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Webster 1913 Edition


Nexus


Nex′us

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Noun.
[L.]
Connection; tie.
Man is doubtless one by some subtile
nexus
. . . extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard.
De Quincey.

Definition 2024


nexûs

nexûs

See also: nexus and nexūs

English

Noun

nexûs

  1. (philosophy, rare, nonstandard) plural of nexus
    • 2009, Alan Van Wyk and Michel Weber, Creativity and Its Discontents: The Response to Whitehead’s Process and Reality, page 61 (kaufen; ISBN 9783868380187):
      Such a particular fact of togetherness is called a ‘nexus’ (plural form is nexûs). The distinction between a nexus and a prehension is not made very clear, but in the list of the eight Categories of Existence prehensions are said to be Concrete Facts of Relatedness, and nexûs are said to be Public Matters of Fact.

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