As Plato said, it depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
And so he says that whether Mr. Bennett's statement is false depends upon what the meaning of "is" is.
So we can argue till the cows come home as to whether or not they should be there and what the meaning of the word amnesty in.
This is what Lyndon Johnson referred to as the Bobby problem, the fear that Bobby Kennedy, who was arguably of equal national stature to speak for what the meaning of the faith was, what liberal orthodoxy meant, that Kennedy might break with Johnson.
"The basic idea of a hyperinstrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is, " Machover says.
The personal questionnaires ask simple questions like what are you doing right now, who are you with, what is the meaning of this experience to you, and does it make you happy.
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What is the meaning of my life now?
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People often use language without thinking about the literal meaning of what they are saying and without considering what the person on the receiving end is thinking.
But he says that the original meaning of the constitution is not what its authors expected the language they used in the document to do solely during their lifetime, but what they meant it to say.
In sombre interviews done later, away from the battlefield, the soldiers try, not always successfully, to understand the meaning of what they were doing.
Even Bill Bratton himself said in 1998 that "zero tolerance is neither a phrase that I use nor one that captures the meaning of what happened in New York City".
And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.
The inquest at Crook Coroner's Court, County Durham was told how military police investigators botched elements of the inquiry, meaning a full picture of what happened that night has been obscured.
Warren Buffett, in giving secrets to success, expressed the importance of finding what brings meaning to your life and making it your focus each day.
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No matter what the meaning or intention, the result of the action was the same: It inadvertently shifted the focus from her incredible achievement to a less than stellar image.
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What the Gen Yers don't see, she says, is the meaning and value of gestures and other non-verbal skills that don't come through in a text message.
You can change the meaning and the outcome of what you say by how you say it.
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It will have been what the police describe as "an intelligence-led" operation, meaning they were operating on the basis of information gleaned from an informer or technical surveillance, or a combination of both.
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What may pass for meaning in the spot paintings is the sum of their associations in the history of abstraction.
Under the old standard, tax pros could safely recommend positions (on routine issues, not tax shelters) that had a "realistic possibility" of success--meaning, what the heck, if there's some reasonable basis, go for it.
"On a few labels they construed the meaning to be the exact opposite of what was meant, " says Michael Wolf, a researcher at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and coauthor of the soon-to-be- published study.
She said what you really wanted to measure was consequential deceptions, meaning the level of deception that moved voters.
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But now something external had transformed the meaning of these drawings, making them into what they were not, and so he'd told our parents that he'd destroyed them, making himself into what he was not.
Today there is still genuine disagreement among well-meaning people about what steps we should take to reduce the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
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