For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

During the slow buildup, the essence of a policy or a man is concealed under embroidered details, fine words, strutting gestures.

The essence of contract is that one is free to make a choice of what one will or will not do.

The hymen is, in essence, a fragile membrane that more or less completely covers the entrance to the vagina in most female human beings who have not had sex relations.

The secretary's greatest achievement is perhaps the rekindling of NATO realization that East-West friction, wherever it take place around the globe, is in essence the general conflict between two entirely different societies, and must be treated as such without regard to geographical distance or lack of apparent connection.

It takes many forms, this prayer, but in essence it is always a request for guidance, for open minds and gentle hearts, for honesty and sincerity, for the wisdom and the insights that will help Guideposts' readers.

Ousia is essence or being, in Eastern Christianity, and is the aspect of God that is completely incomprehensible to mankind and human perception.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

His primary interest was in applying the methodology of science to realms of inner experience and the spiritual worlds ( Steiner's appreciation that the essence of science is its method of inquiry is unusual among esotericists ), and Steiner called anthroposophy Geisteswissenschaft ( lit.

Heschel then goes on to explore the problems of doubts and faith ; what Judaism means by teaching that God is one ; the essence of humanity and the problem of human needs ; the definition of religion in general and of Judaism in particular ; and human yearning for spirituality.

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena.

and reiterates in no uncertain terms: " Nothing, then, which is not a species of a genus will have an essence – only species will have it ...."

The analogy is said of being in many different ways, but the key to it is the real distinction between existence and essence.

In a private discussion, Allen and Arnold reached an accommodation, the essence of which was that Arnold and Allen would both be at the front of the troops when the attack on the fort was made.

Instead of offering the essence of a story up front, feature writers may attempt to lure readers in.

The prototype, FV 4211 or the " Aluminium Chieftain ", was fitted with a welded aluminium add-on armour, in essence a box on the front hull and front and side turret to contain the ceramic modules, of which box the fifty millimetre thick inner wall due to its relative softness could serve as their backing plate.

Coupes could also be ordered with an all-vinyl interior featuring Strato bucket seats and center console with floor shifter, storage compartment, courtesy lighting and full instrumentation at the front end of the console that was integrated with the lower instrument panel – in essence a more luxurious Impala SS in a formal-roofed bodyshell.

In essence, he merely moved the locking lugs from the rear of the bolt sleeve to the front of the bolt sleeve.

A folk etymology claims that it derives from a compound of the Hawaiian words alo meaning " presence ", " front ", " face ", or " share "; and ha, meaning " breath of life " or " essence of life.

All three Corps controlled parts of the front, but in essence the B ' corps operated as a general reserve, while the I ( around Kara Hisâr ) and III ( around Eskisehir ) Corps were mostly deployed on the front.

However, in Final Crisis # 5, Darkseid responds to his minion's impending death ( presumably due to the fact that Godfrey's host body was not modified to successfully contain Godfrey's dark essence ) by watching them die in front of him.

The NOAA flag is in essence the Coast and Geodetic Survey flag, with the NOAA logo — a circle divided by the silhouette of a seabird into an upper dark blue and a lower light blue section, but with the " NOAA " legend omitted — centered within the red triangle.

There are intrinsic limitations for implementing instruction level parallelism in Superscalar processors ( which are discussed in the ' limitations ' section in the main article ) but, in essence, the overhead in deciding for certain if particular instruction sequences can be processed in parallel can sometimes exceed the efficiency gain in so doing.

In disease pathogenesis, for example, Avicenna " added his own view of different types of spirits ( or vital life essences ) and souls, whose disturbances might lead to bodily diseases because of a close association between them and such master organs as the brain and heart An element of such belief is apparent in the chapter of al-Lawa " ( see Cardiology section ), which relates " the manifestations to an interruption of vital life essence to the brain.

This section can be re-stated in terms of essence and existence.

In essence a section of the Communist Party leadership, whose views were voiced at the theoretical level by Nikolai Bukharin, argued that socialism could be built in a single country, even an underdeveloped one like Russia.

What follows is a long coda-like section — in essence a second slow movement — which is highly unusual in Classical symphonies and was probably quite surprising to the Prince.

Chhanda ( metrical section ) contains the essence of Odissi music.

The essence of all spirituality being the recognition of God as the one maker and designer of all things, Bahya makes the " Sha ' ar HaYihud " ( Gate of the Divine Unity ) the first and foremost section.

Two-piece strikers generally consist of a firing pin attached to a heavier rear section — in essence a hammer attached to the base of a firing pin.

Since 1987, the possibility of the ambush defence has been much reduced by The Crown Court ( Advance Notice of Expert Evidence ) Rules 1987, made under section 81 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, which in essence require the defence to provide the prosecution with copies of expert witness reports in sufficient time for the prosecution to consider the nature of and if necessary prepare rebuttal evidence opposing the report.

In 1912, Dwelly had a book published entitled ; Compendium of Notes on the Dwelly Family, it was in essence a 54 page genealogical book tracing the history of the Dwelly family from a John Duelye, 1229 to date, mainly covering Britain but with an American section, with lots of family trees and Parish Register extracts, with supporting notes.

However, the attachment points between the axle and chassis made up an unusual configuration that, in essence, consists of two Watt's linkages at either end of the axle: A lower control arm attaches the axle to the bottom of the vehicle, while an upper link attaches at the top but faces towards the rear, unlike a typical 4-link design with both lower and upper links facing forward.

The Core, the essence of their creator Primus, relinquished the Matrix of Leadership into his chassis.

The vehicle remained in essence the same, with a few relatively minor changes-there are details differences to the chassis ; the engine now had 5 main bearings instead of 3 ; and a revised gearbox had syncromesh on 2nd, 3rd and 4th gears instead of just 3rd and 4th.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

Working in a vacuum of minimal information can result only in show pieces that look good in exhibitions and catalogs and may please the public relations department but have little to do with the essence of interior design.

Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

Under Arianism, Christ was instead not consubstantial with God the Father since both the Father and the Son under Arius were made of " like " essence or being ( see homoiousia ) but not of the same essence or being ( see homoousia ).

Melville devotes the following chapter to a discussion of ambergris, with special attention to the irony that " fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale.

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

His " Software Tools " series spread the essence of ' C / Unix thinking ' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal-and most notably his ' Ratfor ' ( rational FORTRAN ) was put in the public domain.

In essence, the excesses of Scarface contrast with the more emotional tragedy of Carlito's Way.

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

The advantage of such a system lies in its ability to expand its own capacity rapidly and without additional human effort ; in essence, the initial investment required to construct the first clanking replicator would have an arbitrarily large payoff with no additional labor cost, with future returns discounted by their present value.

He argued that the fact of existence could not be inferred from or accounted for by the essence of existing things, and that form and matter by themselves could not originate and interact with the movement of the Universe or the progressive actualization of existing things.

In essence, the earliest vision of Christendom was a vision of a Christian theocracy, a government founded upon and upholding Christian values, whose institutions are spread through and over with Christian doctrine.

The idea that a definition should state the essence of a thing led to the distinction between nominal and real essence, originating with Aristotle.

This preoccupation with essence dissipated in much of modern philosophy.