As it stands, an Internet site that designates itself as a museum could as easily be a dealer in illegal cultural artifacts or a passionate hobbyist as a venerable institution.
It has designated itself as Art, and so unfortunately, while I still find it interesting, it goes in the same category as cracking nuts in a mannequin's vagina. .
Form, arriving at matter, designates matter and designating matter, designates itself.
Present-day nominalists, however, are aware, if earlier nominalists were not, that if the phrase 'the name "horse" ' designated an object, the object it designated would itself be a universal or something very like one.
Using it is akin to using "Negroes" or "Coloreds" instead of "African Americans" or calling Asians "Orientals". In general, the term that an ethnic or national group uses to designate itself is surely preferable to the terms that its antagonists have historically used to designate it.
He became the instrument with which American culture designated itself.
Lincoln Temple designated itself as an "open and affirming" church, welcoming the LGBT community.
It designates the CAM disciplines.
How is it designated for use?
After all, if F.S.O.C. can't designate MetLife, who can it designate?
Habermas's aim, like that of Fukuyama, is for the status quo of a modern society to be maintained within the boundaries it has itself designated (Habermas 2003).
