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Meaning of authorlessness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The condition of being without an author.

uncountable

Examples

“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).”
“Murray offers a version of language in which timelessness and authorlessness go hand in hand.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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