Definition
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Now, that's the common-sense
definition.
There's something that it feels like to drink beer which is not what it feels like to do your income tax or listen to music, and this qualitative feel automatically generates a third feature, namely, conscious states are by
definition
subjective in the sense that they only exist as experienced by some human or animal subject, some self that experiences them.
And he asked if I could find a linguistics expert to come up with a different
definition
of the word bollocks.
Most laws are national in their implementation, despite cybercrime conventions, where the Internet is borderless and international by
definition.
But instead of giving in to the sort of visceral reaction we have to this idea of proximity to bodies, proximity to death, or how this notion just does not fit into our very biological or medical sort of
definition
of death, I like to think about what the Torajan way of viewing death encompasses of the human experience that the medical
definition
leaves out.
I think that Torajans socially recognize and culturally express what many of us feel to be true despite the widespread acceptance of the biomedical
definition
of death, and that is that our relationships with other humans, their impact on our social reality, doesn't cease with the termination of the physical processes of the body, that there's a period of transition as the relationship between the living and the dead is transformed but not ended.
If we could expand our
definition
of death to encompass life, we could experience death as part of life and perhaps face death with something other than fear.
What Elvis and the herd taught me caused me to expand my
definition
of ubuntu, and I believe that in the cathedral of the wild, we get to see the most beautiful parts of ourselves reflected back at us.
And one
definition
of technology is that which is first recorded.
But I was interested in another
definition
of technology.
That's the
definition
of "infinite game."
That's the
definition.
But then, if you look in the literature, East and West, you can find incredible diversity of
definition
of happiness.
And so, I think the best definition, according to the Buddhist view, is that well-being is not just a mere pleasurable sensation.
It is hard to say what shape this intensification will take, because it largely depends on social and technical innovations, which are by
definition
difficult to predict.
Now biodegradability is a material property; it is not a
definition
of environmental benefits.
The first is that by definition, this money printed would be spent overseas.
It means, for example, that we need to think about strategy as the curation of these kinds of horizontal structure, where things like business
definition
and even industry
definition
are actually the outcomes of strategy, not something that the strategy presupposes.
And when I talk about definition, I'm talking about your sexual orientation.
If we go to the dictionary, it says, "It's the lower extremity of a leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking" That's the traditional
definition.
In addition, we've changed our
definition
over time, so in fact we've widened the
definition
of autism, and that accounts for some of the increased prevalence that we see.
It had created a supposed
definition
of mortgage fraud, in which, guess what, its members are always the victim and never the perpetrators.
And so the FBI, under the leadership of an attorney general who is African-American and a president of the United States who is African-American, have adopted the Tea Party
definition
of the crisis, in which it is the first virgin crisis in history, conceived without sin in the executive ranks.
It's that they have violated the very
definition
of leadership.
And if you think about claims about the nonexistence of things, one obvious way to try and establish the nonexistence of a purported thing would be to offer a
definition
of that thing and then to see whether anything satisfied it.
So if you look in the dictionaries and if you think about it, one very natural
definition
of religion is that it involves belief in gods or in spiritual beings.
The first problem for that
definition
is from a recent novel by Paul Beatty called "Tuff."
Now you might think this just shows that I've given you the wrong
definition
and that I should come up with some other
definition
and test it against these cases and try and find something that captures atheistic Judaism, atheistic Hinduism, and atheistic Buddhism as forms of religiosity, but I actually think that that's a bad idea, and the reason I think it's a bad idea is that I don't think that's how our concept of religion works.
You might be surprised to learn that if you look in most standard dictionaries, the first
definition
will be to read carefully, or pore over.
American Heritage has that as the first
definition.
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