Sentences with phrase «mean in a technical sense»

We do not mean this in the technical sense of any story referring to the supernatural (see Chapter 4, p. 44).

I mean this in a technical sense.

Not exact matches

Some scholars rush to point out that this meaning was a «later development,» that Jesus did not intend that all his witnesses should become martyrs in the technical sense.

In a period like our own, when we have lost our sense of direction, when we do not know where our goal is, when our myths have lost their meaning and comprehensive reason has been eclipsed by calculating technical reason, there is need for a rebirth of imaginative vision.

In the technical sense, yes, the Stoic philosophers did use para physin to mean unnatural, but this term also had a widespread popular meaning.

The title has also proved highly provocative, for while the writers are using the word «myth» in its various technical senses of something that conveys a deep truth in a nonhistoric form, this word means in everyday speech something that is not true in any sense.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

By censorship in this context I do not mean censorship in the technical sense of prior restraint on speech and enforced by governmental sanctions.

«Whether transcendence is conceived of in a technical philosophical sense (as that metaphysical realm above the rational) or in an ordinary sense (as that phenomenon or experience found within the natural world, but which appears to point beyond that world) the meaning is about the same» (op.

I don't mean good in the technical or artistic sense, though it is certainly good in both senses.

Rather the adjective is used in a technical sense, and makes a specific contribution to the total meaning of the expression.

Yes, in the technical sense only, that means they are professional..

-LRB-...) transhumanism suffers from a Nietzschean utopianism that lacks common sense, because it ignores the ways in which the technologies for altering human traits are limited in both their technical means and their moral ends.

It is important to note that «key words» in this technical sense are not always the most important to the meaning of the text; rather, they are «key» to determining statistically significant differences between texts or corpora.

A term commonly understood to mean one thing has been redefined to be accurate only in a narrow technical sense.

«Beating the market» in this context has a technical academic meaning anyway («alpha») that doesn't quite match the common sense meaning.

The term «valid» is used here in a technical sense meaning «suitable for a particular intended use».

This technical meaning of the term has begun to be used in a legal sense by vendors of the public key infrastructure, which in turn has tended to confuse legislators.

I suspect the technical community would consider it a right, in the rather limited sense that one should not be unreasonably prevented from purchasing access from their personal nets to the internet, by either legal or extra-legal means.

I don't mean, is there a good reason, I mean in a technical legal sense).

In a technical sense, it means that there exists legislation that delegates provincial powers of regulation to a professional association or regulatory body.