permuting

• “This dynamic -- technology permuting culture -- is pervasive throughout our collective experience.”

  The Huffington Post: Judith Acosta: How To Defend Yourself Against The Media’s Fear Tactics

• “You can taste the fruits of ecstatic Kabbalah fairly quickly if you devote even a single night to it -- but you do need to devote the whole night, permuting letters and allowing the mind to free itself up.”

  Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 4: Kabbalah As A Spiritual Practice

• “Gentzen showed that instances of the rule of cut can be eliminated from derivations by permuting them upward until they reach points at which the derivation starts.”

  Fictionaut: Chores

• “This property has profound effects on cut elimination: in permuting cut up, Gentzen had to restore the original contexts (the Γ's and Δ's) through weakenings and contractions.”

  Fictionaut: Chores

• “Consider a social welfare function which is defined on distributions of income and is symmetrical (i.e., permuting the income of two individuals leaves social welfare unchanged).”

  Economics and Economic Justice

• “With an infinite horizon, it is essentially impossible to combine the Pareto criterion and anonymity (permuting the utilities of some generations does not change social welfare) in a fully satisfactory way, even when utilities are perfectly comparable.”

  Economics and Economic Justice

• “Notationally, these steps amount to padding predicate symbols with extra arguments, omitting some arguments, as well as permuting and regrouping the arguments.”

  Combinatory Logic

• “The mutations are made by permuting keys in the layout, with a 50% chance of swapping two keys, a 25% chance of swapping three, a 12.5% chance of four, and so on.”

  Boing Boing: June 30, 2002 - July 6, 2002 Archives

• “We may also bring it, if we please, into Barbara, by permuting the major premiss once more, so as to obtain the contrapositive of the original --”

  Deductive Logic

• “They are part of a complex structured network of qualia, and permuting just one small part of the network destroys the original shape and structure of the network -- and when the network's shape and structure is radically changed, the original meanings of the perceptions and the qualia within it are obliterated.”

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