📚 noun • entry_id 52754
dormitive virtue
Meanings (ES + gloss)
virtud dormitiva
A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
Solidity now has all the defects of a dormitive virtue, obscurity, unobservability, something-we-know-notwhattery — and none of the advantages of a dormitive virtue
The inevitable next suggestion -— that aesthetic experience is distinguished not by pleasure at all but by a special aesthetic emotion can be dropped on the waste-pile of "dormitiv…
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