A Philosophical Dictionary for Beginners: Every Fancy Adverb Means 'Very'
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-21
A joke tweet offering a "philosophical dictionary for beginners": ten grandiose adverbs—axiologically, essentially, fundamentally, inherently, intrinsically, ontologically, metaphysically, objectively, universally—all translate to the same word: very. A gentle roast of pretentious philosophical prose.
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