capacity
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The total amount that a container or space can hold, or the ability to do a particular thing.
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This has pluses and minuses, of course, but could this extra capacity free us up to do other things?
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Acquiring a language is a mostly unconscious process by which humans gain the capacity to perceive and comprehend language without studying it.
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What you lack is the capacity.
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DONKEY, YOU HAVE THE right to remain silent. What you lack is the capacity.
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And Broadway isn't accessible to everybody. Touring shows aren't accessible to everybody. But movies, movies that live forever, are. Yeah, and it's crazy. It's insane. Yeah, like I think of the, what that show did for me and even what it did for you in life. Yeah, and to give that to somebody else, mhm, in any capacity, has, oh my God, like you can't even, like you don't even know what good it can do until it's out in the world, you know?
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Yes, we have to be like this, but we can't be, so that forces guilt in. As the second criticism on him is that Levinas, in opening up the importance of the other and how the self is dependent on the other—how the other is outside my meaning domain or outside the domain of my intentionality—does not bother to identify what is the capacity of unethical subjects.
Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as First Philosophy
What is the psychological health that is required in dealing with the other? He thinks that everybody is endowed with the capacity to deal with the other; that may not be true. That's the other criticism on him. The third criticism that is leveled against him is that there is no openness to the other that is not guided by self-interest.
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The dignity of human beings resides in part in our capacity for and our right to the management of our own lives.
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thoughts of your conscious mind, which continually flit between various subjects. Your subconscious mind, unlike the conscious one, lacks the capacity to reject information; it remains impartially validating all viewpoints. The subconscious cannot differentiate between reality and imagination, often evoking emotions as if past events were unfolding in the present. It's essential, then, to remain
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When your heart aches after a setback, you are not broken. You are expanding [music] your capacity.
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First, the collision, something significant enough to force a genuine re-examination of assumptions, but not so catastrophic that it destroys the capacity to function.
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They couldn't make decisions. They had lost their capacity to choose.
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The more you practice feeling the small things, the more capacity you will have to feel the big things.
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It didn't have the capacity or what do you think is going on there?
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And just as importantly, how do we build the capacity to do it?
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But on the other hand, one can imagine within a culture a never-ending process of increasing civilization, civility, and cultural expansion, both in breadth and depth and comprehensiveness. So the shortness of the human lifespan precludes the complete evolution of this capacity for reason and rationality demanded by the first thesis within the biological individual.
Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History
It's therefore history which is the field within which the capacity of human reason can reach its full and natural end. Obviously, this must occur within the species rather than the individual, unless it is the species rather than any particular culture which is the central subject of history for Kant. Hence Kant's use of the term "cosmopolitan" in the title of his essay, which is "An Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View."
Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History
We are placed with challenges in the animal state with which we cannot contend unless we develop our rational faculties. And I think one gets a sense here of the exalted, almost overweening sense of pride that the high and late enlightenment took in itself and in human capacity and potential. The notion of rational self-esteem—that we could take a pride in what we have accomplished and how far we have come and grown and developed and learned—is part of what was the excitement of one of the most exalted and inspiring moments in modern history.
Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History
They're good to go home, and I start putting my gear on the rig and checking the rig out—checking all the firefighting gear, all the medical gear, all that stuff—and just get ready to go on calls for the day. My title is firefighter, and so when I'm working the engine in a fire capacity, I'm sure you could guess it, it's firefighting.
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And that makes sense because um a chess computer or something that's programmed or a scientific system that's programmed directly with equations we already know about it's quite hard for that to go then beyond the knowledge that the creators of that system had right because obviously with what capacity has it got to do that.
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