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- noun The removal of
order
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Examples
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You have apparently managed to rationalise this to yourself in terms of a pseudo-Stoic teleological sophistry in which every passion has a "final cause" -- an essential purpose -- such that action at odds with these essential purposes represents an immoral "disordering" of the appetites, an unacceptable misdirection from their natural/mandatory objects.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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You have apparently managed to rationalise this to yourself in terms of a pseudo-Stoic teleological sophistry in which every passion has a "final cause" -- an essential purpose -- such that action at odds with these essential purposes represents an immoral "disordering" of the appetites, an unacceptable misdirection from their natural/mandatory objects.
An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009
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Note the epithet translated 'disordering'; we shall meet the word ταραχη
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When Peter attempts to walk on the water in Matthew, is the reader really wondering if gravity or the "disordering" action of wind and wave caused him to fail?
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] CirceCook 2010
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When Peter attempts to walk on the water in Matthew, is the reader really wondering if gravity or the "disordering" action of wind and wave caused him to fail?
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When Peter attempts to walk on the water in Matthew, is the reader really wondering if gravity or the "disordering" action of wind and wave caused him to fail?
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When Peter attempts to walk on the water in Matthew, is the reader really wondering if gravity or the "disordering" action of wind and wave caused him to fail?
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When Peter attempts to walk on the water in Matthew, is the reader really wondering if gravity or the "disordering" action of wind and wave caused him to fail?
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Anyone who's dealing with one or other form of colour-blindness could be dealing with all manner of disordering in that system.
Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009
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Anyone who's dealing with one or other form of colour-blindness could be dealing with all manner of disordering in that system.
Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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