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During the early part of the summer in 2020, Right Phiri of Malawi challenged members of the Facebook group Philosophical Discussion with the following request as expressed hereby. “Define love in one sentence with less than ten (10) words.”
This has already been done by a thumbnail definition in Thumoslang, which is the nomenclature for social life as defined by the 2017 book Thumos: Adulthood, Love & Collaboration. Here it is.
Love; that means, the nurturing of ideals.
That’s an objective definition of love in only seven words. In fact, it’s the first falsifiable definition of love. In November 2019, Alec Mustafayev (born 2002), a student of Classical High, the best or second best public high school in the state of Rhode Island where entrance exam is required, was the first to be taught of this definition, on camera. It was captured by the video The First Falsifiable Definition of Love, which is Episode 3 in Season 8 of the YouTube series NDBaker93 on the channel Ri4CTV.
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