A Word List from Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder

Masahiro K. (Japan)
Translated from the Norwegian by Paulette MollerrnBerkley Books: New York, 1996. Trade paperback. 523 pp.
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  1. academic
    associated with an educational institution
  2. academy
    a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
  3. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
  4. auxiliary
    furnishing added support
  5. constituent
    one of the individual parts making up a composite entity
  6. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  7. discourse
    an extended communication dealing with some particular topic
  8. enigma
    something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  9. entity
    that which is perceived to have its own distinct existence
  10. fatalism
    a doctrine that all events are predetermined in advance
  11. flaxen
    pale yellowish to yellowish brown
  12. flux
    a state of constant change
  13. gadfly
    any of various large flies that annoy livestock
  14. immutable
    not subject or susceptible to change or variation
  15. inherent
    existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
  16. innate
    present at birth but not necessarily hereditary
  17. materialist
    someone with great regard for material possessions
  18. pedagogic
    of or relating to pedagogy
  19. phenomenon
    any state or process known through the senses
  20. philosophy
    the rational investigation of existence and knowledge
  21. rationalism
    the doctrine that reason is the basis for regulating conduct
  22. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  23. sophist
    someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
  24. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  25. tangible
    perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch
  26. temperance
    the trait of avoiding excesses
  27. veritable
    not counterfeit or copied
  28. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
Created on Wed Jul 14 21:35:57 EDT 2010

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