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81Spinoza: metaphysics and knowledge — G.H.R.Parkinson The philosophical writings of Spinoza are notoriously obscure, and they have been interpreted in many ways. Some interpreters see Spinoza as (in the words of a contemporary)1 ‘the reformer of the new [sc. Cartesian] philosophy’.… …
82deliberateness — Synonyms and related words: aforethought, calculatedness, calculation, canniness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, circumspection, creeping, deliberate stages, deliberation, discretion, dolce far niente, drawl,… …
83deliberation — Synonyms and related words: advisement, aforethought, airing, analysis, application, brainwork, brooding, buzz session, calculatedness, calculation, canniness, canvassing, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness,… …
84hesitation — Synonyms and related words: Fabian policy, Micawberism, abeyance, averseness, backwardness, balbuties, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, break, caesura, calculation, canniness, capriciousness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution,… …
85crawl — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. creep, lag, drag; cringe, fawn, cower, grovel. See servility, slowness, lowness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To move like an insect] Syn. creep, worm along, wriggle, squirm, slither, move on hands and… …
86haste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Swiftness Nouns haste, urgency; dispatch; acceleration, spurt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; impatience, impetuosity; expedition, earliness; hurry,… …
87lag — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. linger, drag, fall behind, hang back. See slowness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. slack, retardation, slowness, belatedness, tardiness, falling behind, interval, pulling back, delay, slowdown, drag,… …
88lateness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Coming after the expected time Nouns 1. lateness, tardiness, slowness, unpunctuality; delay, procrastination, deferring, deferment, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite;… …
89loiter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. linger, poke, dawdle, lag. See slowness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. linger, linger idly, dawdle, dally, idle, lag, saunter, stroll, delay, shuffle, waste time, putter, procrastinate, traipse, shamble …
90speed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. haste, hasten, hurry, accelerate. n. velocity, dispatch, expedition, swiftness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. swiftness, celerity, briskness, activity, eagerness, haste, hurry, promptitude, acceleration …
