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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Lots of people are spelling “tentative” as “tendative.” See, for example, the web search for the expression “tendative dates:” https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=ch … e+dates%22 It seems likely that some of these page authors may be importing “tend,” as in “tending to cause a problem.”
That’s my tendative conclusion.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I tent to think you are onto something.
We tent to think that dicipline is a fence holding us back from being free, when it actually is holding us in, in freedom!
“When we are in a group, we tent to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find “like-minded” people.”
(And plenty more. But I don’t very clearly see an eggcorn here.)
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A tentative conclusion, however, is the kind I am likely to come to about what is in reality a tendency; I cannot reach a definitive or non-tentative conclusion when the data only tend in the direction of it. In other words, tendative is likely to be a real eggcorn for many of its users.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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There is now a program available to editors of scientific journals that will help them identify fake papers generated by computer program. Would the first hit below pass? I’m tempted, temporarily, to attempt to conclude, not.
Evolutionary functionalism provides the temptative conclusion of a happy coupling scenario between a functionalist theory of representations and an adaptationist evolutionary theory: the epistemological normativity of representations can be grounded in the fact that organisms must adapt to an objective environment.
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It seems therefore that a certain level of ATP is necessary for effective inactivation, although this conclusion is only temptative
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZrGRBQ … 22&f=false
Please note that the following schedule is only temptative.
Economics class intro
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