Since the start of 2014 alone, 16 UK fighters have died, the academics believe, meaning approximately three British jihadis are dying every two months in a war zone that spreads from the Mediterranean coast to central Iraq, and north to Kurdish controlled areas on the Turkish border.
"Content is king," many people believe, meaning that films, television shows, music, news and information are more profitable assets than the technology used to deliver them.
As a former employee, Lewis says "I never put anything past Amazon". But the company would face difficulties working with competing retailers in such a service, he believes, meaning the company might prefer to invest and have input on more neutral partners.
Donato, J. Boone Kauffman, D. Murdiyarso, S. Kurnianto, M. Stidham, and M. Kanninen The Gist: More carbon is stored in the soils of mangrove forests than was previously believed, meaning that the destruction of mangroves is an important — and relatively unrecognized — manmade source of CO2 to the atmosphere.
For those who believe that meaning postulates can exhaust lexical meaning, the issue arises of how to choose them, i.e., of how and whether to delimit the set of meaning-relevant truths with respect to the set of all true statements in which a given word occurs.
Madonna's desire to find meaning through Kabbalah shows, says Eagleton, that "nobody is as otherworldly as the worldly"; she wouldn't believe that meaning resided in the opposite of her material existence if she was skint.
And as for the Second Amendment, I believe its meaning is quite clear and that both Attorney General John Ashcroft and the N.R.A. are totally off base.
On either construal, however, the question arises why we should believe that meaning statements are prescriptive.
Objective naturalists believe that meaning is constituted (at least in part) by something physical independent of the mind about which we can have correct or incorrect beliefs.
Yeatman told the woman, who he did not know was one of Masterson's accusers, that Netflix takes sexual misconduct seriously, but "we don't believe them," meaning Masterson's accusers, reports HuffPost.
If a person's life is significant insofar as she is true to herself or her deepest nature, then we have some reason to believe that meaning simply is a function of satisfying certain desires held by the individual or realizing certain ends of hers.
