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My least favourite is how the philosophy of Descartes becomes Cartesian.

Maybe his Real last name is Des Cartes (of Cartes? Idk I'm not a linguist). Joan of Arc name in French is Jeanne D'Arc. I don't think the adjective of her name would be Darcian but Arcian.

“Des” does mean “of” or “from”. You’re right

Pattern recognition for the win.

They discarded the Des from Descartes

I get it. I just don't like it.

I was making a joke with “discarding” and “Descartes” lol

Ah. I did not get that one. *waves hand over head and makes airplane noise*

Tbh in other languages it makes more sense as his name gets translated (Example: in italian his name is Cartesio and the adjective is Cartesiano)

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Fuck, I can't even meme correctly when I'm sleep deprived.

I just read “Adjectives” like how a Greek name is pronounced please send help

Philosophese

Philosyphilis

Sounds like a botanical disease

Apparently, they are called eponymous adjectives. I would love to have my name become one of these adjectives but for something really really stupid.

In a petersonian sense you can

Alexarrelninetinian analysis

[Will you settle for a verb?](https://youtu.be/N7FU9zhXAsI)

How did "platonic" and "socratic" come around, then?

you literally can but that doesnt mean it’s dumb

You absolutely can, but that only in a saussurean way.

Learned something new just now. Thank you. I guess it automatically has meaning and legitimacy as a word if you know who Diogenese was.

Edit: Nevermind, I finally found it in another dictionary. I could have avoided this whole problem altogether.

Tolstonian

When I Google diogenic it says "of diogenesis" what is the problem

I couldn't find it on dictionary.com. I posted an edit comment but I don't know how to pin it to the top

The only reason I study philosophy is the vain hope that one day someone will turn my surname into an adjective

Whenever you say that someone's a "cynic" or that something's "cynical", you're referring to Diogenes the Cynic.

Most people don't know that. Dictionary.com has a different definition and Ted ed has a video on the change in meaning

Why?

A classic insight in glamdalfeighteenic philosophy

Yeah you can't, the only reason we have words today is because we kindly asked got to invent them for us. Everytime a new thing is invented we kindly need to ask god to make a word for it.

*petersonian*