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Comment author: Roxolan 04 October 2013 10:59:18PM *  8 points [-]

I'm in the process of translating some of the Sequences in French. I have a quick question.

From The Simple Truth:

Mark sighs sadly. “Never mind… it’s obvious you don’t know. Maybe all pebbles are magical to start with, even before they enter the bucket. We could call that position panpebblism.”

This is clearly a joke at the expense of some existing philosophical position called pan[something] but I can't find the full name, which may be necessary to make the joke understandable in French. Can anyone help?

Comment author: witzvo 05 October 2013 09:30:26PM 2 points [-]

I think he's just using the prefix "pan-" to mean all, though perhaps pantheism is relevant.

Comment author: shminux 04 October 2013 11:09:10PM *  3 points [-]

I initially read it as an allusion to Panpsychism:

the view that mind or soul... is a universal feature of all things

or maybe to a generic pan-x-ism. But, in retrospect, the position that "all pebbles are magical to start with" should be called "panmagism" or something. Panpebblism means that there is a pebble in everything (or everyone). So I am no longer sure what Eliezer meant.

Comment author: Roxolan 06 October 2013 09:17:47PM 0 points [-]

I'll just keep the prefix/suffix as is and hope for the best then ("pancailloutisme").

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