After examining the scene, the investigator visits several lab stations, computer kiosks for the most part, devoted to matters like tire treads, footprints and fingerprints, hairs and fibers, blood and DNA analysis.
Some 63percentt of human conversation, according to his measurements, is indeed devoted to matters of social interaction, largely gossip, not to the exchange of technical information, Dr. Bickerton's proposed incentive for language.
Twentieth-century coinages like 'meta-language' and 'metaphilosophy' encourage the impression that metaphysics is a study that somehow "goes beyond" physics, a study devoted to matters that transcend the mundane concerns of Newton and Einstein and Heisenberg.
Ennead I contains, roughly, ethical discussions; Enneads II-III contain discussions of natural philosophy and cosmology (though III 4, 5, 7, 8 do not fit into this rubric so easily); Ennead IV is devoted to matters of psychology; Ennead V, to epistemological matters, especially the intellect; and Ennead VI, to numbers, being in general, and the One above intellect, the first principle of all.
But most of the talk during a nearly one-hour visit on a Warner Bros. sound stage in Burbank with a live studio audience was devoted to matters weightier than manscaping.
The pope's comments come ahead of the first papal encyclical devoted to matters of creation care and conservation, Laudato Si (Praised Be), which will be officially released Thursday.
The reason I am devoted to what matters every day -- is because of what matters to me today.
The morning session was devoted to preparatory matters.
Five of these shorter writings are unmistakably devoted to political matters.
But Mr. Donovan notes that companies using contracts with such clauses typically have entire staffs devoted to such matters.
So far, Google Scholar, a website devoted to academic matters, counts 3,000 published papers that involve crowdsourced experiments.
