Meaning of entention | Babel Free

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Reference to something not necessarily present; as a book might discuss mathematics without presenting any mathematics in the text, or a tool might be manufactured for dealing with objects not present at the time of manufacture; DNA encodes information for dealing with processes that are not underway at its formation.

neologism

Examples

“Jacob Fowle entered his Entention of marriage with Phebe Osgood Feb 4 1738”

“...when referring to all such phenomena in general, I will use⟳ entention to characterize their internal relationship to a telos — an end⟳, or otherwise displaced and thus non-present something, or possible something. ...at the very moment this lion popped into existence, before even one beat⟳ of its heart, at that instant these tendencies were present⟳ and the entention was present⟳ as well, if these processes are poised to begin⟳ and proceed in a way that preserves the whole lion.”

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