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Today the Negro must discover his role in an industrialized South, which indicates that the racial aspect of the Southern dilemma hasn't changed radically, but rather has gradually come to be reflected in this new context, this new coat of paint.
Given the conceptual context within which ancient thought thrived, how could anyone have questioned this principle??
Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.
Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.
But one does not have to affirm the existence of an evil order irredeemable in that sense, or a static order in which no changes will take place in time, to be able truthfully to affirm the following fact: there has never been justitia imprinted in social institutions and social relationships except in the context of some pax-ordo preserved by clothed or naked force.
In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.
The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).
Note that " completeness " has a different meaning here than it does in the context of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, which states that no recursive, consistent set of non-logical axioms of the Theory of Arithmetic is complete, in the sense that there will always exist an arithmetic statement such that neither nor can be proved from the given set of axioms.
The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.
Anchored crosses are occasionally a feature of coats of arms in which context they are referred to by the heraldic terms anchry or ancre.
In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns.
In addition, within the context of the post-Napoleonic restorations and revolutions which engulfed the West both in Europe and the Americas, both the Carlistas as well as the Isabelino conservatives were opposed to the new Napoleonic constitutional system.
Most people did not consider the depiction of a Brillo Box or a store-bought urinal to be art until Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp ( respectively ) placed them in the context of art ( i. e., the art gallery ), which then provided the association of these objects with the associations that define art.
Adventism is a Christian movement which began in the 19th century, in the context of the Second Great Awakening revival in the United States.
* The being which manifests in Christianity also manifests in all faiths and religions, and each religion is valid and true for the time and cultural context in which it was born ;
Bonding usually discussed in the context of molecular orbital theory, which recognizes the triple bond as arising from overlap of s and p orbitals.
Euan MacKie has supported Thom's analysis, to which he added an archaeological context by comparing Neolithic Britain to the Mayan civilization to argue for a stratified society in this period.
The Coast Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets provide some of British Columbia's renowned and spectacular scenery, which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.
As nothing cannot be known by any means or method it must mean, in the context of the question, that a specific named object is present or not present in the observer's experience of a set of objects, conditions for which English uses " is " or " is not.

context and ambiguous
It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.
For example, the same piece of information may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another.
This ambiguous terminology is usually clarified by context.
In situations where there is no context, hexadecimal numbers can be ambiguous and confused with numbers expressed in other bases.
A minority still stubbornly use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify ( or leave ambiguous ) which meaning is intended.
With a large enough ontology as a source of knowledge however, the possible interpretations of ambiguous words in a specific context can be reduced.
Asher is an ambiguous pronoun which can mean, depending on context, " that ", " who ", " which ", or " where ".
In private notes written in 1939, Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology, however in public lectures he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the context of praising its ideals.
An example of top down processing: Even though the second letter in each word is ambiguous, top down processing allows for easy disambiguation based on the context.
The term ' context ' in the preceding sentence is ambiguous: it can be political, cultural, intellectual and social.
The power of the hijras as a sexually ambiguous category can only be understood in the religious context of Hinduism.
In this context, the first baseman is named " Who "; thus, the utterance " Who's on first " is ambiguous between the question (" which person is the first baseman?
The license is very similar to the 2-clause Simplified BSD License used by the rest of FreeBSD, however, it makes the meanings of " source code " and " compile " less ambiguous in the context of documentation.
As constitutional scholar Peter Hogg points out in his book Constitutional Law of Canada, however, the new wording of section 7 removed the context of the " fair hearing " found in the Canadian Bill of Rights, which meant the definition of fundamental justice was now ambiguous and could still be further developed by Canadian courts.
* Overloaded expression is an ambiguous operator expression can only be understood based on the context
" If words were ambiguous and best studied not in terms of their " content " but in terms of their effects in a given context and if the effects were often subliminal, the same might be true of other human artifacts, the wheel, the printing press, the telegraph and the TV ".
Those colleagues closest to Lin noted that Lin avoided talking about the Cultural Revolution in any context other than public speeches, and when pressed would only make very brief and ambiguous statements.
The name " Sudbury " itself may be ambiguous, however — depending on the context, it may denote either the old city in isolation, or a shorthand name for the entire amalgamated city.
That algorithm was extended to a complete parsing algorithm to accommodate indirect ( by comparing previously computed context with current context ) as well as direct left-recursion in polynomial time, and to generate compact polynomial-size representations of the potentially exponential number of parse trees for highly ambiguous grammars by Frost, Hafiz and Callaghan in 2007.
When used as an adjective, as in “ French Caribbean islands ” or " French Caribbean style ," the term is also ambiguous and dependent upon the user's frame of reference and context.
Brundle's motivation for fusing the two animals together was intended to be somewhat ambiguous in the context of the sequence, which featured a " test run " for Brundle's fusion " cure " seen at the end of the movie.
Tone is not written unless the word is ambiguous, in which case the standard IPA diacritics are used, e. g. bá (" to be a lot ": high tone ), bà (" to share ": low tone ), bâ (" to want " or " even ": falling tone ), and bǎ (" to be better ": rising tone ), though in this case the meaning is almost always unambiguous in context, so these words are usually all written ba.

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