DefinitionsSocialise; Social Constructionism; Sociobiologists; Socius; Soi-Disant Soliloquy; Someone Uniquely Recognisable By Her Inglish Somatic; Sooth; Sophisma; Sophisticated (Antonyms); Sound Wave Spermatozoa; Spiel; Spirit; Spiritus-Mystical; Spontaneous Sri/ Nath; Statism; Straw-man; Streetful; Sterling Stuff Up; Sublimation; Superbia; Supposititious; Substantivise
[Dictionary Definition]: socialise (tr.v.; socialised, socialising): to make social {viz.: social = friendly or sociable;
agreeable in company; companionable}; make fit for life in companionship with others; (n.): socialisation. [1820-30].
[curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).
“Social Constructionism or the Social Construction of Reality (also Social Concept) is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory (...elided...). Social Constructionism became prominent in the U.S. with Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s *1966* book, ‘The Social Construction of Reality’. (...elided...). In the book ‘The Reality of Social Construction’, the British sociologist Dave Elder-Vass places the development of Social Constructionism as one outcome of the legacy of Postmodernism. He writes “Perhaps the most widespread and influential product of this process [coming to terms with the legacy of Postmodernism] is Social Constructionism, which has been booming [within the domain of social theory] since the *1980s*...“. [emphases added]. ~ (Social Constructionism; History and Development; Wikipedia). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#History_and_development]. 
Sociobiologists, so-named in 1975
• [Holy Lord]: “I realise that ‘I’ as social identity want to still run the show. The universe, the body – these are things that are
quite alien to me, so I want to take the reins and be the micro-manager. The infinite, formless, genderless, shapeless universe that I am part of is too weird!
It is safer this way. The *socius* is my buffer – a nice little cushion which I can use to shield myself from raw actuality”.
[emphasis added]. ~ ((Vineeto’s Correspondence with Man from Sydney (Slack); January 01, 2019). _________ • socius (n.; pl. socii): 1. a unit in social relationships consisting of an individual; 2. associate, colleague; [e.g.]: “...was procurator and socius to the vice-provincial”. (R. J. Purcell); specifically (capitalised): the divine friend and companion of man. [etymology: Latin socius]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Random Literary Samples. • “Traditional philosophy relied overwhelmingly on the operation of transcendental principles which were required to make claims possible,
as well as moral aesthetic judgements. There are also transcendental principles, perhaps less widely acknowledged than the ones that underlie traditional
philosophy, which subtend the constitution of the social order. These principles are embodied in what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari call the ‘socius’.
The well-known philosophical counter-tradition inaugurated by Friedrich Nietzsche, and continued by Martin Heidegger, undertook a dismantling of the
transcendental basis of traditional philosophy, and the work of Deleuze is to be located in this tradition. For Deleuze, as for Nietzsche, an entire tradition
extends from Plato {i.e., Mr. Aristocles, son of Ariston} to Immanuel Kant, in which it is declared that the yardstick of knowledge
is verisimilitude. (...elided...). Coding or ‘inscription’ are central to the constitution of the socius, and Deleuze and Guattari
respond to the crucial question of the surface on which inscription takes place by invoking the notion of the earth. The earth precedes the constitution of the
socius, and is the primordial unity or ground of desire and production. As such the earth is the precondition of production while also being the object of
desire. The first form of the socius has therefore to involve a territorialisation, undertaken by a ‘territorial machine’, which parcels out the earth into
segments of social meaning. Once territorialisation has occurred, it becomes possible for social machines (the core of the socius) to operate. Social machines
have humans as their parts and are essential to the generation of cultural forms, these forms being needed to link humans to their (technical) machines. Social
machines organise flows of power and desire by coding them. There are all kinds of flows: different kinds of humans, vegetation, non-human animals, agricultural
implements, flows which involve bodily functions and organs, and so on. Nothing escapes coding, and so nothing can escape the purview of the socius. If the
socius is a megamachine, the fuel which drives this machine is desire, though desire is shaped and orchestrated by its insertion into this megamachine. In
modern societies, the nature of this insertion of desire into the social megamachine has been significantly transformed...”.
[curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (pp. 258-259 • “The socius was the first again to break the silence, and he said to Father d’Aigrigny, with his usual cool impudence, ‘One of two
things must be. Either your dear son means to render his donation absolutely valuable and irrevocable, or...’”.
~ (page 632 • “On the appointed day, the preacher with his ‘socius’ is taken to the Vatican in a pontifical carriage, and enters the throne-room;
when notified by the master of ceremonies, he draws near the bussola, takes off his mantle, asks the pope’s blessing, and ascends the pulpit”.
~ (from “The Catholic Encyclopedia”, Vol. 12, by Philip II-Reuss (1840-1916); published 1913 (left-clicking the yellow rectangles with the capital ‘U’ opens each in a new web page).
soi-disant (adj.): self-styled; so-called. [French: soi, ‘oneself’ +
disant, ‘saying’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
[Dictionary Definition]: ‘soliloquy: an instance of talking to oneself ...’. (Oxford
Dictionary). Someone Uniquely Recognisable By Her Inglish: Vis.:
Vis.:
And:
[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sophisma’: [f. Latin f. Greek]: clever device, trick. (Oxford
Dictionary).
Sophisticated (Antonyms):
[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sound wave: a longitudinal pressure wave in an elastic medium, esp. one that propagates
audible sound’. (Oxford Dictionary). • As the word
spiritual means “of, pertaining to, or affecting the spirit or soul” (according
to the Oxford English Dictionary) the word ‘spirit’ is also used by those of either a secular or spiritual
persuasion to denote the self-same ‘being’, at root, with differentiation again being a matter of a partiality
and/or leaning connotation). • spiritus (n.): a spirit⁽*⁾ or breathing. ~ (Collins English Dictionary) ⁽*⁾spirit (n.): 1. the force or principle of life which animates the body of living
things; 2. that which constitutes a person’s intangible being as contrasted with their physical presence; [e.g.]: “I shall be with you in
spirit”; 3. (a.) an incorporeal being, esp. the soul of a dead person; (b.) (as modifier): spirit world. [C13: from
Old French esperit, from Latinspīritus, ‘breath’, ‘spirit’; related
tospīrāre, ‘to breathe’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • spiritus (n.): a spirit⁽*⁾ or breathing. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). ⁽*⁾spirit (n.): 1. the force or principle of life which animates the body of living things; 2. that which constitutes a person’s intangible being as contrasted with their physical presence; [e.g.]: “I shall be with you in spirit”; 3. (a.) an incorporeal being, esp. the soul of a dead person; (b.) (as modifier): spirit world. [C13: from Old French esperit , from Latin spīritus , ‘breath’, ‘spirit’; related to spīrāre , ‘to breathe’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • mystical (adj.): 1. relating to or characteristic of mysticism (=belief in or
experience of a reality surpassing normal human understanding or experience, esp. a
reality perceived as essential to the nature of life; a system of contemplation and
spirituality aimed at achieving direct intuitive experience of the divine); 2. (theology):
having a divine or sacred significance which surpasses natural human apprehension; 3. (alternative
belief systems): having occult or metaphysical significance, nature, or force; (adj.
& n.): mystic; mystics; (adv.): mystically; (n.): mysticalness. [C14: Middle English mystik
, from Latin mysticus , from Greek mustikos , derivative of
mustēs , ‘mystery initiate’; related to muein
, ‘to close the eyes’, ‘to initiate into sacred rites’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).
• spermatozoon (pl. spermatozoa): a mature male germ cell, the specific output of the testes, which fertilises the mature ovum (secondary oocyte) in sexual reproduction. It is microscopic in size, looks like a translucent tadpole, and has a flat elliptical head containing a spherical centre section, and a long tail by which it propels itself with a vigorous lashing movement. Spermatozoa are produced in the seminiferous tubules of the testes whereas semen is produced in the seminal vesicles, which are located in the pelvis anterior to the prostate gland. The developmental stages of the germ cell are the spermatogonium, spermatocyte, spermatid, and finally spermatozoon. When mature, the spermatozoa are carried in the semen. At the climax of coitus, the semen is discharged into the vagina of the female. A single discharge (about a teaspoonful of semen on the average) may contain more than two-hundred-and-fifty million spermatozoa. Only a few of these will travel as far as the fallopian tubes; if an ovum is present there, and if the head of a single sperm penetrates the ovum, fertilisation takes place (the human ovum is about one-hundreth of an inch, or one-hundred-and-forty microns, in diameter, which is some fifty-thousand times larger than the human spermatozoa); (adj.): spermatozoal. ~ (Miller-Keane Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health). • ovum (pl. ova): the female reproductive or germ cell has a haploid genetic complement (twenty-two somatic chromosomes and one x-chromosome) which after fertilisation is capable of developing into a new member of the same species; called also egg. The term is sometimes applied to any stage of the fertilised germ cell during cleavage and even until hatching or birth of the new individual. The human ovum consists of protoplasm which contains some yolk, enclosed by a cell wall consisting of two layers, an outer one (zona pellucida) and an inner, thin one (vitelline membrane). There is a large nucleus (germinal vesicle) within which is a nucleolus (germinal spot). When fertilised by a spermatozoa, a gamete or zygote is capable of developing into a new individual of the same species; during maturation, the oocyte, like the spermatozoa, undergoes a halving of its chromosomal complement so that, at its union with the male gamete, the species number of chromosomes (forty-six in humans) is maintained; (adj.): ovular. ~ (Miller-Keane Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health).• To summarise: for all bipartitely-sexual animals, procreation takes place when the haploid male gamete (spermatozoa) successfully fuses with the haploid female gamete (ovum), thereby restoring two full sets of chromosomes in a new organism⁽*⁾, via that specific act of sexual fecundation (a.k.a. insemination, impregnation, fertilisation). [emphasis added]. ~ (based on the American Heritage Student Science Dictionary). • Incidentally, both artificial insemination and invitro fertilisation mimic that sexually instinctive male-female procreational process. [Dictionary Definition]: ‘spiel: talk, a story; a glib speech, esp. one intended to persuade or impress; a salesperson’s
patter’. (Oxford Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: ‘spontaneous: performed or occurring without external cause or stimulus; having a self-contained cause
or origin; unpremeditated and uninhibited; coming naturally or freely, gracefully natural and unconstrained; prompted by no motive; involuntary, not
due to conscious volition’. (adapted from Oxford Dictionary) Sri/ Nath: • Sri (Romanised: Śrī) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. (...).
Sri is frequently used as an epithet of some Hindu gods, in which case it is *often translated into English as “Holy”*. Sri, if used by itself and not
followed by any name, refers to the supreme consciousness, i.e. God. Sri is one of the names of Ganesha, the Hindu god of prosperity. Sri is also used as a
title of the Hindu deities Rāma, Krishna, Saraswati and sometimes Durgā • Nath: the Sanskrit word nātha *literally means “Lord”*⁽⁰¹⁾, “protector”,
“master”. The related Sanskrit term Adi Natha means first or original Lord, and is a synonym for
Shiva⁽⁰²⁾, the founder of the Nāthas _________ _________  , footnote for page 258, Chapter Five: ‘Shankar, The Yogi on the Mountain’,
in “Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy”, by Wolf-Dieter Storl; 2004, Inner Traditions).
statism (n.): the practice or doctrine of giving a centralised government
control over economic planning and policy; (adj. & n.): statist. ~ (American
Heritage Dictionary). straw-man (n.): a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted. ~
(Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). A straw man (sometimes written as "strawman") is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the proper idea of argument under discussion was not addressed or properly refuted. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent’s proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent’s proposition. Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects. Straw man tactics in the United Kingdom may also be known as an "Aunt Sally", after a pub game of the same name, where patrons throw sticks or battens at a post to knock off a skittle balanced on top. The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern of argument: • Person 1 asserts proposition X. • Person 2 argues against a superficially similar proposition Y, falsely, as if an argument against Y were an argument against X. This reasoning is a fallacy of relevance: it fails to address the proposition in question by misrepresenting the opposing position. For example: • Quoting an opponent’s words out of context—i.e., choosing quotations which misrepresent the opponent’s intentions (see "fallacy of quoting out of context"). • Presenting someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, then denying this person’s arguments—thus giving the appearance that every upholder of such a position (and thus the position itself) has been defeated. • Oversimplifying an opponent’s argument, then attacking this oversimplified version. • Exaggerating (sometimes grossly exaggerating) an opponent’s argument, then attacking this exaggerated version. Examples: Straw man arguments often arise in public debates such as a (hypothetical) prohibition debate: • A: "We should relax the laws on beer". • B: "No, any society with unrestricted access to intoxicants loses its work ethic and goes only for immediate gratification". The original proposal was to relax laws on beer. Person B has misconstrued and/or misrepresented this
proposal by responding to it as if it had been "unrestricted access to intoxicants". It is a logical
fallacy because Person A never advocated allowing said unrestricted access to intoxicants (this is also a
"slippery slope" argument). ~ (2012 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). streetful (n.): the amount of people or things a street can hold. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). sterling (adj.): of the highest quality; (synonyms): excellent, sound, fine, first-class, superlative; [e.g.]: “his years \
of sterling service”; “a person of sterling character”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).
[Dictionary Definitions]:
[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sublimation: the transformation of an instinctual drive, esp. the sexual impulse, so that it
manifests in a socially acceptable way’. (Oxford Dictionary). superbia (n.): unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly
sins). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). supposititious (adj.): fraudulently substituted or pretended; spurious; not genuine.
~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).
• supposititious or suppositious (adj.): 1. substituted with fraudulent intent; spurious; 2. hypothetical; supposed; (adv.): supposititiously; (n.): supposititiousness. [from Latin suppositīcius, from suppositus, past participle of suppōnere, ‘to substitute’; from Latin, ‘to put under’: sub-, ‘sub-’ + pōnere, ‘to place’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • supposititious (adj.): 1. fraudulently or deceptively imitative: bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, fraudulent, phoney, sham,
spurious, suppositious; 2. presumed to be true, real, or genuine, especially on inconclusive grounds: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical,
inferential, presumptive, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s
Thesaurus). substantivise (vb.tr.; pp *substantivised*; pres. cont. substantivising): to make (a word other than a noun)
play the grammatical role of a noun in a sentence; [e.g.]: “the homeless; the rich; the dead”; (n.): substantivisation.
[emphasis added]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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