Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being mediate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being mediate; the state or fact of being a medium or mean cause.
- noun Mediation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being mediate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The facility to work with words and numbers.
- noun The facility in working with media.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being mediate
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Examples
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Still other difficulties result from the fact of historical distance (as opposed to the content of the historical differences between then and now), including the double mediacy of our access to the "Urn" he's writing a poem about his encounter with an urn, we are discussing our encounter with his poem about an encounter with an urnand the need to evaluate the poem as a historical object that has settled into a canon.
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In other words, anything that you come to know you encounter only through the mediacy of signs.
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In a more complete statement: “The difference between art and science is not that between feeling and fact, intuition and inference, delight and deliberation, synthesis and analysis, sensation and cerebration, concreteness and abstraction, passion and action, mediacy and immediacy, or truth and beauty, but rather a difference in domination of certain specific characteristics of symbols”
Goodman's Aesthetics Giovannelli, Alessandro 2005
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For more information about Media Cybernetics, visit www. mediacy.com.
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For more information about Media Cybernetics, visit www. mediacy.com.
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For more information about Media Cybernetics, visit www. mediacy.com.
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For more information about Media Cybernetics, visit www. mediacy.com.
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In short, im - mediacy in a multimedia and multicultural environment entails the sense of speed inherent in the 24 / 7 deadline structure of online publishing to a potential worldwide audience.
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