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Also jos lehmällä olisi siivet, se lentäisi (if cow had wings, it would fly), implying futile speculations. Also kun lipputanko kukkii ("when flagpole blossoms") and Tuohikuussa Pukin-päivän aikaan ("in Barkember on St. Buck's day", implying an imaginary month and imaginary day).
The lazy argument or idle argument (Ancient Greek: ἀργὸς λόγος) is an attempt to undermine the philosophical doctrine of fatalism by demonstrating that, if everything that happens is determined by fate, it is futile to take any kind of action. [1] Its basic form is that of a complex constructive dilemma. [2] [3]
The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena. Ambiguity
In game theory, a futile game is a game that permits a draw or a tie when optimal moves are made by both players. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An example of this type of game is the classical form of Tic-tac-toe , [ 3 ] though not all variants are futile games.
Agrammatism was first coined by Adolf Kussmaul in 1887 to explain the inability to form words grammatically and to syntactically order them into a sentence. Later on, Harold Goodglass defined the term as the omission of connective words, auxiliaries and inflectional morphemes, all of these generating a speech production with extremely rudimentary grammar.
Republicans offered up more than two dozen amendments in a futile attempt to blunt what they consider the excesses of the bill. Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, offered an amendment to limit the term ...
Philosophy of futility is a phrase coined in 1928 by Columbia University marketing professor Paul Nystrom to describe an increasingly prevalent outlook which, he believed, induced a greater demand for fashionable products.
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". ". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language, found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phra