nexūs
English
Noun
nexūs pl
- (philosophy, rare) plural of nexus
- 1978, Alfred North Whitehead, edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne, Process and Reality, page 103:
- A structured society consists in the patterned intertwining of various nexūs with markedly diverse defining characteristics.
- 2013 January, Brian W. Dunst, Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency, dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Digital Commons @ University of South Florida, page 171:
- For Brandom, social practices are then nexūs of implicit, discursive, norms (assessable as commitments with practical relations to contextual circumstances and consequences).
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