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  • Not doing enough + doing too much =? in more algebraic terms,

    Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’ 2010

  • This problem relates especially to theology, because God was thought to transcend the categories in the sense that none of them apply to him, and also to metaphysics, because of the so-called transcendental terms,

    Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009

  • While five of the foreign companies have been willing to accept the Kazakh government's terms,

    Talks Delayed Between Kazakhs, 2008

  • This emphasis on the fictional nature of spatial and temporal properties again echoes the Leibnizian explanation of space and time as the representation of conceptual differences, but where Leibniz claims that space and time are derived from monadic relations, Maimon argues that the intuitions of space and time are in fact a priori human forms of representation, or, in Maimon's terms,

    Salomon Maimon Thielke, Peter 2007

  • However, in response to the problem of how to formulate a meaning criterion that suitably distinguished between empirically significant and insignificant non-observational terms,

    Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

  • Google was a pioneer in all three components of Web 2.0: their core business sounds crushingly hip when described in Web 2.0 terms,

    Web 2.0 2005

  • Resisting the tendency of philosophical ethics to represent the grounds of these theories in metaphysical terms,

    Dewey's Moral Philosophy Anderson, Elizabeth 2005

  • Perhaps it is more profitable to ask whether, in his own terms,

    Substance Robinson, Howard 2004

  • Gherardo, however, hastened his negotiation with redoubled zeal, and having arranged the terms,

    The History of Florence 2003

  • Having always a companionable feeling for my reader, and being prone to live with him on confidential terms,

    The Alhambra 2002

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