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Heimarmene:

a goddess of fate or destiny in Greek mythology (in particular  the orderly succession of cause and effect, the fate of the universe as a whole, as opposed to the destinies of individual people); belongs to a family of similar beings of destiny and fate.

 

daemonic:

relating to, or like a demon; demonic; possessed by an evil spirit; raging; frantic.

 

denotation:

the explicit direct meaning of a word or expression, as distinguished from the meanings associated with it; the association that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for an individual because of personal experience.

 

connoted:

to signify or suggest meanings or ideas in addition to the explicit or primary meaning:

 

indidentalness (sic):

translation or typographic error; presumed meaning incidental or incidentalness, meaning the quality of being unplanned or minor

Chapter IV. The Problem of World History: (2) The Destiny-Idea and the Causality-Principle
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