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- noun Plural form of
recursion .
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Examples
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Apparently the Federal Government and American economists do not grasp simple economic recursions?
Not only are they better capitalists, but better peacemakers too? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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In its homophonic recursions, the triple soundplay also happens to be a clear example of
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Okay, now take a recursion the oil companies, who do understand recursions, use to their advantage.
Bush Team Seeks Dictatorial Financial Powers « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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The universe is recursive and we are amongst those recursions.
Self-Similarity in Fractals James Gurney 2009
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These recursions are anchored in a base-clause addressing the satisfaction of primitive predicates: an object o satisfies ˜x is F™ iff o instantiates the property expressed by
The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009
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The more an account of truth wants to exploit the internal structure of truthbearers, the more it will be hostage to the (limited) availability of appropriate structural analyses of the relevant truthbearers. (b) Any account of truth that employs recursions may be virtually committed to taking sentences (maybe sentences of the language of thought) as primary truthbearers.
The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009
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Personally, I love recursions and repetitions and revisions.
My revelation regarding Secret Invasion | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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PROCESS passes Onion, Salamander, Lungfish tests with some (unknown) cell(s) taking excessive recursions to build.
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RULE: Such fractal recursion iterates converges to full grown status, taking an amount of “junk” that correlates with the number of recursions.
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But also rather simple laws with recursions and other foldings in phase space seems to give self-similar fractals and show up as power-law behavior.
Junk DNA, Linguistics and the scientific vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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