To her, the society's argument that the title psychoanalyst "refers not to what the practitioner does, but what they have been trained to do" is nonsensical, a spurious restraint on trade.
Looking out of the window, from the centre of an Asian megacity with impressive skyscrapers in every direction as far as the eye could see, the idea of powering Seoul with renewables did seem nonsensical.
Despite the failure of my American friends to accept the irony of their young people being of an age when it is possible for them to die for their country but still not be able to drink legally, this does seem nonsensical and perverse.
He essentially never did something nonsensical, such as trying to reach to a blocked target.
The opposite view, in which the organelles and proteins "do" something, is nonsensical in philosophical terms, since it endows these sub-cellular elements with life (see for example one of the earliest and simplest definitions of life, in Plato's Phaedrus 245e; Plato, 1997).
"We want to make sure we don't have any nonsensical regulations that inhibit the private sector from expanding and having a profitable bottom line," says Hebert.
Who, unbelievably, was polite enough to attempt to answer questions as bizarre and nonsensical as: "Do you think they like girls who smell like Popchips?" even though at the time she was probably in the middle of divorcing the husband they keep pestering her about.
Powell did turn her nonsensical answer into something that made sense while she talked with Matt Lauer on Tuesday.
And there's more to gain, for all of us: Doing away with nonsensical costs like this will convince people that real reform is possible.
Whether or not your creation is nonsensical does not matter.
