Definitions - Terms for Wiktionary. Resymmetricalize-to make symmetrical again Eschew-escape Propriety-true nature Abhorrence-horror August-majestic Calamities-state of distress Generalities-the greatest part Cessations-stop Irreparably- incurable Priori-without analysis Interments-the act or ceremony Rigidity-being rigid Subsequent-following in time order or place Unmoulded- *not found Endeavored-to at ...

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Suppose we have decided to define a certain word or a concept associated with that word. Suppose also that we have identified which sense of the word we are interested in, and we have noted clear cases, some unclear cases, and some borderline cases of the application of the word. The question then is: how can this word be defined? What is desired here is a description of the intension of the word: that is, an account of the set of properties that characterizes all and only members of the extension. In that case, it seems the fo ...

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Drawing from the original definition proposed by Saussure (1857-1913), a sign has two parts: as a signifier, i.e. it will have a form that a person can see, touch, smell, and/or hear, and as the signified, i.e. it will represent an idea or mental construct of a thing rather than the thing itself. This emphasises that the sign is merely a symbol for the class of object referred to. Hence, the lexical word or noun "box" evokes a range of possibility from cheap card to gold-encrusted container. The rea ...

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There are two equivalent major definitions for the concept of a recursive language: A recursive formal language is a recursive subset in the set of all possible words over the alphabet of the language. A recursive language is a formal language for which there exists a Turing machine which will, when presented with any input string, halt and accept if the string is in the language, and halt and reject otherwise. The Turing machine always halts; it is known as a decider and is sa ...

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Various definitions of Nursing Informatics have been proposed, perhaps the most widely currently accepted definition comes from the International Medical Informatics Association - Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA-NI), adopted August 1998, Seoul, Korea : Nursing informatics is the integration of nursing, its information, and information management with information processing and communication technolo ...

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Characteristically, snobs look down on people who are part of groups that they regard as inferior to the social class they are imitating. Compare the points of view embodied in the informal and subjective categories of "highbrow" and its contrasted "lowbrow". The Oxford English Dictionary finds the word snab in a 1781 document with the meaning of shoemaker with a Scottish origin. The connection between "snab", also spelled "snob", and its more familiar meaning arising in Engl ...

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The term metaphysics originally referred to the writings of Aristotle that came to light after his writings on physics, in the arrangement made by Andronicus of Rhodes, about three centuries after Aristotle's death.

Traditionally, metaphysics refers to the branch of philosophy that attempts to understand the fundamental nature of all reality, whether visible or invisible.

It seeks a description so basic, so essentially simple, and so all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether divine or human or anything else. It attempts to tell what anything must be like in order to be at all.

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Hinduism: Definition of Hinduism

Hinduism is not a religion but a set of beliefs and traditions which have evolved over a period of time. It is a way of life based upon a group of religious movements evolved in the Indian subcontinent over a vast period of time. It is not based upon a single scripture or the teachings of a single prophet. There is no central organization like the Church of Christianity or the Order of Buddhism to control its movements or progress.

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The Bible says: "The fool has said in his heart, there is no God". Having first convinced himself, he then proceeds to broadcast it to the world. Nietzsche the philosopher announced that God is dead.

Later, mortal that he was, Nietzsche died. Had God the Creator sent an obituary notice to the newspapers, it would have read thus: "Nietzsche is dead! Signed: GOD".

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Did you ever see something go wrong around you and suddenly burst out, How on Earth did I create that? Really, how can bad things happen, even to the sweetest, kindest, most spiritual people on the planet? Where's the fairness in that?

The root of the question lies partly in the fact that we live in a state of polarity consciousness. This is a point of view where life is seen as a contrast between opposing forces, and that events are either good or bad.

Good or bad is a judgment issue. Judgment belongs within the frequency band of basic, physical consciousness. Yes, in physical consciousness, bad things do exist, and they appear that way because they're designed to.

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We are normally acquainted with anything of which we are directly aware, without any inference or knowledge of truth.

Am I acquainted with sensations, or with physical objects, or with myself, or with other people?

We know something by description if we know that it exists and what it is like, and are not acquainted with it.

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A circular definition is one that assumes a prior understanding of the term being defined. For instance, we can define "oak" as a tree which has catkins and grows from an acorn, and then define "acorn" as the nut produced by an oak tree. To someone not knowing either which trees are oaks or which nuts are acorns, the definition is fairly useless. A circular definition occurred in an early definition of the kilogram. The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one litre of water at standard pressure and the temperature at ...

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Effeminacy (Greek: ἀνανδρία – anandria; μαλακία – malakia; Latin: mollites) is a term applied to men who have the quality of unmanliness, softness, or delicacy. In this classical meaning there is not necessarily any connotation of sexual behavior or gender roles. It is a moral and ethical fault which is always applied to fully heterosexual men who are morally weak, lack in perseverance, ...

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In Roman Catholicism, a dogmatic definition is an infallible statement published by a pope or an ecumenical council concerning a matter of faith or morals, the belief in which the Roman Catholic Church requires of all Christians (although Christians who are not Catholic do not recognize the Roman Catholic Church's authority in such matters). Contrary to the stereotype that Catholics think that everything that the pope says is infallible, dogmatic definitions by popes are in fact very rare. Among them are the definition by Pope ...

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"Music, often an art/entertainment, is a total social fact whose definitions vary according to era and culture," according to Jean Molino.1 It is often contrasted with noise. According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez: "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural ...

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There is a general name for the first two sorts of error: circular definition. A circular definition is somewhat similar to a question-begging argument: neither offers us enlightenment about the thing we wanted to be enlightened about. Fallacies of definition - Defining with a synonym. A definition is no good if it simply gives a one-word synonym. For example, suppose we define the word "virtue"—an important word in ethics—just using the word "excellence." It might be perfectly true that all vir ...

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Defining music is as difficult as defining art or any other subjective phenomenon. It is a problem that has been tackled at various times by philosophers, lexicographers, composers, teachers, semioticians or semiologists, linguists and other scientists, students, and various other musicians. The elements of music often have an implicit concept of time, pitch, and energy. The presence or lack of these elements can be used to classify music. They can be organized into units with interrelated rhythm, harmony, and melody. Organizing musical sound is part of composition and improvisation. Music ...

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The word itself comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) by way of the Latin musica. It is ultimately derived from mousa, the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece, the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. :)this is funny Later, in Rome, ars musica embraced poetry as well as what we now think of as music. Our current understanding of music as being something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but something which may b ...

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Minimum Intent: The following definition of the term 'definition' is presented as a reference, (a comparator, a norm) that must not be violated when defining scientific terms. Axioms: 1) ‘Something’ is a term that has a most general meaning, it can mean anything (but it does not automatically include ‘everything’). 2) 'Ambient' is anything in the vicinity of, and, to a certain degree, within something. 3) ‘Event’ is something that can be distinguished from its ambient. 4) ‘Relation’ is something that has, at l ...

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