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3 поглотить
1. engross2. engulf3. absorb4. imbibe5. merge6. take7. swallow up; devour; absorbСинонимический ряд:1. вобрать (глаг.) вобрать; впитать; всосать2. съесть (глаг.) поесть; пожрать; проглотить; скушать; слопать; сожрать; стрескать; съесть; убрать; умять; уничтожить; уписать; уплести; усидеть -
4 средство средств·о
1) (для осуществления чего-л.) means; мн. (технические) devicesпустить в ход выигрышное или последнее средство — to play (one's) trump-card
дипломатическое средство (против кого-л.) — diplomatic expedient (against smb.)
мирные средства — peaceful / pacific means
национальные средства контроля / проверки (выполнения соглашения) — national means of verification
спасительное средство — sure / wonder-working remedy
средства ведения войны — means of war / warfare
средство для достижения цели — leverage, instrument, means to an end, expeilient
незначительное / мелкое событие, в высшей степени раздутое средствами массовой информации — mass media event амер.
средства массового уничтожения — means of mass destruction / annihilation
средства, обеспечивающие выполнение договора — means to secure the performance of a treaty
средство платежа (о функции денег) — medium / means of payment
средство пропаганды — means of propaganda, vehicle for propaganda
средства связи — means / medium of communication
сдерживания / устрашения — deterrent
средства существования — means of subsistence / living
средства формирования общественного мнения — media forming / building / moulding public opinion
2)3) мн.эк. — resources, funds; (активы) assetsвыделять средства для чего-л. — to allocate funds for smth.
направлять средство на что-л. — to channel funds for smth.
получать средство (напр. путём выпуска акций) — to raise the finances
государственные средство — public / state funds
денежные / платежные средства — means, funds
денежные средство, имеющиеся в наличии — available funds
денежные средство, инвестированные в ценные бумаги — tied-up funds
законное платёжное средство — legal / lawful / common tender
оборотные средства — current / circulating assets
основные средство — permanent assets; fixed capital
средства, высвобождающиеся в результате сокращения военных бюджетов — funds released as a result of a reduction of military budgets
средство а, поглощаемые гонкой вооружений — resources absorbed by the arms race
средство, сэкономленные в результате разоружения — disarmament dividends
средство, управляемые по доверенности — trusteed funds
4) юр.средство правовой / судебной защиты — (legal) remedy
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5 absorb
1. v всасывать, впитывать; поглощать; абсорбировать2. v поглощать; включать в своё число, присоединять; принимать3. v поглощать, захватывать4. v понимать, постигать, улавливать, схватывать5. v оплачивать, брать на себяthe company will absorb all the research costs — компания оплатит все расходы на научные исследования
6. v вынести, выдержать; переноситьthe boxer absorbed the punches without buckling — боксёр устоял на ногах; боксёр хорошо держал удар
7. v тех. амортизироватьСинонимический ряд:1. assimilate (verb) assimilate; blot; cushion; devour; digest; drink; engulf; imbibe; incorporate; inhaust; insorb; soak; soak up; sop; sponge2. captivate (verb) captivate; enthrall; fascinate; interest3. consume (verb) consume; engross; immerse; monopolise; monopolize; preoccupy; sew up4. occupy (verb) employ; engage; occupy5. understand (verb) grasp; learn; sense; understandАнтонимический ряд:bore; disperse; dissipate; distract; eject; emit; exude; spew; weary -
6 PAR
1) Общая лексика: Personnel Action Request, Pre-Assembled Rack2) Компьютерная техника: Pdb Atom Record, Peer Assistance Review3) Биология: фотосинтетически активная радиация4) Авиация: радар точного захода на посадку (Precision Approach Radar - a ground-radar based instrument approach which provides both horizontal and vertical guidance), рейтинг контроля подхода по радиолокатору точного захода на посадку5) Медицина: protease activated receptor (активируемый протеиназой рецептор), post anesthesia recovery6) Американизм: Pension Adjustment Reversal, Personnel Action Required, Personnel Activity Reporting, Problem Approach Resolution8) Военный термин: Patient Accounting and Reporting, Personnel Accountability Report, Population at Risk, Program Analysis Report, Program Assessment Review, peacetime airborne reconnaissance, performance analysis and review, performance appraisal report, perimeter acquisition radar, phased array radar, priority action report, priority action request, probabilistic analysis of risk, problem action record, problem action report, problem action request, problem analysis report, program adjustment request, program administrator's report, program appraisal and review, program appraisal report, progressive aircraft reconditioning, progressive aircraft rework, project audit report, promotion appraisal report, public affairs regulations, pulse acquisition radar, purchasing approval request, РЛС с ФАР (фазированной антенной решёткой)9) Техника: Parabolic Aluminum Reflector, Pennsylvania Advanced Reactor, Princeton applied research laboratory, passive autocatalytic recombiner, peak-to-average meter, performance autocatalytic report, phased-array radar, probability of being available and reliable, program-aid routine, protective action recommendations, pyridylazoresorcin, посадочная радиолокационная станция10) Сельское хозяйство: Plant A Row, potassium absorption ratio11) Шутливое выражение: Pagan Association Of Red, People Against Reality13) Бухгалтерия: Pre Authorized Remittance, Public Accounting Report14) Страхование: participating insurance15) Астрономия: Photon Activity Rate16) Телекоммуникации: Positive Acknowledgment with Retransmission17) Сокращение: Parcels (MODS report abbreviation), Performance and Reliability, Postage Adjustment Record (in Mail.dat, 2007), Power Analyser & Recorder, Preventive Aircraft Repair, Program Assessment Review (USA), Program for Alcoholic Recovery, Progressive Aircraft Rework (USA), parameter, Page Address Register18) Университет: Participatory Action Research19) Физиология: Peak To Average Ratio, Pelvic Anterior Rotation20) Вычислительная техника: positive acknowledgment and retransmission, Project Authorization Request (IEEE), Positive Acknowledgement with Retransmission (protocols)21) Нефть: per acre rental, personnel approval request, pre-assembled piperack, вероятность эксплуатационной готовности и безотказной работы (probability of being available and reliable), рабочие характеристики и надёжность (performance and reliability), Project Analysis & Review (при подготовке тендерной документации)22) Аллергология: Perennial allergic rhinitis23) Иммунология: product of antigenic recognition, pseudoallergic reaction24) Банковское дело: Portfolio-at-Risk (кредитный) портфель под риском / риск портфеля (сумма всех займов на руках у клиентов, имеющих один или более просроченный платеж по сумме основного долга больше определенного количества дней.)25) Транспорт: Police Accident Report, Precision Approach Radar, Preferential Arrival Route26) Фирменный знак: Paige Adler Racing, Peel Activities And Rehabilitation, Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.27) Экология: photosynthetically active radiation28) СМИ: Personal Audio Recorder29) Деловая лексика: Problem Action Result, Problem Action Results30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: pumparound31) Образование: Parental Awareness And Responsibility, Participation Attitude And Responsibility, Preparation Assistance And Reflection, Pride Acceptance Respect32) Сетевые технологии: Pnni Augmented Routing, positive acknowledgement and retransmission, подтверждение приёма с повторной передачей33) Химическое оружие: Progress Action Report34) Безопасность: Privacy Act Release35) Расширение файла: Permanent output file, Personal Animation Recorder, Processor Address Register, Parts application (Digitalk PARTS), Parameter file (Fractint), Windows swap file36) Нефть и газ: pipe racks37) МИД: precision approach radar (equipment)38) Яхтенный спорт: Парагвай (Обозначения на парусах)39) Компьютерная графика: pixel aspect ratio40) Должность: Performance Average Rating -
7 Par
1) Общая лексика: Personnel Action Request, Pre-Assembled Rack2) Компьютерная техника: Pdb Atom Record, Peer Assistance Review3) Биология: фотосинтетически активная радиация4) Авиация: радар точного захода на посадку (Precision Approach Radar - a ground-radar based instrument approach which provides both horizontal and vertical guidance), рейтинг контроля подхода по радиолокатору точного захода на посадку5) Медицина: protease activated receptor (активируемый протеиназой рецептор), post anesthesia recovery6) Американизм: Pension Adjustment Reversal, Personnel Action Required, Personnel Activity Reporting, Problem Approach Resolution8) Военный термин: Patient Accounting and Reporting, Personnel Accountability Report, Population at Risk, Program Analysis Report, Program Assessment Review, peacetime airborne reconnaissance, performance analysis and review, performance appraisal report, perimeter acquisition radar, phased array radar, priority action report, priority action request, probabilistic analysis of risk, problem action record, problem action report, problem action request, problem analysis report, program adjustment request, program administrator's report, program appraisal and review, program appraisal report, progressive aircraft reconditioning, progressive aircraft rework, project audit report, promotion appraisal report, public affairs regulations, pulse acquisition radar, purchasing approval request, РЛС с ФАР (фазированной антенной решёткой)9) Техника: Parabolic Aluminum Reflector, Pennsylvania Advanced Reactor, Princeton applied research laboratory, passive autocatalytic recombiner, peak-to-average meter, performance autocatalytic report, phased-array radar, probability of being available and reliable, program-aid routine, protective action recommendations, pyridylazoresorcin, посадочная радиолокационная станция10) Сельское хозяйство: Plant A Row, potassium absorption ratio11) Шутливое выражение: Pagan Association Of Red, People Against Reality13) Бухгалтерия: Pre Authorized Remittance, Public Accounting Report14) Страхование: participating insurance15) Астрономия: Photon Activity Rate16) Телекоммуникации: Positive Acknowledgment with Retransmission17) Сокращение: Parcels (MODS report abbreviation), Performance and Reliability, Postage Adjustment Record (in Mail.dat, 2007), Power Analyser & Recorder, Preventive Aircraft Repair, Program Assessment Review (USA), Program for Alcoholic Recovery, Progressive Aircraft Rework (USA), parameter, Page Address Register18) Университет: Participatory Action Research19) Физиология: Peak To Average Ratio, Pelvic Anterior Rotation20) Вычислительная техника: positive acknowledgment and retransmission, Project Authorization Request (IEEE), Positive Acknowledgement with Retransmission (protocols)21) Нефть: per acre rental, personnel approval request, pre-assembled piperack, вероятность эксплуатационной готовности и безотказной работы (probability of being available and reliable), рабочие характеристики и надёжность (performance and reliability), Project Analysis & Review (при подготовке тендерной документации)22) Аллергология: Perennial allergic rhinitis23) Иммунология: product of antigenic recognition, pseudoallergic reaction24) Банковское дело: Portfolio-at-Risk (кредитный) портфель под риском / риск портфеля (сумма всех займов на руках у клиентов, имеющих один или более просроченный платеж по сумме основного долга больше определенного количества дней.)25) Транспорт: Police Accident Report, Precision Approach Radar, Preferential Arrival Route26) Фирменный знак: Paige Adler Racing, Peel Activities And Rehabilitation, Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.27) Экология: photosynthetically active radiation28) СМИ: Personal Audio Recorder29) Деловая лексика: Problem Action Result, Problem Action Results30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: pumparound31) Образование: Parental Awareness And Responsibility, Participation Attitude And Responsibility, Preparation Assistance And Reflection, Pride Acceptance Respect32) Сетевые технологии: Pnni Augmented Routing, positive acknowledgement and retransmission, подтверждение приёма с повторной передачей33) Химическое оружие: Progress Action Report34) Безопасность: Privacy Act Release35) Расширение файла: Permanent output file, Personal Animation Recorder, Processor Address Register, Parts application (Digitalk PARTS), Parameter file (Fractint), Windows swap file36) Нефть и газ: pipe racks37) МИД: precision approach radar (equipment)38) Яхтенный спорт: Парагвай (Обозначения на парусах)39) Компьютерная графика: pixel aspect ratio40) Должность: Performance Average Rating -
8 par
1) Общая лексика: Personnel Action Request, Pre-Assembled Rack2) Компьютерная техника: Pdb Atom Record, Peer Assistance Review3) Биология: фотосинтетически активная радиация4) Авиация: радар точного захода на посадку (Precision Approach Radar - a ground-radar based instrument approach which provides both horizontal and vertical guidance), рейтинг контроля подхода по радиолокатору точного захода на посадку5) Медицина: protease activated receptor (активируемый протеиназой рецептор), post anesthesia recovery6) Американизм: Pension Adjustment Reversal, Personnel Action Required, Personnel Activity Reporting, Problem Approach Resolution8) Военный термин: Patient Accounting and Reporting, Personnel Accountability Report, Population at Risk, Program Analysis Report, Program Assessment Review, peacetime airborne reconnaissance, performance analysis and review, performance appraisal report, perimeter acquisition radar, phased array radar, priority action report, priority action request, probabilistic analysis of risk, problem action record, problem action report, problem action request, problem analysis report, program adjustment request, program administrator's report, program appraisal and review, program appraisal report, progressive aircraft reconditioning, progressive aircraft rework, project audit report, promotion appraisal report, public affairs regulations, pulse acquisition radar, purchasing approval request, РЛС с ФАР (фазированной антенной решёткой)9) Техника: Parabolic Aluminum Reflector, Pennsylvania Advanced Reactor, Princeton applied research laboratory, passive autocatalytic recombiner, peak-to-average meter, performance autocatalytic report, phased-array radar, probability of being available and reliable, program-aid routine, protective action recommendations, pyridylazoresorcin, посадочная радиолокационная станция10) Сельское хозяйство: Plant A Row, potassium absorption ratio11) Шутливое выражение: Pagan Association Of Red, People Against Reality13) Бухгалтерия: Pre Authorized Remittance, Public Accounting Report14) Страхование: participating insurance15) Астрономия: Photon Activity Rate16) Телекоммуникации: Positive Acknowledgment with Retransmission17) Сокращение: Parcels (MODS report abbreviation), Performance and Reliability, Postage Adjustment Record (in Mail.dat, 2007), Power Analyser & Recorder, Preventive Aircraft Repair, Program Assessment Review (USA), Program for Alcoholic Recovery, Progressive Aircraft Rework (USA), parameter, Page Address Register18) Университет: Participatory Action Research19) Физиология: Peak To Average Ratio, Pelvic Anterior Rotation20) Вычислительная техника: positive acknowledgment and retransmission, Project Authorization Request (IEEE), Positive Acknowledgement with Retransmission (protocols)21) Нефть: per acre rental, personnel approval request, pre-assembled piperack, вероятность эксплуатационной готовности и безотказной работы (probability of being available and reliable), рабочие характеристики и надёжность (performance and reliability), Project Analysis & Review (при подготовке тендерной документации)22) Аллергология: Perennial allergic rhinitis23) Иммунология: product of antigenic recognition, pseudoallergic reaction24) Банковское дело: Portfolio-at-Risk (кредитный) портфель под риском / риск портфеля (сумма всех займов на руках у клиентов, имеющих один или более просроченный платеж по сумме основного долга больше определенного количества дней.)25) Транспорт: Police Accident Report, Precision Approach Radar, Preferential Arrival Route26) Фирменный знак: Paige Adler Racing, Peel Activities And Rehabilitation, Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.27) Экология: photosynthetically active radiation28) СМИ: Personal Audio Recorder29) Деловая лексика: Problem Action Result, Problem Action Results30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: pumparound31) Образование: Parental Awareness And Responsibility, Participation Attitude And Responsibility, Preparation Assistance And Reflection, Pride Acceptance Respect32) Сетевые технологии: Pnni Augmented Routing, positive acknowledgement and retransmission, подтверждение приёма с повторной передачей33) Химическое оружие: Progress Action Report34) Безопасность: Privacy Act Release35) Расширение файла: Permanent output file, Personal Animation Recorder, Processor Address Register, Parts application (Digitalk PARTS), Parameter file (Fractint), Windows swap file36) Нефть и газ: pipe racks37) МИД: precision approach radar (equipment)38) Яхтенный спорт: Парагвай (Обозначения на парусах)39) Компьютерная графика: pixel aspect ratio40) Должность: Performance Average Rating -
9 Introduction
Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.LAND AND PEOPLEThe Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into theAtlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)1864 4,287,000 first census1890 5,049,7001900 5,423,0001911 5,960,0001930 6,826,0001940 7,185,1431950 8,510,0001960 8,889,0001970 8,668,000* note decrease1980 9,833,0001991 9,862,5401996 9,934,1002006 10,642,8362010 10,710,000 (estimated) -
10 Science
It is a common notion, or at least it is implied in many common modes of speech, that the thoughts, feelings, and actions of sentient beings are not a subject of science.... This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject of science, which follow one another according to constant laws; although those laws may not have been discovered, nor even to be discoverable by our existing resources. (Mill, 1900, B. VI, Chap. 3, Sec. 1)One class of natural philosophers has always a tendency to combine the phenomena and to discover their analogies; another class, on the contrary, employs all its efforts in showing the disparities of things. Both tendencies are necessary for the perfection of science, the one for its progress, the other for its correctness. The philosophers of the first of these classes are guided by the sense of unity throughout nature; the philosophers of the second have their minds more directed towards the certainty of our knowledge. The one are absorbed in search of principles, and neglect often the peculiarities, and not seldom the strictness of demonstration; the other consider the science only as the investigation of facts, but in their laudable zeal they often lose sight of the harmony of the whole, which is the character of truth. Those who look for the stamp of divinity on every thing around them, consider the opposite pursuits as ignoble and even as irreligious; while those who are engaged in the search after truth, look upon the other as unphilosophical enthusiasts, and perhaps as phantastical contemners of truth.... This conflict of opinions keeps science alive, and promotes it by an oscillatory progress. (Oersted, 1920, p. 352)Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. (Einstein & Infeld, 1938, p. 27)A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Planck, 1949, pp. 33-34)[Original quotation: "Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, dass ihre Gegner ueberzeugt werden und sich as belehrt erklaeren, sondern vielmehr dadurch, dass die Gegner allmaehlich aussterben und dass die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut gemacht ist." (Planck, 1990, p. 15)]I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science. (Planck, 1949, p. 46)If you cannot-in the long run-tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless. (SchroЁdinger, 1951, pp. 7-8)Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. (Heisenberg, 1958, p. 168)The old scientific ideal of episteґmeґ-of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge-has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative forever. It may indeed be corroborated, but every corroboration is relative to other statements which, again, are tentative. Only in our subjective experiences of conviction, in our subjective faith, can we be "absolutely certain." (Popper, 1959, p. 280)The layman, taught to revere scientists for their absolute respect for the observed facts, and for the judiciously detached and purely provisional manner in which they hold scientific theories (always ready to abandon a theory at the sight of any contradictory evidence) might well have thought that, at Miller's announcement of this overwhelming evidence of a "positive effect" [indicating that the speed of light is not independent from the motion of the observer, as Einstein's theory of relativity demands] in his presidential address to the American Physical Society on December 29th, 1925, his audience would have instantly abandoned the theory of relativity. Or, at the very least, that scientists-wont to look down from the pinnacle of their intellectual humility upon the rest of dogmatic mankind-might suspend judgment in this matter until Miller's results could be accounted for without impairing the theory of relativity. But no: by that time they had so well closed their minds to any suggestion which threatened the new rationality achieved by Einstein's world-picture, that it was almost impossible for them to think again in different terms. Little attention was paid to the experiments, the evidence being set aside in the hope that it would one day turn out to be wrong. (Polanyi, 1958, pp. 12-13)The practice of normal science depends on the ability, acquired from examplars, to group objects and situations into similarity sets which are primitive in the sense that the grouping is done without an answer to the question, "Similar with respect to what?" (Kuhn, 1970, p. 200)Science in general... does not consist in collecting what we already know and arranging it in this or that kind of pattern. It consists in fastening upon something we do not know, and trying to discover it. (Collingwood, 1972, p. 9)Scientific fields emerge as the concerns of scientists congeal around various phenomena. Sciences are not defined, they are recognized. (Newell, 1973a, p. 1)This is often the way it is in physics-our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. I do not think it is possible really to understand the successes of science without understanding how hard it is-how easy it is to be led astray, how difficult it is to know at any time what is the next thing to be done. (Weinberg, 1977, p. 49)Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in a position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophize without "foundations." (Putnam, 1987, p. 29)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Science
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