Technically yes, but this is an illustration of the philosophical concept of “referential opacity“: the content of a sentence can change when substituting one term for another (e.g., “1 year” and “365 days”), even when both terms refer to the same object. Amusingly, the classic ...
That was the euphemism of the day for racial discrimination. They couldn’t just call it “racial discrimination” because that term had, naturally and appropriately, developed a negative connotation. It suggested a world where people were judged not by the content of their character, but the co...
"Well, One time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and , unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said th...
This term would certainly have made Lenin laugh, with that whole-hearted, open laugh by which the fishermen of Capri recognized him as one of their kind and on their side. This was exactly sixty years ago, in 1908. Lenin was then at Capri, as a guest of Gorky, whose generosity he ...
A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. verb (v. t.) To adorn with tapestry,...
the number of words used and the need for brevity. For forecasts on such time and space scales the user can look at theBeaufort descriptionsand know instantly what the wind-sea state is likely to be. I would argue that to include wind generated sea state amounts to tautology. Swell height...
My views are mine (sounds like a tautology, but don’t always take this for granted in our area of work…); some of my colleagues and clients may well have different opinions. I haven’t worked nor for Google nor for any of the 17 complainants. In case I haven’t yet got you tire...
See theAPI documentationfor all endpoints. Community Integrations HTML UI Chatbot UI Typescript UI Minimalistic React UI for Ollama Models Web UI Ollamac Terminal oterm Ellama Emacs client Emacs client gen.nvim gptel Emacs client Libraries ...
In my experience, the term "species counterpoint" refers to only the pedagogical method by which it can be learned. Fux's Gradus was the first to break it into "species," and that's where the name came from. Other approaches exist and are often called the direct approach....