Perhaps this constant evolution of the meaning of Jewish history is, in fact, its truest meaning.
Does the evolution of the meaning people have bestowed upon the Statue of Liberty reflect what you have learned about United States history around the turn of the 20th century?
In fact, not only does such evolution of the meaning of political terms and philosophies have precedent: given enough time, it is inevitable.
Even now, philosophy's unique contribution to interdisciplinary studies of consciousness, the evolution of intelligence, the meaning of altruism, the nature of moral obligation, the scope of justice, the concept of pain, the theory of perception and so on still relies on its capacity to bring high degrees of conceptual exactness and rigour to arguments in these areas.
Peter Aspden on evolution of the symbolic meaning of the Magna Carta.
Times have rarely been so exciting for phylogeneticists: there are now hundreds of whole-genome sequences, most of which are from prokaryotes, where phylogenetic disagreement between markers is of critical importance both to our understanding of the nature of genome evolution and to the meaning of phylogeny.
Beyond simply satisfying our curiosity, the slow evolution of the form and meaning of the term suggests that we still have much to learn about the concept of epidemic.
The researchers' hypothesis was that the meaning of expressions has been hard-wired by evolution whereas the meaning of gestures is learnt and, at least to some extent, is arbitrary.
As part of an ongoing study of how phonetics relates to the dynamic evolution of meaning within the sequential organisation of talk-in-interaction, we present a detailed phonetic and pragmatic analysis of a particular kind of self-repetition.
If meaning is conventional, then the evolution of meaning becomes an instance of the evolution of conventions.
Other authors, even if they have retained this drawing to describe evolution, have redefined the meaning of the tree as a "prevailing trend in the evolution of genome-scale gene sets rather than as a complete picture of evolution" [ 4].
