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Usually, although Polybius uses Fortune to cover a variety of phenomena, ranging from pure chance to something very like a purposeful providence, much of the apparent inconsistency springs from his use of purely verbal elaboration or the careless adoption of current Hellenistic terminology, which habitually made Fortune a goddess.
However, for lower levels, we obtained correlations between verbal originality and achievement and verbal elaboration and achievement.
Bracey (1994) found that high reasoners (among fifth graders) practiced verbal elaboration more frequently when placed in heterogeneous groups.
Nattiv (1994) and Hooper (1992) found the amount of verbal elaboration to be positively correlated to achievement among elementary students.
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Nāgārjuna wrote in MMK 18.9 that the defining characteristics of reality (tattva, literally, "thatness" or quiddity) are that it is not conditioned by something other than itself, it is peaceful, it cannot be elaborated through verbal elaborations, it is non-conceptual, and it is uniform.
One aspect is that it is free from volitional thought, pure and beyond the reach of verbal elaborations.
Another aspect is that it is volitional in nature, connected with the accumulation of knowledge and meritorious karma, and connected with verbal elaborations and with the transactional knowledge of everyday life.
In his commentary to that verse, Bhāvaviveka expands the meaning of the verse by saying that anything that is not conceptual in nature cannot be expressed through verbal elaborations or through any other kind of sign.
His plots proceed by verbal connection and elaboration as much as by character interaction.
In saying that, a poem must have the right sound - I don't mean sound as decoration or elaboration, as "verbal magic" I mean something to do with what might be called the musculature of your speech, the actual cadencing of the thing as it moves along.
19 The Mental Deterioration Battery (MDB) 20 is a standardized neuropsychological test battery of seven tests used to obtain eight performance scores, four for the elaboration of verbal stimuli and four for the elaboration of visuospatial material.
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