First Known Use 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Time Traveler The first known use of abstraction was in the 15th century See more words from the same century Rhymes for abstraction attraction compaction contraction detraction diffraction distraction exaction extraction ...
Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 34, 240-260.Bartsch, Anne (2010). Vivid abstractions: On the role of emotion metaphors in film viewers' search for deeper insight and meaning. Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXXIV: 240-260.Bartsch, Anne. "Vivid Abstractions: On the Role of Emotion Metaphors in ...
It’s just that I probably get the best instruction from the Absurdists (who had a strong tendency to atheists). The idea that there is no meaning to life, that we’re here by accident is comfortable to me. It’s freeing as I then feel that my choices to try to move myself and...
One thing that is really glaring at me is that we have a mix of both commands and queries in this interface. Also, just consider the name. It is a Booking service, but it doesn’t actually seem to have an actual meaning in the application itself. There is no entity named Booking, ...
Large Language Models (LLMs), and Language Models (LMs) in general, facilitate a new way of programming in which “instructions” are no longer unambiguous APIs but are statements in a natural language like English. Experts in this space, a new area known as prompt engineering, progra...
has connoted similar meanings. In 1470 the word power meant to have strength and the ability to do something, "With all thair strang *poweir" (OED 2536) Nearly three hundred years later in 1785 the word power carried the same meaning of control, strength, and force, "power to produce ...
Secondly:Avoid the obvious blunders. This should go without saying, so the experienced professor-hunter may want to disregard this paragraph. However, any high-powered and dynamic business executive can unknowingly scare away the wily professor without meaning to – the equivalent of putting on after...
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Holbein fled Switzerland for England because Calvinists were burning paintings in an excess of zeal.Friend's etchings, watercolors and drawings are always , relying on simple, bold colors and beautiful textures. But all grasp at meaning. The titles tell a lot about his iconology.For example, "...
1 Put differently, " the damned " "preserves" in the meaning of the words, the reality or fact of active colonial damn ing as a historical process driven by culpable agents; it does so in naming that action is done upon peoples, who are by that fact, colonized peoples. Gordon thus ...