This is a lexicon or glossary of terms for uncommon words found within the Meta Pleb website. The words found here have been chosen to broaden the vocabulary and understanding of the readers. The definitions are highlighted within the text of the blog or can be found here in the Lexicon in alphabetical order.
The terms are derived from personal writings as well as the Apple/Google Dictionary, Cambridge English Dictionary, Reason in the Balance and Wikipedia.
- abusive ad hominem fallacy
- activism
- ad hominem fallacy
- appeal to tradition fallacy
- artifacts
- Artificial Intelligence
- authentic
- automaton
- Autonomation
- BC and AD
- BCE and CE
- bias
- body politic
- boolean
- camp
- carnivalesque
- cognitive dissonance
- collective action
- confirmation bias
- context
- counterexample
- critique
- democratizing
- dérive
- détournement
- digital divide
- discourse
- diversity
- entitlement
- episteme
- euphemism
- fair-mindedness
- fallacy
- popularity fallacy
- fallibilism
- feminism
- flâneur
- fonds
- fringe
- gadfly
- gamification
- gaslighting
- grassroots
- grotesque
- groupthink
- guilt by association fallacy
- hegemony
- hope
- Humour
- idiot
- inquiry
- irrelevant standard fallacy
- libertarian
- Lobbyist
- lucre
- Machine Learning
- media
- menticide
- meta
- Metta
- mise en abyme
- mise en scène
- modernity
- newspeak
- open-mindedness
- pareidolia
- parody
- pastiche
- pedagogy
- perfidious
- pleb
- polemic
- political ponerology
- prima facie
- primary source
- principle of charity
- propaganda
- psychogeography
- public sphere
- Reality-TV
- red herring fallacy
- rhetoric
- satire
- social construct
- Social Democracy or Democratic Socialism
- Socialism
- spectacle
- straw person fallacy
- syllogism
- techne
- the commons
- the status quo
- Tor
- trope
- two wrongs fallacy
- ubiquitous
- verisimilitude
- wit
- woke