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cf.
→ abbrev.
compare with.
- ORIGIN from L. confer ‘compare’.
obtain is a formal and often pretentious word, and no one should be afraid of using the perfectly respectable word get in most contexts.
pre-empt
→ verb [with obj.]
1. take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) happening; forestall: the government pre-empted a coup attempt.
• act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them doing something: it looked as if she'd ask him more, but Parr pre-empted her.
2. acquire or appropriate (something) in advance: many tables were already pre-empted by family parties.
• (N. Amer.) occupy (public land) so as to have a pre-emptive right to buy it before others.
3. [no obj.] (Bridge) make a pre-emptive bid.
Above definitions from the Oxford Reference Online Premium.
bilking argument
→ n.
argument against backward causation posed by Max Black (1956) .
It goes as follows. If an event in the future causes an effect in the past it is possible to pre-empt the future cause between the events such that the effect occurs but not the cause. Thus, "assuming preemption is allowed, backwards causation cannot occur."
See an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Still no word about the origin of the word bilking.
Weyl Curvature
→ n.
The curvature that exists in empty space. Why?
→ abbrev.
compare with.
- ORIGIN from L. confer ‘compare’.
obtain is a formal and often pretentious word, and no one should be afraid of using the perfectly respectable word get in most contexts.
pre-empt
→ verb [with obj.]
1. take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) happening; forestall: the government pre-empted a coup attempt.
• act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them doing something: it looked as if she'd ask him more, but Parr pre-empted her.
2. acquire or appropriate (something) in advance: many tables were already pre-empted by family parties.
• (N. Amer.) occupy (public land) so as to have a pre-emptive right to buy it before others.
3. [no obj.] (Bridge) make a pre-emptive bid.
Above definitions from the Oxford Reference Online Premium.
bilking argument
→ n.
argument against backward causation posed by Max Black (1956) .
It goes as follows. If an event in the future causes an effect in the past it is possible to pre-empt the future cause between the events such that the effect occurs but not the cause. Thus, "assuming preemption is allowed, backwards causation cannot occur."
See an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Still no word about the origin of the word bilking.
Weyl Curvature
→ n.
The curvature that exists in empty space. Why?
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