nexūs

See also: nexus and nexûs

English

Noun

nexūs pl

1. (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^[1], 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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• UN*Xes, unsex