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historicity

A penomenon of demonstration in which deconstructionism and therefore formalism can only represent linear time as moving backwards.

Also called "left-wing determinism."
Historicity is the obstacle the left must surmount in order to formalize free will.
by metawave August 13, 2019
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historicide

The murder of history; accomplished when a historian leans too far to the postmodernist/relativist or too far to the scientific/objectivist side of the spectrum.
Gibbon nearly committed historicide back there. Thank goodness Ranke has sorted us all out.
by Zagaloo November 25, 2009
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historicism

Phenology in which the process-of-ontologization (making-of) of an object demonstrates itself in the final object as a narrative (motif (product)).

Part of the historicist (heuristicist) sequence: materialism, constructivism, and substantivism (substantialism).
"Heuristicism is a morpheme of the word "historicism."
by tomorrowtomorrow January 20, 2019
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Historicality
by Goofy Ahh Boy April 30, 2023
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