(Compare the way that in set theory 'equinumerous' is antecedent to 'number'.) Then Smart elucidated the notion of colour in terms of the discriminations with respect to colour of normal human percipients in normal conditions (say cloudy Scottish daylight).
Smart writes: "Our notion of time as flowing, the transitory aspect of time as Broad has called it, is an illusion which prevents us seeing the world as it really is".
It's hard to tell when being inarticulate started being as acceptable as being smart, but the notion gained great traction and one could even say reached it fullest expression during the recent decade.
This chapter is intended as a brief introduction to the concepts of the Smart Grid and notions of safety and security for the Smart Grid.
The general notion of the smart space includes the smart grid, smart things and smart buildings.
For young, smart, educated Palestinians, the notion that there will ever be an independent Palestinian state appears increasingly delusional.
It's exciting – and it's an excitement that tends to get lost behind the pervading notion that smart phones are going to kill dedicated gaming machines.
But I can't get Brad Gilbert's "Winning Ugly" out of my head — a book devoted to the (perhaps misguided) notion that smart, cagey, well-prepared players can beat guys who are better than they are.
A world in which everyone is available online at any time can become a world without privacy, he warns, and the notion of smart mobs implies both potential for new benefits and menace.
America breathed easier.The Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank in Washington, DC, that helped popularise the notion of smart power with a study on American foreign policy in 2007, issued a report in March which drew attention to a "strategic mistrust" between the two countries' leaders.
