Truth, he argues, is a less opaque concept than that of meaning.
Perhaps the most infamous (and opaque) concept in the climate communication canon, though, is the idea of 2C as a dangerous limit for climate change.
The competent members of that community understand the denotations and connotations of the otherwise opaque concept by way of shared discourse and shared practice.
Davidson accepts that Spinoza himself probably had in mind the opaque concept, in keeping with historical tradition, but that nothing stands in the way of his accepting a needed transparent concept as well.
What passes for history in public school is "social studies," stuffed with opaque discussion of concepts: students will ponder "the City" by hopping from ancient Athens to medieval Bruges to 19th-century New York.
Also, he notes that while the prototype is an opaque touch pad, the concept could easily be applied to forthcoming flexible displays, as the ink and the electrodes can be made transparent.
Davidson replies that one needs to distinguish an opaque and a transparent concept of 'cause' (where the former involves sentences which do not allow the substitution salva veritate of co-referring expressions, and latter does allow such substitutions).
The concept of "service" evokes, from the opaque recesses of the mind, timeworn images of personal ministration and attendance.
Antemasque, their third project together, backed by Flea on bass, is a more straightforward rock album – there are no bafflingly opaque, self-indulgent 32-minute jazz-metal-odyssey concept pieces here.
Most of the available toolkits such as the Chemistry Development Kit[1] or OpenBabel[2] are written in object-oriented languages using typical imperative concepts such as mutable data structures and opaque methods (see below) to implement chemical entities and algorithms.
