DefinitionsSocialise; Social Constructionism; Sociobiologists; Socius; Soi-Disant; Soliloquy Snake-oil Emporium; Someone Uniquely Recognisable By Her InglishSomatic; Sophisma; Sound Wave; Spermatozoa; Spiel; Spontaneous Sri/ Nath; Statism; Straw-man; Streetful; Sterling; Stuff Up; Stuff of this Body Sublimation; Superbia; Supposititious; Suppository/Repository; Substantivise
socialise (tr.v.; socialised, socialising): to make social {viz.: social = friendly or sociable;
agreeable in company; companionable}; make fit for life in companionship with others; (n.): socialisation. [1820-30].
[curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).
“Social Constructionism or the Social Construction of Reality (also Social Concept) is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory (...elided...). Social Constructionism became prominent in the U.S. with Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s *1966* book, ‘The Social Construction of Reality’. (...elided...). In the book ‘The Reality of Social Construction’, the British sociologist Dave Elder-Vass places the development of Social Constructionism as one outcome of the legacy of Postmodernism. He writes “Perhaps the most widespread and influential product of this process [coming to terms with the legacy of Postmodernism] is Social Constructionism, which has been booming [within the domain of social theory] since the *1980s*...“. [emphases added]. ~ (Social Constructionism; History and Development; Wikipedia). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#History_and_development]. Sociobiologists, so-named in 1975
• [Holy Lord]: “I realise that ‘I’ as social identity want to still run the show. The universe, the body – these are things that are
quite alien to me, so I want to take the reins and be the micro-manager. The infinite, formless, genderless, shapeless universe that I am part of is too weird!
It is safer this way. The *socius* is my buffer – a nice little cushion which I can use to shield myself from raw actuality”.
[emphasis added]. ~ (Vineeto’s Correspondence with Srinath (Slack); January 01, 2019). • socius (n.; pl. socii): 1. (archaic): an associate; a member or fellow, as of a sodality, an academy, or an institution of learning; 2. the individual, in his social qualities and relations, as the unit of society, in distinction from the individual as an animal or as a mind. (Franklin Henry Giddings, “Elements of Sociology; A Text-Book for Colleges and Schools”, 1898, p. 10); 3. (in social psychology): the social self; see the extract; [e.g.]: “The development of the child’s personality could not go on at all without the constant modification of his sense of himself by suggestions from others. ... He thinks of the other, the alter, as his socius; just as he thinks of himself as the other’s socius; and the only thing which remains more or less stable, throughout the whole growth, is the fact that there is a growing sense of self which includes both terms, the ego and the alter. In short, the real self is the bipolar self, the social self, the socius”. (James Mark Baldwin, “Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development: A Study in Social Psychology”, 1897, p. 30); socius criminis (in law): an accomplice or associate in the commission of a crime. [New Latin from Latin socius, ‘a companion’, ‘an associate’, ‘a sharer’, ‘a partner’ (see social); criminis, genitive of crimen, ‘fault’, ‘offense’; see crime]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • socius (n.; pl. socii): 1. a unit in social relationships consisting of an individual; 2. associate, colleague; [e.g.]: “...was procurator and socius to the vice-provincial”. (R. J. Purcell); specifically (capitalised): the divine friend and companion of man. [etymology: Latin socius]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). __________ Random Literary Samples. • “Traditional philosophy relied overwhelmingly on the operation of transcendental principles which were required to make claims possible,
as well as moral aesthetic judgements. There are also transcendental principles, perhaps less widely acknowledged than the ones that underlie traditional
philosophy, which subtend the constitution of the social order. These principles are embodied in what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari call the ‘socius’.
The well-known philosophical counter-tradition inaugurated by Friedrich Nietzsche, and continued by Martin Heidegger, undertook a dismantling of the
transcendental basis of traditional philosophy, and the work of Deleuze is to be located in this tradition. For Deleuze, as for Nietzsche, an entire tradition
extends from Plato {i.e., Mr. Aristocles, son of Ariston} to Immanuel Kant, in which it is declared that the yardstick of knowledge
is verisimilitude. (...elided...). Coding or ‘inscription’ are central to the constitution of the socius, and Deleuze and Guattari
respond to the crucial question of the surface on which inscription takes place by invoking the notion of the earth. The earth precedes the constitution of the
socius, and is the primordial unity or ground of desire and production. As such the earth is the precondition of production while also being the object of
desire. The first form of the socius has therefore to involve a territorialisation, undertaken by a ‘territorial machine’, which parcels out the earth into
segments of social meaning. Once territorialisation has occurred, it becomes possible for social machines (the core of the socius) to operate. Social machines
have humans as their parts and are essential to the generation of cultural forms, these forms being needed to link humans to their (technical) machines. Social
machines organise flows of power and desire by coding them. There are all kinds of flows: different kinds of humans, vegetation, non-human animals, agricultural
implements, flows which involve bodily functions and organs, and so on. Nothing escapes coding, and so nothing can escape the purview of the socius. If the
socius is a megamachine, the fuel which drives this machine is desire, though desire is shaped and orchestrated by its insertion into this megamachine. In
modern societies, the nature of this insertion of desire into the social megamachine has been significantly transformed...”.
[curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (pp. 258-259 • “The socius was the first again to break the silence, and he said to Father d’Aigrigny, with his usual cool impudence, ‘One of two
things must be. Either your dear son means to render his donation absolutely valuable and irrevocable, or...’”.
~ (page 632 • “On the appointed day, the preacher with his ‘socius’ is taken to the Vatican in a pontifical carriage, and enters the throne-room;
when notified by the master of ceremonies, he draws near the bussola, takes off his mantle, asks the pope’s blessing, and ascends the pulpit”.
~ (from “The Catholic Encyclopedia”, Vol. 12, by Philip II-Reuss (1840-1916); published 1913 (left-clicking the yellow rectangles with the capital ‘U’ opens each in a new web page).
soi-disant (adj.): self-styled; so-called. [French: soi, ‘oneself’ +
disant, ‘saying’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
soliloquy: an instance of talking to oneself .... ~ (Oxford
Dictionary).
Someone Uniquely Recognisable By Her Inglish: Viz.:
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[Dictionary Definitions]: • somatic (adj.): of or relating to the soma (=the body of an organism, esp. an animal, as distinct from the germ cells); of or relating to the human body as distinct from the mind. ~ (Collins Dictionary of Biology). • somatic (adj.): affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; [e.g.]: “for their somatic well-being”; “there were somatic symptoms”; “it was a somatic illness”; (synonyms); bodily, corporeal, physical (=involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit); [e.g.]: “to do some bodily exercise”; “a long corporeal life”; “she was sloppy about everything but her physical appearance”; incarnate, corporate, corporal, embodied, bodied; (=possessing or existing in bodily form; [e.g.]: “it was an incarnate spirit”; “the word ‘corporate’ is an archaic term”; “what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind”. (Shakespeare; Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3); “needed for embodied health”; “there was a bodied defect”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • somatic (adj.): 1. of, relating to, or affecting the body, especially as distinguished from a body part, the mind, or the environment; corporeal or physical; 3. of or relating to a somatic cell or the somatoplasm; (adv.): somatically. [French somatique, from Greek sōmatikos , from sōma, sōmat-, ‘body’, from Greek sōma, ‘the body’].~ (American Heritage Dictionary).> • somatic (adj.): 1. of or relating to the soma; [e.g.]: “those somatic cells”; 2. of or relating to the human body as distinct from the mind; [e.g.]: “it was a somatic disease”; (adv.): somatically; [C18: from Greek sōmatikos, ‘concerning the body’, from sōma, ‘the body’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • somatic (adj.): 1. of the body; bodily; physical; 2. of or pertaining to a somatic cell; (adv.): somatically. [1765-75; from Greek sōmatikós, from sōmat-, singular of sôma, ‘body’ + -ikos, -ic]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • soma (adj.): a term introduced by the German zoologist August Weismann (1834-1914) to designate the body of an organism, in contrast to the germ plasm, which is transmitted from generation to generation through the sex cells; he maintained the soma could not affect the characteristics of the germ plasm the differentiation of an organism into soma and germ plasm (the hereditary substance) proves it is impossible to inherit characteristics acquired as a result of environmental conditions during an organism’s development; the adjective ‘somatic’ is used to indicate physical phenomena as opposed to phenomena of a psychological nature. ~ (The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, 3rd Edition; 1970-1979). • soma (n.; pl. somata or somas): 1. the entire body of an organism,
exclusive of the germ cells; 2. see cell body (=the portion of a nerve cell containing the nucleus but not incorporating
the dendrites or axon; also called soma); 3. the body of an individual as contrasted with the mind or psyche. [New Latin sōma, from Greek, ‘body’]. ~
(American Heritage Dictionary). sophisma’: [f. Latin f. Greek]: clever device, trick. ~ (Oxford
Dictionary). sound wave: a longitudinal pressure wave in an elastic medium, esp. one that propagates
audible sound. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). • spermatozoon (pl. spermatozoa): a mature male germ cell, the specific output of the testes, which fertilises the mature ovum (secondary oocyte) in sexual reproduction. It is microscopic in size, looks like a translucent tadpole, and has a flat elliptical head containing a spherical centre section, and a long tail by which it propels itself with a vigorous lashing movement. Spermatozoa are produced in the seminiferous tubules of the testes whereas semen is produced in the seminal vesicles, which are located in the pelvis anterior to the prostate gland. The developmental stages of the germ cell are the spermatogonium, spermatocyte, spermatid, and finally spermatozoon. When mature, the spermatozoa are carried in the semen. At the climax of coitus, the semen is discharged into the vagina of the female. A single discharge (about a teaspoonful of semen on the average) may contain more than two-hundred-and-fifty million spermatozoa. Only a few of these will travel as far as the fallopian tubes; if an ovum is present there, and if the head of a single sperm penetrates the ovum, fertilisation takes place (the human ovum is about one-hundreth of an inch, or one-hundred-and-forty microns, in diameter, which is some fifty-thousand times larger than the human spermatozoa); (adj.): spermatozoal. ~ (Miller-Keane Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health). • ovum (pl. ova): the female reproductive or germ cell has a haploid genetic complement (twenty-two somatic chromosomes and one x-chromosome) which after fertilisation is capable of developing into a new member of the same species; called also egg. The term is sometimes applied to any stage of the fertilised germ cell during cleavage and even until hatching or birth of the new individual. The human ovum consists of protoplasm which contains some yolk, enclosed by a cell wall consisting of two layers, an outer one (zona pellucida) and an inner, thin one (vitelline membrane). There is a large nucleus (germinal vesicle) within which is a nucleolus (germinal spot). When fertilised by a spermatozoa, a gamete or zygote is capable of developing into a new individual of the same species; during maturation, the oocyte, like the spermatozoa, undergoes a halving of its chromosomal complement so that, at its union with the male gamete, the species number of chromosomes (forty-six in humans) is maintained; (adj.): ovular. ~ (Miller-Keane Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health). • To summarise: for all bipartitely-sexual animals, procreation takes place when the haploid male gamete (spermatozoa) successfully fuses with the haploid female gamete (ovum), thereby restoring two full sets of chromosomes in a new organism⁽*⁾, via that specific act of sexual fecundation (a.k.a. insemination, impregnation, fertilisation).
Incidentally, both artificial insemination and invitro fertilisation mimic that sexually instinctive male-female procreational process.
spiel: talk, a story; a glib speech, esp. one intended to persuade or impress; a salesperson’s
patter. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). spontaneous: performed or occurring without external cause or stimulus; having a self-contained cause
or origin; unpremeditated and uninhibited; coming naturally or freely, gracefully natural and unconstrained; prompted by no motive; involuntary, not
due to conscious volition. ~ (adapted from Oxford Dictionary) Sri/ Nath: • Sri (Romanised: Śrī) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an
honorific. (...). Sri is frequently used as an epithet of some Hindu gods, in which case it is *often translated into English as “Holy”*. Sri, if used by
itself and not followed by any name, refers to the supreme consciousness, i.e. God. Sri is one of the names of Ganesha, the Hindu god of prosperity. Sri is also
used as a title of the Hindu deities Rāma, Krishna, Saraswati and sometimes Durgā • Nath: the Sanskrit word nātha *literally means “Lord”*⁽⁰¹⁾, “protector”,
“master”. The related Sanskrit term Adi Natha means first or original Lord, and is a synonym for Shiva⁽⁰²⁾,
the founder of the Nāthas
statism (n.): the practice or doctrine of giving a centralised government
control over economic planning and policy; (adj. & n.): statist. ~ (American
Heritage Dictionary). straw-man (n.): a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted. ~
(Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). A straw man (sometimes written as "strawman") is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the proper idea of argument under discussion was not addressed or properly refuted. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent’s proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent’s proposition. Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects. Straw man tactics in the United Kingdom may also be known as an "Aunt Sally", after a pub game of the same name, where patrons throw sticks or battens at a post to knock off a skittle balanced on top. The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern of argument: • Person 1 asserts proposition X. • Person 2 argues against a superficially similar proposition Y, falsely, as if an argument against Y were an argument against X. This reasoning is a fallacy of relevance: it fails to address the proposition in question by misrepresenting the opposing position. For example: • Quoting an opponent’s words out of context—i.e., choosing quotations which misrepresent the opponent’s intentions (see "fallacy of quoting out of context"). • Presenting someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, then denying this person’s arguments—thus giving the appearance that every upholder of such a position (and thus the position itself) has been defeated. • Oversimplifying an opponent’s argument, then attacking this oversimplified version. • Exaggerating (sometimes grossly exaggerating) an opponent’s argument, then attacking this exaggerated version. Examples: Straw man arguments often arise in public debates such as a (hypothetical) prohibition debate: • A: "We should relax the laws on beer". • B: "No, any society with unrestricted access to intoxicants loses its work ethic and goes only for immediate gratification". The original proposal was to relax laws on beer. Person B has misconstrued and/or misrepresented this
proposal by responding to it as if it had been "unrestricted access to intoxicants". It is a logical
fallacy because Person A never advocated allowing said unrestricted access to intoxicants (this is also a
"slippery slope" argument). ~ (2012 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). streetful (n.): the amount of people or things a street can hold. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).
sterling (adj.): of the highest quality; (synonyms): excellent, sound, fine, first-class, superlative; [e.g.]: “his years \
of sterling service”; “a person of sterling character”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).
• ‘stuff (something) up: to do something badly, or to make a mistake; [as in] ‘I really stuffed that exam up’. ~ (Cambridge Dictionary). • ‘stuff up: to blunder; fail’. ~ (Macquarie Dictionary). • ‘stuff up: mess up; to make a mess of something’. ~ (Encarta Dictionary). • [Richard]: ‘... the very stuff of this body (and all bodies) is the very same-same stuff as the stuff
of the universe in that it comes out of the ground in the form of the carrots and lettuce and milk and cheese, and whatever else
is consumed, in conjunction with the air breathed and the water drunk and the sunlight absorbed. sublimation: the transformation of an instinctual drive, esp. the sexual impulse, so that it manifests in a socially acceptable way. (Oxford Dictionary). 
superbia (n.): unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins).
~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • (adj.): fraudulently substituted or pretended; spurious; not genuine.
~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).
• supposititious or suppositious (adj.): 1. substituted with fraudulent intent; spurious; 2. hypothetical; supposed; (adv.): supposititiously; (n.): supposititiousness. [from Latin suppositīcius, from suppositus, past participle of suppōnere, ‘to substitute’; from Latin, ‘to put under’: sub-, ‘sub-’ + pōnere, ‘to place’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • supposititious (adj.): 1. fraudulently or deceptively imitative: bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, fraudulent, phoney, sham,
spurious, suppositious; 2. presumed to be true, real, or genuine, especially on inconclusive grounds: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical,
inferential, presumptive, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s
Thesaurus). Suppository/Repository: RICHARD (to Respondent No. 4): (...) the only guaranteed-to-be-accurate suppository of authentic reports/ descriptions/ explanations of an actual freedom from the human condition. RICHARD: I haven’t had such a good laugh in quite a while. Viz.:
Thus the above section reads something like this (for example):
So much for ... um ... choosing my words very carefully, eh? (Although it does lend a whole new connotation to the word ‘osmosis’ What the word should have been, of course, is repository. Viz.:
Oh, well ... c’est la vie, I guess. substantivise (vb.tr.; pp *substantivised*; pres. cont. substantivising): to make (a word other than a noun)
play the grammatical role of a noun in a sentence; [e.g.]: “the homeless; the rich; the dead”; (n.): substantivisation.
[emphasis added]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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