Dr Wheeler's idea is that if a thing contains a "bit" of information, which is the amount necessary to answer any yes-or-no question, then it must exist.Although less lucidly phrased than Descartes's, Dr Wheeler's notion has exerted a powerful influence on physicists over the years.
A team of Belgian and French designers created L'écharpe Communicante, or communicating scarf, a cuddly thing containing a communication system with phone, computer screen and keyboard.
He remembers staying awake nights saying over and over "The thinger for the thing contained" or thinking of an example of the Thing Contained for the Container.
The Leveller Richard Overton described the charter as "a beggarly thing containing many marks of intolerable bondage".
The musical, with a book by Julian Fellowes, is a strange and beautiful thing, containing an astonishing variety of moods and distinguished by a faithful rendering of the books' brisk and sophisticated comic sensibility.
Proust is always telling us that each thing contains the world, that a cup of tea opens onto the whole of all he's known and felt.
According to one, a real distinction between the things contained under a genus is necessary (DM 39, 2, 19; 1861, 25: 515a).
The waterproofing, which opens the wearable up to swim tracking, among other things, contained a key element that actually elicited an audible gasp from the crowd when the company showed it off: a speaker port that expels water from the device, which is something I really want to try out in person.
"If Vermont wants to do its own thing, contain it within the state.
The Neo-Confucians do not go so far as to say that each thing contains all other things, though.
