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ultimate and abstract
The ultimate objective of the OCCC program was to use Blissymbols as a practical way to teach the children to express themselves in their mother tongue, since the Blissymbols provided visual keys to understand the meaning of the English words, especially the abstract words.
Confucius, as an exemplar of human excellence, serves as the ultimate model, rather than a deity or a universally true set of abstract principles.
In Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is the abstract notion of " the Absolute " from which the universe takes its origin and at an ultimate level, all assertions of a distinction between Brahman, other gods and creation are meaningless ( monism ).
A one instruction set computer ( OISC ), sometimes called an ultimate reduced instruction set computer ( URISC ), is an abstract machine that uses only one instruction – obviating the need for a machine language opcode.
Nolte has little regard for specific historical context in his treatment of the history of ideas, opting to seek what Carl Schmitt labeled the abstract " final " or " ultimate " ends of ideas, which for Nolte are the most extreme conclusions which can be drawn from an idea, representing the ultima terminus of the " metapolitical ".

ultimate and principle
The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's " Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ", Mies Van Der Rohe's " Less is more ", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's " It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away ".
Konoe and his allies had become convinced that if the Army would only agree, in principle, to an ultimate withdrawal from China, a negotiated settlement could be reached with the United States.
The principle of Privacy by Design states that privacy and data protection are embedded throughout the entire life cycle of technologies, from the early design stage to their deployment, use and ultimate disposal.
They are all the ultimate recipients of stolen land, for to regard our planet as a commodity offends every conceivable principle of natural rights.
By this I mean the principle that, in deciding what is good and what is bad for a given individual, the ultimate criterion can only be his own wants and his own preferences .”
According to Jains, the ultimate principle should always be logical and no principle can be devoid of logic or reason.
Yāska, commenting on this Rigvedic verse, accepts the following meanings of Ātman: the pervading principle, the organism in which other elements are united and the ultimate sentient principle.
The principle of yin and yang is represented in Taoism by the Taijitu ( literally " diagram of the supreme ultimate ").
If self is actually so given, we do not need the principle of causality to infer it ; if it is not so given, causality could never give us either the notion or the fact of self as a cause or force, far less as an ultimate one.
And further, the principle of causality, if fairly carried out, as universal and necessary, would not allow us to stop at personality or will as the ultimate cause of its effect — volition.
In such circumstances, the formative spiritual principle that, in the ultimate analysis, governs the transcendent ' superhistory ' of humankind might literally reconstitute the individuals of the primordial creative race of Hyperborea.
His object in the Traité des vérités prèmieres ( 1717 ), his best-known work, is to discover the ultimate principle of knowledge.
Elements of Titoism are characterized by policies and practices based on the principle that in each country, the means of attaining ultimate communist goals must be dictated by the conditions of that particular country, rather than by a pattern set in another country.
According to Osborn Aristogenesis was a mysterious factor in evolution, an intelligent agency and creative principle, with the ultimate outcome of evolution being the production of mankind.
He rejected Plato's Theory of Forms, and whereas Plato had identified the Good with the ultimate principle, Speusippus maintained that the Good was merely secondary.
As the ultimate principle, Speusippus would not, with Plato, recognise the Good, but, with others, ( who doubtless were also Platonists ), going back to the older Theologi, maintained that the principles of the universe were to be set down as causes of the good and perfect, but were not the good and perfect itself, which must rather be regarded as the result of generated existence, or development, just as the seeds of plants and animals are not the fully formed plants or animals themselves.
The ultimate principle he designated, like Plato, as the absolute One, but it was not to be regarded as an existing entity, since all entities can only be the result of development.
The term " Logos " was used in Greek philosophy ( see Heraclitus ) and in Hellenistic Jewish religious writing ( see Philo Judaeus of Alexandria ) to mean the ultimate ordering principle of the universe.
Although this usage is inspired by the principle, accurate in other contexts, that the entity that receives a donation is the beneficiary of that donation, the usage is ambiguous in the development-aid context, where the identities of the donation's ultimate, substantive recipients are distinct from that of the immediate, formal recipient.
A large portion of the book is dedicated to the exposition, analysis and critique of the Vivarta theory of the grammarians, the Shakta approach to the ultimate reality, the Vijnanavadin nuanced differences with respect to the principle of monism, the Advaita Vedanta concept of ignorance and the fundamental principles of all the other major spiritual schools of the time.
Anuttara is the ultimate principle in Kashmir Shaivism, and as such, it is the fundamental reality underneath the whole Universe.
As the ultimate principle, anuttara is identified with Śiva, Śakti ( as Śakti is identical to Śiva ), the supreme consciousness ( cit ), uncreated light ( prakāśa ), supreme subject ( aham ) and atemporal vibration ( spanda ).

ultimate and actual
The interpretant can be ( 1 ) immediate to the sign, all that the sign immediately expresses, such as a word's usual meaning ; or ( 2 ) dynamic, such as a state of agitation ; or ( 3 ) final or normal, the ultimate ramifications of the sign about its object, to which inquiry taken far enough would be destined and with which any actual interpretant can at most coincide.
Although a national consensus ( by way of the National Occupational Competency Profile ) identifies certain knowledge, skills, and abilities as being most synonymous with a given level of Paramedic practice, each province retains ultimate authority in legislating the actual administration and delivery of emergency medical services within its own borders.
In other words, when a reference is made to a thing's essence or idea, or when one details the constitution of an identical coherent thing by describing what one " really " sees as being only these sides and aspects, these surfaces, it does not mean that the thing is only and exclusively what is described here: The ultimate goal of these reductions is to understand how these different aspects are constituted into the actual thing as experienced by the person experiencing it.
Dvaita Vedanta calls the all-pervading aspect of Brahman Paramatman different from individual Atman and claims reality for both a God functioning as the ultimate metaphorical " spirit " of the universe, and for actual individual " spirits " as such.
The actual status and ultimate state of any man's soul were unknown except to God.
That let Peirce frame scientific inquiry not only as a special kind of inquiry in a broader spectrum, but also, like inquiry generally, as based on actual doubts, not mere verbal doubts ( such as hyperbolic doubt ), which he held to be fruitless, and it let him also frame it, by the same stroke, as requiring that proof rest on propositions free from actual doubt, rather than on ultimate and absolutely indubitable propositions.
Although all western Christians recognised Rome as the ultimate fount of authority, the semi-independent churches of Britain and Ireland did not accept actual Roman control.
The grade of a sample of coal does not precisely define its chemical composition, so calculating the actual usefulness of coal as a fuel requires determining its proximate and ultimate analysis ( see " Chemical Composition " below ).
In practice, buckling is characterized by a sudden failure of a structural member subjected to high compressive stress, where the actual compressive stress at the point of failure is less than the ultimate compressive stresses that the material is capable of withstanding.
* Give me a break -- I've given you the exact immediate source of it from an old journal and one of two possible ultimate copyright holders, neither of which are indicated in the actual source.
* The actual name of the Romulan commander, and her ultimate fate, are not known for certain.
Another aspect that some speculators may find interesting is that the quoted strike is determined by the implied volatility smile in the options market, whereas the ultimate payout will be based upon actual realized variance.
While the Lady of Pain is considered the ultimate ruler of the planar metropolis called Sigil, " the City of Doors ", the Factions perform virtually all the actual administrative and practical functions of the city.
Originally designed to perform calculations for lens design by Fuji, the ultimate goal of FUJIC's construction was to achieve a speed 1, 000 times that of human calculation for the same purpose – amazingly, the actual performance achieved was double that number.
Although a national consensus ( by way of the National Occupational Competency Profile ) identifies certain knowledge, skills, and abilities as being most synonymous with a given level of paramedic practice, each province retains ultimate authority in legislating the actual administration and delivery of emergency medical services within its own borders.
And, in later years, one of Countdowns strips would show that a weekly comic based on television could succeed in an older market, when Marvel UK launched Doctor Who Weekly in 1979-the ultimate specialisation: focusing on a single TV show-making a success of it by including factual coverage of the actual show and its production, alongside comic strips based upon it.

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