Rats, the feebleminded, and the brain-injured, for example, can be characterized as rigid (also compulsive, fixated, perseverative, inflexible) but hardly as dogmatic. Furthermore, whereas rigidity refers to person-to-thing or animal-to-thing relationships, dogmatism is manifested almost necessarily...
rigid designator Wikipedia n (Logic)logican expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare ...
in the dumpsIn a dull and gloomy state of mind; sad, depressed, joyless, long-faced. No one knows the exact origin ofdump, in use since the 16th century. One suggestion is that it derives from the Dutchdomp‘exhalation, haze, mist,’ and that this meaning gave rise to its associatio...
But academics across the social sciences, unfortunately often including economics, pack Marxian phraseology so tightly that not even vague meaning can be extracted. If you’re not familiar with Marx, consider a few lines from the preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ...
This device is useful for quickly determining if a receptacle has power and if there is anything obviously wrong with the wiring. Enhanced models perform GFCI testing but this tester is essentially idiot-proof through the use of three lights and a sticker explaining the meaning of these lights....
But it was not his meaning-it was the odd chuckle he gave, as if he had said, Throw yourself over the cliff if you like, i don't care. he turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity. it scorched her, and Lily, looking at Minta,...
...这种遥远的距离将生命的每一个音调,甚至是下面哨兵孤独的、不常出现的脚步,从感官的领域中吸引出来,并将其全部带回家,带入听不见的地方,将距离带入临近,不真实的元素仍然在两者的现实中,在两者中,通过距离来运输,即美。在最遥远的地平线上,美闪耀着光芒,流向人类,脱离了感知,脱离了问题,费力地只瞥见美...
because the logical positivists themselves had by then abandoned it. If you look at, say, Rudolf Carnap, by the mid-’30s, he was already writing critical papers, ‘Testability and meaning’ and so on, where he was depart...
The meaning of the terms in the strains expressions (25), (27) can be clarified by introducing the strains relative to the overall rod kinematics (denoted by the superscript r) and the strains relative to the local shell kinematics describing the cross-section shape (superscript s):(28)er=...
There is no difference in meaning. He had rung up Emily and told her all about it. Be Careful!Don't use 'to' after ring or ring up. 2. 'call' American speakers don't usually use ring in this sense. The word they use is call. British speakers also say call. He promised to ...