When Dennett first introduces the term skyhook in this analogy he gives us the dictionary definition. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
The meaning of the term skyhook definitely evolved in its new context, as in the frog example that Dennett gave. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
Its just about eaten through the base of the tether, so luna this skyhook is about to become a spaceship until it eats that too …. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Also, it uses skyhook, which is fairly accurate as far as finding your location. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
By placing an intangible roadmap upon our perceivable world the skyhook is the very definition of foundationalism. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
The shift in meaning of the word "skyhook" was not a blind, random process. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
In our last class before break we saw one final major example of how our use of "skyhook" had shifted from Dennett's. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
Because when Dennett uses the term "skyhook" thereafter, he is using it in a different sense -- as a stand-in for a more complicated idea. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
They could have rammed the skyhook, or the planet itself. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Heck, with an uninhabited MOON, we could test skyhook tech!. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Mars has amazing mountains…] Reference
"We'll have to rebuild the skyhook," our negotiator said slyly. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
KING: The skyhook feature allows us to track our correspondents. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008] Reference
Show our viewers the new skyhook feature that we have worked out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008] Reference
Heck, with an uninhabited Mars, we could even test skyhook technology. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Mars has amazing mountains…] Reference
The perigee of debris dropped from an offset skyhook would lie in the other hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: The Imminent Arrival of the Space Elevator] Reference
At least, this makes a skyhook possible and maybe the full space elevator thing possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Nano Fibers Grow Up] Reference
Not ancient, like the skyhook world, but there were signs that once it had been inhabited. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
I guess Paulson, Sam and Randy could hitch a skyhook up to Randy's truck to get rid of the poles. From Wordnik.com. [Paulson calls PGE Park a "crap stadium" (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
Mr. Bradner was one of four authors of a paper presenting the skyhook in the journal Science in 1966. From Wordnik.com. [Physicist Didn't Profit From Wet Suit,] Reference
Everything that isn't natural selection, or an aid to the operation of natural selection, is a skyhook. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Fundamentalism] Reference
They had a slinkship though -- and what damage might they do if they rammed Earth's skyhook at high speed?. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
No. Let's start with the poor sods who went down to anchor the skyhook, the first people to set foot on Mullins 'Planet. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
A skyhook would at best simply postpone the solution to the problem, but Hume couldn't think of any cranes, so he caved in. '. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
I'm pretty sure I could get a skyhook type shot off against either of them -- clear out with left arm, sweep out with right, loft it up. From Wordnik.com. [The Magical Mastery Tour] Reference
At least one of the axbeaks down on Bottomside was still alive, and used beak or claw or explosives or simple fire to uncouple the skyhook. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
There has never been a "skyhook" in the NBA. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
The skyhook, by contrast, is a "mind-first" process. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
Kareem's skyhook was one of the deadliest shots ever invented. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
Well, old skyhook seems to often get a bit cornfused like this. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
This is the first step in the evolution of the connotation of "skyhook.". From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
He can then redefine "crane" as the opposite of a skyhook, building meaning on meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
I guess I'm betting on our thoughts what we can imagine is what the skyhook represents. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
This skyhook can be a crane at the same time, which Dennett would have found impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
But who needs a skyhook when you have that right uppercut that is 14 first-half rebounds?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In fact, they almost always invoke a skyhook, some unexplained result without which the entire structure collapses. From Wordnik.com. [Center for College Affordability and Productivity] Reference
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