authorlessness

English

Etymology

authorless +‎ -ness

Noun

authorlessness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being without an author.
    • 1999, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research:
      The first deals with causality, chance and contingency, the second with the sources of cognitive validity. The third addresses the question of atheism and the issue of the authorlessness of the Veda (an important tenet of the Mimamsa school).
    • 2000, Irene Tucker, A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews, →ISBN, page 211:
      Murray offers a version of language in which timelessness and authorlessness go hand in hand.
    • 2018, Sheila Watson, Amy Jane Barnes, Katy Bunning, A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage, →ISBN:
      Moving on from the issues of the self-reflective museum, the end of the museum, and the issue of truth claims, I think one of the issues here is about the ostensible authorlessness of the traditional museum, if you like, and this is how its truth claim works in a sense.
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