10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OTIOSENESS»
Discover the use of
otioseness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
otioseness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Seven Keys to Imagination: Creating the future by imagining ...
It was given the Latin name of otium in ancient Rome, which is the origin of the
English word otioseness. It must be observed that the ancient term otium didn't
have the connotation of apathy that otioseness has in modern English. Otium was
...
2
The Philosophy of P.F. Strawson
If Strawson's three types of inhibitors exhaust all inhibitors, then determinism's not
implying any one of them would certainly prove its otioseness to making any
reactive attitude inappropriate. But to prove their exhaustiveness one will have to
...
Pranab Kumar Sen, Roop Rekha Verma,
1995
... analyses of its current and projected economic and political affairs can be
removed from that category of long-livers, and be accepted as otiose and
pernicious. The remainder of this chapter is dedicated mainly to highlighting that
otioseness.
Quintus and Smithus, the interlocutors, are very much of one opinion, and
describe our English spelling as "perineptam et mancam"— " right foolish and
lame." They complain of otioseness of 522 The Study of the English Language.
David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley,
1867
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Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller and The Deserted Village:
... and with a provocative assertion of the new productive capacity of Auburn:
instead of the work, health and innocence characteristic of the village in the past,
the scenario is one of idleness and otioseness, envy and discomfort, folly and
vice.
Luisa Conti Camaiora,
2014
... et emendata Linguaa Anglicaa Scriptione." Quintus and Smithus, the
interlocutors, are very much of one opinion, and describe our English spelling as
“perineptam et mancam "— “ right foolish and lame." They complain of otioseness
of 522 ...
7
Wittgenstein's (Misunderstood) Religious Thought
This precisely is the kind of position that Wittgenstein rejects not for its lack of
truth but for its otioseness. The Platonic realist claim that propositions are
sempiternal substantives—i.e. propositions are abstract objects, non- temporal
and ...
Earl Stanley B. Fronda,
2010
8
Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
The purpose of this oblique usage is to suggest the innumerable properties of the
moon in winter such as otioseness, loss of beauty and so on. The use of
suggestion increases the semantic range of words beyond their narrow
denotations and ...
This is the grounding nature of God as differentiated from the otioseness of God.
The realm which it opens for us is not the emptiness of distance but the field of
our dynamic tension in God. The appropriation of this possibility is the surrender
of ...
Xavier Zubiri, Thomas B. Fowler, Nelson Orringer,
2009
10
The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... strained, stressed, stretched, tense, tensed, tight, tightened, unrelaxed.
tautology n. duplication, iteration, otioseness, perissology, pleonasm,
redundancy, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, superfluity. tavern n.
alehouse, bar, boozer, ...
Wordsworth, William,
1993
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OTIOSENESS»
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otioseness is used in the context of the following news items.
The Chieftaincy Debate
For the most part, I have carefully steered clear of the raging debate on the relevance or, for that matter, otioseness of the traditional Ghanaian ... «Ghana News, Oct 08»