overmine

verb — 2 senses

overmine

verb

Etymology From over- + mine.

1

To mine excessively.

2

Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences To view an object in terms of its effects on or relationships with others, in object-oriented ontology.

  • We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25:

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