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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located or occurring outside the nucleus of a cell.
- adjective Existing or acting outside the nucleus of an atom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated outside the nucleus of a cell.
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- adjective Outside the nucleus.
- adjective biology Outside the
nucleus but within thecell cytoplasm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Priest rejects both the nuclear-extranuclear strategy and the dual copula strategy.
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According to the nuclear-extranuclear strategy, there are two kinds of properties: nuclear and extranuclear ones.
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Terence Parsons distinguishes five categories of “extranuclear predicates” (i.e., predicates that stand for extranuclear properties): ontological
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There are several paradoxes for which MOTne does not supply a solution (even if it is supplemented with the doctrine of watered-down extranuclear properties).
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If the extranuclear property of existence has a watered-down nuclear counterpart, the following answer to Russell's objection is available: “The existent golden mountain exists” is ambiguous.
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This does not rule out that the object blue may have additional extranuclear properties.
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“The existent golden mountain exemplifies nuclear existence” and “The existent golden mountain does not exist” (in the proper, extranuclear sense).
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Both MOTne and MOTdc could perhaps benefit from a clarification of their basic distinctions, namely the nuclear-extranuclear distinction and the dual copula distinction, respectively.
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To mention some of them, Priest does not give a principled characterization of which properties are existence-entailing and which are not (which looks quite similar to the problem with the nuclear-extranuclear distinction which Priest points out in the above quotation).
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Existence is an extranuclear property, but only nuclear properties can be constitutive properties of an object.
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