For its first few centuries, 'astronomical' only referred to astronomy-related matters. In the 1800s it began to mean 'enormous.' Unlike similar words, like 'decimate' or 'enormity,' it has been accepted as standard English.
On the other hand, void is used more abstractly to denote an area of complete emptiness or the absence of matter, content, or meaningfulness, such as the void of space or a void in one's life. 12 While a hollow can be a physical, tangible space that is simply unoccupied or unfilled...
Economic/speculative growth Emptiness, absence of meaning 6 Compare with Definitions Bubble Signals transitions. Bubbles in financial markets can indicate overheating. 11 Void Complete absence of matter. Space is often referred to as a vast void. 12 Bubble Rapid speculative growth. The tech bubble bu...
In scientific terms, a gravitational singularity (or space-time singularity) is a location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system. In other words, it is a point in which all physical laws ar...
So we appear to have the conventional contemporary meaning of “qualia” and “phenomenal consciousness” both being based on Nagel’s “something it is like” standard, even though both those terms predate it. It seems like philosophers take the “something it is like” or “like something”...
Meyer, Emotion and Meaning in Music (Chicago, 1990), p. 242.) You need to be aware of this characteristic of African music in order to understand it and correctly classify it. There are many places in Africa where Christianity is unknown. Since there is no such thing as neutrality, the...
It is the simplest example of what physicists call a “bound state” — the word “state” basically just meaning a thing that hangs around for a while, and the word “bound” meaning that it has components that are bound to each other, as spouses are bound in marriage. In fact, the...
In a 2016 interview withLoudwire, Draiman spoke about recording the tune (as well as themassive success it received): “We really hadn't expected the level of exposure and fervor over the cover. It was a gutsy move on our part to go in this direction . . . It really is wonderful to...
The history of Petra – a Greek word meaning “rock” – encompasses more than a hundred centuries of human settlement. In prehistory, the Petra region saw some of the first experiments in farming. The hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic Age gave way, over nine thousand years ago, to settled...
I have no hesitation in saying that this is the meaning of life, as an intrinsic good, both to love and to be loved, as érôs/philía and storgé/agápê, to pursue for ourselves what is good and to respect others. It is not enough that God would be good, with power and ...