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Essential de-cision, when it is carried out and when it resists the constantly pressing ensnarement in the everyday and the customary, has to use violence.
enowning enowning 2008
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After pointing out a couple paragraphs earlier the verbal "essencing" element of Wesen, as different from the metaphysical static understanding of essence, I was surprised to find that Zizek changed "essential de-ciding" to "essential de-cision".
enowning enowning 2008
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"" The worst thing about him is that he never makes a de-cision, '' Stephanopoulos tells budget director Leon Panetta.
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After pointing out a couple paragraphs earlier the verbal "essencing" element of Wesen, as different from the metaphysical static understanding of essence, I was surprised to find that Zizek changed "essential de-ciding" to "essential de-cision".
Archive 2008-07-01 enowning 2008
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Anderson, R, D. J.hnson, D. Gotterbarn and J. Perrolle (1993), “Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in D.cision Making,” Communications of the ACM, 36: 98-107.
Computer and Information Ethics Bynum, Terrell 2008
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Essential de-cision, when it is carried out and when it resists the constantly pressing ensnarement in the everyday and the customary, has to use violence.
Archive 2008-07-01 enowning 2008
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Examination of the D.cision by J.D. Crouch to Resign.
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Let us not forget that scientists other than Hoagland, using an array of differnt methods, have all arrived at a similar conclusion: that the best working method to arrive at a de cision as to artificialty VS. natural formation, comes through mathematics, and geometric redundancy-such things as bilateral symmetry either doesn't occur in nature, or very, very rarely.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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You take great, and, respecting your intentions, I will call it kind care, to let me know that I can have no interest in the dt cision of the case you refer to me.
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"I think she would, although that would have to be her deT cision."
Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
bulldoze commented on the word cision
Just a stray syllable, like 'cious'.
March 2, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word cision
One of the examples is fun:
"While we're on this subject, which is one of my favorites, I'll just mention Heidegger thought that the word decision was composed of -cision, a split, and de-, undo, so that a real decision was a resolution of a false doubling or cutting.
— languagehat.com: LIKE A DOG IN A FIELD."
March 2, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word cision
Oh, the world of stray affixes, prefixes, suffixes, word stems, &c,...the stuff of many lists on Wordnik.
March 2, 2011
bilby commented on the word cision
What are you suggesting bulldoze? That this fine humanitarian site should not provide a home for stray syllables? I suppose you'd gas them after they've been kept for a week in tiny pens awaiting rescue?
March 2, 2011