anti-pole:

Spengler’s use of polarity: genuine actualization requires an initial or root idea which is then opposed by a new idea, the anti-pole.

 

counter-concept:

Spengler’s idea of opposition and separation, detachment which is necessary for the formation of the new concept or anti-pole.  Example: notion (idea not fact) of birth in opposition to death.

 

connotation:

the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning; something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described.

 

Mycenaean strongholds: * see Endnote 5

Mycenaean civilization was the last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece, from 1600–1100 BC. It was the first advanced civilization in mainland Greece, with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art and writing system.  Among the centers of power that emerged, the most notable was Mycenae.  About 1350 BC, the fortifications on the Mycenae acropolis, and other surrounding hills, were rebuilt in a style known as cyclopean because the blocks of stone used were so massive that they were thought in later ages to be the work of the one-eyed giants known as the Cyclopes. Within these walls, successive monumental palaces were built. 

 

taboo:

proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable; prohibited or excluded from use or practice.

syllogism:
in logic, an argument the conclusion supported by 2 premises, one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.