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These examples, one from mathematics and one from natural language, illustrate the concept of vacuous truths: "For any integer x, if x > 5 then x > 3." [11] – This statement is true non-vacuously (since some integers are indeed greater than 5), but some of its implications are only vacuously true: for example, when x is the integer 2, the statement implies the vacuous truth that "if 2 > 5 ...
Bollocks (/ ˈ b ɒ l ə k s /) is a word of Middle English origin meaning "testicles".The word is often used in British English and Irish English in a multitude of negative ways; it most commonly appears as a noun meaning "rubbish" or "nonsense", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, or an adjective to describe something that is of poor quality or useless.
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Each edition has a sheet of proofreader's marks that appears to be the same apart from the language used to describe the marks. The section cautions that "it should be realised that the typesetter may not understand the language in which the text is written". English; French; German; Italian; etc.
An early English translation (as "Blockhead Hans") appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 The Yellow Fairy Book, although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously translated as "Clumsy Hans", [2] "Silly Hans" [3] and "Jack the Dullard". [4] It is number 119 in the Hans Christian Andersen Centre's register of Andersen's literary ...
That said, Vanessa Rissetto, R.D., co-founder of the virtual nutrition care service Culina Health, believes the FDA's move is a positive step forward."Early-stage cancers are on the rise across ...
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera.Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome.
śūnya, in the context of buddha dharma, primarily means "empty", or "void," but also means "zero," and "nothing," [7] and derives from the root śvi, meaning "hollow" -tā is a suffix denoting a quality or state of being, equivalent to English "-ness"