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单词 dilemmaticity
释义

dilemmaticity

English

Etymology

dilemmatic + -ity

Noun

dilemmaticity (plural not attested)

  1. (rare) The state or quality of being dilemmatic; problematicalness.
    • 2012, George Yancy, The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy, Lexington Books - A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. - Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK, page 204
      The shift in ethical thinking that would result from ethicists' attention to patterns of dilemmaticity is one part of what seems like a promising, larger shift from ideal(ized) (and alienating) theory to non-idealizing ethical thinking.
    • 2016, Lisa Tessman, Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality, Oxford University Press, page 180
      However, in systemically or institutionally constraining what would otherwise be good, morally endorsable possibilities, the phenomenon of oppression spawns what I take to be a special, systemic sort of dilemmaticity.
  2. (rare) A dilemma.
    • 2008, Mark Mazower, Networks of Power in Modern Greece: Essays in Honour of John Campbell, Hurst & Company, page 250
      All attempts to exorcise the Devil based on a monotheistic outlook will ultimately reinforce the categories that produce Brazil's dilemmaticity and, thus, reproduce the conditions for the Devil's reappearance.
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