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• themselves pron.
• then adv.
• theory n.
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• quick adj.
• quickly adv.
• quiet adj.
• quietly adv.
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• farm n.
• farming n.
• farmer n.
• farther, farthest far
• fashion n.
• fashionable adj.
• fast adj., adv.
• fasten v.
• fat adj., n.
• father n.
• faucet n. (NAmE)
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... suffixation,
involves the attachment of an affix to a word;
but, unlike these other two processes, an
infixed affix occurs within theword rather
than at the edge of the word.
[3] Vowel Harmony ... as far as the phonology is
concerned (i.e., they undergo Vowel
Harmony 3 with theword to which they attach)
are separate words from the point of view of
the syntax. For instance, the auxiliary ... allophonic
variation.
The f'n'st task is to find the prosodic
constituents, i.e. to find where the syllables
are, where the feet ~ are, and where the
prosodic words are. The particular...
... philosophers.
The cross-references are more intended for the browsing reader than the
reader at work. For the reader at work, there is an Index and List of Entries at
the back of the book. The Index and List ... aesthetics is the philosophy of art.
The rest, which might be termed the philosophy of the
aesthetic, centres on the nature of aesthetic responses and
judgements. The philosophy of art and the ... terms.
The premisses contain two occurrences of one of the
terms, the middle term. It is by virtue of relations of the
other two terms to the middle term that the conclusion,
containing the other...
... www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/principles.aspx.
Almost all of the words in the Academic WordList are headwords of word families (e.g., the
headword analyze represents several other forms of that word such ... first sublist
contains words with the highest frequency and the last sublist contains the words with the
lowest. Each sublist contains 60 words except sublist 10, which contains 30 words.
... Therefore, students who
master the AWL will increase his vocabulary exponentially beyond the 570 headwords.
The 570 words are grouped into 10 sublists that reflect word frequency. Thus, the...
... rows in the race ought to live till the age of 60;
and if all the members of theOxford 1829 crew had
lived till the 10th of June, 1869, the 40th anniversary of
the race, and then died, their lives ... been located in their respective parishes. To
the clergy, therefore, among whose ranks may be
found a large number of the most accomplished dis-
ciples of the Bat and the Oar which the Universities
have ... exact.
They would fain learn the names of the crew who so
miserably perished, the particular circumstances under
which the feat was accomplished, and the year in which
it took place. In the case...
...
samples were compiled. One of these, the dis-
tribution of word length, is presented here as
Fig. 1.
The theoretical interest of this distribution
arises from the possibility of using it as ... "grammatical words,"
that is, prepositions, conjunctions, etc. The
five most frequent words of length 1, 2, and 3
in the total sample are listed in Table 1. This
table shows that the most ... dependent on the subject matter.
The words of length 4 are nearly all inflected.
The fact that only very few Russian words have
stems of three or less letters probably accounts
for the valley...
... (from the social-psychological
domain), respectively, was removed from the analysis.
The Spearman correlation coefficients among the
three domains of the OES and QuickDASH, the VAS for
pain, and the ... surgery.
Methods: The 12 items of the English-language OES were translated into Dutch and then back-translated; the
back-translated questionnaire was then compared to the original English version. The OES ... with the origi-
nal English version of the OES, and they edited the
Dutch translation to make it more accurate. After the
translation process, mistakes w ere encountered in the
tense of the Dutch...
... inclinations of the subject. They agreed about
the large and indisputable core of the list, but not much more. They did not
much agree about their proposed additions to the rest of the list, or their pro-
posed ... gratitude there. Some were
philosophical about the sad fact that their prize entry, say the Frankfurt School
or the indeterminacy of translation, did not get into the book because the editor
had ... Swinburne.
My thanks as well to the jury of distinguished philosophers who cast an eye
over the initial list of their contemporaries, and then to the thirty advisers in this
matter for the second edition.
Thanks...
... estab-
lished by appeal to the reality of the objects they make us
know; but the reality of the objects, in turn, is established
upon the authority of the means of knowledge. Since the
criterion of knowledgehood ... Finally, if x and y are not the same they could be iso-
lated from each other, but blue can never be isolated from
awareness of blue; hence they must be the same.
These idealistic arguments offered ... the emancipation of
the House of Commons from the control of George III
and the ‘King’s friends’; the emancipation of the American
colonies; the emancipation of Ireland; the emancipation
Burke,...
... in the Timaeus, uses theword for the
maker of the universe. Plato says of this maker that he is
unreservedly good and so desired that the world should be
as good as possible. The reason why the ... contributions to the founda-
tions of mathematics. The first showed how the theory of
the real *numbers could be freed from any reliance on
geometrical intuition by being constructed instead from
the theory ... 1970).
denying the consequent. In a hypothetical proposition ‘If
p, then q’, p is the antecedent, q the consequent. Asserting
that q is false, so that the falsity of p may be inferred, is
denying the consequent;...
... with one of the unity of the
organic world. Not that most of these thinkers or those
sympathetic to them (such as Goethe) became full-blown
evolutionists. In the spirit of the time, the idea was ... for
example, the General Strike, the sinking of the Titanic, the
arrival of the guests, the local jumble sale. Events need not
be momentous: the fall of a sparrow is as much an event as
the fall of the ... ethics.
ethics, naturalistic: see naturalism, ethical.
ethics and aesthetics. The two traditional branches of
the theory of value. Aesthetics understood as value theory
concerns itself with the value of...
... kinds with kinds. Another major objection to the
identity theory is based on the observation that the
phenomenological features of the mental (e.g. the hurtful-
ness of pain, the visual qualities ... idealist.
What are the reasons, therefore, for thinking that real-
ity is confined to the contents of our minds—*ideas, as
they were called by Descartes and others at his time?
Berkeley, who was the ... are in some way copies. In the
eighteenth century only Reid challenged the theory,
because he thought it led Hume to absurdity. But the the-
ory is still there in the thought of Kant, who held...