Ontology:Q291
Core characteristics
- label / B-Template
- alias (en)
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- associated Term [Lexeme]
- QID references [Item] 1-1-1
- Q226 fictional reality
- audience as relative to fictional world 1-1-1
- color swatch references [Item]
- meta-ontology
- subset of
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- instance of
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- superset of
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- appears in work [Item]
- Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Jarry 1911) 1-1-1
- SCP Foundation Wikis
- consists of components [Item]
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Wavebuilder combinations
- pronounced P: pronounced Wave-builder: forms result [Item]
- Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Jarry 1911) 1-1-1
- along with [Item]
- 'pataphysics 1-1-1
- forming from [Item]
- 'pataphysics 1-1-1
- travelogue
- Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Jarry 1911) 1-1-1
Wavebuilder characterizations
- pronounced Wave-builder: route [Item]
- 'pataphysics 1-1-1
- along with [Item]
- metaphysics
Usage notes
Name
The name 'pataphysics is a contraction of the Greek phrase "'epi meta physics", which from the first word specifically opts to take the p and the smooth or unaspirated breath mark. Within the Greek language, the smooth breath mark is used to differentiate written words that have swallowed their h consonant but are still pronounced with one from words that were never meant to have one; in later periods of Greek where all of these words had lost such sounds, which logically includes uses of Greek in the English language, the breath mark came to mean basically nothing. What this actually means is that the apostrophe in 'pataphysics has never been pronounced.