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A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .
The word sapience is derived from the Latin sapientia, meaning "wisdom". [50] The corresponding verb sapere has the original meaning of "to taste", hence "to perceive, to discern" and "to know"; its present participle sapiens was chosen by Carl Linnaeus for the Latin binomial for the human species, Homo sapiens .
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
The distinction between use and mention can be illustrated with the word "cheese": [2] [3] Cheese is derived from milk. "Cheese" is derived from the Old English word ċēse. The first sentence is a statement about the substance called "cheese": it uses the word "cheese" to refer to that substance.
Both of these examples cannot be referred to as research. The sample size of each experiment was 2-4 mice at most- which is not a representative amount to draw any conclusions. Secondly, there ...
[12] The term "meaning-making" has also been used by psychologists influenced by George Kelly's personal construct theory. [13] In a review of the meaning-making literature published in 2010, psychologist Crystal L. Park noted that there was a rich body of theory on meaning-making, but empirical research had not kept pace with theory ...
Authorities have arrested the grandfather of a 1-year-old boy who was unaccounted for after a Dec. 8 crash that killed two of his family members and critically injured his mother.
RDS Delivery Service president and CEO Larry Zogby claimed congestion pricing will cost his business, run out of Long Island City in Queens to all New York boroughs, more than a million dollars ...