Glossar

Allotrop(y)ic

Greek: allos "other" or "different" and tropos "way" or "turn"

occurring in two or more forms that differ in physical and chemical properties but not in the kind of atoms of which they are composed. (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974)

Amphitropy

Greek: amphi "dual" or "around, on both sides" and tropy (tropic) turning, Greek: tropos "spin, turn" ... turning to both (directions)

When the Turning or Choices of individuals are classified, each after its stronger presentation to compulsion of freedom as opposed to each other the picture is thus produced of a double-turning of the entire individuality, an Amphitropy from the principle of individuation. The individuals here consider themselves as placed opposite each other, as a group comparatively strong turned to compulsion, and as a group comparatively strong turned to freedom (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 33).

Amphitype

Greek: amphi "dual" and type

Apologetics

branch of theology that deals with the rational defense of a religious faith (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974).

a formal defense, argument or presentation to show that the previously presented idea etc. is correct.

Apologia

statement in defense or justification of an idea, belief, religion, etc. (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974).

a priori

  1. from cause to effect, from general rule to particular cases. 
  2. based on opinion or theory rather than on actual observation or experience [Medieval Latin, from what comes before] (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974).

A German dictionary says: Without the basis of experience, merely derived from reason, from thinking, pure conceptional. Statement of reason (Wahrig, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Bertelsmann Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh-Berlin, 1968, 1977).

apriority

(lat. "derived from the past") it means an experience which cannot be proven or disproved by experience. (Philosophisches Wörterbuch, 14. Auflage, Kröner Verlag Stuttgart)

binominal

  1. Expression in algebra consisting of two terms connected by a plus or minus. 
  2. Scientific name of a plant or animal consisting of two terms, the first indicating the genus and the second the species. Homo Sapiens is a binominal. (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974)

binominality

Binominality of Rights: free translated: the two terms (forms) of rights or law

cracy

like in democracy, aristocracy etc.; Greek: "kratos" = rule

Eleutherotropy

translated as "free choice within the world".

Nordenholz describes it as "the direction towards worldly freedom" (Nordenholz, Scientology, page 67).

Epistematics

Study of the origin, natur

Epistemology

part of philosophy that deals with the origin, nature, and limits of knowledge (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974)

holotype

Greek: holos = whole; the type directing to the total, the society (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 83)

Idiotropy / koinotropy

combination of Greek idios "own, individual" or koinos "equal, common", and trope "turn, turning"

Idiotropy: turn (choice) towards the other, the own Koinotropy: turn towards the equal, the common

Idiotype/ koinotype

combination of Greek idios "own, individual" or koinos "equal, common", and typos "type, form"

The type of the individuals separates itself as the case may be, towards the overbalance of the equality or of the difference:

  1. into the equal-type, common type, coinciding type, Koinotype
  2. into the different-type; the individual type; self-owned type; idiomatic type, Idiotype.

In this opposition of coinciding type and idiomatic type all individuality sees itself emplaced (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 41).

Immanence

  1. remaining within; inherent. 
  2. in the mind; subjective. (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974)

the property or characteristic of being present throughout the entire universe

Isomorphic

Greek iso "equal" and morphe "form"

having similar appearance or structure, but belonging to different species or races (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974)

Koinotropy

see Idiotropy

Koinotype

see Idiotype

merotype

the type pointing towards the part, the person (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 83)

metontic

in the German original it says "metontisch". Nordenholz is using it as a synonym for "Time-Form" (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 21).

polymorph(y)ic

Greek: poly "much, many", and morphe "form"
having , assuming, or passing through many or various forms, stages etc. (Bernhart Thorndike Advanced Dictionary, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1974)

position / negation

Nordenholz is talking about "position and negation as contrasts". Position is used here in the meaning of "positive" (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 23).

synontic

in the German riginal it says "synontisch". Nordenholz is using it as a synonym for "Space-Form". (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 21)

Transcendence

the state of being separate from or beyond experience, the universe

Tropy

Tropy (tropic) = poet. turning, (Greek tropos "spin, turn" Individuals manifest a comparatively stronger presentation towards either side of compulsion or towards the side of freedom. This presentation of the individual to compulsion of freedom is their Tropy, their choice or turn (Nordenholz, Scientology, pg. 33).

unism

singleness of self-knowing, perception

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