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1 equipped
past tense, past participle; see equiptr[ɪ'kwɪpt]1 (supplied) equipado,-a, provisto,-a2 (prepared) preparado,-a ( for, para)adj.• dotado, -a adj. -
2 well
well [wel]1. noun(for water, oil) puits m3. adverba. ( = satisfactorily, skilfully) [behave, sleep, eat, treat, remember] bien• well done! bravo !• well played! bien joué !• you're well out of it! c'est une chance que tu n'aies plus rien à voir avec cela !b. (intensifying = very much, thoroughly) bien• well over 1,000 people bien plus de 1 000 personnesc. ( = with good reason, with equal reason) one might well ask why on pourrait à juste titre demander pourquoi• you might (just) as well say that... autant dire que...• and it rained as well! et par-dessus le marché il a plu !e. ( = positively) to think/speak well of penser/dire du bien de4. exclamation• he has won the election! -- well, well, well! il a été élu ! -- tiens, tiens !• well, what do you think of it? alors qu'en dites-vous ?• well, here we are at last! eh bien ! nous voilà enfin !• you know Paul? well, he's getting married vous connaissez Paul ? eh bien il se marie• are you coming? -- well... I've got a lot to do here vous venez ? -- c'est que... j'ai beaucoup à faire ici5. adjective(comparative, superlative best)a. bien, bon• that's all very well but... tout ça c'est bien joli mais... (PROV) all's well that ends well(PROV) tout est bien qui finit bienb. ( = healthy) how are you? -- very well, thank you comment allez-vous ? -- très bien, merci• get well soon! remets-toi vite !c. (cautious) it is as well to remember that... il ne faut pas oublier que...6. prefix• well-chosen/dressed bien choisi/habillé7. compounds• you would be well-advised to leave vous auriez (tout) intérêt à partir ► well-appointed adjective [house, room] bien aménagé► well-kept adjective [house, garden, hair] bien entretenu ; [hands, nails] soigné ; [secret] bien gardé► well-meaning adjective [person] bien intentionné ; [remark, action] fait avec les meilleures intentions• you don't know when you're well-off ( = fortunate) tu ne connais pas ton bonheur ► well-paid adjective bien payé• he got many letters from well-wishers il a reçu de nombreuses lettres d'encouragement ► well-woman clinic noun (British) centre prophylactique et thérapeutique pour femmes* * *I 1. [wel]1) ( in good health)are you well? — vous allez bien?, tu vas bien?
‘how is he?’ - ‘as well as can be expected’ — ‘comment va-t-il?’ - ‘pas trop mal étant donné les circonstances’
2) ( in satisfactory state) bienthat's all very well, but — tout ça c'est bien beau, mais
it's all very well for you to laugh, but — tu peux rire, mais
3) ( prudent)4) ( fortunate)it was just as well for him that the shops were still open — il a eu de la chance que les magasins aient été encore ouverts
2.the flight was delayed, which was just as well — le vol a été retardé, ce qui n'était pas plus mal
1) ( satisfactorily) bienI did well in the general knowledge questions — je me suis bien débrouillé pour les questions de culture générale
to do well at school — être bon/bonne élève
to do well by somebody — se montrer généreux/-euse avec quelqu'un
some businessmen did quite well out of the war — certains hommes d'affaires se sont enrichis pendant la guerre
she didn't come out of it very well — ( of situation) elle ne s'en est pas très bien sortie; (of article, programme etc) ce n'était pas très flatteur pour elle
2) ( used with modal verbs)I can well believe it — je veux bien le croire, je n'ai pas de mal à le croire
‘shall I shut the door?’ - ‘you might as well’ — ‘est-ce que je ferme la porte?’ - ‘pourquoi pas’
she looked shocked, as well she might — elle a eu l'air choquée, ce qui n'avait rien d'étonnant
3) ( intensifier) bien, largementthe weather remained fine well into September — le temps est resté au beau fixe pendant une bonne partie du mois de septembre
she was active well into her eighties — elle était toujours active même au-delà de ses quatre-vingts ans
4) ( approvingly)5)3.exclamation ( expressing astonishment) eh bien!; (expressing indignation, disgust) ça alors!; ( expressing disappointment) tant pis!; (after pause in conversation, account) bon; ( qualifying statement) enfinwell, you may be right — après tout, tu as peut-être raison
well, that's too bad — c'est vraiment dommage
well then, what's the problem? — alors, quel est le problème?
oh well, there's nothing I can do about it — ma foi, je n'y peux rien
4.well, well, well, so you're off to America? — alors comme ça, tu pars aux États-Unis!
as well adverbial phrase aussi5.as well as prepositional phrase aussi bien quethey have a house in the country as well as an apartment in Paris — ils ont à la fois une maison à la campagne et un appartement à Paris
••to be well in with somebody — (colloq) être bien avec quelqu'un (colloq)
to leave well alone GB ou well enough alone US — ne pas s'en mêler
II 1. [wel] 2.you're well out of it! — (colloq) heureusement que tu n'as plus rien à voir avec ça!
Phrasal Verbs:- well up -
3 equipped
[ɪ'kwɪpd] 1. 2.1)2) fig. (psychologically)we were well-equipped to answer their questions — eravamo ben preparati per rispondere alle loro domande
* * *past tense, past participle; see equip* * *equipped /ɪˈkwɪpt/a.1 attrezzato; fornito; equipaggiato; allestito: a poorly equipped school, una scuola male attrezzata; fully equipped, completamente fornito2 preparato; fornito di preparazione: I'm not equipped for this task, non sono preparato per questo compito.* * *[ɪ'kwɪpd] 1. 2.1)2) fig. (psychologically) -
4 equip
i'kwippast tense, past participle - equipped; verb(to fit out or provide with everything needed: He was fully equipped for the journey; The school is equipped with four computers.) equiparequip vb equipar / proveerall the rooms are equipped with air conditioning todas las habitaciones disponen de aire acondicionadotr[ɪ'kwɪp]2 (prepare) preparar (for/to, para)\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto be equipped with something disponer de algoto equip oneself with something proveerse de algo1) furnish: equipar2) prepare: prepararv.• armar v.• aviar v.• dotar v.• equipar v.• guarnecer v.• habilitar v.• proveer v.ɪ'kwɪpa) (furnish, supply) \<\<troops/laboratory\>\> equiparto equip something/somebody WITH something — proveer* algo/a alguien de algo
b) (prepare, make capable) prepararto equip somebody TO + INF — preparar a alguien para + inf
[ɪ'kwɪp]VT [+ office, workshop] equipar ( with con); [+ person] proveer ( with de)to be equipped with — [person] estar provisto de; [machine etc] estar equipado con, estar dotado de
to be well equipped to — + infin estar bien preparado para + infin
* * *[ɪ'kwɪp]a) (furnish, supply) \<\<troops/laboratory\>\> equiparto equip something/somebody WITH something — proveer* algo/a alguien de algo
b) (prepare, make capable) prepararto equip somebody TO + INF — preparar a alguien para + inf
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5 equip
- pp- ausrüsten [Fahrzeug, Armee, Person]; ausstatten [Zimmer, Küche]* * *[i'kwip]past tense, past participle - equipped; verb(to fit out or provide with everything needed: He was fully equipped for the journey; The school is equipped with four computers.) ausrüsten- academic.ru/24804/equipment">equipment* * *<- pp->[ɪˈkwɪp]vt▪ to \equip sb/sth with sth jdn/etw mit etw dat ausstatten; with special equipment jdn/etw mit etw dat ausrüstento \equip sb with skills jdm Fähigkeiten vermitteln* * *[I'kwɪp]vtship, soldier, astronaut, army, worker ausrüsten; household, kitchen ausstattenthe building is also equipped as a sports hall — das Gebäude ist auch als Sporthalle ausgestattet
to equip oneself with a good education — sich (dat) eine gute Ausbildung verschaffen
you are better equipped than I to tackle chemistry translations — du bringst für Chemieübersetzungen das bessere Rüstzeug mit
* * *equip [ıˈkwıp] v/t1. (o.s. sich) ausrüsten, -statten ( auch SCHIFF, MIL, TECH)( with mit), ein Krankenhaus etc einrichten2. fig ausrüsten ( with mit), jemandem das (geistige oder nötige) Rüstzeug vermitteln oder geben ( for für):be well equipped for das nötige Rüstzeug haben für* * *- pp- ausrüsten [Fahrzeug, Armee, Person]; ausstatten [Zimmer, Küche]fully equipped — komplett ausgerüstet/ausgestattet
* * *v.ausrüsten v.ausstatten v.bestücken (Elektronik) v. -
6 equip
i'kwippast tense, past participle - equipped; verb(to fit out or provide with everything needed: He was fully equipped for the journey; The school is equipped with four computers.) utruste, utstyre, forsyne, ekvipereutruste--------utstyreverb \/ɪˈkwɪp\/1) utstyre, utruste, forsyne2) ekvipere, kle opp, utruste med klær3) munderebe equipped with ( også) ha, eieequip oneself in kle seg i, ta på segepuip with utstyre med -
7 equip
[ɪ'kwɪp]vtto equip (with) — wyposażać (wyposażyć perf) (w +acc)
* * *[i'kwip]past tense, past participle - equipped; verb(to fit out or provide with everything needed: He was fully equipped for the journey; The school is equipped with four computers.) wyposażyć -
8 equip
гл.1) общ., тех. оборудовать, оснащать, вооружать, обеспечивать ( технически)He equipped himself with hammer and nails. — Он взял молоток и гвозди.
It's going to cost $4 million to equip the hospital. — Оборудование больницы обойдется в 4 млн. долларов.
Syn:2) общ. дать все необходимое, вооружить (напр., знаниями), подготовитьThe training will equip you for the job. — Пройдя этот курс обучения ты сможешь выполнять эту работу.
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9 Charpy, Augustin Georges Albert
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 1 September 1865 Ouillins, Rhône, Franced. 25 November 1945 Paris, France[br]French metallurgist, originator of the Charpy pendulum impact method of testing metals.[br]After graduating in chemistry from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1887, Charpy continued to work there on the physical chemistry of solutions for his doctorate. He joined the Laboratoire d'Artillerie de la Marine in 1892 and began to study the structure and mechanical properties of various steels in relation to their previous heat treatment. His first memoir, on the mechanical properties of steels quenched from various temperatures, was published in 1892 on the advice of Henri Le Chatelier. He joined the Compagnie de Chatillon Commentry Fourchamboult et Decazeville at their steelworks in Imphy in 1898, shortly after the discovery of Invar by G.E. Guillaume. Most of the alloys required for this investigation had been prepared at Imphy, and their laboratories were therefore well equipped with sensitive and refined dilatometric facilities. Charpy and his colleague L.Grenet utilized this technique in many of their earlier investigations, which were largely concerned with the transformation points of steel. He began to study the magnetic characteristics of silicon steels in 1902, shortly after their use as transformer laminations had first been proposed by Hadfield and his colleagues in 1900. Charpy was the first to show that the magnetic hysteresis of these alloys decreased rapidly as their grain size increased.The first details of Charpy's pendulum impact testing machine were published in 1901, about two years before Izod read his paper to the British Association. As with Izod's machine, the energy of fracture was measured by the retardation of the pendulum. Charpy's test pieces, however, unlike those of Izod, were in the form of centrally notched beams, freely supported at each end against rigid anvils. This arrangement, it was believed, transmitted less energy to the frame of the machine and allowed the energy of fracture to be more accurately measured. In practice, however, the blow of the pendulum in the Charpy test caused visible distortion in the specimen as a whole. Both tests were still widely used in the 1990s.In 1920 Charpy left Imphy to become Director-General of the Compagnie des Aciéries de la Marine et Homecourt. After his election to the Académie des Sciences in 1918, he came to be associated with Floris Osmond and Henri Le Chatelier as one of the founders of the "French School of Physical Metallurgy". Around the turn of the century he had contributed much to the development of the metallurgical microscope and had helped to introduce the Chatelier thermocouple into the laboratory and to industry. He also popularized the use of platinum-wound resistance furnaces for laboratory purposes. After 1920 his industrial responsibilities increased greatly, although he continued to devote much of his time to teaching at the Ecole Supérieure des Mines in Paris, and at the Ecole Polytechnique. His first book, Leçons de Chimie (1892, Paris), was written at the beginning of his career, in association with H.Gautier. His last, Notions élémentaires de sidérurgie (1946, Paris), with P.Pingault as co-author, was published posthumously.[br]BibliographyCharpy published important metallurgical papers in Comptes rendus… Académie des Sciences, Paris.Further ReadingR.Barthélémy, 1947, "Notice sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Georges Charpy", Notices et discours, Académie des Sciences, Paris (June).M.Caullery, 1945, "Annonce du décès de M.G. Charpy" Comptes rendus Académie des Sciences, Paris 221:677.P.G.Bastien, 1963, "Microscopic metallurgy in France prior to 1920", Sorby Centennial Symposium on the History of Metallurgy, AIME Metallurgical Society Conference Vol.27, pp. 171–88.ASDBiographical history of technology > Charpy, Augustin Georges Albert
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10 Sholes, Christopher Latham
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. 14 February 1819 Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, USAd. 17 February 1890 USA[br]American inventor of the first commercially successful typewriter.[br]Sholes was born on his parents' farm, of a family that had originally come from England. After leaving school at 14, he was apprenticed for four years to the local newspaper, the Danville Intelligencer. He moved with his parents to Wisconsin, where he followed his trade as journalist and printer, within a year becoming State Printer and taking charge of the House journal of the State Legislature. When he was 20 he left home and joined his brother in Madison, Wisconsin, on the staff of the Wisconsin Enquirer. After marrying, he took the editorship of the Southport Telegraph, until he became Postmaster of Southport. His experiences as journalist and postmaster drew him into politics and, in spite of the delicate nature of his health and personality, he served with credit as State Senator and in the State Assembly. In 1860 he moved to Milwaukee, where he became Editor of the local paper until President Lincoln offered him the post of Collector of Customs at Milwaukee.That position at last gave Sholes time to develop his undoubted inventive talents. With a machinist friend, Samuel W.Soule, he obtained a patent for a paging machine and another two years later for a machine for numbering the blank pages of a book serially. At the small machine shop where they worked, there was a third inventor, Carlos Glidden. It was Glidden who suggested to Sholes that, in view of his numbering machine, he would be well equipped to develop a letter printing machine. Glidden drew Sholes's attention to an account of a writing machine that had recently been invented in London by John Pratt, and Sholes was so seized with the idea that he devoted the rest of his life to perfecting the machine. With Glidden and Soule, he took out a patent for a typewriter on June 1868 followed by two further patents for improvements. Sholes struggled unsuccessfully for five years to exploit his invention; his two partners gave up their rights in it and finally, on 1 March 1873, Sholes himself sold his rights to the Remington Arms Company for $12,000. With their mechanical skills and equipment, Remingtons were able to perfect the Sholes typewriter and put it on the market. This, the first commercially successful typewriter, led to a revolution not only in office work, but also in work for women, although progress was slow at first. When the New York Young Women's Christian Association bought six Remingtons in 1881 to begin classes for young women, eight turned up for the first les-son; and five years later it was estimated that there were 60,000 female typists in the USA. Sholes said, "I feel that I have done something for the women who have always had to work so hard. This will more easily enable them to earn a living."Sholes continued his work on the typewriter, giving Remingtons the benefit of his results. His last patent was granted in 1878. Never very strong, Sholes became consumptive and spent much of his remaining nine years in the vain pursuit of health.[br]Bibliography23 June 1868, US patent no. 79,265 (the first typewriter patent).Further ReadingM.H.Adler, 1973, The Writing Machine, London: Allen \& Unwin.LRDBiographical history of technology > Sholes, Christopher Latham
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11 Smith, Sir Francis Pettit
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 9 February 1808 Copperhurst Farm, near Hythe, Kent, Englandd. 12 February 1874 South Kensington, London, England[br]English inventor of the screw propeller.[br]Smith was the only son of Charles Smith, Postmaster at Hythe, and his wife Sarah (née Pettit). After education at a private school in Ashford, Kent, he took to farming, first on Romney Marsh, then at Hendon, Middlesex. As a boy, he showed much skill in the construction of model boats, especially in devising their means of propulsion. He maintained this interest into adult life and in 1835 he made a model propelled by a screw driven by a spring. This worked so well that he became convinced that the screw propeller offered a better method of propulsion than the paddle wheels that were then in general use. This notion so fired his enthusiasm that he virtually gave up farming to devote himself to perfecting his invention. The following year he produced a better model, which he successfully demonstrated to friends on his farm at Hendon and afterwards to the public at the Adelaide Gallery in London. On 31 May 1836 Smith was granted a patent for the propulsion of vessels by means of a screw.The idea of screw propulsion was not new, however, for it had been mooted as early as the seventeenth century and since then several proposals had been advanced, but without successful practical application. Indeed, simultaneously but quite independently of Smith, the Swedish engineer John Ericsson had invented the ship's propeller and obtained a patent on 13 July 1836, just weeks after Smith. But Smith was completely unaware of this and pursued his own device in the belief that he was the sole inventor.With some financial and technical backing, Smith was able to construct a 10 ton boat driven by a screw and powered by a steam engine of about 6 hp (4.5 kW). After showing it off to the public, Smith tried it out at sea, from Ramsgate round to Dover and Hythe, returning in stormy weather. The screw performed well in both calm and rough water. The engineering world seemed opposed to the new method of propulsion, but the Admiralty gave cautious encouragement in 1839 by ordering that the 237 ton Archimedes be equipped with a screw. It showed itself superior to the Vulcan, one of the fastest paddle-driven ships in the Navy. The ship was put through its paces in several ports, including Bristol, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel was constructing his Great Britain, the first large iron ocean-going vessel. Brunel was so impressed that he adapted his ship for screw propulsion.Meanwhile, in spite of favourable reports, the Admiralty were dragging their feet and ordered further trials, fitting Smith's four-bladed propeller to the Rattler, then under construction and completed in 1844. The trials were a complete success and propelled their lordships of the Admiralty to a decision to equip twenty ships with screw propulsion, under Smith's supervision.At last the superiority of screw propulsion was generally accepted and virtually universally adopted. Yet Smith gained little financial reward for his invention and in 1850 he retired to Guernsey to resume his farming life. In 1860 financial pressures compelled him to accept the position of Curator of Patent Models at the Patent Museum in South Kensington, London, a post he held until his death. Belated recognition by the Government, then headed by Lord Palmerston, came in 1855 with the grant of an annual pension of £200. Two years later Smith received unofficial recognition when he was presented with a national testimonial, consisting of a service of plate and nearly £3,000 in cash subscribed largely by the shipbuilding and engineering community. Finally, in 1871 Smith was honoured with a knighthood.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1871.Further ReadingObituary, 1874, Illustrated London News (7 February).1856, On the Invention and Progress of the Screw Propeller, London (provides biographical details).Smith and his invention are referred to in papers in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 14 (1934): 9; 19 (1939): 145–8, 155–7, 161–4, 237–9.LRDBiographical history of technology > Smith, Sir Francis Pettit
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12 Knowledge
It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word, all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But, with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it into question may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. For, what are the forementioned objects but things we perceive by sense? and what do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? and is it not plainly repugnant that any one of these, or any combination of them, should exist unperceived? (Berkeley, 1996, Pt. I, No. 4, p. 25)It seems to me that the only objects of the abstract sciences or of demonstration are quantity and number, and that all attempts to extend this more perfect species of knowledge beyond these bounds are mere sophistry and illusion. As the component parts of quantity and number are entirely similar, their relations become intricate and involved; and nothing can be more curious, as well as useful, than to trace, by a variety of mediums, their equality or inequality, through their different appearances.But as all other ideas are clearly distinct and different from each other, we can never advance farther, by our utmost scrutiny, than to observe this diversity, and, by an obvious reflection, pronounce one thing not to be another. Or if there be any difficulty in these decisions, it proceeds entirely from the undeterminate meaning of words, which is corrected by juster definitions. That the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides cannot be known, let the terms be ever so exactly defined, without a train of reasoning and enquiry. But to convince us of this proposition, that where there is no property, there can be no injustice, it is only necessary to define the terms, and explain injustice to be a violation of property. This proposition is, indeed, nothing but a more imperfect definition. It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration. (Hume, 1975, Sec. 12, Pt. 3, pp. 163-165)Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (the ability to receive impressions), the second is the power to know an object through these representations (spontaneity in the production of concepts).Through the first, an object is given to us; through the second, the object is thought in relation to that representation.... Intuition and concepts constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Both may be either pure or empirical.... Pure intuitions or pure concepts are possible only a priori; empirical intuitions and empirical concepts only a posteriori. If the receptivity of our mind, its power of receiving representations in so far as it is in any way affected, is to be called "sensibility," then the mind's power of producing representations from itself, the spontaneity of knowledge, should be called "understanding." Our nature is so constituted that our intuitions can never be other than sensible; that is, it contains only the mode in which we are affected by objects. The faculty, on the other hand, which enables us to think the object of sensible intuition is the understanding.... Without sensibility, no object would be given to us; without understanding, no object would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind. It is therefore just as necessary to make our concepts sensible, that is, to add the object to them in intuition, as to make our intuitions intelligible, that is to bring them under concepts. These two powers or capacities cannot exchange their functions. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise. (Kant, 1933, Sec. 1, Pt. 2, B74-75 [p. 92])Metaphysics, as a natural disposition of Reason is real, but it is also, in itself, dialectical and deceptive.... Hence to attempt to draw our principles from it, and in their employment to follow this natural but none the less fallacious illusion can never produce science, but only an empty dialectical art, in which one school may indeed outdo the other, but none can ever attain a justifiable and lasting success. In order that, as a science, it may lay claim not merely to deceptive persuasion, but to insight and conviction, a Critique of Reason must exhibit in a complete system the whole stock of conceptions a priori, arranged according to their different sources-the Sensibility, the understanding, and the Reason; it must present a complete table of these conceptions, together with their analysis and all that can be deduced from them, but more especially the possibility of synthetic knowledge a priori by means of their deduction, the principles of its use, and finally, its boundaries....This much is certain: he who has once tried criticism will be sickened for ever of all the dogmatic trash he was compelled to content himself with before, because his Reason, requiring something, could find nothing better for its occupation. Criticism stands to the ordinary school metaphysics exactly in the same relation as chemistry to alchemy, or as astron omy to fortune-telling astrology. I guarantee that no one who has comprehended and thought out the conclusions of criticism, even in these Prolegomena, will ever return to the old sophistical pseudo-science. He will rather look forward with a kind of pleasure to a metaphysics, certainly now within his power, which requires no more preparatory discoveries, and which alone can procure for reason permanent satisfaction. (Kant, 1891, pp. 115-116)Knowledge is only real and can only be set forth fully in the form of science, in the form of system. Further, a so-called fundamental proposition or first principle of philosophy, even if it is true, it is yet none the less false, just because and in so far as it is merely a fundamental proposition, merely a first principle. It is for that reason easily refuted. The refutation consists in bringing out its defective character; and it is defective because it is merely the universal, merely a principle, the beginning. If the refutation is complete and thorough, it is derived and developed from the nature of the principle itself, and not accomplished by bringing in from elsewhere other counter-assurances and chance fancies. It would be strictly the development of the principle, and thus the completion of its deficiency, were it not that it misunderstands its own purport by taking account solely of the negative aspect of what it seeks to do, and is not conscious of the positive character of its process and result. The really positive working out of the beginning is at the same time just as much the very reverse: it is a negative attitude towards the principle we start from. Negative, that is to say, in its one-sided form, which consists in being primarily immediate, a mere purpose. It may therefore be regarded as a refutation of what constitutes the basis of the system; but more correctly it should be looked at as a demonstration that the basis or principle of the system is in point of fact merely its beginning. (Hegel, 1910, pp. 21-22)Knowledge, action, and evaluation are essentially connected. The primary and pervasive significance of knowledge lies in its guidance of action: knowing is for the sake of doing. And action, obviously, is rooted in evaluation. For a being which did not assign comparative values, deliberate action would be pointless; and for one which did not know, it would be impossible. Conversely, only an active being could have knowledge, and only such a being could assign values to anything beyond his own feelings. A creature which did not enter into the process of reality to alter in some part the future content of it, could apprehend a world only in the sense of intuitive or esthetic contemplation; and such contemplation would not possess the significance of knowledge but only that of enjoying and suffering. (Lewis, 1946, p. 1)"Evolutionary epistemology" is a branch of scholarship that applies the evolutionary perspective to an understanding of how knowledge develops. Knowledge always involves getting information. The most primitive way of acquiring it is through the sense of touch: amoebas and other simple organisms know what happens around them only if they can feel it with their "skins." The knowledge such an organism can have is strictly about what is in its immediate vicinity. After a huge jump in evolution, organisms learned to find out what was going on at a distance from them, without having to actually feel the environment. This jump involved the development of sense organs for processing information that was farther away. For a long time, the most important sources of knowledge were the nose, the eyes, and the ears. The next big advance occurred when organisms developed memory. Now information no longer needed to be present at all, and the animal could recall events and outcomes that happened in the past. Each one of these steps in the evolution of knowledge added important survival advantages to the species that was equipped to use it.Then, with the appearance in evolution of humans, an entirely new way of acquiring information developed. Up to this point, the processing of information was entirely intrasomatic.... But when speech appeared (and even more powerfully with the invention of writing), information processing became extrasomatic. After that point knowledge did not have to be stored in the genes, or in the memory traces of the brain; it could be passed on from one person to another through words, or it could be written down and stored on a permanent substance like stone, paper, or silicon chips-in any case, outside the fragile and impermanent nervous system. (Csikszentmihalyi, 1993, pp. 56-57)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Knowledge
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13 extra
ˈekstrə
1. сущ.
1) обыкн. мн. доплата, наценка She is disgusted by big hotels adding so many extras to the bill that it nearly doubles. ≈ Она возмущается большими отелями, в которых к основному счету добавляется так много доплат, что он практически удваивается.
2) услуги, вещи и т. п., предоставляемые за дополнительную плату Optional extras include cooking tuition at a top restaurant. ≈ Дополнительные услуги включают обучение кулинарному искусству в лучшем ресторане.
3) специальный, экстренный выпуск( газеты) to issue, publish, put out an extra ≈ выпускать экстренный номер
4) театр., кино статист
5) высший сорт, экстра
2. прил.
1) добавочный, дополнительный Extra staff have been taken on to cover busy periods. ≈ Был набран дополнительный штат, чтобы обеспечить выполнение работы в загруженное время. extra duty ≈ дополнительные обязанности extra work ≈ дополнительная работа Syn: additional, supplementary
2) подлежащий дополнительной оплате The price of your meal is extra. ≈ За еду взимается дополнительная плата.
3) высшего качества extra quality ≈ высшего качества Syn: superior
1.
3. нареч.
1) отдельно, дополнительно The cost of packing is L75 extra. ≈ Стоимость упаковки - 75 фунтов стерлингов дополнительно. Technical service will be charged extra. ≈Техническое обслуживание будет оплачиваться дополнительно. The larger edition contains three maps extra. ≈ Большее издание содержит дополнительно три карты.
2) разг. особо, особенно I'd have to be extra careful. ≈ Я должен быть особенно осторожным. We were all told to try extra hard to be nice to him. ≈ Нам было сказано, что мы должны особо постараться и быть с ним повежливее. extra dry ≈ брют (сверх сухое шампанское) Syn: especially особая плата, приплата;
наценка - no *s без всяких приплат( в объявлениях гостиниц означает, что услуги, отопление и т. п. включаются в цену номера) - to pay a little * to a chauffeur немного приплатить шоферу что-л. предоставляемое за дополнительную плату - the school fees are $10 a term, singing and dancing are *s обучение в школе стоит 10 долларов в семестр, за уроки танцев и музыки взимается особая плата экстренный выпуск( газеты) высший сорт;
сорт экстра (американизм) (разговорное) временный, сезонный рабочий (кинематографический) (театроведение) (разговорное) статист;
статистка;
актер массовки (техническое) дополнительные, нестандартные или поставляемые за особую плату принадлежности - a new car equipped with many *s новый автомобиль с массой дополнительных приспособлений добавочный, дополнительный - * amount излишек - * edition дополнительный тираж( газеты) ;
экстренный выпуск - * hours сверхурочные часы - * pay дополнительная оплата;
добавочный оклад - * postage дополнительная почтовая оплата - * period /time/ (спортивное) добавочное /дополнительное/ время - * player( кинематографический) (театроведение) статист;
статистка;
актер массовки - * allowances( военное) добавочное денежное довольствие - * fare /messing/ (военное) дополнительное питание - * nutrition( сельскохозяйственное) подкормка подлежащий особой оплате - room service is * за подачу еды и напитков в номера взимается дополнительная плата особый, специальный;
экстраординарный - * size большой размер( одежды) ;
(военное) дополнительный рост (обмундирования) - * allowance /discount/ (коммерческое) особая скидка - * charge особая плата - * duty (военное) наряд вне очереди - * excitation (медицина) перевозбуждение - * risks (страхование) особые риски высшего качества - * grade сорт экстра - * binding роскошный переплет( специальное) лишний, избыточный особо, особенно;
отдельно;
дополнительно - * strong binding особо прочный переплет - * large sizes размеры для полных и высоких - an * high price чрезвычайно высокая цена - to work * работать сверхурочно - to work * well работать особенно хорошо ~ дополнительно;
charged extra оплачиваемый дополнительно extra высшего качества ~ высший сорт ~ добавочный, дополнительный;
extra duty дополнительные обязанности ~ добавочный, дополнительный ~ добавочный ~ дополнительно;
charged extra оплачиваемый дополнительно ~ (что-л.) дополнительное;
сверх программы;
приплата;
service, fire and light are extras за услуги, отопление и освещение особая плата ~ дополнительный ~ лишний, излишний;
she has nothing extra around her waist у нее безукоризненная талия;
= ничего лишнего ~ pl накладные расходы ~ наценка ~ особая плата, наценка ~ особая платиа ~ особо, особенно ~ особый ~ приплата ~ сорт экстра ~ специальный ~ театр., кино статист ~ экстра ~ экстраординарный ~ экстренный выпуск (газеты) ~ (что-л.) дополнительное;
сверх программы;
приплата;
service, fire and light are extras за услуги, отопление и освещение особая плата pay ~ производить дополнительный платеж ~ (что-л.) дополнительное;
сверх программы;
приплата;
service, fire and light are extras за услуги, отопление и освещение особая плата service: service = service-tree ~ вчт. абонентский ~ вручение( судебного документа) ~ долговечность ~ заправлять( горючим) ~ мор. клетневание ~ обслуживание, сервис ~ обслуживание ~ обслуживать ~ оплата ~ оплачивать ~ повинность ~ погашать ~ погашение долга ~ спорт. подача( мяча) ~ проводить осмотр и текущий ремонт (машины и т. п.) ~ проводить техническое обслуживание ~ работа ~ воен. род войск;
the (fighting) services армия, флот и военная авиация ~ связь ~ сервиз ~ сервис ~ церк. служба;
to say a service отправлять богослужение ~ служба (область работы и т. п.) ;
Civil Service государственная (гражданская) служба;
National Service воинская или трудовая повинность( в Англии) ~ служба;
to take into one's service нанимать;
to take service (with smb.) поступать на службу (к кому-л.) ~ служба, личный наем, обслуживание, услуга ~ служба ~ вчт. служебный ~ случать ~ сообщение, связь, движение;
рейсы ~ сообщение ~ срок службы ~ судебное извещение ~ сфера деятельности ~ техническое обслуживание ~ уплата ~ уплата дивидендов ~ уплата капитальной суммы ~ уплата процентов ~ уплачивать ~ уплачивать дивиденды ~ услуга, одолжение;
at your service к вашим услугам;
to be of service быть полезным ~ услуга ~ уход ~ эксплуатация ~ эксплуатировать ~ лишний, излишний;
she has nothing extra around her waist у нее безукоризненная талия;
= ничего лишнего -
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1. [ʹekstrə] n1. 1) часто pl особая плата, приплата; наценкаno extras - без всяких приплат (в объявлениях гостиниц означает, что услуги, отопление и т. п. включаются в цену номера)
to pay a little extra to a chauffeur [for a larger room] - немного приплатить шофёру [за большую комнату]
2) что-л. предоставляемое за дополнительную платуthe school fees are £10 a term, singing and dancing are extras - обучение в школе стоит 10 фунтов в семестр, за уроки танцев и музыки взимается особая плата
2. экстренный выпуск ( газеты)3. высший сорт; сорт экстра4. амер. разг. временный, сезонный рабочий2. [ʹekstrə] aa new car equipped with many extras - новый автомобиль с массой дополнительных приспособлений
1. 1) добавочный, дополнительныйextra edition - а) дополнительный тираж ( газеты); б) экстренный выпуск
extra pay - а) дополнительная оплата; б) добавочный оклад
extra period /time/ - спорт. добавочное /дополнительное/ время
extra player - кино, театр. статист; статистка; актёр массовки
extra allowances - воен. добавочное денежное довольствие [ср. тж. 2]
extra fare /messing/ - воен. дополнительное питание
extra nutrition - с.-х. подкормка
2) подлежащий особой оплатеroom service is extra - за подачу еды и напитков в номера взимается дополнительная плата
2. особый, специальный; экстраординарныйextra size - а) большой размер ( одежды); б) воен. дополнительный рост ( обмундирования)
extra allowance /discount/ - ком. особая скидка [ср. тж. 1, 1)]
extra duty - воен. наряд вне очереди
extra excitation - мед. перевозбуждение
extra risks - страх. особые риски
3. высшего качества4. спец. лишний, избыточный3. [ʹekstrə] advособо, особенно; отдельно; дополнительноto work extra - работать, сверхурочно
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1. [ʹekstrə] n1. 1) часто pl особая плата, приплата; наценкаno extras - без всяких приплат (в объявлениях гостиниц означает, что услуги, отопление и т. п. включаются в цену номера)
to pay a little extra to a chauffeur [for a larger room] - немного приплатить шофёру [за большую комнату]
2) что-л. предоставляемое за дополнительную платуthe school fees are £10 a term, singing and dancing are extras - обучение в школе стоит 10 фунтов в семестр, за уроки танцев и музыки взимается особая плата
2. экстренный выпуск ( газеты)3. высший сорт; сорт экстра4. амер. разг. временный, сезонный рабочий2. [ʹekstrə] aa new car equipped with many extras - новый автомобиль с массой дополнительных приспособлений
1. 1) добавочный, дополнительныйextra edition - а) дополнительный тираж ( газеты); б) экстренный выпуск
extra pay - а) дополнительная оплата; б) добавочный оклад
extra period /time/ - спорт. добавочное /дополнительное/ время
extra player - кино, театр. статист; статистка; актёр массовки
extra allowances - воен. добавочное денежное довольствие [ср. тж. 2]
extra fare /messing/ - воен. дополнительное питание
extra nutrition - с.-х. подкормка
2) подлежащий особой оплатеroom service is extra - за подачу еды и напитков в номера взимается дополнительная плата
2. особый, специальный; экстраординарныйextra size - а) большой размер ( одежды); б) воен. дополнительный рост ( обмундирования)
extra allowance /discount/ - ком. особая скидка [ср. тж. 1, 1)]
extra duty - воен. наряд вне очереди
extra excitation - мед. перевозбуждение
extra risks - страх. особые риски
3. высшего качества4. спец. лишний, избыточный3. [ʹekstrə] advособо, особенно; отдельно; дополнительноto work extra - работать, сверхурочно
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16 poorly
adverb (not well; badly: a poorly written essay.) malpoorly1 adj pachucho / maluchopoorly2 adv maltr['pʊəlɪ]1 (ill) indispuesto,-a, pachucho,-a1 (badly) mal■ poorly dressed mal vestido,-apoorly ['pʊrli, 'por-] adv: maladv.• mal adv.• pobremente adv.
I 'pʊrli, 'pɔːli, 'pʊəliadjective (pred) (esp BrE) malto be/feel poorly — estar*/sentirse* mal or (Esp fam) pachucho
II
a) ( badly) <perform/play> malb) ( showing signs of poverty) pobremente['pʊǝlɪ]1. ADV1) (=badly) [designed, equipped] mal•
to do poorly, she did poorly in history — sacó mala nota en historia•
the room/road was poorly lit — la habitación/la carretera estaba mal iluminada2) (=meagrely, shabbily) pobremente2.ADJ (esp Brit) (=ill) enfermo•
to be/ feel poorly — estar/encontrarse mal, estar/encontrarse pachucho or malucho *•
to look poorly — tener mal aspecto* * *
I ['pʊrli, 'pɔːli, 'pʊəli]adjective (pred) (esp BrE) malto be/feel poorly — estar*/sentirse* mal or (Esp fam) pachucho
II
a) ( badly) <perform/play> malb) ( showing signs of poverty) pobremente
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