ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… … Universalium
dereliction — der·e·lic·tion /ˌder ə lik shən/ n 1 a: an intentional abandonment b: a state of being abandoned 2: a recession of water leaving permanently dry land 3: an intentional or conscious neglect derelictio … Law dictionary
neglect — ne·glect n: a disregard of duty resulting from carelessness, indifference, or willfulness; esp: a failure to provide a child under one s care with proper food, clothing, shelter, supervision, medical care, or emotional stability compare abuse 2,… … Law dictionary
Plato: metaphysics and epistemology — Robert Heinaman METAPHYSICS The Theory of Forms Generality is the problematic feature of the world that led to the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms and the epistemological views associated with it.1 This pervasive fact of generality appears … History of philosophy
The Republic (Plato) — The Republic Author(s) Plato … Wikipedia
negligence — neg·li·gence / ne gli jəns/ n: failure to exercise the degree of care expected of a person of ordinary prudence in like circumstances in protecting others from a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm in a particular situation; also: conduct… … Law dictionary
deliberate omission — I noun abandonment, abnegation, ban, bar, boycott, breach, declination, defalcation, default, delinquency, disregard, elision, exception, exclusion, failure of duty, intentional omission, laches, laxity, leaving out, lockout, neglect, negligence … Law dictionary
laxness — Synonyms and related words: Fabian policy, Micawberism, abandon, abandonment, acceptance, backwardness, bagginess, clemency, clementness, compassion, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, dilatoriness, disregard, easiness,… … Moby Thesaurus
permissiveness — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, carelessness, charitableness, charity, coddling, condonation, connivance, cosseting, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, easiness, easygoingness, failure, favoring,… … Moby Thesaurus
dereliction — n 1. negligence, negligency, neglect, delinquency, remissness, Obs. indiligence; laxity, slackness, looseness, Fr. laissez aller; slovenliness, sloppiness, shoddiness; carelessness, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness. 2. disregard, omission,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder