Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. slang, humorous An area of philosophy dealing with the kind of moral dilemma typified by the trolley problem.
Etymologies
- trolley + -ology (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In fact it gave rise to an enormous network of morally significant trolley tracks and a rather wonderful new word, "trolleyology".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trolleyology’.
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
akrasia, akrates, particularism, particularist, mereology, deontology, cognitivism, naturalism, anti-naturalism, ethics, phenomenology, metaethics and 220 more...
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rosiesroll's list
verbatim, gormandize, portcullis, arabesque, phenomenology, supervenience, a priori, solipsism, trolleyology, trope, prima facie, ontology and 25 more...
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michaelchang's Words
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vanishedone Oh, you were serious. I was thinking of the usage referring to moral philosophy in which 'trolleyology is defined as the study of a collection of hypothetical ethics problems au courant in philosophy writing, in which people have to make decisions about switching the routes of runaway trolleys (streetcars) based on variant numbers of lives being at risk'. Apr 2, 2008
michaelchang the content of your trolley reveal your personality Feb 26, 2008