Grice thus used “non-detachability” as a test of implicature. From Wordnik.com. [Implicature] Reference
The last two features, cancelability and non-detachability are known as the. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatics] Reference
I understand about detachability – it is one of the conditions of being specified. From Wordnik.com. [Protein-protein Interactions] Reference
But I have to agree with Norman here, there is something interesting about the idea of detachability. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
That is why Dembski prescribes testing for “detachability” rather than for “when the specification is made”. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I also do not see how detachability can be found in life, DNA, those functional machines that are supposedly specified and irreducibly complex. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Again, this is “detachability” is based on your own knowledge and this is something that Dembski has rejected when it comes to using probability to evaluate various events as being designed or not. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
… there is something interesting about the idea of detachability. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I have been a materialist for all my thinking life, but here, suddenly, is a clear case of man's detachability from matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
I've posted this elsewhere, but the only advantages that I see with the Solo versus the OmniPod are: (1) smaller size; (2) partial detachability, and (3) on-pump buttons for bolusing. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes] Reference
One cannot get away from the impression that the law of political detachability will operate again to make some new distribution of the parti-colored political holdings in the Lesser Antilles. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
The shifting fate of political detachability becomes moderated in islands of the open ocean, because of their remoteness from the colonizing or conquering movements emanating from the continents. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Of course, this detachability in feelings and needs is very fair to the relaxed and rootless air of dreaming-that aspect of experience (so like the movies) where we learn that the show is everything, so long as it doesn't matter so much that you start taking it seriously and believing it's Life. From Wordnik.com. [The Weekly Standard Blog] Reference
Dave avoided mentioning “detachability,” which would be a proper reference to Dembski’s thesis. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
See, for example, again Dembski’s The Design Inference, where the “detachability” is discussed in many words. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Recall that all this is Dembski’s own example illustrating his concepts of “detachability” and “specification.”. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Dembski’s criterion for distinguishing between “specification” and “fabrication” is not when the pattern was identified, but whether or not it meets what Dembski calls “detachability.”. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I’m not a hundred percent clear on Dembski’s argument, but the one thing he’s right about is the concept of “detachability” in regards to an intended communication from an intelligent entity. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The field of cognitive science can add depth to some Dembski concepts, like “detachability,” but the fundamental question about designed or not designed in nature is really “intensionality” if that’s the right word. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I like the concept of “detachability.”. From Wordnik.com. [A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Ethnic divergence with increased isolation -- Differentiation of peoples and civilizations in islands -- Differentiation of language -- Unification of race in islands -- Remoter sources of island populations -- Double sources -- Mixed population of small thalassic isles -- Significant location of island way stations -- Thalassic islands as goals of maritime expansion -- Political detachability of islands -- Insular weakness based upon small area -- Island fragments of broken empires -- Area and location as factors in political autonomy of islands -- Historical effects of island isolation in primitive retardation -- Later stimulation of development -- Excessive isolation -- Protection of an island environment -- Islands as places of refuge -- Islands as places of survival -- Effects of small area in islands -- Economic limitations of their small area -- Dense population of islands -- Geographic causes of this density -- Oceanic climate as factor -- Relation of density to size -- Density. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
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