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.

Its focus on spontaneity in the kitchen — cooking by " vibration " rather than precisely measuring ingredients, as well as " making do " with ingredients on hand — captured the essence of traditional African American cooking techniques.

As to what this nectar is, all meditation lineages do focus on self-mastery of essence, both spiritual and sexual.

The other environments — word processing, database, communications, graphics — in essence only change the display format and focus of that data ( including available menus, special keys, and functionality ), which can be saved and retrieved as. WR1 files.

The focus on the " thing " as " thing " ( an attempt at isolating a single image to reveal its essence ) also mirrors contemporary developments in avant-garde art, especially Cubism.

Scottish surgeon James Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism ", claimed that focused attention was essential for creating hypnotic trances ; indeed, his thesis was that hypnosis was in essence a state of extreme focus.

In essence, many marketing and advertising executives often lose sight of the objective of sales / revenue / profit, as they focus on establishing a creative / innovative program, without concern for the top or bottom lines-a fundamental pitfall of marketing for marketing's sake.

The essence of his defence is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue.

We'll talk about the dynamics of communication, the essence of common respect, and training your mind to focus on your behalf.

Orthodox theologians such as Vladimir Lossky criticize the misguided focus of Western theology of God in ' God in uncreated essence ', which he alleges is a modalistic and therefore a speculative expression of God that is indicative of the Sabellian heresy.

To keep the basis for individual research programs is not only essential for academic freedom but also the essence for continuous innovations within the exploratory focus.

Gideon Kunda, in his classic study of culture management at ' Tech ' argued that ' the essence of bureaucratic control-the formalisation, codification and enforcement of rules and regulations-does not change in principle ..... it shifts focus from organizational structure to the organization's culture '.

But because many people are afraid of emptiness or disdain the idea of emptiness, various upaya must be used to get the student's attention to focus on the essence of mind rather than upon the distractions of mind.

He was also critical of the Neo-Scholastics ’ focus on the tradition of the commentators, and given what he regarded as their insufficient emphasis on being or existence accused them of “ essentialism ” ( to allude to the other half of Aquinas ’ s distinction between being and essence ).

Its very essence, limitless possibility, is constantly forced from the physical world by the Weaver and humanity's focus upon " logic " and " reason.

Although it is in essence a love song like those earlier Smokey Robinson-crafted singles, " I Can't Get Next to You's " backing track features a high tempo, and a focus on piano, electric guitar, and drums that gives the song the feel of a Sly & the Family Stone recording.

Speaking broadly, the term has been used by venues that cover a wide range of businesses, from nightclubs or discothèques, where dancers are essentially there to set the mood, to what are in essence burlesque theaters or strip clubs, where dancers are part of a show and the primary focus.

To facilitate focus in religious practice, an Object of Devotion embodying the spiritual essence of the Dharma is enshrined.

In essence, Bahá ' u ' lláh explains that the Manifestation of God is a " Living Temple " and Bahá ' u ' lláh addresses the organs and limbs of the human body and bids each to focus on God and not the earthly world.

He goes on to explain what is meant by each of these seven assertions, but briefly in a subsequent commentary he explains that the conventions of the world do not exist essentially when closely analyzed, but exist only through being taken for granted, without being subject to scrutiny that searches for an essence within them.

The essence of Zakonopravilo was based on Corpus Iuris Civilis.

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.

Not limited to empiricism, but believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, he worked on a method of phenomenological reduction by which a subject may come to know directly an essence.

In particular the flag has become a banner for pro-Europeanism outside the Union, for example in Georgia, where the flag is on most government buildings since the coming to power of Mikhail Saakashvili, who used it during his inauguration, stating: " European flag is Georgia ’ s flag as well, as far as it embodies our civilisation, our culture, the essence of our history and perspective, and our vision for the future of Georgia.

The free software philosophy at the core of the movement drew on the essence and incidental elements of what was called hacker culture by many computer users in the 1970s, among other sources.

Japanese fascist Nakano Seigo advocated that Japan follow the Italian and German models, which were " a form of more democratic government going beyond democracy " which itself had " lost its spirit and decayed into a mechanism which insists only on numerical superiority without considering the essence of human beings.

But the essence is the same — presenting file contents in human-friendly form ( i. e. displaying video on the screen as intended, or playing sound through loudspeakers ).

In essence, the proposals built on the work done by Professor Elo in devising his Elo rating system.

When the mind makes a generalization, it extracts the essence of a concept based on its analysis of similarities from many discrete objects.

Fortescue, also writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia, claimed that " the real distinction between God's essence and operation remains one more principle, though it is rarely insisted on now, in which the Orthodox differ from Catholics ".

Thought is always a form of abstraction, and thus not only is pure existence impossible to think, but all forms in existence are unthinkable ; thought depends on language, which merely abstracts from experience, thus separating us from lived experience and the living essence of all beings.

Reflections on the nature of the connection and distinction between existence and essence dates back to Aristotle's Metaphysics, and it found one of its later most influential interpretations in the ontology of the eleventh century metaphysician Avicenna ( Ibn Sina ).

William Albright held a more favorable view towards the traditional views regarding Moses, and accepted the essence of the biblical story, as narrated between Exodus 1: 8 and Deuteronomy 34: 12, but recognized the impact that centuries of oral and written transmission have had on the account, causing it to acquire layers of accretions.

A who's-who of behind-the-scenes craftsmen, who went on to become Britain ’ s top producers, arrangers, engineers and mixers of the 1970s, chose to work with Nirvana in the late 1960s and in essence cut their studio teeth working with Nirvana.

In essence, a Turing machine is imagined to be a simple computer that reads and writes symbols one at a time on an endless tape by strictly following a set of rules.

Galileo proposed a method of establishing the time of day, and thus longitude, based on the times of the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter, in essence using the Jovian system as a cosmic clock ; this method was not significantly improved until accurate mechanical clocks were developed in the eighteenth century.

The court must satisfy itself that the plea agreement is concluded on the basis of the free will of the defendant, that the defendant fully acknowledges the essence of the plea agreement and its consequences.

In essence, postmodernism is based on the position that reality is not mirrored in human understanding of it, but is rather constructed as the mind tries to understand its own personal reality.

In essence Perelman showed that all the strands that form can be cut and capped and none stick out on one side only.

The most popular of Lowell's books on the Orient, The Soul of the Far East, ( 1888 ) contains an early synthesis of some of his ideas, that in essence, postulated that human progress is a function of the qualities of individuality and imagination.

Rosencrantz does not quite make the connection, but Guildenstern is frightened into a verbal attack on the Tragedians ' inability to capture the real essence of death.