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English Philosophy Translation Glossary

English term		English translation
‘enforcing’		setting in motion	Yvonne Gallagher
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"golden mountain"		an idea (not experienced), formed by combining memories of separate impressions
"Shoot oneself in the foot"		to damage one's own chances of success
are to you just what you think they are		things are exactly what/as you believe them to be (It's up to you.)
Are we the creation of time?		Are we created by time or are we the ones naming/demarcating time?	Yvonne Gallagher
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by awaiting them		by anticipating them (and, perhaps, forestalling or evading them?)
connection		a feeling of being connected/in tune with your surroundings/life	Yvonne Gallagher
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could have done better **by** us		could have treated us better
counterfactuals		conditional propositions of the form \"If cause A were not true, effect C would not be true\".
Human Being and 'his' or 'its' nature, behaviour, etc...		human(s) and their nature .../humanity and its nature ...
in the way of belief		in terms of belief
in whose person		the people who embody impiety; impious people	Yvonne Gallagher
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Literary Grace		elegant writing
logic-chopping		bandying words, taking logical arguments to ridiculous extremes
metaphysical		above the mere appearance of the physical
moral / ethical		In most contexts, people use these terms fairly interchangeably
Q		Uzzi-Spiro small world quotient
rules for complex title/subtitle		The White Rabbit Returns
Second Job		second usage (or second role/function/task)
the rule of fixed necessity		natural causal determinism (without randomness or divine intervention)
vanity and conceit		as described by Nietzsche in translation
Writing is named by the involuntary sound in the throat caused by the bodily effort required to do it.		I would say writing is the graphic representation (both written/paper and the act of writing)
\'relation between\' or \'relationship between\'		either