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...
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 ...
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...
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...
It’s one of the building blocks of visual grammar, which are usually defined to include: lines shapes color texture value space form/volume/mass We’ve talked about color theory and color meaning in the past as well as using whitespace in design. Today I wanted to look at lines. What ...
...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...
” Flowers in the sky and the moon reflected in water are illusory phenomena. From the apparent meaning of Master Xuyun’s words, Buddhist rites are like flowers in the sky and Buddhist temples are like the moon in the water; therefore, conducting rituals is the same as not conducting them...
She wishes she could find more balance, meaning, purpose, and even spirituality through her work. She has become very advanced in terms of using the tools of information technology but she sometimes pauses to wonder about the meaning of it all. Most of all, Alica is indeed a very ...
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...
between a smooth, closely shaven skin and a serious cut. However, one meaning ofshaveis ‘a slight or grazing touch’ (OED); therefore, the expressionscloseornear shavecan be taken literally as well. This literal meaning might well have spawned the figurative meanings ofclose shavecommon today...