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.

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

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.

The Buddhist Madhyamaka philosopher, Chandrakirti, used the aggregate nature of objects to demonstrate the lack of essence in what is known as the sevenfold reasoning.

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.

A nominal definition is the definition explaining what a word means, i. e. which says what the ' nominal essence ' is, and is definition in the classical sense as given above.

Though what constitutes sex discrimination varies between countries, the essence is that it is an adverse action taken by one person against another person that would not have occurred had the person been of another sex.

A central proposition of existentialism is that existence precedes essence, which means that the most important consideration for the individual is the fact that he or she is an individual — an independently acting and responsible conscious being (" existence ")— rather than what labels, roles, stereotypes, definitions, or other preconceived categories the individual fits (" essence ").

The actual life of the individual is what constitutes what could be called his or her " true essence " instead of there being an arbitrarily attributed essence used by others to define him or her.

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.

In essence, the purpose of Freenet is that nobody is allowed to decide what is acceptable.

According to John N. Gray, the essence of liberalism is toleration of different beliefs and of different ideas as to what constitutes a good life.

And that this power which the prophetic word calls God, as has been also amply demonstrated, and Angel, is not numbered different in name only like the light of the sun but is indeed something numerically distinct, I have discussed briefly in what has gone before ; when I asserted that this power was begotten from the Father, by His power and will, but not by abscission, as if the essence of the Father were divided ; as all other things partitioned and divided are not the same after as before they were divided: and, for the sake of example, I took the case of fires kindled from a fire, which we see to be distinct from it, and yet that from which many can be kindled is by no means made less, but remains the same.

Chomsky considers these rules to be an innate feature of the human mind, and to constitute the essence of what language is.

Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't love.

Existence, that something is, has been contrasted with essence, the question of what something is.

The leveling-off of all such interesting " memes " down to some neutralized molecular " substance " such as " meme-substance " introduces a bias toward " scientism " and abandons the very essence of what makes ideas interesting, richly available, and worth studying.

At the most basic level, the Tapestry is composed of Quintessence, the essence of magic and what is real.

The essence of Morita's method maybe summarized in three rules: Accept all your feelings, know your purpose ( s ), and do what needs to be done.

The categories are, properly speaking, the ways in which a being can be addressed simply as a being, such as what it is ( its ' whatness ', quidditas or essence ), how it is ( its ' howness ' or qualitativeness ), how much it is ( quantitativeness ), where it is, its relatedness to other beings, etc.

Recognizing the reality of scarcity and then figuring out how to organize society for the most efficient use of resources has been described as the " essence of economics ", where the subject " makes its unique contribution.

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

In essence the treaty makes the economy of Barbados almost an unofficial part of the Canadian economy and it was aimed at allowing Canadian companies to extract profits back to Canada more easily.

In Fahrenheit 911, Moore makes nine allegations concerning the Carlyle Group, including: That the Bin Laden and Bush families were both connected to the Group ; that following the attacks on September 11, the bin Laden family ’ s investments in the Carlyle Group became an embarrassment to the Carlyle Group and the family was forced to liquidate their assets with the firm ; that the Carlyle group was, in essence, the 11th largest defense contractor in the United States.

" Stephens argues that this makes up the essence of Xander's character ; though powerless, he is always both loyal and brave.

In a number of places, the Hebrew Bible makes clear that God has no shape or form, and is utterly incomparable ; thus no idol, image, idea, or anything comparable to creation could ever capture God's essence.

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album was " Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements ( including strings and horns ), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work.

Love can, in essence, be bought: Chaucer makes reference to this notion when he has Alisoun tell one of her husbands:

A common mistake is to assume that constructive dismissal is exactly the same as unfair treatment of an employee-it can sometimes be that treatment that can be considered generally evenhanded nevertheless makes life so difficult that the employee is in essence forced to resign ( e. g., a fair constructive dismissal might be a unilateral change of contract justified by a bigger benefit to the business than the inconvenience to the employee ), but the Employment Appeal Tribunal doubts that it will be very often that the employer can breach ERA96 s98 ( 4 ) whilst being fair.

Through the use of metaphor, language draws upon that truth which makes of us that what we are, deep in the profundity of our own essence ".

In essence the lack of proof that contradicts the given statement makes the statement true in some sense.

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.

Associated Press writer Jerry Buck said of the pilot movie that it " captures the essence of growing up in America ," adding, " It makes up for all the drivel we've had to put up with, such as Sons and Daughters and Hollywood High.

To capture the essence of something, an artist amplifies the differences of that object, or what makes it unique, to highlight the essential features and reduce redundant information.

Critically to later events, he also makes a deal so that the essence of The Spectre will not go against him, and reveals that he wants The Spectre as his agent and slave and ultimately his replacement in Hell.

He holds that the soul is the form, or essence of any living thing ; that it is not a distinct substance from the body that it is in ; that it is the possession of soul ( of a specific kind ) that makes an organism an organism at all, and thus that the notion of a body without a soul, or of a soul in the wrong kind of body, is simply unintelligible.

SubHuman asks us to reach within ourselves and extract the very essence of what makes us human — and more importantly what allows us to subordinate others, sometimes with the most brutal consequences.

In fact, I feel that graphic pictorialization is the essence of the comic strip medium and that is what makes it a unique art form.

These are incorporated in good architectural design as philosophical categorization ; what similarity is of the essence that makes it what it is, and what difference is it that makes it not something else?

In essence, in the above example, when Charles calls in the " paradoxical region ", he is paying too high a price for his weak draw, but Arnold is no longer the sole benefactor of that high price — Brenda is now taking Charles < nowiki >'</ nowiki > money those times when Brenda makes her flush draw.

Among those are the " Five Lotuses " and " Five Swords ", short and intermediate-length commentaries on the essence of wisdom and language ; the Beacon of Certainty which is perhaps the most essential of Mipham's original writings ; and in many of Mipham's liturgies ( such as those of Gesar ), his essays of practical advice ( gtams-tshogs ), his verses of praise to Manjushri, Sarasvati and other persons, historical or otherwise ( bstod-tshogs ), and in one of his most famous compositions which is an ' aspiration ' ( smon-lam ), Mipham makes clear — either explicitly or using coded language — the centrality of Dzogchen / Great Perfection to his view, meditation, practice and experiential realization.

Williams's study of Palamas, which is more recent than Bentley's and Philips's, in two passages ( only ) Palamas explicitly says God's energies are " as constitutively and ontologically distinct from the essence as are the three Hypostases ", and in one place he makes explicit his view, repeatedly implied elsewhere, that the essence and the energies are not the same ; but Williams contends that not even in these passages did Palamas intend to argue for an " ontological or fully real distinction ", and that the interpretation of his teaching by certain polemical modern disciples of his is false.