Monday, September 22, 2008

Vocabulary

flyting: insulting another person in a comical way

centripetally: out
centrifugally: inwards

intentional fallacy: focuses on what the author meant to say/mean... we don't care!
What it means is what it is

alazon: pompous imposter which can be of two types:
1. pedant- teaching type, professor, instructor

2. soldier

cosmogony- birth of the world

mimisis- imitation

poesis- creation

Apotheosis: to be immortal

gnos: to know (agnostic=to be without knowledge)

Demonic: from Greek (Daemon)-animalistic, alter-ego

didactic vocabulary- teaching words

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