We endow the world with meaning (or meaninglessness) in order to control it.
That's partly why we're fascinated with stories of victimhood and why, especially in tabloid, cable-news culture, we endow victims with specialness, sanctity, and celebrity.
This "spiritual poison," Girard wrote, lies in the "passionate imitation of individuals who are fundamentally our equals and whom we endow with an arbitrary prestige".
That's partly why we're fascinated with stories of victimhood — and why, especially in tabloid, cable-news culture, we endow victims with specialness, sanctity, and celebrity.
Likewise, we endow words, concatenations of sounds — ejective fricatives, diphthongs and the like — also splotches of ink on a page — with significance.
In order to obtain functorial properties for non-abelian groups, in particular a tensor product formula, we endow S0(G) with an operator space structure.
We endow with refinement and charm the person who welcomes us in a delightful room, where the colors blend and the proportions are as perfect as in a picture.
We endow the Sobolev spaces with the probability measures induced by the positive definite kernels such that the kernel-based estimators can be solved to maximize the kernel-based probabilities conditioned on the observed data.
Minsky viewed the brain as a machine whose functioning can be studied and replicated in a computer — which would teach us, in turn, to better understand the human brain and higher-level mental functions: How might we endow machines with common sense — the knowledge humans acquire every day through experience?
We endow G with the norm ?
To do this, we endow the following norm in : (2.12).
