Specifically, I am endlessly compelled by the notion that higher stages or levels do not preexist, that is, they are not "given" but are literally created by brave individuals who actually venture into new, uncharted territory, laying down "Kosmic grooves" that others follow, which eventually become actual new structures or stages. From Wordnik.com. [unalog] Reference
Slots for the "talented" preexist the people who fill them. From Wordnik.com. [John O'Kane: The Filter Up Effect] Reference
Rights, like nonviolence, do not preexist, they are created. From Wordnik.com. [The phobia for religion and politics should melt] Reference
But stop talking about rights that preexist the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense?] Reference
Did the capacity for it preexist the consumption event or did it evolve. From Wordnik.com. [A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria] Reference
Now that it is impossible for them all to preexist is clear from this consideration. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
Our rights are not granted by government; they preexist any government we choose and cannot be altered. From Wordnik.com. [Alito is in and our freedoms are vanishing:] Reference
Matter and energy cannot precede themselves or preexist themselves either physically or chronologically. From Wordnik.com. [Spark: Atheist Morality | Mind on Fire] Reference
They started before America was founded or the principles of inherent rights that preexist government were even enunciated. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Cindy: The vision cannot die.] Reference
Its natural interpretation seems to be that it gives the kings and the gerontes power of veto, limiting preexist - ing rights of the assembly. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The old idea of fixity of character does not suit our modern notions of growth; we demand that character be created by the story; it should not preexist, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
An - other was “preformationism”: that every part of the embryo must preexist in the seed (“for how could hair grow from non-hair?” said Anaxagoras). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Bergman once staged a memorable chess game with Death, of course, in THE SEVENTH SEAL -- one of the few films whose every image is invested with such power and inevitability that they seem to preexist the film itself, like carvings in ancient wood or stone -- but it was Antonioni who was truly the chessmaster, one of cinema's rare geometric thinkers, possibly its first and without question its most definitive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-29] Reference
Complexity is built on itself and did not have to preexist at the point of creation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
No matter what the state may attempt, our national identities preexist the political order. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
But the thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
Our hypothesis is exactly the reverse: the megico-religious sphere does not preexist, logically speaking, the oath, since it is the oath. From Wordnik.com. [An und für sich] Reference
There is a danger of extremely negative consequences for the economy as a result of the deficits that we're running, and the deficits, they preexist the depression, but they've been greatly magnified by it. From Wordnik.com. [Yankee Sailor's shared items in Google Reader] Reference
Second, in making their sovereignty argument, libertarian border-control advocates are calling on government to suppress what libertarians themselves consider to be fundamental, inherent rights that preexist government. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Neither Schmitt, nor Husserl reaches this seemingly scandalous conclusion, yet it is my hypothesis that political will and the sovereign qua sovereign come about as a result of the decision on the exception; that is to say, they do not preexist the moment of the decision but are decided into existence in this very moment. From Wordnik.com. [TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog] Reference
The Constitution recognizes the right of habeas corpus and other rights it makes direct reference to as preexisting, but does not straightforwardly grant itself, as therefore inherent, unalienable universal rights exceeding the authority of government to grant based on the foregone conclusion that we are born free, as a matter of nature like the other animals, so to speak, unless subjugated or artificially constrained, in the least, and that these rights preexist by grant of “our Creator.”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Gonzales: ‘There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution’] Reference
The Phaedo's discussion of recollection begins with a remark by Cebes in support of the claim that our souls preexist their incarceration in the body: “Such is also the case if that theory is true that you are accustomed to mention frequently, that for us learning is no other than recollection. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.