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This isn't "game violence," this is a non-contextual murder simulation.
My Last Word On Rapelay SVGL 2009
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This isn't "game violence," this is a non-contextual murder simulation.
Archive 2009-03-01 SVGL 2009
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They stated that they felt in 2005 that the LPC's designation of the area as a historic district would protect it from "non-contextual development," but now had additional concerns.
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It seems Mr. Fairey has a disturbingly long history of such non-contextual image "borrowing."
Fairey Update The Year in Pictures 2009
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In one, which is usually called “non-contextual”, the complete state of the system determines the value of a quantity (equivalently, an eigenvalue of the operator representing that quantity) that will be obtained by any standard measuring procedure of that quantity, regardless of what other quantities are simultaneously measured or what the complete state of the system and the measuring apparatus may be.
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
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They stated that they felt in 2005 that the LPC's designation of the area as a historic district would protect it from "non-contextual development," but now had additional concerns.
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After Gödel's and Tarski's well known formal procedures to obtain non-contextual self-reference in formalized languages, it is difficult to draw a sharp line between the two families (among other things, because of the fact that Tarskian semantics is itself framed in set-theoretic terms).
Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008
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The second is harder because it is more subtle, these are the cycles of karma that manifest over time and manifest in a non-contextual situation that can not be immediately recognised e.g. you belittle someone at work and three years later they help engineer your job loss.
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Yeah, it did appear to be a slightly nervous, non-contextual statement.
As A Warning, There Will Be Absolutely No Context For The Following Statement « Whatever 2007
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Natural supposition as non-contextual supposition.
Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007
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