porism
Meanings
noun
- A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
- A corollary.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek πόρισμα (pórisma, “a deduction from a previous demonstration”).
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