Communication is only ' apparent ' because the Caleban, so different in nature from the normal run of humans, Gowachin, Wreaves, Laclacs, Taprisiots, Pan Spechi, and other sentients, have difficulty expressing their mental frame of reference, and understanding the weltanschauung of sentients.

Calebans appear not to understand dishonesty, and their contracts are absolutely binding, even if the contract specifies the death of the Caleban ( such a contract is at the heart of the plot of Whipping Star ).

Despite his feelings of genuine love for the Caleban Fannie Mae ( a love which is fully returned ), McKie finds it difficult to form long-term attachments to human women ; he has been married on no fewer than fifty occasions by the time of the Dosadi affair.

This implies that Caleban perceptions of the universe are somehow purer or absolute ; since the Calebans cannot understand a discrepancy between perception and reality, there is no ontological room for a deliberate discrepancy — a lie — to exist for them.

While meditating in a park in BuSab headquarters McKie is mentally contacted by the Caleban Fannie Mae, a female member of a species of unparalleled power from another dimension whose visible manifestation in this universe is the star Thyone in the Pleiades cluster

Now Mliss Abnethe, a psychotic human female with immense power and wealth, has bound a Caleban ( called Fannie Mae ) in a contract that allows the Caleban to be whipped to death ; when the Caleban dies, everyone who has ever used a jumpdoor ( which is almost every adult in the sentient world and many of the young ) will die as well.

But he is shocked into personally surrendering to Jedrik after the God Wall Caleban makes the sky of Dosadi black in preparation for the destruction of the planet.

Caleban are a fictional major race of beings seen in two of Frank Herbert's novels, The Dosadi Experiment and Whipping Star, which is set in the ConSentiency universe series of stories.

Their visible manifestation is as stars ; that is to say, every star in the universe is, in fact, the visible manifestation of a Caleban.

Nonetheless, after making initial contact with sentients, the Caleban quickly enter into contracts with the pan-sentiency, the first of which is to provide jump doors -- teleportation in its most literal form.

Caleban interaction with sentients is through contracts to provide jump-doors and other, more specific, services.

In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species: Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban ( among others ) and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern among the species.

As each Caleban exits, millions of the ConSentiency are killed or rendered insane.

One, the Taprisiots, provide instant mind-to-mind communication between two sentient minds anywhere in the universe, and the Caleban provide jump-doors which allow instantaneous travel between any two points in the universe.

The Caleban are extra-dimensional beings of enormous, almost unfathomable power.

Communication between sentients and Calebans usually occurs when a Caleban initiates contact with a sentient, putting the sentient into a trance state during which apparently telepathic dialogue can occur.

The Caleban known to Jorj X. McKie as Fannie Mae, whom McKie saves from ' ultimate discontinuity ' in Whipping Star, feels something she describes as love for McKie.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

They initiate campaigns, so to speak, even if this initiation is diffused among them, and their concerted action only psychologically organized.

To expose meanings in a written work without appealing to the celebrity of an author, their tastes, passions, vices, is, to Barthes, to allow language to speak, rather than author.

They may preside over a simple prayer service such as the Liturgy of the Hours which they are obliged to say with their community, speak about Scripture to their community, and give certain types of blessings not reserved to the clergy.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

Thereafter, the apostles have the miraculous power to " speak in tongues " and when they address a crowd, each member of the crowd hears their speech in his own native language.

and later goes on to speak of their having " an infallible gift of truth " veritatis certum.

In this view, prophets do not speak for God so much as they remind their audience of God's voice for the voiceless, the poor and oppressed.

In March 2001, Ahmed al-Nami appeared in an al-Qaeda farewell video showing 13 of the muscle hijackers before they left their training centre in Kandahar ; while he does not speak, he is seen studying maps and flight manuals.

Worried all women will learn from this, Ahasuerus removes her as queen and has a royal decree sent across the empire that men should be the ruler of their households and should speak their own native tongue.

Visitors flocked to see it, and The Sydney Morning Herald said that it prompted many people to speak out about their " bunyip sightings ".

Bliss found especially useful their " triangle of reference ": the physical thing or " referent " that we perceive would be represented at the right angle ; the meaning that we know by experience ( our implicit definition of the thing ), at the top angle ; and the physical word that we speak or write, at the left angle.

Caymanians of Jamaican origin speak in their own vernacular ( see Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English ).

For example, it may be meaningful to speak of an action as being good for someone as an individual but bad for them as a citizen of their town.

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

Also, all creation myths speak to deeply meaningful questions held by the society that shares them, revealing of their central worldview and the framework for the self-identity of the culture and individual in a universal context.

Often, in American legal and business documents that speak of governing bodies ( e. g., a board that governs small businesses in China ) these bodies are described as " creatures of statute " to inform readers of their origins and format although the national governments that created them may not term them as creatures of statute.

Canion declined an offer to remain on Compaq's board and was bitter about his ouster as he didn't speak to Rosen for years, although their relationship became cordial again.

Sometimes actors are hired to dub actors who speak the same language but delivered their lines with a foreign accent or poor diction.

One approach of many epitaphs is to ' speak ' to the reader and warn them about their own mortality.

The gospel, the word of God, faith, Christ, and Holy Spirit – these words are always on their lips ; look at their lives and they speak quite another language.

They speak indifferently the Malayan and their own native Languages, as well as Portugueze.

By distinguishing superlunary ( celestial ) and sublunary ( terrestrial ) existence, and reinforcing this with the four-element physics of Empedocles, Aristotle came to speak of the stars as perfect bodies, which moved in only a perfect way, viz. in a perfect circle.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

Rosicrucians, in the same way of those who have had near-death experiences, speak of a life review period occurring immediately after death and before entering the afterlife's planes of existence ( before the silver cord is broken ), followed by a judgment, more akin to a Final Review or End Report over one's life.

Those who speak of spirituality outside of religion often define themselves as " spiritual but not religious " and generally believe in the existence of different " spiritual paths ," emphasizing the importance of finding one's own individual path to spirituality.

In some interpretations of quantum mechanics, counterfactual definiteness ( CFD ) is the ability to speak meaningfully of the definiteness of the results of measurements that have not been performed ( i. e. the ability to assume the existence of objects, and properties of objects, even when they have not been measured ), which is at odds with superdeterminism.

Generally, where one can identify any class of object, the existence or essential characteristics of which is said not to depend on perceptions, beliefs, language, or any other human artifact, one can speak of " realism about " that object.

A closely related term is counterfactual definiteness ( CFD ), used to refer to the claim that one can meaningfully speak of the definiteness of results of measurements that have not been performed ( i. e. the ability to assume the existence of objects, and properties of objects, even when they have not been measured ).

According to Dee's journals, Angelical was supposed to have been the language God used to create the world, and which was later used by Adam to speak with God and the angels, and to name all things in existence.

Without the existence of a metric ( this is important to realize ) one can speak of the difference between a point on the curve at the parameter value and a point on the curve a little ( parameter ) farther away.

Fiction, legend, and folklore have proposed or claimed life spans in the past or future vastly longer than those verified by modern standards, and longevity narratives and unverified longevity claims frequently speak of their existence in the present.

Mimamsa argues that the gods named in the Vedas have no existence apart from the mantras that speak their names.

The existence of a universal translator is sometimes problematic in film and television productions from a logical perspective ( for example, aliens who still speak English when no universal translator is in evidence and all characters appear to hear the appropriately translated speech instead of the original speech, the ability to speak in the language when direct translation is possible ), and requires some suspension of disbelief when characters ' mouths move in sync with the translated words and not the original language ; nonetheless, it removes the need for cumbersome and potentially extensive subtitles, and it eliminates the rather unlikely supposition that every other race in the galaxy has gone to the trouble of learning English.

Kierkegaard says, " Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith, for only in infinite resignation does an individual become conscious of his eternal validity, and only then can one speak of grasping existence by virtue of faith.

The conversations also speak of reincarnation and the existence of life on other planets.

A white supremacist organization learns of his existence and makes him a cause celebre, inviting him to speak to new recruits as a " true American patriot.

Mīmāṃsā argues that the Gods named in the Vedas have no existence apart from the mantras that speak their names.

A closely related term is counterfactual definiteness ( CFD ), used to refer to the claim that one can meaningfully speak of the definiteness of results of measurements that have not been performed ( i. e. the ability to assume the existence of objects, and properties of objects, even when they have not been measured ).

A benchmark in Royce ’ s career and thought occurred when he returned to California to speak to the Philosophical Union at Berkeley, and ostensibly to defend his concept of God from the criticisms of George Holmes Howison, Joseph Le Conte, and Sidney Mezes, a meeting the New York Times called “ a battle of the giants .” There Royce offered a new modal version of his proof for the reality of God based upon ignorance rather than error, based upon the fragmentariness of individual existence rather than its epistemological uncertainty.

Today only a fraction of Caviteños in the city of Cavite speak the Chavacano dialect, mostly elders, so perhaps it will come to cease of its existence or completely disappear in the near future.

A few writers of the first six centuries A. D. speak of a relic known to be still in existence and venerated by the faithful.

In its first issue, dated September 1982, the magazine set out " to speak plainly and vigorously about the problems that beset the life of the artists and the life of the mind in our society " while resisting " a more general cultural drift " that had in many cases " condemned true seriousness to a fugitive existence.

In a chapter of his 1936 book Language, Truth, and Logic, A. J. Ayer argued that one could not speak of God's existence, or even the probability of God's existence, since the concept itself was unverifiable and thus nonsensical.