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- Dictionarydissimulation/dɪˌsɪmjʊˈleɪʃn/
noun
- 1. concealment of one's thoughts, feelings, or character; pretence: "an attempt at dissimulation"
- 2. a flock of small birds: rare "his audience consisted of a dissimulation of birds"
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22 hours ago · For instance, he uses the word ‘dissimulation [Verstellung]’ throughout SE, HH, and HH II, but the closest thing to a definition is a set of indicators from TL: ‘deception, flattery, lying and cheating, backbiting, posturing, living in borrowed splendour, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, play-acting in front of others and oneself ...
5 days ago · Definitions of obscurantism. noun. a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge. see more. noun. a deliberate act intended to make something obscure. see more.
5 days ago · science, any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws.
2 days ago · The French term conscience is defined roughly like English "consciousness" in the 1753 volume of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie as "the opinion or internal feeling that we ourselves have from what we do".
2 days ago · Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Four Cardinal Virtues. 1805 – Four virtues play a pivotal role and accordingly are called “cardinal”; all the others are grouped around them. They are: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
1 day ago · Logic is commonly defined in terms of arguments or inferences as the study of their correctness. An argument is a set of premises together with a conclusion. An inference is the process of reasoning from these premises to the conclusion. But these terms are often used interchangeably in logic.
1 day ago · Meditation has proven difficult to define as it covers a wide range of dissimilar practices in different traditions. In popular usage, the word "meditation" and the phrase "meditative practice" are often used imprecisely to designate practices found across many cultures.
