Tag: Definition
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May 31, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, intellectualism is defined as a “devotion to the exercise of intellect or to intellectual pursuits.” Max Weber coined the term in the early 1900s, in which he stresses the importance of “technical means and calculation.” What exactly is …
March 10, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Plutarch’s Parallel Lives gives the reader a great amount of information about language. It is an invaluable resource when looking at language changes over a period of time. More importantly, Plutarch explains that language is affected both by cultural change, but also demonstrates …
December 2, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Does a single word contain a saturation point? In other words, at some point, does a word begin to lose meaning simply because it has accumulated too many definitions? Translation can be a tricky business when we understand that a simple word can …
September 30, 2016 “We do not organize education the way we sense the world. If we did, we would have departments of Sky, Landscapes, Water, Wind, Sounds, Time, Seashores, Swamps and Rivers.” – David Orr, Author of Ecological Literacy Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. Merriam-Webster defines nature as: the physical world …
