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The thought, "The body is a physical manifestation of the soul", can also be expressed as "The body tangibleizes the soul".
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
by but for June 24, 2018
Get the tangibleizemug. A different way to say "think," based on the fact that differentiating is a key function of thinking.
Is the ability to differentiate—to tell things apart, to distinguish between things, to determine which thing is better, which thing is more important—the essence of intelligence and also of thought? the researcher asked himself. His cousin, a stand-up comedian, word inventor, and word artist quipped, "might dif-FOR-en-ti-ate' mean the ability to differentiate what a thing is used 'for.' And could "differentiate" surreally mean, something along the lines of she ate differently, different she ate?
by but for December 26, 2017
Get the differentiatemug. Living by applying the scientific method to make the most important decisions, all along doing all one can to never make a decision based solely on an emotion.
Individuals who live scientifically make the most important decisions only after taking the scientific method's six steps: 1) asking a question, 2) doing background research, 3) constructing a hypothesis, 4) testing the hypothesis by doing an experiment, 5) analyzing the data and drawing a conclusion, and 6) writing down the results.
Scientific living also entails doing a great deal of observation, writing down as much as possible what one perceives, along with prioritizing, planning, and calculating likely outcomes.
The opposite of scientific living is living 'spur of the moment.'
Scientific living also entails doing a great deal of observation, writing down as much as possible what one perceives, along with prioritizing, planning, and calculating likely outcomes.
The opposite of scientific living is living 'spur of the moment.'
by but for January 8, 2018
Get the scientific livingmug. Though almost everyone mistakenly believes that learning to write is as difficult as learning to play a musical instrument, inspired by Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management principles, Richard Casey and Charles Cox began its easyfication in a social media group and where volunteers teach students the "one best way" to learn to give a writing a title, write an introductory clause, add a comma, add a semicolon, and perform the other 555 writing techniques he has systematized. Go Richard!
by but for March 19, 2020
Get the Easyficationmug. To the detriment of society war is glorified by Hollywood and the media, but its glorification and "gorycealment" (concealing the bloody parts of violence) also helps ensure that sufficient young taxpayers will enlist in the armed forces to protect the nation from or allow Americans to react to, for example, the asinine invasion of Pearl Harbor in 1941, or other types of attacks individuals tend to find adjectives for. "Was it rational to attack the Japanese for invading Pearl Harbor," the professor asked. A student replied that if the U.S. hadn't attacked Japan, that empire would have grown stronger and as far away as the U.S. is from Japan, like the United Kingdom took back the Malvina Islands, Japan could have successfully invaded and conquered the U.S. So to imposibilize that, President Roosevelt did the correct thing by retaliating and inserting the U.S. into WWII. Some individuals suspect that glorifying war is an act of glorifrycation. So much for glorifry.
by but for October 25, 2017
Get the Glorifrymug. Cannot be simplified (any further).
This new machine is unsimplifiable. It needs every one of its parts. That phrase is unsimplifiable, it is as simple as anyone can make it. That sentence is unsimplifiable, it needs every word in it. That paragraph is unsimplifiable, it needs every one of the sentences it has. He has made his life as simple as possible, it is now unsimplifiable.
by but for November 24, 2021
Get the unsimplifiablemug. Some of the few individuals who stop to analyze language and think about what humans are really doing, really not doing, and perhaps should be doing, realized that the idiom trial and error induces failure, and they have corrected it to "attempt it and succeed."
by but for December 24, 2017
Get the attempt it and succeedmug.