If Nim could be raised more or less as a human child, and could master human communication, that would challenge the Chomskyan idea of language as a special, hard-wired trait fundamentally separating us from other animals.
But what fundamentally separates Identi.ca from Twitter in my book is not the roots of its code base but the fact that the XMPP stream is open in one and only via proprietary business deals in the other.
But we shouldn't mix up related but fundamentally separate issues.
However, Newton's scheme unambiguously sundered space and time as fundamentally separate entities.
It's also reasonable to ask how we could be fundamentally separate from nature given that we are naturally evolved creatures.
Typically, culture has been fundamentally separate from science and nature, but Wrangham's theory on the creatures of flame bridges that separation.
And this is a "secure and proprietary piece of hardware" that's "fundamentally separate from the device's basic communications functions or its operating system," said Verizon.
In case the spectral ranges for the two channels are fundamentally separate, the two measurements are fully independent, as even stray light or imperfections in spectral separation optics do not influence the signals.
The idea of matter as primary makes people think of objects as being fundamentally separate in time and space, and not necessarily related to anything.
Many school systems remain "fundamentally separate and unequal," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday, with 23 states spending more per pupil in affluent school districts than they do in high-poverty districts.
