In a statement given to a Senate estimates hearing this week, Brandis ditched the terminology "occupied east Jerusalem", which has been deployed descriptively and definitionally by both the Coalition and Labor over several successive governments.
A major economic crisis and recession is, almost definitionally, one that wasn't adequately anticipated before hand.With that said, there are interesting things to be learned from these meetings.
A proposition is logically necessary if it instantiates a law of logic or can be made to instantiate a law of logic through substitution of definitionally equivalent terms.
Thereafter, those blacks who remained poor and disempowered were viewed as having failed to take advantage of their definitionally equal status".
It's definitionally overloaded, and it can do almost any job you need done.
The achievement beard is definitionally low-maintenance.
But the aim of "avoiding the worst possible misery for everyone" is not definitionally integral to morality; it is one possible definition of the good that morality pursues.
These have been tough years for American power: years of a sick economy that cannot easily be healed; of wars that cannot, tactically or definitionally, be "won"; of new powers that have risen under the shelter of the Pax Americana and now will not be told what to do.
The pursuit of knowledge about the universe is definitionally integral to science (you can look it up!), and you are simply not a scientist if you don't embrace the assumption that the universe is intelligible to reasoned, evidence-based investigation.
This is definitionally impossible and morally undesirable.
You can rely on one or all of the following things happening: A well-meaning but definitionally challenged relative will say, "But you can eat prawns, can't you?'' A self-styled comedian – usually an older male relative – will wave a piece of crackling in your face saying, "Go on, you know you want to".
