Southern Bread » definition http://www.southernbread.org Southern History, American Freedom, Christian Liberty Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:12:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Definition of the Day – Addled http://www.southernbread.org/definition-of-the-day-addled/ http://www.southernbread.org/definition-of-the-day-addled/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:13:00 +0000 Dave http://www.southernbread.org/definitions/addled.html A word I heard that Thomas Edison’s teacher used to describe him.

Word: Addled

Definition: To become confused.

Example: “In school, the young Edison’s mind often wandered, and his teacher the Reverend Engle was overheard calling him “addled.” This ended Edison’s three months of official schooling. He recalled later, “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.” His mother then home schooled him. Much of his education came from reading R.G. Parker’s School of Natural Philosophy.”

–Wikipedia, Thomas Edison entry, 2007

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Word: Imprimatur

Definition: Approval or official sanction. Sometimes in reference to a published work.

Example: “The imprimatur of the Speaker ensured the bill would be on a fast track through the house.”

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Word: Entelechy

Definition: Denotes something that is complete in and of itself. In this way you could call it the defining characteristic of substance.

Example: “What makes a human body into a body is that it’s material is ’ensouled’ or ’animated’, organized by an entelechy or form.” –Woolhouse, 1993(The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics)

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Word: Argumentum Baculum

Definition: An argument that assumes the conclusion is true because the person who formulated it has some sort of power.

Example: “After the mafia Don gave his case he glanced around the room. ’Anybody want to tell me I’m wrong?’, he said. There were no takers.”

Explanation: Baculum is rarely so blatant as the example above. It’s more often unspoken or contextual in relation to the argument given. It often takes the form of someone giving more weight to the more lettered person’s argument in a debate. That would be akin to what Koukl calls the “Rhodes Scholar” tactic.

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Word: Entia Per Se

Definition: Means an entity that exists in and of itself. Self supporting.

Example: “Descartes believed that God exists entia per se.”

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Word: Askance

Definition: To give a sideways glance. Has the negative connotation of a disproving look or glance.

Example: “She glared askance at him after hearing the accusation.”

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Word: Hylomorphic

Definition: The metaphysical idea that a substance is the combination of physical and non-physical stuff.

Explanation: Hylomorphism is the belief that the conjuction of physical matter with non-physical “material” is what makes a substance. A substance being any existing subject(material or immaterial) that can’t be attributed as a property to another object. It stands on it’s own. It’s mostly the view that the immaterial self is not a substance without being conjoined to a physical body. It’s the conjuction that forms the substance. This competes with Descartes view that non-corporeal souls are substances by themselves which are then conjoined to a physical body in substantia.

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