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Attachment Paradox
noun • medium lacunity
It is sometimes easier to let go of attachments after having achieved them.
Example
One needs a proxy of their ultimate desire to let go. For some, that is toes in the pool, for others jumping off the diving board.
Attentionism
noun • medium lacunity
Philosophy centered on the training of attention as the primary means of improving well-being.
B
Buddha’s Bargain
noun • high lacunity
Inverse of Faustian Bargain. Whether to trade the world for your soul.
Example
To trade roller-coasters for a walk in the rain is Buddha's Bargain.
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Enlightenment Paradox
noun • medium lacunity
Enlightenment is evolutionary unselecting. The very nature of the insights dissolves wanting to be known or to persuade.
Example
You’ll never see an Instagram post announcing Nirvana.
Experiential Threshold
noun • medium lacunity
The point at which inquiry shifts from conceptual reasoning about experience to direct, non-conceptual awareness itself.
Extinguishment
noun • medium lacunity
The end of a civilization due to solving motivational drives.
Example
Asimov’s dreams will never be realized: we will not be an interplanetary species or harvest all the sun’s energy. Long before these, we will have solved our motivations.
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Lacunity
noun • medium lacunity
The degree to which a neologism fills a lacuna (lexical gap).
A higher lucanity indicates a larger gap being filled.
Example
The lacunity of 'lucunity' is low, as there are few situations where one would need to describe the degree to which a neologism fills a lexical gap.
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Possession Paradox
noun • high lacunity
When we lack something, we strive anxiously to obtain it; when we have it, we fear losing it.
Postquietism
noun • medium lacunity
The state after philosophical questioning.
Postquietism can take the form of withdrawal (e.g. alcohol, sleep), distraction (e.g. hobbies, career),engagement (e.g reading), or simple acceptance. It is primarily about the relationship to uncertainty, rather than questioning itself, which is why engagement is a possible form of postquietism.
Example
Postquietism can be when has either found answers to their questions, stopped asking, or have accepted uncertainty.
Prequietism
noun • medium lacunity
The state before philosophical questioning.
Example
Children are prequietists, as they haven't deeply questioned their existence.
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Siddhartha’s Syllogism
noun • high lacunity
A logical argument that, because emotional states depend on attention and attention is trainable, meditation is a rational path to well-being.