But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

We do not arrive at spatial images by means of the sense of touch by itself.

If to be a Christian means to say yes where I otherwise say no, or where I do not have the right to say anything at all, then my only choice is to refuse to be a Christian.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

means that the usual analysis of variance techniques do not apply.

By no means do all Jews today believe in reincarnation, but belief in reincarnation is not uncommon among many Jews, including Orthodox.

* God purposely exercises his sovereignty in ways that do not illustrate its extent – in other words, He has the power and authority to predetermine salvation but he chooses to apply it through different means.

They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength.

The effect of tolerance means that frequent use of the drug may result in its diminished effect so, when safe to do so, the dosage may need to be increased to maintain effectiveness.

In the third century, this " concern for propriety " begins to be displaced by the concept of ' power ' to do so which means that in the absence of such a man it is " literally impossible " for a Eucharist to be celebrated.

While these rules do generate some pairs of amicable numbers, many other pairs are known, so these rules are by no means comprehensive.

The Toubon Law states that French is the language of public education, which means that Breton-language schools do not receive funding from the national government, though the Brittany Region may fund them.

This is an extremely broad category — essentially covering all health care products that do not achieve their intended results through predominantly chemical ( e. g., pharmaceuticals ) or biological ( e. g., vaccines ) means, and do not involve metabolism.

Copyrights are said to be territorial, which means that they do not extend beyond the territory of a specific state unless that state is a party to an international agreement.

Daniel Dennett has argued for an approach he calls heterophenomenology, which means treating verbal reports as stories that may or may not be true, but his ideas about how to do this have not been widely adopted.

Utilitarian theories, on the other hand, must answer the charge that ends do not justify the means.

I repeat, we have sufficient means with which to defend ourselves ; we have indeed our inevitable weapons, the weapons, which we would have preferred not to acquire, and which we do not wish to employ.

) This in turn means that all of the central moments and standardized moments do not exist ( are undefined ), since they are all based on the mean.

In Unix-like systems, user-space processes do not normally deal with files at all ; the operating system provides a level of abstraction which means that almost all interaction with files from user-space is through hard links.

This means that the similarity of our thoughts and the continuity of them in this similarity do not mean that we can identify ourselves as a self but that our thoughts are similar.

" Please ring me or send an email " means " do one or the other, but not both ".

The gala is the Thrift Shop's annual bundle party and, as all Thrift Shop friends know, that means the admission is a bundle of used clothing in good condition, contributions of household equipment, bric-a-brac and such to stock the shelves at the shop's headquarters at 1213 Walnut St..

This means that the programmer must know a " language " that is effective relative to the target computing agent ( computer / computor ).

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

They also agreed that " we shall by all means labor to keep off from us all such as are contrary minded, and receive only such unto us as may be probably of one heart with us, such as that we either know or may well and truly be informed to walk in a peaceable conversation with all meekness of spirit, for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus …" The covenant also stipulated that if differences were to arise between townsmen, they would seek arbitration for resolution and each would pay his fair share for the common good.

" By this Derrida means that all claims to know something necessarily involve an assertion of the metaphysical type that something is the case somewhere.

The second, third and fourth paradoxes are variants of a single paradox and relate to the problem of what it means to " know " something and the identity of objects involved in an affirmation.

Rorty in particular elaborates further on this, claiming that the individual, the community, the human body as a whole have a ' means by which they know the world ' ( this entails language, culture, semiotic systems, mathematics, science etc .).

However, this is quite literally impossible, the only way in which one can know the world is through the means by which they know the world, a method cannot justify itself.

" He means well ", said Chadwick, " but he don't know ".

Thus in 1992, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, while affirming that " the Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude ", but also stating that " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ", stated: " As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.

It is as if I were to say: " You surely know what ' It is 5 o ' clock here ' means ; so you also know what ' It's 5 o ' clock on the sun ' means.

It is also possible that the name comes directly from the verb poznać, which means " to get to know " or " to recognize ".

In the Kanchenjunga region of eastern Nepal, the Limbus know red pandas as kaala, which literally means dark because of their underside pelage ; villagers of Tibetan origin call them hoptongar.

However, extraterrestrial civilizations, if they know terrestrial biology and its weaknesses and are malevolent, may conduct biological warfare by means of pathogens and invasive species completely unknown to the Earth previously.

Furthermore, since burglars often know likely hiding places, the house owner will experience greater risk of a burglary by hiding the key in this way, since the effort of finding the key is likely to be less effort to the burglar than breaking in by another means, such as through a glass window.

The German word Zeitgeist is one such example: one who speaks or understands the language may " know " what it means, but any translation of the word apparently fails to accurately capture its full meaning ( this is a problem with many abstract words, especially those derived in agglutinative languages ).

Robert Bork, often considered an originalist, stated during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing that a judge should not apply a constitutional provision like this one if he does not know what it means ; the example Bork then gave was a clause covered by an inkblot.

We do not know what it means however.

This means that it does not " know how " to sacrifice short-term fitness to gain longer-term fitness.

" I knew not what it meant, then: I know not what it means, now ; but I wrote it down: and, sometime afterwards, the rest of the stanza occurred to me, that being its last line: and so by degrees, at odd moments during the next year or two, the rest of the poem pieced itself together, that being its last stanza.