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  2. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    A hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is more specific than its hypernym. The semantic field of a hypernym, also known as a superordinate, is broader than that of a hyponym. An approach to the relationship between hyponyms and hypernyms is to view a hypernym as consisting of hyponyms.

  3. The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

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    Stories of the end also allow individuals to reflect on their own death, and to make sense of their lives, their place in time, and their relationship to the beginning and the end. Thus, having laid down this theoretical position, Kermode tracks the creation of new attempts to 'make sense of life' through literature.

  4. -onym - Wikipedia

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    A hypernym is said to be "superordinate" to a hyponym. hypocoronym , hypocorism , or hypocoristic : a colloquial, usually unofficial, name of an entity; a pet-name or "nickname" hyponym : an item that belongs to and is equally ranked in a generic class or group, for example "lily" or "violet" in the class of "flowers"; or "limousine" or ...

  5. Event (relativity) - Wikipedia

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    An event in the universe is caused by the set of events in its causal past. An event contributes to the occurrence of events in its causal future. Upon choosing a frame of reference, one can assign coordinates to the event: three spatial coordinates x → = ( x , y , z ) {\displaystyle {\vec {x}}=(x,y,z)} to describe the location and one time ...

  6. Existential phenomenology - Wikipedia

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    In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger reframes Edmund Husserl's phenomenological project into what he terms fundamental ontology.This is based on an observation and analysis of Dasein ("being-there"), human being, investigating the fundamental structure of the Lebenswelt (lifeworld, Husserl's term) underlying all so-called regional ontologies of the special sciences.

  7. Onlife - Wikipedia

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    Onlife is a neologism coined by philosopher Luciano Floridi in 2012. [1] The concept is a portmanteau of online and life referring to "the new experience of a hyperconnected reality within which it is no longer sensible to ask whether one may be online or offline".

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle. Homophones are words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings. For example, witch and which are homophones in most accents (because they are pronounced the same). Homographs are words that have the same spelling but different meanings.

  9. Thought experiment - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greek δείκνυμι, deiknymi, 'thought experiment', "was the most ancient pattern of mathematical proof", and existed before Euclidean mathematics, [7] where the emphasis was on the conceptual, rather than on the experimental part of a thought experiment.