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Word: supervenience
Supervenience — soo-per-VEE-nyuhns — describes a dependence relation: there can be no difference in one set of properties without a difference in another.
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- In the portfolio meeting: what part of this strategy's apparent liquidity disappears if financing and redemptions move together? - In the Lean review: what is the smallest trusted kernel, and what still depends on the specification being right?
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- In a financing review, ask: which risk is being reduced, and which risk is merely being moved into the timing of collateral calls? - In an AI-research review, ask for the evaluation harness and failed branches before the winning result.
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Try the trivia →Word of the day: mereology
— meer-ee-OL-uh-jee. The formal study of parts and wholes: a handle belongs to a door, and the door to a building; ordinary parthood lets us carry that relationship through.
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Anacoluthon (an-uh-kuh-LOO-thon): a sentence that shifts from one grammatical construction to another before completing the first.
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Try the trivia →Equipollence
ee-kwi-POL-uhns: equality of power or significance; in one logical sense, mutual implication between propositions.
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Enantiodromia describes an extreme force generating its opposite reaction.
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Velleity describes a wish that carries little impulse to act.
Read the note →Word of the day: stereotomy
Stereotomy connects the geometry of cutting stone with structural construction.
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Parataxis places statements beside one another without establishing a causal mechanism.
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Haecceity names the particular “thisness” that an inventory of properties misses.
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