D is for

DESCARTES
In his Meditations Renee Descartes famously sets out to find a trustworthy ground for knowledge. That is he is looking for the certain, the indubitable and (of course) sets out to find it by trying to doubt everything and begin anew, counting only on what cannot be doubted. In 1637 he formulated that in French: je pense, donc je suis, a few years later he’d say it in latin with his famous Cogito ergo sum (usually translated: “I think therefore I am”). Just shy of 300 years later Husserl would provide a more intentional version saying: Ego cogito cogitatum (I think thoughts).

DESTRUCTURING

Fragmentation or disintegration of a structure, in which the tendency of the process that gave it origin is discontinued. In a closed system, the disarticulation of both a structure and its environment is correlated so as not to allow for the new surpassing the old
Based on the definition found in The Dictionary of New Humanism, in Silo; Collected Works Vol 2.

DISCRIMINATION

(L. discriminare, to separate, differentiate). d. designates a form of treating persons, organizations and states as inferior due to factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, age, culture, ideology, etc. A premeditated depriving or curtailing of rights and privileges. One form of political d. is the restriction of a person’s or group’s right to vote or to be elected to public office.
Any overt or covert act of differentiation or segregation, of an individual or human group, that entails the negation of their intentionality and freedom is d. Such d. is always accompanied by affirming a difference with this person or group based on special attributes, virtues, or values that the parties exercising d. claim for themselves. Such a procedure is correlated with an objectifying “look” (a sensibility or an ideology) vis à vis human reality.
N.H. condemns d. in all its manifestations and in every case calls for its exposure.
Based on the definition found in The Dictionary of New Humanism, in Silo; Collected Works Vol 2.