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This learned term comes from Greek. Onomasticon; from, onomastikon, onomastikona, meaning in Greek, “consisting on names.” It consists in a list of names, particularly of the proper names within a given culture as a philological aid to their meaning and etymology, as found for instance in Plato’s Cratylus. The Onomasticon of Julius Pollux from the second century A.D. is a ten-volumed lexicon containing the most important words related to a wide range of subjects (music, theater, politics, nature, crime, crime, reliogion, etc.) with short explanations, illustrated with quotations from ancient writers. It is suggested that Onomasticona were used in Wisdom writing, for example, Jb 28; 38-39; 41; Wisdom of Solomon 7:17-23; Sirach 43, etc. Each of these deals with knowledge of the wonders of nature. The Onomasticon of Eusebius, published about A.D. 328, is a treatise on the names and places of the Bible; it was translated into Latin by Jerome.
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As physicists know, electrons, W and Z particles have masses, but neutrinos and photons do not. I wonder somehow that it could be for some reason that neutrinos, and even photons do have masses so small which they have escaped any sort of detection so far. Though, I think these masses if they do exist would be quite different from the masses of electrons and W and Z particles, that is how not what would or should be expected if the symmetry among these particles were so manifest in nature.
Since we are all now in the same global boat—inhabitants in the same global village—, it is essential for us to understand quite deeply our history as humanity struggling in this planet. Seeking unity of humankind—our relavant relationships with our neighbors and all peoples alike—, we must work in the noble task of comprehend the genesis and evolution of the dominant ideas of the modern world.
On the other hand, I do believe that it is indeed very demostrable that all thinking and all action are compromised by ignorance of what has gone before. Most of us love to believe that we live in a kind of timeless innocence, until something not good or ugly or, worst, lethal, happens to us. Then, I assume and believe these three social determinants are the guideposts or guiding principles in our age: (1) democracy—the search for the goverment from and through the people, (2) equality before the law—we’re all human beings, (3) the unity of the peoples of the world—e pluribus unum.
