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Adding a noun takes 30 seconds but it comes with a big responsibility. Once you add the noun, you own it on www.oppo-site.com.
You must take on board oppo-inions of others before linking to its opposite. If its opposite hasn't been added yet, you must add (and own) that too.
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The Science of Opposites
The science of opposites where we aim to explore the opposite of every noun in the English language.
Nouns don't tend to have opposites - words like knife, pen, house, car and phone are somehow more complete when you find their logical partner.
Register and play your part in solving one of language's great mysteries. If we all do 1 noun each, we'll have this finished in no time.
Aristotle's Science of Opposites
Some so called experts think that Aristotle invented the Science of Opposites, citing this etymology....
A companion to Plato
By Hugh H. Benson
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
ISBN 1405115211, 9781405115216
Copyright Blackwell Publishing
We, however, can't find any conclusive evidence that Aristotle had worked it out properly. There are no recorded examples of actual 'opposites' recorded by Aristotle, Plato or Socrates.
They were essentially chancers.
