swine: a pig
gainsaid: Deny or contradict of a statement
Negative responsibility: if you don’t do anything is the same thing as doing something
A prior: known through pure reason (without empirical evidence)
A posteriori: Known only through empirical evidence
Deontology: duty-based ethics (Kant)
Honours : regret with great respect
Indignities : treatment or circumstance that makes one to feel ashamed or to lose one’s dignity.
Trifling : not important
Delimited : have fixed boundaries and limit
Opine : one’s opinion
Heraclitus : A greek philosopher
Contrariety : contrary opposition
accusers : One who accuse a person of their doing