October 21, 2008 at 7:37 pm · Filed under word of the day
EPHEMERAL:
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Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. |
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Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. |
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Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. |
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October 6, 2008 at 8:12 pm · Filed under word of the day
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TOPOGRAPHICAL; concerned with the detailed description, esp. by means of surveying, of particular localities, as cities, towns, or estates. |
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the relief features or surface configuration of an area. |
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the features, relations, or configuration of a structural entity. |
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a schema of a structural entity, as of the mind, a field of study, or society, reflecting a division into distinct areas having a specific relation or a specific position relative to one another.
| the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality. |
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October 2, 2008 at 10:45 am · Filed under word of the day
EPISTEMOLOGY: a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge. Epistemology asks the question “How do we know what we know?”
October 1, 2008 at 12:58 pm · Filed under word of the day
PHENOMENOLOGICAL: the study of phenomena, A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness. A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl.
have been trying to read a book on site- related art, made me realise there is alot words out there i dont know and it gave me the idea for word of the day, the first one was this particular beauty.
