วันนี้เอามาจาก Reader's Digest ฉบับ June 2007 อิ อิ เริ่มกันเลยค๊า
Great thinkers from Plato to Bertrand Russell talk to us for the most part in familiar vocabulary. Test your knowledge of these philosophical words.
1. incarnate adj -Embodied in flesh. Also, most extreme.
2. postulate n - Something claimed or assumed as fact. "Euclid based his geometry on five fundamental postulates."
3. reciprocal adj - Mutual; given, felt or done in return. "Hegel said man produces on a reciprocal basia".
4. supposition n - Assumption or hypothesis. 'Aristotle advised care in entertainning certain suppositions."
5. nexus n - Connection; central point. 'Schopenhauer's analysis of Wagner's Die Meistersinger explores the nexus of music and message." Latin nexus (a binding together).
6. sceptic n - Person inclined to express doubt. "Socrates was always a questioning sceptic." Greek skeptikos (thoughtful or observant person).
7. premise n - A statement from which another is inferred; underlying assumption.
8. microcosm n - Miniature representation of something much larger. "Max Weber saw the family as a microcosm of the state." Greek mikros kosmos (little world).
9. paradox n - Seemingly contradictory statement. "John Henry Newman thought it no paradox to declare knowledge is both an end in itself and a means to an end."
10. syllogism n - Reasoning based on two assertions. "A typical syllogism is that all dogs have tails, Rover is a dog, therefore Rover has a tail."
11. transcend v - To rise or go beyond range. "Intuition cannot transcend the limits of sensory knowledge, Hegel maintained."
12 ascetic adj - Self-denying. "The ascetic ideal is that all worldly pleasure is to be rejected."
13 discourse n - Long talk or dissertation. Latin discursus (running to and fro).
14 extrinsic adj - Not belonging to; inessential. "Hearing is an act extrinsic to the eye."
15 surrealism n - A movement that explores the subconscious. "In surrealism the world of dreams subconscious. "In surrealism the world of dreams substitutes for the world of thought." French surrealisme.
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