DefinitionsApathy; Apodeictic; Apologetics/Apologete; ApologistAporia/Aporetic; Apposition; Appreciation; Argumentation/ArgumentatiousArguendo; Armchair; Arrogant; Asseverate; Assistive; AttavismAttentive; Attentiveness; Attentively; Auctoritas PrincipisAuthentic; Autocentric; Automaton; AutomorphicAutomorphism; Autosuggestion
Apathy (n.): absence of emotion. [C17: from Latin, from Greek apatheia, from apathēs,
‘without feeling’, from a- + pathos, ‘feeling’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). apodeictic; apodictic (adj.; formal): clearly established or beyond dispute; [e.g.]: “Both these types of phenomena are
apodeictic realities”; “He sought a new and apodictic foundation of human knowledge based on the liberation of man from the ancient and medieval
tradition of the West”; (synonyms): incontrovertible, incontestable, undeniable, irrefutable, unassailable, beyond dispute, unquestionable,
beyond question, indubitable, not in doubt, beyond doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt, unarguable, inarguable, undebatable, unanswerable.
[origin: Mid 17th century: via Latin apodīcticus, ‘demonstratively true’; from Greek apodeiktikós
[ἀ #960;οδεικτικός], from
apodeiknúnai [αποδεικνύναι] ‘show off’, ‘demonstrate’].
~ (Oxford English Dictionary). apologist (.): a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; [e.g.]: “an apologist for capital
punishment”; (synonyms): justifier, vindicator; advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an
idea).~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • apposition (n.): 1. grammar: (a.) construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence; for example, ‘Copley’ and ‘the painter’ in “The painter Copley was born in Boston”; (b.) the relationship between such nouns or noun phrases. 2. a placing side by side or next to each other. 3. biology [...]; (adj.): appositional; (adv.): appositionally. [Middle English apposicioun, from Latin appositiō, appositiōn-, from appositus, past participle of appōnere, ‘to put near’; from ad- + pōnere, ‘to put’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • apposition (n.): 1. the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; 2. the addition of one thing to another thing; 3. a grammatical relation between expressions, usu. consecutive, that have the same referent and the same relation to other elements in the sentence; (adj.): appositional; (adv.): appositionally. [1400-50; late Middle English from Late Latin appositiō]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • apposition (n.): 1. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; [e.g.]: “‘Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer’ is an example of apposition”; 2. limiting, qualifying, modifying: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase; (a.) limiting: strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; [e.g.]: “the restrictive clause in ‘Each made a list of the books that had influenced him’ limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause”; (b.) modification: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase; (c.) restrictiveness: a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (‘red hat’ has a more specific meaning than ‘hat’). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • apposition (n.): 1. the act of adding to or together; a setting to; application; a placing together; juxtaposition; [e.g.]: “The apposition of new matter”. (John Arbuthnot, “Choice of Ailments”; 1756); “Placing in apposition the two ends of a divided nerve does not re-establish nervous communication”. (Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903, “Principles of Psychology”, 25); 2. (in grammar): (a) the relation to a noun (or pronoun) of another noun, or in some cases of an adjective or a clause, that is added to it by way of explanation or characterisation. Thus, “Cicero, the famous orator, lived in the first century before Christ”; “On him, their second Providence, they hung”. In languages that distinguish cases, the noun in apposition is in the same case as the word to which it is apposed. The same term is also used of an adjective that stands to the noun (or pronoun) to which it refers in a less close relation than the proper attributive, being added rather parenthetically, or by way of substitute for a qualifying clause. Thus, “They sang Darius, great and good”; “Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again”. Rarely, it is applied to a clause, whether substantive or adjective, that qualifies a noun (or pronoun) in an equivalent manner. Compare attributive and predicative; (b) the relation of two or more nouns (or a noun and pronoun) in the same construction, under the above conditions. “Knights Templars”, “lords justices”, “Paul the apostle”, “my son John’s book” (where son is also possessive, the sign of the possessive case being required only with the final term), are examples of nouns in apposition; “I Jesus have sent mine angel” (Rev. xxii. 16) is an example of a pronoun and noun in apposition; 3† (in rhetoric): the addition of a parallel word or phrase by way of explanation or illustration of another. (N. E. D.); growth by apposition (in botany): growth in thickness by the repeated formation of laminae, as of cellulose in the thickening of cell-walls and of starch in the increase of starch-granules. [= French apposition = Provinçal appozicio = Spanish apposicion = Portuguese apposição = Italian apposizione, from Late Latin appositio(n-), adpositio(n-), ‘a placing by or near’, ‘setting before’, ‘application’, from Latin apponere, pp. appositus; see appose¹, apposite]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).• appositional (adj.): 1. pertaining to apposition, especially grammatical apposition; 2. (in botany): lying together and partly uniting so as to appear like a compound branch: applied to the branches of algae. [from apposition + -al]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • appositionally (adv.): in apposition; in an appositional way. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • appositive (adj. and n.): I. (adj.): 1. apposite; applicable; 2. (grammar): placed in apposition; standing
over against its subject in the construction of the sentence; [e.g.]: “Appositive to the words going immediately before”. (Sir Norton Knatchbull,
1602-1685, “Animadversiones in libros Novi Testamenti”, p. 42); II. (n.) (in grammar): a word in apposition. [= French
appositif, from Latin as if
*appositivus, from appositus; see apposite].
~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Appreciation (n.): assessment of the true worth or value of persons or things; (n.): appreciator. [C17: from Medieval Latin appretiāre, ‘to value, prize’, from Latin pretium, ‘price’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).
Appreciation (n.): clear perception or recognition, esp. of historic importance and aesthetic quality; [e.g.]: “a course in art appreciation”; (adj.): appreciational, appreciatory; (adv.): appreciatingly; (n.): appreciator. [1600-10; from Late Latin appretiātus, past participle of appretiāre, ‘to value, prize’, from Latin pretium, ‘price’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).
[Dictionary Definition]: ‘a priori: loosely presumptive(ly); without previous investigation; as far as one knows’. (Oxford Dictionary). Argumentation/Argumentatious: [Dictionary Definitions]: • argumentation (n.): 1. the process of developing or presenting an argument; reasoning; 2. the premises and conclusion so set forth; 3. discussion; debate; disputation; 4. argument (def. 5; viz.: discourse intended to persuade); (adj.): *argumentatious*. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • argumentation (n.): 1. the process of developing or presenting an argument; reasoning; 2. discussion; debate; disputation; 3. a discussion dealing with a controversial point; 4. the setting forth of reasons together with the conclusion drawn from them; 5. the premises and conclusion so set forth; 6. argument (def. 5; viz.: an address or composition intended to convince or persuade; persuasive discourse); (adj.): *argumentatious*.[emphasis added]. ~ (Random House Dictionary).
Arguendo (adv.): in the course of an argument; [e.g.]: “It may be assumed, arguendo, that Complainant’s domain name and the disputed domain name
are confusingly similar”. [origin: Latin ‘for the sake of argument’; from argutare, frequentative of arguere, ‘make clear’, ‘make known’, ‘prove’, ‘declare’,
‘demonstrate’; from PIE √*arg-, ‘to shine’, ‘be white’, ‘bright’, ‘clear’; cf. Latin argentum, ‘silver’, ‘silver work’, ‘white money’].
~ (Online Etymology Dictionary).
I am using the word ‘arrogant’ in its ‘unduly appropriating authority’ meaning here and not its more common ‘aggressively
conceited or
presumptuous; haughty, overbearing’ meaning. Oxford Dictionary • asseverate (tr.v.; asseverated, asseverating, asseverates): to declare seriously or positively; affirm; (n.): asseveration; (adj.): asseverative. [Latin assevērātus, past participle of assevērāre, ‘to declare’, ‘to do (something) earnestly’, from ad- + sevērus, ‘serious’, ‘severe’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • asseverate (v.): state categorically; (synonyms): assert, maintain; insist, take a firm stand (be emphatic or resolute
and refuse to budge); [e.g.]: “I must insist!”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus—a great-great-great-grandfather or, more generally, an ancestor. In social sciences, atavism is the tendency of reversion. For example, people in the modern era reverting to the ways of thinking and acting of a former time. ~ (2017 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). • atavism (n.): a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; (adj.): atavistic: characteristic of an atavist; viz.: an organism
which has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism; (adj.): *atavistically*. [emphasis added] ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). [Dictionary Definition]: ‘attentive’: Steadily applying one’s mind or energies; intent, heedful, assiduously alert, aware,
watchful. Thus: ‘attentiveness’ (n.): the quality of applying the mind, consideration, thought; also: ‘attentional’ (a.): of or pertaining to the
mental faculty of attention, giving heed, noticing; and: ‘attentively’ (adv.); experiencing intently, heedfully, observantly.
Oxford Dictionary After the fall of the Republic, during the days of the Roman Empire, the Emperor had the title of princeps
(“first citizen” of
Rome) and held the *auctoritas principis* – the supreme moral authority – in conjunction with the imperium and potestas; the military,
judiciary and
administrative powers. That is to say, there is a non-committal to a separation of powers, some civil rights, constitutionalism, codified
constitutional state and
legalist concept of law. [emphasis added].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auctoritas]. In ancient Rome, auctoritas referred to the general level of
prestige a person had in Roman society, and, as a consequence, his standing, influence,
and ability to rally support around his will. However auctoritas was not merely
political; it had a numinous content and symbolised the mysterious “power of command”
of heroic Roman figures. (...). After the fall of the Republic, during the days of the
Roman Empire, the Emperor had the title of princeps (“first citizen” of Rome)
and held the *auctoritas principis* – the supreme moral authority – in conjunction with the imperium and potestas; the
military, judiciary and administrative powers. That is to say, there is a non-committal to
a separation of powers, some civil rights, constitutionalism, codified constitutional
state and legalist concept of law. The notion of auctoritas was often invoked by
the papacy during the Middle Ages, in order to secure the temporal power of the Pope.
Innocent III most famously invoked auctoritas in order to depose kings and emperors
and to try to establish a papal theocracy. [emphasis added].
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auctoritas]. authentic (adj.): of undisputed origin or authorship; genuine [1300-50; Middle English
autentik, from Old French autentique, from Late Latin authenticus, ‘coming
from the author’, from Greek authentikos, from authentēs, ‘one who acts
independently’; ‘author, master’, from: autos, ‘self’ + -hentēs, ‘doer’,
‘perpetrator’, ‘accomplisher’, ‘achiever’; akin to Attic Greek hanutein, ‘to accomplish’, variant of Greek
anuein, ‘to complete’]. ~ (composite from several sources). • autocentric (adj.): centred in or upon the self; making or regarding oneself as the centre; [e.g.]: “These remarks would seem to imply a shift for the nurse from autocentric controlling, to allocentric controlling, then to allocentric nurturing”. (page 333⁽*⁾ “Progress in Reversal Theory”, edited by M. J. Apter, J. H. Kerr, M. P. Cowles; Apr 1988, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam); (n.): autocentrism (i.e., the quality of being autocentric; the tendency to use the internalised set of rules for one’s behaviour); (antonym): allocentric (i.e., concerned with the interests of others more than one’s own; community-minded). [etymology: auto-, from Greek, comb. form of autos, ‘self’ + -centric, suffix forming adjectives having a centre as specified; e.g., geocentric, anthropocentric]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). ⁽*⁾
[https://books.google.com/?id=RtVjh1Pre88C&pg=PA333].
[Dictionary Definition]: ‘automaton (pl. -mata): a piece of mechanism with concealed motive power, esp. one simulating a living being; a robot’. (Oxford Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: automorphic (adj.): framed or conceived after the pattern or form of one’s self; [e.g.]: “The conception which any one frames of another’s mind is inevitably more or less after the pattern of his own mind–is automorphic; and in proportion as the mind of which he has to frame a conception differs from his own, his automorphic interpretation is likely to be wide of the truth” (Herbert Spenser, ‘Study of Sociology’, p. 104)⁽*⁾; (adv.): automorphically; (n.): automorphism. [from Greek αὐτόμορφος, ‘self-formed, natural’ (taken as ‘formed upon one’s own self or pattern’); from αὐτός, ‘self’, + μορφῄ, ‘form’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). ⁽*⁾
[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924095654574#page/n121/mode/2up] automorphism: the ascription of one’s own characteristics to another. (Oxford Dictionary). automorphism (n.): the projection of one’s own characteristics onto another person; (adj.): automorphic.
~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary). automorphism (n.): the practice of seeing others as having the same characteristics as oneself. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). [Dictionary Definitions]:
autosuggestion (n.): the process by which a person induces self-acceptance of an opinion, belief, or plan of action;
(v.): autosuggest; (n.): autosuggestibility; (adj.): autosuggestible, autosuggestive. ~ (American Heritage
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