Pogrom = An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews.
PUTSCH AND Putsch
ist a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force. PUTCHIST: One who takes part in a putsch
Paradigm (par-uh-dahym,)
PUTSCH AND Putsch
ist a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force. PUTCHIST: One who takes part in a putschParadigm (par-uh-dahym,)
a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
Such a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group: the company’s business paradigm.
A set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.
A paradigm is basically a way of thinking so like it is a set of
assumptions, concepts, values, and practices constituting a view of
reality.
Any fact that people agree upon
Any fact that people agree upon
All religions are paradigms which is simply a belief system, where
belief is accepted as knowledge and used to regulate and direct a
persons life according to said belief(s)
Please note: Belief accepted as knowledge does not necessarily make it true knowledge
Pyrrhic
Pragmatic [prægˈmætɪk]adj
Propendency: Propensity, attentive deliberation. (eg: it appears the Tribe have replaced the propendency for 3-point shooting with an aptitude for dunks)
Propensity: An innate inclination; a tendency. A natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
Predilection: A partiality or disposition in favour of something; a preference
Proclivity: Natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
Pejorative (also term of abuse or derogatory term) is a word or grammatical form of expression that expresses contempt, criticism, disregard, and disrespect. A term can be regarded as pejorative in some social or cultural groups but not in others, e.g., hacker is a term used for computer criminals as well as quick and clever computer experts. Sometimes, a term may begin as a pejorative and eventually be adopted in a non-pejorative sense in some or all contexts, e.g., "punk" or "dude". In historical linguistics, this phenomenon is known as melioration, or amelioration, reclaiming, or semantic change.
Name slurs can also involve an insulting or disparaging innuendo, rather than being a direct derogatory remark. In some cases, a person's name can be redefined with an unpleasant or insulting meaning, or applied to a group of people considered by the majority to be inferior or lower in social class, as a group label with a disparaging meaning. Also, an ethnic slur or racial slur can be used as a pejorative to imply people of those groups are inferior or deficient.
The art or practice of such argumentation is called polemics.
A person who often writes polemics, or who speaks polemically, is a polemicist or a polemic. The word is derived from the Greek πολεμικός (polemikos), meaning "warlike, hostile" which comes from πόλεμος (polemos), "war".
Polemic theology is the branch of theological argumentation devoted to the history or conduct of controversy over religious matters.
It is distinguished from apologetics, the intellectual defense of faith.
Martin Luther's On the Bondage of the Will is an example of polemic theology. It was written in answer to a polemic titled The Freedom of the Will by Desiderius Erasmus.
Panegyric is a formal public speech, or (in later use) written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical.
A person who writes panegyrics is called a panegyrist. Another term is eulogist. The word is derived from the Greek πανηγυρικός meaning "a speech fit for a general assembly" (panegyris).
Please note: Belief accepted as knowledge does not necessarily make it true knowledge
Pyrrhic
A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with such a devastating cost that it is tantamount to defeat. Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has been victorious in some way; however, the heavy toll negates any sense of achievement or profit (another term for this would be "hollow victory").
Etymology[edit]
The phrase Pyrrhic victory is named after Greek King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War. After the latter battle, Plutarch relates in a report by Dionysius:
The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war.
In both of Pyrrhus's victories, the Romans suffered greater casualties than Pyrrhus did. However, the Romans had a much larger supply of men from which to draw soldiers and their casualties did less damage to their war effort than Pyrrhus's casualties did to his.
The report is often quoted as "Another such victory and I come back to Epirus alone",[3] or "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined."[4]
The term is used as an analogy in fields such as business, politics, and sports to describe struggles that end up ruining the victor. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, commented on the necessity of coercion in preserving the course of justice by warning, "Moral reason must learn how to make coercion its ally without running the risk of a Pyrrhic victory in which the ally exploits and negates the triumph."[5] Also, in Beauharnais v. Illinois, a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a charge proscribing group libel, Justice Hugo Black alluded to the Pyrrhic War in hisdissent: "If minority groups hail this holding as their victory, they might consider the possible relevancy of this ancient remark: 'Another such victory and I am undone.'"[6]
Pragmatic [prægˈmætɪk]adj
1. advocating behaviour that is dictated more by practical consequences than by theory or dogma
2. (Philosophy) Philosophy of or relating to pragmatism.
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the
United States around 1870. Pragmatism is a rejection of the idea that
the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality.
Instead, pragmatists develop their philosophy around the idea that the
function of thought is as an instrument or tool for prediction, action,
and problem solving. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical
topics--such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning,
belief, and science--are all best viewed in terms of their practical
uses and successes rather than in terms of representative accuracy.
A few of the various but interrelated positions often characteristic of philosophers working from a pragmatist approach include:
PROEM: An introductory discourse; introduction; preface (1350–1400; earlier proheme, Middle English)
A few of the various but interrelated positions often characteristic of philosophers working from a pragmatist approach include:
- Anti-representationalism; any view in philosophy of language that rejects analyzing the semantic meaning of propositions, mental states, and statements in terms of a correspondence or representational relationship and instead analyzes semantic meaning in terms of notions like dispositions to action, inferential relationships, and/or functional roles (e.g. behaviorism and inferentialism). Not to be confused with pragmatics, a sub-field of linguistics with no relation to philosophical pragmatism.
- Coherentist theory of justification; a rejection of the epistemological
claim that all knowledge and justified belief rest ultimately on a
foundation of noninferential knowledge or justified belief. Coherentists
hold that justification is solely a function of some relationship
between beliefs, none of which are privileged beliefs in the way
maintained by foundationalists theories of justification.
(Epistemological is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge[1][2] and is also referred to as "theory of knowledge". It questions what knowledge is and how it can be acquired, and the extent to which any given subject or entity can be known. Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and justification.
The term "epistemology" was introduced by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864).)
- Deflationary or pragmatist theories of truth; the former is the epistemological claim that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement while the later is the epistemological claim that assertions that predicate truth of a statement attribute the property of useful-to-believe to such a statement.
- Empiricism; the broad epistemological assertion that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience; contrary to rationalism.
- Fallibilism; the epistemological principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world, and yet still be justified in holding their incorrect beliefs.
- Instrumentalism; the view in the philosophy of science that a scientific concept or theory should be evaluated by how effectively it explains and predicts phenomena, as opposed to how accurately it describes objective reality.
- Pluralism; a view in metaphysics and epistemology that there is more than one sound way to conceptualize the world and its content.
- Verificationism; the view that a statement or question is only legitimate if there is some way to determine whether the statement is true or false, or what the answer to the question is.
PROEM: An introductory discourse; introduction; preface (1350–1400; earlier proheme, Middle English)
Propendency: Propensity, attentive deliberation. (eg: it appears the Tribe have replaced the propendency for 3-point shooting with an aptitude for dunks)
Propensity: An innate inclination; a tendency. A natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
Predilection: A partiality or disposition in favour of something; a preference
Proclivity: Natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
Pejorative (also term of abuse or derogatory term) is a word or grammatical form of expression that expresses contempt, criticism, disregard, and disrespect. A term can be regarded as pejorative in some social or cultural groups but not in others, e.g., hacker is a term used for computer criminals as well as quick and clever computer experts. Sometimes, a term may begin as a pejorative and eventually be adopted in a non-pejorative sense in some or all contexts, e.g., "punk" or "dude". In historical linguistics, this phenomenon is known as melioration, or amelioration, reclaiming, or semantic change.
Name slurs can also involve an insulting or disparaging innuendo, rather than being a direct derogatory remark. In some cases, a person's name can be redefined with an unpleasant or insulting meaning, or applied to a group of people considered by the majority to be inferior or lower in social class, as a group label with a disparaging meaning. Also, an ethnic slur or racial slur can be used as a pejorative to imply people of those groups are inferior or deficient.
While the movie critic made pejorative comments about the film’s plot, he praised the lead actor.
Polemic /pəˈlɛmɪk/ is a contentious argument that is intended to establish the truth of a specific understanding and the falsity of the contrary position. Polemics are mostly seen in arguments about very controversial topics.The art or practice of such argumentation is called polemics.
A person who often writes polemics, or who speaks polemically, is a polemicist or a polemic. The word is derived from the Greek πολεμικός (polemikos), meaning "warlike, hostile" which comes from πόλεμος (polemos), "war".
Polemic theology is the branch of theological argumentation devoted to the history or conduct of controversy over religious matters.
It is distinguished from apologetics, the intellectual defense of faith.
Martin Luther's On the Bondage of the Will is an example of polemic theology. It was written in answer to a polemic titled The Freedom of the Will by Desiderius Erasmus.
Panegyric is a formal public speech, or (in later use) written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical.
A person who writes panegyrics is called a panegyrist. Another term is eulogist. The word is derived from the Greek πανηγυρικός meaning "a speech fit for a general assembly" (panegyris).
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