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To understand what speculative etymology amounts to, it is useful to refer to the Cratylus (383a-d), where Plato presents his well-known naturalist thesis about word meaning: natural kind terms express the essence of the objects they name and words are appropriate to their referents insofar as they describe what their referents are (see the entry on Plato's Cratylus).
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Praise song, one of the most widely used poetic forms in Africa; a series of laudatory epithets applied to gods, men, animals, plants, and towns that capture the essence of the object being praised.
Consecration in the strict sense is distinguished from blessing, benediction, or dedication in that consecration effects an intimate transformation in the essence of the object and that it is permanent and can be neither revoked nor repeated.
Although this would not be a sensory perception of an object, to Mally it is the emotional impression or feeling that reveals the "essence of the object" considered.
While natural science and natural philosophy both focus on the physical, the natural philosopher — unlike the scientist — is concerned with the essence of the object and its definition (or, at the very least, an account of its various properties).
It is the point where the essence of the object touches into the universal essence.
With "directness of measurement", we conceptualize that the essence of the object under investigation, the structure, dynamics, and function of biological samples in the scope of this Review, is entirely and straightforwardly assessed by the measurement, bypassing hypotheses and intricate data analysis.
Each hieroglyphic word both represented a specific object and embodied the essence of that object, recognizing it as divinely made and belonging within the greater cosmos.
Karelitzki argues that, although meaning is generally blind, it does not have to be so: he presents an example in which someone asks the question "what do you mean with…?" and the one asked gives a characterization of what was meant, hence bringing the meaning act step by step closer to what Karelitzki calls the "essence" of the meant object (1914, 36).
First, he defines the real essence of physical objects as the internal constitution of the substance that is the cause of the observable qualities of the object.
Moreover, and this is crucial to the solution of the problem at hand, individual essences are independent of the objects which have them, whether the objects are actual or non-actual.
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