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- adjective
specified inadvance .
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Connectionist models of language processing show that it is possible to abstract grammatical information from the surface features of text: “The networks move from processing frequency relations between mere surface regularities to representing something more abstract, without this being built in as a prespecified syntactic or other linguistic contraint” (N. Ellis ibid.)
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This process is more like water filling all the paths of a maze than taking just the turns necessary to reach a prespecified goal.
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Such performances are not prespecified and inflexible routines.
David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009
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The TEAS Plus form limits the description of the product or service being identified by the mark to prespecified descriptions and corresponding classes.
Trademarking "Octomom." Ann Althouse 2009
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The eligibility for such insurance coverage and the terms and condition of the indemnification would be analyzed and prespecified.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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The eligibility for such insurance coverage and the terms and condition of the indemnification would be analyzed and prespecified.
Literary Warrant [7] 2007
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There is one measure that gives this result for the APPROVe data, but it is not the one prespecified in the study.
Eighteen Inflated MonthsWhy The Vioxx Correction Matters 2006
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The tone of this argument: (feedback regarding proximity to target) clearly indicates that Dembski (…err… naively?) assumes that an evolving population is aiming for a prespecified goal!
Vacuity of ID: Comments on Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Why does the rejection region have to be “prespecified,” or specified in advance of the sample being taken?
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Why does the rejection region have to be “prespecified,” or specified in advance of the sample being taken?
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