collection of other words, and in any finite dictionary if one continues to follow the trail of words in ...

  3. Definitions (Plato) - Wikipedia

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    Such a definition therefore gives the lowest species for the thing defined. In Definitions, for example, the word definition is defined as an expression that is composed of genus and differentia. [5] Many definitions in Definitions follow these principles and define terms by giving their genus and distinguishing characteristics.

  4. Katalepsis - Wikipedia

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    Katalepsis (Greek: κατάληψις, "grasping") is a term in Stoic philosophy for a concept roughly equivalent to modern comprehension. [1] To the Stoic philosophers, katalepsis was an important premise regarding one's state of mind as it relates to grasping fundamental philosophical concepts, which was followed by the assent, or adherence to the truth thus understood.

  5. Mono no aware - Wikipedia

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    Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...

  6. Deflationary theory of truth - Wikipedia

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    Tarski's material adequacy condition, or Convention T, is: a definition of truth for an object language implies all instances of the sentential form (T) S is true if and only if P. where S is replaced by a name of a sentence (in the object language) and P is replaced by a translation of that sentence in the metalanguage.

  7. Indeterminacy of translation - Wikipedia

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    The indeterminacy of translation is a thesis propounded by 20th-century American analytic philosopher W. V. Quine. The classic statement of this thesis can be found in his 1960 book Word and Object , which gathered together and refined much of Quine's previous work on subjects other than formal logic and set theory. [ 1 ]

  8. Definitions of philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Many definitions of philosophy see as its main task the creation of meaning and understanding or the clarification of concepts. [9] In this sense, philosophy is often contrasted with the sciences in the sense that it is not so much about what the actual world is like but about how we experience it or how we think and talk about it. [4]

  9. Jouissance - Wikipedia

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    The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a known Lacanian theorist, has adopted the term in his philosophy; it also plays an important role in the work of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes. In his 1973 literary theory book The Pleasure of the Text, Barthes divides the effects of texts into two: plaisir (translated as "pleasure") and jouissance ...