Snaars Collegiate Philosophy Dictionary, part 1

Culled from various non-copyrighted sources on the internet, with some modifications here and there by yours truly ...

• Abnormal: <Ambrose Bierce> not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, therefore detested.


• Abstract logic: 1 see definition two 2 see definition one. See also Recursive


• Accountability: the mother of caution


• Anarchy: such a good idea, it should be the law


• Annoying: two people who go right on talking after you’ve interrupted


• A Priori: we’ll just assume I am right


• A Posteriori: having seen who won, I can assure you I was on that side the whole time


• Analytic: occurring once yearly


• Bachelor: a man who Mrs. nothing


• Education - 1 <Ambrose Bierce> that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding 2 [Politics] proof positive that government can do some things more economically than private enterprise 3 <B. F. Skinner> what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten


• Fallacy: why even you don’t know why you’re wrong


• False consciousness: deep down, you know I’m right


• Income: you try to make it first, then you try to make it last


• Recursive: Referring back to itself. See recursive. See also Abstract Logic


• Syntax: money collected at church


• Synthetic: I am so not-right that I can’t be wrong


• Time: 1 an illusion perpetrated by the makers of space 2 a way of preventing everything from happening simultaneously


• Truth: the actual state of things, insofar as they conform to what seems self-evident to me


• University: a modern post-secondary school where football is taught