Whereas metaphor or metonymy name substitutive patterns that underwrite an unthreateningly tautological and propositional definition of truth ( "truth is a trope" in the sense of. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
I am also not suggesting that students should substitutive my exquisite taste for their own. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
The problem with this argument is that the risks of research often are additive rather than substitutive. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics of Clinical Research] Reference
Freud interprets myths as substitutive gratifications through fantasy, comparable to dreams and other fan - tasy creations. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
But both thinkers strongly suggested that these are substitutive phenomena, or cases where one area of the body does duty for another. From Wordnik.com. [Lacan: An Exchange] Reference
Simon never accepted his lower resource-cost principle relied on the viability of substitutive technology, which Some see as reaching Cost-set limits of expansion. From Wordnik.com. [Learning from Lomborg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Etc. It's an substitutive explanation in that it takes care of the things the writer doesn't really understand, but doesn't do the things they understand and don't want. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa: Addition, subtraction, numini...tion?] Reference
Its elementary counterpart is the theorem that the equational theories on a free algebra F (V), defined as the deductively closed sets of equations that use variables from V, are exactly its substitutive congruences. From Wordnik.com. [Algebra] Reference
Tópez, who said she had prosecuted perhaps 10 or 15 abortion cases in the last eight years, said that she took the severity of the case into account and sometimes argued for "substitutive measures instead of jail," like house arrest, while the accused was awaiting trial. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday, April 30, 2006] Reference
English, the full vicarious typology and substitutive import of the original. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
As to treatment, in one instance the induction of a substitutive dermatic inflammation had a favorable influence. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Luther may not have thought of this when he entered the cloister, but he rejoiced in this scheme of substitutive sanctity later. From Wordnik.com. [Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation] Reference
Believe me, I don't make this stuff up: "a secondary substitutive phenomenon of the castration fear which grew out of an inadequately resolved Oedipus Complex". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to M&S selling extra-big school uniforms for obese children] Reference
These are non-transformative, substitutive, complete copies of expressive works-so while the Archive would have an argument, the fair use factors arguably tip 4-0 against it. From Wordnik.com. [The Laboratorium] Reference
In the case of the Spirit the vicarious, substitutive character of the intervention or intercession is grammatically intensified, when compared with the intercession ascribed to. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
Current treatment is substitutive-chronic use of exogenous insulin-which, in spite of considerable advances, is still associated with constraints and lack of effectiveness over the long-term in relation to the prevention of vascular and neurological complications. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
"Nearly half of fixed broadband users currently have a usage profile that is no higher than the average usage on mobile broadband, making the size of the addressable market for mobile broadband as a substitutive consumer proposition enormous," said Wood in the report. From Wordnik.com. [The most recent articles from V3.co.uk] Reference
The headlines: quotients given by a 'carrier' set, equivalence relation definitional equality on equivalence classes inherited from carrier on representatives propositional equality on equivalence classes is equivalence of representatives propositional equality is substitutive. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Haskell] Reference
The case is one we can not parallel, but suppose — no matter if the like was never heard of — that some state, An illustration of the substitutive language. the Roman for example, has contrived a prison for the punishment of public malefactors, on the plan of an ordeal by Providence. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
Popular culture will, of course, take this substitutive principle one step further in dubbing the monster "Frankenstein."). From Wordnik.com. [_Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream] Reference
"The affect of the painful idea does not become transformed into physical symptoms, as in the conversion mechanism of hysteria, but affixes itself to other ideas not in themselves unbearable, thus producing by this false relationship a substitutive symptom or obsession. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
What that last phrase suggests is that the novel’s substitutive chains may be understood as its "technic": technic here meaning not the instrumental usefulness with which rhetoric has always been associated, but rather the globalized mobility of significance in an era of mechanical reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [_Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream] Reference
If Victor’s overreaching consists inis exemplified bythe transformation of maternal productivity into mechanical reproducibility, his individualistic Prometheanism nonetheless finds itself displaced into and consumed by the Gothic substitutive chains that make the novel a dream-like array of doublings and mirrorings. From Wordnik.com. [_Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream] Reference
Media progress is cumulative, not substitutive. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: Axel Springer's D��pfner on Davos MSM vs. New Media Debate] Reference
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