anticoercive

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ coercive

Adjective

anticoercive (not comparable)

1. Opposed to coercion; anarchistic or libertarian.
   • 2002, Peter Augustine Lawler, Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls, page xxv:

     Dare I say that the danger to human liberty now is far more "anticoercive" than "coercive" utopianism? Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state.

   • 2012, Nathan Rotenstreich, Order and Might, →ISBN, page 165:

     Founded on such an assumption, the use of force for education's sake may even be described as anticoercive; indeed, to cultivate man's power of understanding is to cultivate his power to confront his circumstances open-eyed and detachedly.

   • 2013, John Keown, Robert P. George, Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis, →ISBN, page lxi:

     For Erasmus's anticoercive heresy was about baptism, not about the state.

2. (mathematics) Characteristic of a mapping of elements that tends toward negative infinity as the magnitude of the element tends toward positive infinity.
   • 2016, Pavel Drábek, Agnieszka Kałamajska, Iwona Skrzypczak, “Caccioppoli--type estimates and Hardy--type inequalities derived from degenerated $p$--harmonic problems”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We obtain Caccioppoli--type estimates for nontrivial and nonnegative solutions to the anticoercive partial differential inequalities of elliptic type involving degenerated $p$--Laplacian: $-\Delta _{p,a}u:=-\mathrm {div} (a(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)\geq b(x)\Phi (u)$, where $u$ is defined in a domain $\Omega$.