In Donald Rumsfeld's Zen-like formulation, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," meaning a reasonable probability that an adversary is amassing the most hideous weapons may justify an armed pre-emption.
Furthermore, there are methodological issues with perfect correlation between stepfather presence and father absence, meaning the effect of absent fathers cannot be analysed within the current framework where stepfather effects are compared against father-present households.
The Stalinist dictatorship contorts the postmodern absence of meaning into a stomping bureaucracy, dispensing enigma everywhere.
The stories thrust their inscrutability in the face of readers, taunting them with an absence of meaning.
Those questions can never be answered: humour or irony require us to be content with ambiguity, to accept the apparent absence of meaning.
Where it's a day, like every other day, ie, one in which to sit in a darkened room and ponder the futility of all human existence and the absence of meaning.
In the next installment, I'll discuss why this focus on greater user control does not, in my view, dominate contemporary discussions and why I see signs of a social crisis associated with the absence of meaning.
The word 'anomie' comes from the Ancient Greek anomia, meaning absence of rules, norms, or laws, and is still sometimes used in this highly general sense.
Rather than a mere absence of being, meaning, or function, absolute nothingness is active and creative in forming the actual world; and it manifests or awakens to itself through self-awareness.
A model (mathcal{M}) is therefore specified by a number of phases m and the presence or absence of PA, meaning the general parameters are (boldsymbol{theta} = (tau,nu_{a},mu_{a},Q_{a,b})), with τ present only if there is PA.
As a candidate he embodies some of the longest-lasting, most picturesque -- and most reactionary and dangerous -- elements of the American political tradition: contempt for government; veneration of personal property over all else; freedom defined as the absence of restraint, meaning the 'freedom' to exploit.
