《The Philosophical Lexicon》"快乐之泉：哲学词典中的启示"

arortiori, adj. For even more obscure and fashionable Continental reasons.

ayer, v. (from Spanish, ayer, meaning yesterday) To oversimplify elegantly in the direction of a past generation. "Russell, in the Analysis of Mind, ays a behavioristic account of belief."

bennettiction, n. Praise for a philosopher for solving a problem that was not invented until several hundred years after his death. "His study of Kant concludes with a bennettiction of Kant for solving the problem of a private language."

carnap, n. A formally defined symbol, operator, special bit of notation. "His prose is peppered with carnaps" or "the argument will proceed more efficiently if we introduce a few carnaps."

dennett, n. An artificial enzyme used to curdle the milk of human intentionality.

dummett, v. Contraction of "thumb through it"; as in "Im afraid the only index this book has is almost the same as the table of contents, so youll just have to dummett.

habermass, (from the Middle High German halber Marx; cf. ganzer Marx) n. A religious ceremony designed to engender an illusion of understanding through chants describing socio-economic conditions. Hence also, habermass, v. "He habermassed Einstein; he attempted to deduce the special theory of relativity from the social structure of the Zurich patent office." "Nothing but a gadam habermass" – H.S. Truman.

heidegger, n. A ponderous device for boring through thick layers of substance. "Its buried so deep well have to use a heidegger.

hilary, n. (from hilary term) A very brief but significant period in the intellectual career of a distinguished philosopher. "Oh, thats what I thought three or four hilaries ago."

hume, pron. (1) Indefinite personal and relative pronoun, presupposing no referent. Useful especially in writing solipsistic treatises, e.g. "to hume it may concern." v. (2) To commit to the flames, bury, or otherwise destroy a philosophical position, as in "That theory was humed in the 1920s." Hence, exhume, v., to revive a position generally believed to be humed.

kripkography, n. The opposite of cryptography: the art of translating a meaningless message (about, e.g., the necessity) into expressions that an uninitiated observer would take to be straightforwardly meaningful (e.g., "Look, its not so hard. All hes saying is that since the term is a rigid designator, it refers to the same thing in all possible worlds."). "He used to claim he just couldnt understand essentialism, but now, thanks to kripkography, he just sits there nodding and smiling."

lacanthropy, n. The transformation, under the influence of the full moon, of a dubious psychological theory into a dubious social theory via a dubious linguistic theory.

macintyre, n. An inflated wheel with a slick, impervious coating; hence, derivatively, an all-terrain vehicle equipped with macintyres. "If you want to cover that much territory that fast, youd best use the macintyre."

marcuse, v. To criticize vehemently from a Marxist perspective. "Je marcuse!" - J.P. Sartre.

nozick, n. (from nostrum+physick) Political snake oil, a patent medicine, especially a cathartic or purgative. "Waste not logick, not yet strong physick, on the Leviathan; serve it nozick, and stand back." - Hobbes.

parfit, n. (l)(often pl.) metaphysical gain. Hence parfit, v.; to make a parfit. "What parfit a man that he gain immortality and lose his own identity" adj. (2) Generally used in poetic and fanciful fiction, to describe a medieval knight on a single-minded but learned quest for an invisible and impossible goal. Cf. "He was a gentel, parfit knight." - Chaucer

quine, v. (I) To deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant. "Some philosophers have quined classes, and some have even quined physical objects." Occasionally used intransitive, e.g., "You think I quine, sir. I assure you I do not!" (2) n. The total aggregate sensory surface of the world; hence quinitis, irritation of the quine.

ricoeur, v. To interpret all philosophical questions by means of a limited range of insights and themes. Hence ricoeursive procedure, a recipe for generating infinite philosophical insights from a very limited subset thereof.

taylor, v. (in the idiom, to tailor the argument) To defend an absurd position or conclusion by inventing equally absurd premises or inferences; as in, "Its easy to get a proof of fatalism if you know how to tailor the argument."