He was a
will-o'-the-wisp, more of a concept than a man.
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Like computer-based artificial intelligence, it may turn out to be a
will-o'-the-wisp, at least as currently conceived.
Fiddling with nature
Life is a
will-o'-the-wisp, a fortunate escape, grinding hardship for an evanescent reward--what avails, if terror retains the upper hand?
Arnost Lustig. The Bitter Smell of Almonds: Selected Fiction
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Will-o'-the-wisp: HIPAA privacy regulations are in place but not set in stone." Modern Physician, 5 (8), May 2001, pg.
Medical Privacy: From the 4th Amendment To HIPAA
A
will-o'-the-wisp on her way to San Francisco, perchance, with that flower in her hair?
Star Challenge: Geek and goddess
It seems in the realm of probability that he was searching for a
will-o'-the-wisp while claiming to seek something else.
Scuttlebutt and Bilgewater
The non-well-foundedness he points to is, for Dummett, the flaw in Frege's execution of an inspired scheme, one that promised a noncircular warrant for accepting the core infinite ontologies of arithmetic and analysis; for Boolos, the non-well-foundedness is just what higher-order logic is like, and the ambition just mentioned a patent
will-o'-the-wisp. (As emerges from comparison with Thiel's paper, the difference can equally well be viewed as one regarding impredicativity.
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Unlike Grandin and Goldman, they are still unaware that it was their historical duty to pay the price that civilians always pay for irregular warfare, as sitting-duck surrogates for
will-o'-the-wisp combatants.
Letters
Precisely because they seem so in line with Christ's crucial admonition, "Go and sell what thou hast and give to the poor and come follow me," these erratic religious communities point up the
will-o'-the-wisp quality of the search which, since the first human scratched her or his head in wonder, has been all over the lot.
Monuments we have built to our search for meaning
It, I suspect, is doomed to be the eternal
will-o'-the-wisp of regional governance.
Regional excellence
explained that what we were seeing is called
will-o'-the-wisp. It has other names too, like corpse candle.
Secret of the swamp
But van Tilborg is not so much interested in capturing that elusive
will-o'-the-wisp as in doing justice to the character of the gospel as narrative, and biographical narrative, by employing a biographical code that focuses on the family constellation.
Imaginative Love in John
We can discern only the
will-o'-the-wisp glow of the Milky Way's spiral arms.
Modeling the universe in your mind
PHOTO : Dara Birnbaum, Damnation of Faust:
will-o'-the-wisp, 1985.
Video art
Pie-in-the-sky,
will-o'-the-wisp estimates of fisheries values based on vague assumptions, and/or pious assertions that it is not possible to place a price tag on "priceless" fishery values, are not conducive to attracting longrange backing from decision makers in either industry or government.
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