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One known use of the phrase is in a legal text of 1628: Repetitio legis Imperialem de prohibita feudi alienat. per Fridericum: cum summariis & indice locupletissimo, by Horatius Montanus (Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1628).
Guttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and its phonation.
In his 1973 book, The Interpretation of Cultures, anthropologist Clifford Geertz refers to culture as "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life," [3] expressing the importance he placed on symbols in culture.
A non sequitur can denote an abrupt, illogical, or unexpected turn in plot or dialogue by including a relatively inappropriate change in manner. A non sequitur joke sincerely has no explanation, but it reflects the idiosyncrasies, mental frames and alternative world of the particular comic persona.
Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence. [1] This viewpoint questions the boundaries conventionally imposed between self and other, mind and body, observer and observed, [2] and other dichotomies that shape our perception of reality.
German philosopher Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer developed an early approach to philosophy called non-philosophy (German: Nichtphilosophie).He defined it as a kind of mystical illumination by which was obtained a belief in God that could not be reached by mere intellectual effort. [1]
Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft.It was introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", [2] published by the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
The concept of non-configurationality was developed by grammarians working within Noam Chomsky's generative framework. Some of these linguists observed that the Syntactic Universals proposed by Chomsky and which required a rigid phrase structure was challenged by the syntax of some of the world's languages that had a much less rigid syntax than that of the languages on which Chomsky had based ...