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Aristotle describes mind (nous, often also rendered as "intellect" or "reason") as "the part of the soul by which it knows and understands" (De Anima iii 4, 429a9 10; cf. iii 3, 428a5; iii 9, 432b26; iii 12, 434b3), thus characterizing it in broadly functional terms.
That is, functionalism abstracts away from the details of the physical implementation of a mental state by characterizing it in terms of non-mental functional properties.
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To overcome this problem, we have designed a liposomal drug delivery system for VIP and characterized it in terms of its potential to protect VIP from enzymatic cleavage.
"I wouldn't characterize it in that way," he said.
I'd characterize it in this way: people go to Aspen on their private jets, and people come to Estes in their Winnebagos".
This movie is not just bad ("bombast," as Anthony Lane characterized it in a wonderful review in the current issue of the magazine).
The man, Arthur Jones, who never spoke to the police about the incident, characterized it in testimony at Mr. Cruz's murder trial as a minor matter.
They sacrifice space for the charm of their neighborhood, which still has much of the architecture and cobblestone streets that characterized it in the days of Edith Wharton.
As Mr. Lamo characterized it in Friday's interview, Private Manning "was to a great extent manipulated by WikiLeaks".
The poet Philip Larkin, for instance, deftly avoided the encroachments of middle age — "This loss of interest, hair and enterprise," as he characterized it in "Continuing to Live" — by insisting that he had never been youthful in the first place.
As Mr. Bush's lawyers characterized it in their appeal, "that invalidation purports to change the result of the presidential election in Florida, substituting Al Gore and Joe Lieberman as the candidates who allegedly received the most votes".
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