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authorlessness en · NOUN

Etymology

From authorless + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being without an author.
    • The first deals with causality, chance and contingency, the second with the sources of cognitive validity. The third addresses the question of atheism and the issue of the authorlessness of the Veda (an important tenet of the Mimamsa school). 1999, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research:
    • Moving on from the issues of the self-reflective museum, the end of the museum, and the issue of truth claims, I think one of the issues here is about the ostensible authorlessness of the traditional museum, if you like, and this is how its truth claim works in a sense. 2018, Sheila Watson, Amy Jane Barnes, Katy Bunning, A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage, →ISBN:
    • Murray offers a version of language in which timelessness and authorlessness go hand in hand. 2000, Irene Tucker, A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews, →ISBN, page 211: