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The implied meaning of " destroying " something is to undo its existence, to make it not there anymore, and this cannot be so: if the void is that which does not exist, and if this void is the implied destination of the destroyed, then the thing in reality cannot be destroyed, for the thing ( and all things ) could not have existed in the first place ( as Lucretius said, ex nihilo nihil fit: nothing comes from nothing ).
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:" A choice function exists in constructive mathematics, because a choice is implied by the very meaning of existence.
The meaning of uprightness, rectitude, or orthodoxy, implied by his name, also positioned him as the legitimate heir of Sun Yat-sen and his ideas.
The rate of exchange of 1: 60 implied in the Gospel of Barnabas was, however, a commonplace of late medieval interpretation of the counterpart passage in the canonical Gospels ( Mark 12: 42 ), arising from the standard medieval understanding of minuti as meaning ' a sixtieth part '.
While the term help desk initially implied the place where employees received technical support for the organizations IT infrastructure, that scope has broadened widely in meaning and use.
Note that an arid desert climate is not typically implied ; one dictionary uses the phrase ' desert island ' to illustrate the use of ' desert ' as an adjective meaning " desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied ".
However, when decimal representation is used for the rational or real numbers, such numbers in general have an infinite number of representations, for example 2. 31 can also be written as 2. 310, 2. 3100000, 2. 309999999 …, etc., all of which have the same meaning except for some scientific and other contexts where greater precision is implied by a larger number of figures shown.
The word " Omnipotence " derives from the Latin term " Omni Potens ", meaning " All-Powerful " instead of " Infinite Power " implied by its English counterpart.
Most sources of time and celestial coordinate system standards use UT1 as the default meaning of UT, though occasionally UTC may be implied.
Semantics is the literal meaning of an idea whereas pragmatics is the implied meaning of the given idea.
An example of a colloquialism and how it migrates to other areas is the Indian phrase, " Please do the needful ", meaning, " Please do what is implied and / or expected ".
In early Buddhism, bodhi carried a meaning synonymous to nirvana, using only some different metaphors to describe the insight, which implied the extinction of lobha ( greed ), dosa ( hate ) and moha ( delusion ).
Although the original use and implied meaning may be disputed, it typically described preparations for charging the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle by first locking the bolt back by pulling the charging handle rearward and then loading an 8-round en bloc clip into the now open magazine.
In contrast to the previous interpretation, dishonesty is not specifically expressed in the literal meaning, but is often implied.
The nationality of the language has been a hotly debated topic, and its users and proponents have generally not been fond of the implied association with Danish ( hence the neutral names Riksmål and Bokmål, meaning national language and book language respectively ).
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Despite this newest theory of reading, Barthes remained concerned with the difficulty of achieving truly neutral writing, which required an avoidance of any labels that might carry an implied meaning or identity towards a given object.
An analogous meaning is implied when the word is used in a commercial context, where scalability of a company implies that the underlying business model offers the potential for economic growth within the company.
* Together with the ability to make finer distinctions of meaning with the aid of digital equipment, the possibilities for ambiguity in criticism have increased: is a criticism being implied, or is it not, and if so, what exactly is the criticism?
It is presumed ( and often implied ) that there are still organic components beneath their suits, meaning they are actually cyborgs, not robots: in The Tenth Planet, a Cyberman tells a group of humans that " our brains are just like yours ", although by the time of Attack of the Cybermen ( 1985 ), their brains seem to have been replaced with electronics.
Whichever the remark, it is implied that the VUX's advanced Universal Translator technologies conveyed the exact meaning of Captain Rand's words.
The artist's intention behind each arrangement is shown through a piece's color combinations, natural shapes, graceful lines, and the usually implied meaning of the arrangement.
The meaning is the consequent form of conduct or practice that would be implied by accepting the conception as true.
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However, he is the member of the Amazing 3 who is most in favor of destroying the Earth, and this increasingly brings him into conflict with Bokko as the series progresses, also criticizing her for her feelings regarding Shinichi ( it's implied on occasion that he harbors his own feelings for Bokko ).
It is implied that the channelers of the age did not entirely understand what they had discovered, but that when they realized they were unraveling and destroying entire swathes and days of the Pattern, and in doing so threatening the very fabric of Creation itself, both sides mutually abandoned its use, on their own, with no actual negotiation needed.
Even for Lyell, this was a heresy which implied ape ancestry, destroying mankind's " high estate ".
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There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.
Although something like code books is implied by the model, they are nowhere represented in the model, which creates many conceptual difficulties.
Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window ( from the Latin: de: out of, with a downward motion implied ; fenestra: window ).
The episode strongly implied that Condit knew more than he was saying in the Chandra Levy case, insinuating he was a " liar " and he knew something that he wasn't telling the police.
In addition, the publication in 1987 of the book Der europäische Bürgerkrieg 1917 – 1945 by Ernst Nolte, in which Nolte strongly implied that maybe Holocaust deniers were on to something, encouraged Irving to become more open in associating with Zündel.
( In a way it's implied that she hates the summer as the school provides something of an escape from her demanding and sometimes controlling mother.
Unfortunately Hildamae Bowman published the Mexican story in her book and implied it had something to do with the donation for the town clock.
Tapu ,< ref name = POLLEX > tabu or kapu is a Polynesian traditional concept denoting something holy or sacred, with " spiritual restriction " or " implied prohibition "; it involves rules and prohibitions.
O ' Rourke suggests that something of a fear of that ending is subtly implied at the end of the poem, although, unlike the other great odes, in this poem the person of the poet is entirely submerged, so there is at most a faint hint of Keats's own possible fear.
After Kraler warns that one of his employees asked for a raise and implied that something strange is going on in the attic, Dussell dourly comments that it is just a matter of time before they are discovered.
To him higher race implied something akin to supra-human, spiritual caste.
It is sometimes mistakenly implied that this has something to do with Wick rotations ; this is not so.
He also implied there is a cover-up of something in the agreement by saying: " I am convinced every Serbian sees that things are being covered up, and that there is something seriously amiss with the Solana agreement.
This something is often described as a homunculus, although the term homunculus is also used to imply an entity that creates a continual regress, and this need not be implied.
And when he said something that implied faint criticism of the Soviet Union, she " jumped down his throat ".
They also have a spoken language: the only word known is jozxyqk, meaning " the sound you make when you get your sexual organs trapped in something " ( although it is strongly implied this is merely an attempt to cheat at a game of Scrabble ).
Cornelius, in his teaching, always inculcated a close and rigorous study of nature, but he understood by the study of nature something more titan what is ordinarily implied by that expression, something more than constantly making studies from life ; he meant the study of nature with an inquiring and scientific spirit.
A particular use of possessive pronouns ( and equivalent noun forms ) in English is that illustrated in phrases like a friend of mine and that coat of Fred's, used to form possessive expressions when the desired determiner is something other than the default the implied in the usual possessive determiner.
It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.
Elliott Sober commented that adaptation was a retrospective concept since it implied something about the history of a trait, whereas fitness predicts a trait's future .< sup > p210 </ sup >
In May 1863, Webb replaced Tatnall as commander of the CSS Atlanta ironclad, launched in 1862, and flag officer of the Savannah Squadron, with " the implied condition of his appointment being that he should ' do something ' with her ..." Webb proclaimed that " the whole abolition fleet " had " no terror " for him.
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