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n. - The formation or production of something, usually in reference to a disease or medical condition.

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  • In the film, technology leads us to the discovery that it is within ourselves, not outside of us, that the solution to the problem of technology – a solution Heidegger called...
  • For the sake of brevity, I will focus on the evolving relationship of "poiesis" to physis in Heidegger's work as an indication that nature's "presence" or truth may not...
  • Such gatherings constitute the thingness of things, something not only true of the products of human poiesis, but also of the physis of natural entities:
  • The avant-garde, in particular Dadaism, seems to be, by contrast, a celebration of precisely that very possibility of art as a different, postaesthetic poiesis.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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