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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A review of some terms useful in political analysis & polemics</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">simple-minded, metaphysics, fatuous</b></span></div>
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<b class="">sim·ple·mind·ed</b> (sĭm′pəl-mīn′dĭd)</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">adj.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">1.
</b>Lacking in subtlety or sophistication; artless or naive: </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #966a00; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">a simple-minded horror movie; simple-minded generalizations.</i></span></div>
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</b>Stupid or silly; foolish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">3.
</b><i class="">Offensive</i> Intellectually disabled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class="">sim′ple•mind′ed</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class="">
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</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class=""><i class="">adj.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class=""><b class="">1.
</b>lacking in mental acuteness or sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class=""><b class="">2.
</b>artless or unsophisticated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class="">[1735–45]</span></div>
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metaphysics</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>My simplistic, nontechnical definition:</div>
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all talk about things that are invisible & intangible (cannot be seen or touched): abstractions such as thoughts, beliefs, motives, intentions, meanings, numbers, souls, spirits, gods, essences, truth, reality, tendencies, causes, patterns, structures, potentialities,
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> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Note that I only suggest appropriate caution in dealing with these elusive abstract entities & do not mean complete disapproval or rejection. It seems impossible for people to think or reason effectively
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metaphysical (adjective)</div>
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<i class="">Beyond measurement ; transcendent; supersensible.</i></div>
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Those who rail against it do so for the most practical reason: They have not mastered its use. They strive for metaphysical formulations to justify their hidden little secret (sloth and fear). </div>
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— William F. Buckley Jr., <i class="">The Lexicon</i> (Harcourt, 1996), p. 97. </div>
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> Now do you see how contemptible you are, according to the late Mr. Buckley, if you “rail against” anything metaphysical? Is that your shameful, hidden little
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secret? Have you done that lately? </span> Confess! ~ RSz. </div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #404040; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Foolish or silly, especially in a smug or self-satisfied way:
</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">"an era of delicious, fatuous optimism shaped by the belief that enough good will on the part of people like ourselves could repair anything"</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #404040; background-color: #ffffff" class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">(Shirley Abbott).</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #404040; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> See Synonyms at
<a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/foolish" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #2484c6" class=""><b class="">foolish</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">[From Latin </span>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class="">complacently or inanely foolish</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">[C17: from Latin <i class="">fatuus</i>; related to
<i class="">fatiscere</i> to gape]</span></div>
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