51吃瓜 of the Day
More about moxie
Moxie originally was the trademark of a carbonated soft drink that was created by Dr. Augustin Thompson, a homeopathic physician who was born in Maine and spent his professional life in Massachusetts. Dr. Thompson patented his beverage in 1885 and promoted it as a 鈥渘erve tonic鈥� or 鈥渘erve food.鈥� Moxie, the drink, has always been associated with New England: Calvin Coolidge liked it; Ted Williams endorsed it on the radio; the state of Maine made Moxie its official soft drink in 2005. 惭辞虫颈别鈥檚 lowercase sense “courage, spirit, vigor” entered English in the 20th century.
how is moxie used?
鈥淭he only safe thing is to take a chance,鈥� she told Nichols, who was both amazed at her moxie and inspired by her trust in him.
He’s not a natural singer … but like the kid in the school play who sells the thing by sheer force of moxie, Crowe handily wins us over.
More about oblivescence
Oblivescence dates from the late 19th century and is a later spelling of obliviscence, which dates from the late 18th century. The spelling oblivescence arose by influence of the far more common suffix -escence. The English noun is a derivative of the Latin verb 辞产濒墨惫颈蝉肠墨 鈥渢o forget,鈥� literally 鈥渢o wipe away, smooth over.鈥� The Latin verb is composed of the prefix ob- 鈥渁way, against鈥� and the same root as the adjective 濒脓惫颈蝉 鈥渟尘辞辞迟丑.鈥�
how is oblivescence used?
Would that our sins had built-in qualities of oblivescence such as our dreams have.
Even in reasoning, the gratifying confirmatory instance sticks in the mind, while the negative cases all go glimmering into oblivescence.
51吃瓜 of the day
epistemic
adjective
of or relating to knowledge or the conditions for acquiring it.
More about epistemic
The Greek noun 别辫颈蝉迟岣梞脓 鈥渟kill, knowledge, scientific knowledge, science鈥� is a derivative of the verb 别辫颈蝉迟谩苍补颈 鈥渢o know how (to do), believe (that), be acquainted with, know, know as a fact.鈥� The verb is composed of the prefix epi- 鈥渙n, over鈥� and 蝉迟谩苍补颈 鈥渢o stand.鈥� Various languages use different prefixes plus the verb to stand to express intellectual comprehension: in Greek one 鈥渟tands over鈥�; in German verstehen means literally 鈥渟tand before鈥欌��; and in English one “stands under.”
how is epistemic used?
Debates over epistemic principles sound abstract, but they have enormous practical repercussions. For instance, in order to decide policy matters (like what to put in our textbooks and what to teach in science classrooms) we need to decide on the facts.
The US is experiencing a deep epistemic breach, a split not just in what we value or want, but in who we trust, how we come to know things, and what we believe we know 鈥� what we believe exists, is true, has happened and is happening.