The connection between a scientific term and the entity to which it refers is established by causal chains of prior uses of the term and by social practices such as pointing, moving, and weighing, rather than by definitions, descriptions, or mental images.
For that reason, coins were often weighed rather than counted.
In this trial blood loss was measured and weighed rather than estimated.
At 1,400 pages, and weighing rather more than twice as much as the laptop on which I'm writing this, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory is obviously a book that has too many words.
An official acknowledgement that Mediobanca will, to paraphrase Cuccia, count rather than weigh shares, is welcome.
He would write for himself, not for a cause; would weigh up, rather than weigh in.Out of the peatHis "fardel" of Catholicism was ever there, the clicking beads and the gold inner gleam of the ciborium, the "tremor and draw" of words he no longer believed but could not disavow.
A possible detection of something called a Higgs boson — a theorized subatomic particle that would help to explain why particles weigh something rather than nothing — was also announced last year.
The most prominent complaints argue that the rankings weigh inputs rather than outcomes, privilege exclusivity over access, and reward excessive expenditures over cost containment.
They are accustomed to weighing votes rather than counting them there; Labour won a 12,750 majority over the Scottish National Party in May.But there are strong complicating factors.
Lastly, a rate cut by the Federal Reserve is still likely to be weighed domestically, rather than globally, with the key being the strength of the American economy.
