{"id":10918,"date":"2011-02-17T05:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T05:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/17\/auto-antonyms\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T05:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T05:34:21","slug":"auto-antonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/17\/auto-antonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-Antonyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">An auto-antonym is a word that has two meanings, one the opposite of the other.&#0160; &#39;Fearful&#39; is an example.&#0160; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/fearful-auto-antonyms.html\" target=\"_self\">Michael Gilleland<\/a>, who inspired this copy-cat post, <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The <em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em> defines <em>fearful<\/em> as both &quot;causing fear; inspiring terror, reverence, or awe; dreadful, terrible, awful&quot; and &quot;frightened, timorous, timid, apprehensive.&quot; <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is much more on this topic at Dr. Gilleland&#39;s site.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There must be some philosophical terms that exhibit the auto-antonymic property.&#0160; How about &#39;objective reality&#39;?&#0160; Suppose someone were to start talking about the objective reality of the God-idea. You would naturally take him to be raising the question whether there exists anything corresponding to this idea.&#0160; But if a Descartes scholar were to speak of the objective reality (<em>realitas objectiva<\/em>) of the God-idea he would mean something nearly the opposite:&#0160; he would be speaking of the representative content of the idea itself, &#0160;a content that is what it is whether or not anything corresponds to the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An auto-antonym is a word that has two meanings, one the opposite of the other.&#0160; &#39;Fearful&#39; is an example.&#0160; According to Michael Gilleland, who inspired this copy-cat post, The Oxford English Dictionary defines fearful as both &quot;causing fear; inspiring terror, reverence, or awe; dreadful, terrible, awful&quot; and &quot;frightened, timorous, timid, apprehensive.&quot; There is much more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/17\/auto-antonyms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Auto-Antonyms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}