A word which begins as a name for a specific member of a general class of items, but which ends up signifying the entire class.
Because Xerox was the first manufacturer of photocopy machines, many people now use "Xerox" as a synonym for photocopier, thus rendering "xerox" a supernomaly.
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Why settle for mance??
When performance isn't enough...and super performance only sounds weird!!!
The ability to literally rock out with one's cock out!!
A synonym of BEYAWESOME!!
When performance isn't enough...and super performance only sounds weird!!!
The ability to literally rock out with one's cock out!!
A synonym of BEYAWESOME!!
Buddy #1 - How was your review today??
Buddy #2 - I pwned my boss with my superformance!!
A rating for the world's most interesting man.
Buddy #2 - I pwned my boss with my superformance!!
A rating for the world's most interesting man.
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Get the Superformance mug.The paradigm that there is no universe that does not exist without language.
The idea that there is only one language; and thus one universe.
The idea that there is only one language; and thus one universe.
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Get the superformalism mug.The study of or belief in capacities, experiences, or phenomena that exceed normal human functioning but may not be supernatural—enhanced perception, exceptional intuition, mystical experiences, heightened states of consciousness. Supernormalism suggests that human potential may be greater than average performance suggests, and that some people occasionally access capacities that are latent in all of us. It's the position that the "normal" is not the limit, that extraordinary experiences may reveal possibilities rather than pathologies, and that human nature includes potentials rarely actualized.
"She knew who was calling before looking at the phone, every time. Supernormalism says: not psychic, not supernatural—just a capacity some people have, maybe latent in all of us, maybe trainable. Supernormal, not paranormal. Beyond average, not beyond nature."
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Get the Supernormalism mug.Superformalism states that because the structure-of-free-will travels at uncountable speed; it collapses into a single universe or pan-contiguity.
Thus superformalism negates the idea of multiverse.
Thus superformalism negates the idea of multiverse.
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Superformalism is a rebuttal to legal positivism.
Superformalism argues that morality constitutes difference between the law-as-it-is and ideal-law.
Superformalism argues that morality constitutes difference between the law-as-it-is and ideal-law.
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