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- Dictionaryidiocy/ˈɪdɪəsi/
noun
- 1. extremely stupid behaviour: "the idiocy of decimating yew forests"
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Oct 6, 2024 · Every now and then, you meet someone so incredibly stupid that you wonder how they’re still alive. Case in point: While working as a banker, one Redditor met a 60-year-old woman who said, “What do you mean my account balance is negative? I still have checks, so I still have money!”.
6 days ago · Cambridge Dictionary - English dictionary, English-Spanish translation and British & American English audio pronunciation from Cambridge University Press.
Sep 27, 2024 · Pragmatism, school of philosophy, dominant in the United States in the first quarter of the 20th century, based on the principle that the usefulness, workability, and practicality of ideas, policies, and proposals are the criteria of their merit.
Sep 21, 2024 · A good definition of a theologian, then, may be one who realizes what a total idiot he or she is about the deepest things of God yet who seeks to mitigate that idiocy as much as possible by bringing it often to the sacred Scriptures. (Perhaps theology conferences should be called idiot conventions.)
4 days ago · Materialism, in philosophy, the view that all facts are causally dependent upon physical processes, or even reducible to them. The word materialism has been used in modern times to refer to mechanical materialism, the theory that the world consists entirely of material objects.
- John Jamieson Carswell Smart
Sep 23, 2024 · Scientists sometimes define emotions as states of the brain and body that motivate you toward or away from things. People typically experience them as either positive or negative.
Sep 17, 2024 · Beyond its conventional concept as a set of reading, writing and counting skills, literacy is now understood as a means of identification, understanding, interpretation, creation, and communication in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich and fast-changing world.
