Authorlessness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being without an author. uncountable

    "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)."

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"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)."

Etymology

From authorless + -ness.

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