These glimpses only added to the inscrutability of her life.
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Every situation is presented with maximum lucidity and almost complete inscrutability.
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The inscrutability in the system is "the company's own choice," he said.
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Close's inscrutability is a part of what makes her beauty so unique.
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Lucca's inscrutability is now reframed as a mix of loneliness and defensiveness.
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As a result, committee Republicans have hunkered down, creating an air of inscrutability.
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No wonder the British are so fond of the 'inscrutability' of Japanese faces.
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Melania Trump's tenure as first lady is being defined largely by her inscrutability.
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Despite such inscrutability to even an interested adult, Beautycon LA claimed 212,22015 guests this year.
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Regardless, the real problem isn't the inscrutability of the rules but the vagueness of intentionality.
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Even so, he predicts that humans will accept the trade-off between inscrutability and efficiency.
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Like Eliot, Nunn was trying to capture the inscrutability of those beloved, furniture-destroying beasts.
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Gomez is famously private — in fact, it seems as if her most alluring characteristic is inscrutability.
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It's still not perfect, but it seems to be a positive step away from the Phase's inscrutability.
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Raad's latest exhibition in Beirut explores history, archives, and reality with his signature inscrutability and dry humor.
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That said, Snapchat hampered itself and its growth with its seemingly intentional inscrutability for so many years.
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He brags openly about his inscrutability, the inability non-supporters have to explain or even define him.
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A series of recent candid viral videos of Beyoncé have only heightened the public's obsession with her inscrutability.
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Having suffered the defeat of many clever plans, experienced officers moderate their youthful swagger with caution, inscrutability even.
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Once the shock of the cold water dissipates, the blunt inscrutability of the game remains and, often, frustrates.
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She occasionally showed these to Adele, who otherwise looked directly at Tony with closed-lip Mona Lisa inscrutability.
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" The mid-century citizen had been primed to accept magical thinking by systems of fascistic "opaqueness and inscrutability.
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The conventional wisdom surrounding Twin Peaks — in every one of its several incarnations — is tied up in its inscrutability.
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But she often resented her mother's inscrutability and need for solitude, and the turbulent environment she was raised in.
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In Watteau's art, this psychological inscrutability extends to whole paintings, whose visible surfaces imply depths you can only guess at.
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The result is a tantalizing if fragmented narrative rescued from inscrutability by the intensity of its materials, forms and styles.
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Friends and colleagues describe him as modest yet tenacious, with an mix of shyness and ambition, inscrutability, correctitude and warmth.
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A smattering of projections serves not to clarify matters, but rather to heighten an inscrutability that feels less mysterious than oppressive.
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"To evoke a future where algorithmic inscrutability and bias could persecute people, Johnson turns to the British sketch programme "Little Britain.
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Much inscrutability today in that tendriled theme — if you don't find what you're looking for here, move on down a section.
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And as the filthy and wild-haired Buster, his inscrutability is played for laughs, as he indifferently defiles rich vacationers' empty playhouses.
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The term "the gratuitous" appropriated Christian claims about God's grace, freedom, and inscrutability, applying them to human actions in a godless world.
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If the celebrity is a kind of god, then Stephen Malkmus was a god from a Kafka story, forever receding into inscrutability.
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The undoubted inscrutability of the "Mona Lisa" skips the question of whether there was ever anything about the subject to, well, scrute.
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Wearing a black beanie, a tangle of gold necklaces and a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, Mr. Abdul-Mateen had an air of inscrutability.
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It's not magic, but it is mystery, and no wine more than Burgundy conveys the inscrutability at the core of all great wines.
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His appeal rests not only in versatility and the kind of authenticity that only lengthy guitar solos can establish, but also in inscrutability.
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Gopnik seems to think that this drift of Buddhist thought — its apparent emphasis on the inscrutability of things — largely insulates it from scrutiny.
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Many critics and fans see this as a challenge rather than acknowledging the more obvious truth: Yorke's greatest lyrical gift is his practiced inscrutability.
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The crowd on Saturday night laughed when one of the dozen actors, the magnetic Edgar Oliver, acknowledged that inscrutability as part of the performance.
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The flaws are artistic: the pretentiousness, sentimentality, inscrutability and unintentional or lazy comedy that can be found in dance and film of any kind.
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Pugh's inscrutability extended to her bearing — she spoke in muffled tones, and her bangs often hung so low as to almost cover her eyes.
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The tenses flow into one another, the distant past into the pounding present, the declarations of known history with the floating inscrutability of human emotions.
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It's a shock to discover the inscrutability of newborn babies: We initially have no idea what makes them cry or how we can stop it.
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Inscrutability, provisionality, self-effacement: These are the contrivances of Ms. Donnelly, whose untitled exhibition is the only project here that puts the Shed itself in question.
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Of their rock predecessors, they rather remind me of early R.E.M., whose strummed jangle and verbal inscrutability similarly conjured an immersive, half-remembered pastoral Southern dreamworld.
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By installing the Marrakech work in a way that makes the calligraphy on the vases is far away to read, the works' coded inscrutability is realized.
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In the end she became chancellor, but learned a lesson which, fused with a deeper instinct for inscrutability, produced the "Merkel method" that has defined her chancellorship.
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She has some similarities to Sasha Grey's character, that kind of hard outer surface and inscrutability, but it does seem like it comes from a different place.
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But with its focus on failed fathers and broken families, dangerous radicals and social breakdown, human weakness and alien inscrutability, the version we got was recognizably Spielbergian.
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The big problem in trying to game out what will happen is, as it is across multiple policy questions, the inscrutability of what Donald Trump really wants.
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People tried to evaluate -- I certainly did -- how he got to the answer in a lot of different areas of law, but often there was a simple inscrutability.
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These tests are called CAPTCHA, an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, and they've reached this sort of inscrutability plateau before.
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The inscrutability is part of the appeal: I enjoy when people inquire, and I enjoy not answering, which is different from not actually caring if they ask or wonder.
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Even for a filmmaker who's essentially staked out the nexus of the uncanny and the disturbing as his personal fiefdom, Lynch has doubled down on his experimentalism and overall inscrutability.
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We will continue to come up against the AI inscrutability problem, so we might need to look to more experimental forms of narrative to articulate that unknowability and ontological novelty.
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I couldn't help but interpret his inscrutability as an inherently Asian quality, or rather as something projected onto Asian people by Westerners, who often stereotype us as enigmatic and strange.
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To us, the shimmering ridges and switchbacks in the paintings of Mr. Tjapaltjarri or Ms. Napangati suggest landscapes and histories, and our pleasure in them derives in part from their inscrutability.
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So far, the Cambridge Analytica scandal has focused most of the attention on Facebook, aided by Facebook's inherent inscrutability, but there's no reason that same harsh light couldn't be turned on Google.
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Whatever the truth turns out to be, it's worth remembering that Prince's very inscrutability was always his strength, and the facts always manage to upstage what we think we know for sure.
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This state of rampant uncertainty and inscrutability is precisely how DoorDash—and nearly every other app-based company that uses an algorithm to connect independent contracts to low-paid gig work—prefers it.
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During "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times," Wilson repeats the line "Sometimes I feel very sad" with a blank inscrutability that makes for a surreal take on the idea of expressing emotion.
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Here was proof of the extent to which our nascent wellness culture had finally matured: a woman whose lifestyle was extreme to the point of inscrutability and expensive to the point of implausibility.
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Louder Than Bombs isn't a Rashomon-style investigation—there's no "right" answer to the riddle of Isabelle—and Huppert imbues this photographer, wife, and mother with an aura of inscrutability that can't be pierced.
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As Kalinda Sharma, her Emmy-winning private detective on CBS's "The Good Wife," Ms. Panjabi was famous for her boots: towering-heeled, over-the-knee, black-leather numbers that telegraphed inscrutability and sexual boldness.
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The Queen's enduring inscrutability is often cited as one of the great achievements of her reign, and she has fulfilled her duties to everyone's satisfaction, with no mystical knowledge beyond dog breeding and horse handicapping.
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Ingmar Bergman might well have recognized the deep curiosity that drives these films: Like Bergman, Lanthimos is fascinated by the drive for control — in both its mundanities and extremes — and by the inscrutability of human behavior.
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The video's ambiguity and inscrutability never struck me as a problem, but rather more of a challenge to viewers to see past the strangeness of the world Cook has constructed and understand the complexities of her characters.
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But the app's longstanding inscrutability—its status as either a lovable mess or an avoidable one, depending on who you ask—always has been a barrier to Twitter's becoming the one true place to know what's happening.
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In this paragraph, he performs the rather impressive analytical feat of understanding the way his critics see him, defining "inscrutability," which is one of those racist tropes that is so powerful because it is so menacingly vague.
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The one connected to what we're seeing — a pet being brutally abandoned — or the one connected to what we're hearing, which is a jaunty musical theme meant to convey the essence of a cat's mystery and inscrutability?
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This could be a huge disservice to the inscrutability of the original, where the existential questions around replicants played out in the backdrop of the micro-level story of an ex-cop pulled back in for one more job.
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Mrs May's time running the Home Office, a department institutionally obsessed with order and control, earned her a reputation for inscrutability, formality and obsession with detail ("she was always asking for more papers in her red box," says one lieutenant).
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As an aristocrat, tall in his double-breasted suits, he could do stiffly jut-jawed one moment, warm and charming the next: a study in inscrutability, or a witty ornament to the highest social tier of Newport or New York.
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By the 1800s, this inscrutability had taken on a negative cast in English usage, and queer marked something as dubious or unseemly: "Queering the pitch" meant to spoil something — a business transaction, say; being on "queer street" meant financial ruin.
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One wonders whether this inscrutability is another expression of divine might, especially as some more prosaic objects — a Moche painted ceramic "portrait vessel" of a warrior known as Black Stripe for his facial markings, for instance — are marvels of realism.
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And while we now know thanks to Lemonade that the Bey Hive probably weren't totally off-base, it seems things are now back on track and better than ever, although her alteration to this ink just adds a whole new layer of inscrutability.
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If dandyism is to be described by the invention of one's character, if its defining characteristic is to make of one's person a work of art while extolling laziness and displaying a contempt for work, Wilde projected classic dandy superiority, impassivity, elegance, and inscrutability.
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Still, it says something about both the inscrutability of the man and the ultimate opacity of history that even with Mr MacCulloch's exhaustive research—to add to more than a thousand pages that Ms Mantel has penned so far—Cromwell, ever-slippery, feels just out of reach.
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The painting isn't by anyone famous, but its inscrutability has earned it a kind of cult status: fans have their own Facebook group, and there are "self-appointed guardians who will go in and make sure it's OK," explains Allison Hayward, a Las Vegas–born lawyer who created the group on social media.
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While some of its individual elements don't always "make sense" (like why people swing guitars around like the jokey Hanna-Barbera vigilante El Kabong remains one of many open questions), the series as a whole coalesces into an abstract but sympathetic story about what it means to grow up — and one whose inscrutability demands closer attention.
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Along with the holophrastic indeterminacy, the inscrutability of reference is the second kind of indeterminacy that makes up Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy of (radical) translation. While the inscrutability of reference concerns itself with single words, Quine does not want it to be used for propositions, as he attacks those in another way.Bayer, Benjamin: Quine's Pragmatic Solution to Skeptical Doubts. July 6, 2009.
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This implies there is no matter of fact to which the word refers. Quine calls this the inscrutability of reference. This inscrutability leads to difficulties in translating sentences, especially with sentences that have no direct connection to stimuli. For example, the tautological Jungle sentence 'Gavagai xyz gavagai' could be translated (in accordance with stimulus meaning) as 'This rabbit is the same as this rabbit'.
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The inscrutability or indeterminacy of reference (also referential inscrutability) is a thesis propounded by 20th century analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine in his book Word and Object.Quine, Willard Van Orman (1960): Word and Object. MIT Press; . The main claim of this theory is that any given sentence can be changed into a variety of other sentences where the parts of the sentence will change in what they reference, but they will nonetheless maintain the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
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This theory, linked with the inscrutability of reference make up the main characteristics of the indeterminacy of translation. The inscrutability of reference can also be used in a more extended way, in order to explain Quine's theory of ontological relativity. We are told that, if we try to determine what the referential object of a certain word is, our answer will always be relative to our own background language. Now, as Quine sees it, this idea is not only limited to language, but applies also for scientific questions and philosophical ones.
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The woman is surrounded by an abundance of grapevines on a large estate, most likely representing a fine material status. Her lofty demeanor is almost aristocratic and she may reflect a bourgeois personality. Her facial expression is neutral. This inscrutability may be interpreted positively or negatively.
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The film opened to positive reviews and Deol's performance as a bureaucrat/IAS officer garnered much acclaim. Raja Sen of Rediff.com applauded Deol writing, "he wears his inscrutability thickly and delivers a strong performance". The film was a surprise hit and went on to gross over in India.
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Because of this theory, Quine was often regarded as a relativist, or even a scientific skepticist. He, however, insisted that he belongs in neither of these categories,Keil, Geert: Quine zur Einführung. Hamburg: Junius, 1st edition, 2002, 75ff. and some authors see in the inscrutability of reference an underdetermination of relativism.
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Loux (2006), p. 274ff. To make sense of the word gavagai either way, the linguist simply has to assume that the native speaker does not refer to complicated terms like rabbits-tropes.Loar, Reed: inscrutability of reference. The finding, then, that gavagai means rabbit is not really a translation, but merely a common sense interpretation.
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Her work often conflates tropes from traditional art history, from compositional techniques to poses of her subjects, and the indices of contemporary life to create a sense of chaotic inscrutability; in this way, Poynton creates work which is aesthetically engaging and intellectually confounding. This quality of her work is exemplified in her series Safety & Security, 2006.
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In February 2011, American singer Katy Perry released her single "E.T." from her third studio album, Teenage Dream (2010). According to several music publications, the composition and rhythm bar of Perry's single was similar to the sound of "Ya Soshla s Uma"; Matthew Cole from Slant Magazine disliked Perry's song for being "inscrutability" and said that its backing track was reminiscent of t.A.T.u.'s song.
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Theologically, O'Donel subscribed to the Augustinian position that religion imposes a "reverential fear" on mankind's "naturally licentious" nature. This, and his belief in the essential mystery of the divine nature gave rise to his support for religious tolerance, since God's inscrutability would inevitably lead to theological disagreement, but furthermore, as he wrote to his contemporary John Jones, "an observant [C]hristian of any denomination is...a better man".
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In New York City, David (Donovan), a plumber who is unsuccessful with women, creates a new identity as David Coppolberg, a film director, as a way to meet women. Due to his good looks and unfamiliarity with film, which passes for inscrutability, he is considered an indie talent. Complicating the situation is the script stolen from Toni (Parker), who in turn uses his success to further her own ambitions.
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Part IV, p. 14. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film "such a clumsy combination of violence and inscrutability that the action becomes slightly laughable," further observing, "The right director for this slightly dubious material would have been Sam Peckinpah, who possesses both a taste and a flair for violence ... Sydney Pollack, the director chosen, gets sentimental about violent men, but he isn't on their wavelength."Arnold, Gary (April 1, 1975). "Sydney Pollack's 'Yakuza'".
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The inspiration for this attempt at creating verbal nonsense came from the idea of contradiction and seemingly irrelevant and/or incompatible characteristics, which conspire to make the phrase meaningless, but are open to interpretation. The phrase "the square root of Tuesday" operates on the latter principle. This principle is behind the inscrutability of the kōan "What is the sound of one hand clapping?", where one hand would presumably be insufficient for clapping without the intervention of another.
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In his indeterminacy of translation theory Quine claims that, if one is to translate a language, there are always several alternative translations, of which none is more correct than the other.Keil (2002), 75ff. A radical translation is therefore impossible. As a special part of this theory the inscrutability of reference indicates that, in trying to find out to which object a certain word (also sentence, sign etc.) of a language refers, there is never only one single possibility.
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Another is to streamline workplace safety and health workflows through automating repetitive tasks, enhancing safety training programs through virtual reality, or detecting and reporting near misses. When used in the workplace, AI also presents the possibility of new hazards. These may arise from machine learning techniques leading to unpredictable behavior and inscrutability in their decision-making, or from cybersecurity and information privacy issues. Many hazards of AI are psychosocial due to its potential to cause changes in work organization.
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That is even the case, if the possibilities that come into consideration lie very close together. Quine's example of the word gavagai is used to illustrate this. Note that it is also applied at the indeterminacy of translation, but has traditionally been introduced to point up referential inscrutability. The gavagai thought experiment tells about a linguist, who tries to find out, what the expression gavagai means, when uttered by a speaker of a yet unknown, native language upon seeing a rabbit.
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It is important to note that indeterminacy and inscrutability not only occur in the course of translating something from a native, unknown language into a familiar one, but among every language. This holds also for languages which are quite similar, like German and Dutch, and even for speakers of the same language. One cannot with certainty say, what exactly his/her conversational partner refers to, when that person is talking about a rabbit. We commonly use the homophonic rule in those cases, i.e.
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A young Englishwoman, Jenny, is working in Naples some years after World War II. Alone in the ruined city, she follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance, through which she meets Gioconda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and her lover Gianni, a noted Roman film director. Meanwhile at work she meets Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As Jenny becomes increasingly drawn into the lives of the three, she discovers that the past is not easily forgotten.
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Matthew Cole of Slant Magazine disliked the single's "inscrutability" and said that song's backing track was reminiscent of t.A.T.u.'s "All the Things She Said". Jason Richards from Now called the song "awkward" and Sputnikmusic's Rudy Clapper dismissed its attempt at a more mature sound, calling it "cheesy". PopMatters' staff writer Steve Leftridge called the song "neither strong nor edgy nor clever nor sonically interesting enough to lend any genuine credibility to Perry as a serious artist with anything to actually say".
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By the end of the war "the impression of inscrutability conveyed by the gaunt impressive is cancelled out by the feverish activity inside." Besides biscuits, Spratt's Works was also producing dogs', cats' and birds' medicines, bird seed, dog shampoos, and toilet requisites for animals. There was also a dog-show department during this period, possibly owing to James Spratt's initial 14-year-old assistant, the future dog show founder Charles Cruft. After the imposition of purchase tax on pet food in 1969, the factory closed down.
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She takes her own very distinct view of Mao: :What I now remember of Mao Tze-tung was the following months of precious friendship; they both confirmed and contradicted his inscrutability. The sinister quality I had first felt so strongly in him proved to be spiritual isolation. As Chu Teh was loved, Mao Tze-tung was respected. The few who came to know him best had affection for him, but his spirit dwelt within itself, isolating him... :In him was none of the humility of Chu.
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Maddox, Brenda (1994) The Married Man: A Life of D. H. Lawrence. Sinclair-Stevenson. pp. 361-365 Despite the inconsistency and at times inscrutability of his philosophical writings Lawrence continues to find an audience, and the ongoing publication of a new scholarly edition of his letters and writings has demonstrated the range of his achievement. Philosophers like Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari found in Lawrence's critique of Sigmund Freud an important precursor of anti-Oedipal accounts of the unconscious that has been much influential.Deleuze, Guattari, Gilles, Félix (2004).
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On Putnam's account, the idea that we refer with our sentences and statements to a mind-independent, nonlinguistic world is an illusion. Further he claims that the problem to deal with is a language philosophical one and uses Quine's inscrutability of reference theory to clarify his point of view. He suggests, that, because the referential objects of a language are always inscrutable, the Realist's idea of a mind-independent world is fallacious, because it presupposes distinct referential relations from language to objects in the mind-independent world.Loux (2006), p. 272ff.
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This view is endorsed by Putnam who states that it is "the most fascinating and the most discussed philosophical argument since Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories". Three aspects of indeterminacy arise, of which two relate to indeterminacy of translation. The three indeterminacies are (i) inscrutability of reference, and (ii) holophrastic indeterminacy, and (iii) the underdetermination of scientific theory. The last of these, not discussed here, refers to Quine's assessment that evidence alone does not dictate the choice of a scientific theory, as different theories - observationally equivalent - may be able to explain the same facts.
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The Etruscans accepted the inscrutability of their gods' wills. They did not attempt to rationalize or explain divine actions or formulate any doctrines of the gods' intentions. As answer to the problem of ascertaining the divine will, they developed an elaborate system of divination; that is, they believed the gods offer a perpetual stream of signs in the phenomena of daily life, which if read rightly can direct humanity's affairs. These revelations may not be otherwise understandable and may not be pleasant or easy, but are perilous to doubt.
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" Critical reaction towards Ed Westwick's performance was mixed. Carlos Delgado, from If Magazine, praised Chuck's story line, stating that "the real magic happens" when Chuck opens his heart to Dan. He would later call the show "a mindless unrealistic teen drama". Overthinking It praised Chuck's development, calling his motivations "inscrutable" further asserting that it was his inscrutability that "added to his allure, because it made him impossible to judge, at least on any terms he's willing to grant us — as opposed to say, morally, by which standard he's a jerk.
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Hilary Putnam uses Quine's thesis about the inscrutability of reference to challenge the traditional Realist's view that there is a mind-independent world to which our propositional attitudes refer (e.g. when we talk about or think of something, these things exist not in our minds, but in said mind-independent world). This traditional view implies a correspondence theory of truth and might simply be called Realism about Being. While Michael Dummett already tried to show that the correspondence theory fails to obtain in some particular cases, Hilary Putnam is far more radical, for he claims that this theory fails in every case it is tried to be applied.
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During the intro of "Winter (Hostel-Maxi)", the narrator describes waiting, hung over, in the early afternoon for the pubs to open.Edge, 52 The remainder of the song consists of descriptions of and encounters with a dry-out house, a cleaning lady (the mother of the "insane child"), a feminist with anti-nicotine and anti-nuclear stickers on her car (an Austin Maxi) and a "half-wit" child. After that, the lyrics move towards magic realism and ad-libbed inscrutability: "The mad kid had four lights: the average is two point-five-lights; the mediocre is two lights". "Who Makes the Nazis" concludes that Nazis are born of "intellectual halfwits".
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Radical translation is a thought experiment in Word and Object, a major philosophical work from American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. It is used as an introduction to his theory of the indeterminacy of translation, and specifically to prove the point of inscrutability of reference. Using this concept of radical translation, Quine paints a setting where a linguist discovers a native linguistic community whose linguistic system is completely unrelated to any language familiar to the linguist. Quine then describes the steps taken by the linguist in his attempt to fully translate this unfamiliar language based on the only data he has; the events happening around him combined with the verbal and non-verbal behaviour of natives.
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The weaving gallery The era of Industrial Revolution weaving machinery gave rise to technological jargon in places such as Yorkshire with a strong local dialect. The resultant inscrutability of linguistic terms has given rise to such jokes as the one from Monty Python's Trouble at Mill sketch: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle. This nonsense may have been written so on the script as a joke, but what Graham Chapman could have said correctly in dialect is, "One o't crossbeams 'as gone out o' skew on't treadle", meaning "One of the crossbeams has gone askew on the treadle". The treadle was a rocking pedal, powered by the worker's foot.
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" Ida is partially a "road movie" in which the relationship of its two main characters, Anna/Ida (Agata Trzebuchowska) and Wanda (Agata Kulesza), develops as they journey into Poland's hinterlands and into their shared history. Both actresses have received favorable reviews for their performances from several critics. Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian that "Agata Trzebuchowska is tremendously mysterious as a 17-year-old novitiate in a remote convent: she has the impassivity and inscrutability of youth." Riva Reardon writes, "In her debut role, the actress masterfully negotiates the film's challenging subtlety, offering glimpses into her character with only a slight movement of the corner of her mouth or by simply shifting her uncanny black eyes.
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Despite the accusations of nepotism that greeted his appointment on January 3, 1903, Sifton fast became a well-respected judge. He served as chief justice of the Northwest Territories until September 16, 1907, when the Supreme Court of Alberta was established, whereupon he headed this new court, sitting in Calgary as the first Chief Justice of Alberta. He was notoriously difficult for barristers to read: he generally heard arguments expressionlessly smoking a cigar, and it was as a judge that he first acquired his long-time nickname of the Sphinx for his inscrutability. In one trial, he sat apparently vigorously taking notes during both sides' lengthy closing arguments and, once they concluded, immediately delivered his judgment.
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Holophrastic indeterminacy, or indeterminacy of sentence translation, is one of two kinds of indeterminacy of translation to appear in the writings of philosopher W. V. O. Quine. According to Quine, "there is more than one correct method of translating sentences where the two translations differ not merely in the meanings attributed to the sub-sentential parts of speech but also in the net import of the whole sentence". It is holophrastic indeterminacy that underlies Quine's argument against synonymy, the basis of his objections to Rudolf Carnap's analytic/synthetic distinction. The other kind of indeterminacy introduced by Quine is the "inscrutability of reference", which refers to parts of a sentence or individual words.
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Rather than resorting to satire or having his main character complain about micro-aggressions, he illustrates the "relentless abrasion of dignity that is familiar to many people of color on such campuses". According to Orbey, while Wallace's removal from his friends, related through "disdainful observations", sometimes "reduce even a few of his better friends to the sort of schematic creations that appear under his microscope", his judgment usually feels fair, and Wallace implicates himself in this scheme. Charles Arrowsmith says the "Real" of the title also points at "the insoluble, ineffable, capital-R 'Real' of philosophy", and that "what Wallace experiences as the unknowability of his friends and the inscrutability of his own actions are functions of this kind of Real-ism". These "ambiguities", according to Arrowsmith, "are what give Taylor's writing its strengths: his receptivity to menace in the mundane, subcutaneous sexual vibrations, unconscious motivation".
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While this technique of blending fact and fiction helps to make the story believable, it raises complexity in that one can no longer differentiate fact from fiction." (Mwaka Siluonde, cf. note 20) "Published by Mondial in New York, the 281-page novel resonates with the anger of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the pessimism of Ayi Kwei Armah and the lyricism of Chinua Achebe, but in his own voice, Katulwende explains why the centre can no longer hold in a land where a beggar who stretches out his hand for a cob of maize is beaten to death by an angry, blood thirsty mob, and where youth is powerless against the inscrutability of a future which runs like a river with no end... In his view, things are falling apart because the shrine is no more. The gods of his forefathers are dead and his people have befriended those who have always stood against them, imitating their ways and worshipping their gods.
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