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Does the word sentiment here mean "pointview"?

 
 
Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 10:08 am

Context:
Clinton's speech began by comparing this human sequence
map to the map that Meriwether Lewis had unfolded in front of
President Thomas Jefferson in that very room nearly two hun-
dred years earlier. Clinton said, "Without a doubt, this is the
most important, most wondrous map ever produced by hu-
mankind." But the part of his speech that most attracted public
attention jumped from the scientific perspective to the spiritual.
"Today," he said, "we are learning the language in which God
created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity,
the beauty, and the wonder of God's most divine and sacred
gift."
Was I, a rigorously trained scientist, taken aback at such a
blatantly religious reference by the leader of the free world at a
moment such as this? Was I tempted to scowl or look at the
floor in embarrassment? No, not at all. In fact I had worked
closely with the president's speechwriter in the frantic days just
prior to this announcement, and had strongly endorsed the in-
elusion of this paragraph. When it came time for me to add a
few words of my own, I echoed this sentiment: "It's a happy day
for the world. It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring, to real-
ize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction
book, previously known only to God."
What was going on here? Why would a president and a sci-
entist, charged with announcing a milestone in biology and
medicine, feel compelled to invoke a connection with God?
Aren't the scientific and spiritual worldviews antithetical, or
shouldn't they at least avoid appearing in the East Room to-
gether? What were the reasons for invoking God in these two
speeches? Was this poetry? Hypocrisy? A cynical attempt to
curry favor from believers, or to disarm those who might criti-
cize this study of the human genome as reducing humankind to
machinery? No. Not for me. Quite the contrary, for me the expe-
rience of sequencing the human genome, and uncovering this
most remarkable of all texts, was both a stunning scientific achievement and an occasion of worship.
Many will be puzzled by these sentiments, assuming that a
rigorous scientist could not also be a serious believer in a tran-
scendent God. This book aims to dispel that notion, by arguing
that belief in God can be an entirely rational choice, and that
the principles of faith are, in fact, complementary with the prin-
ciples of science.
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 12:41 pm
@oristarA,

Yes, "point of view". (not pointview)
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 12:47 pm
Literally, 'feeling' but also 'opinion'.
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oristarA
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 05:02 pm
@McTag,
McTag wrote:


Yes, "point of view". (not pointview)


My dictionary gives me a lot of point view. All wrong?:

1.
You need to get people to accept a different point view, to see things your way.

2.
Here, I mathematical induction mathematics in secondary schools in the solution that skills and common errors to point view.

3.
Hu stressed that the issue of global trade imbalance should be addressed from a dialectic point view and taking world economic development into consideration.

4.
Studying investment object, investment main body and invest decision from the point view of strategy will benefit to improve the efficiency and benefit of investment for river basin government.
5.
Form the point view of inverse PDE, the essence of numerical instabilities in the topology optimization is given, including checkerboard pattern and mesh-dependence.
6.
On considering the point view of audience, the civilianization of broadcasting news means defining the standard of news value with humanism.
7.
But it belongs to news types, it's the purpose of the editorial writers- that the visual language is as important as the exact to express the point view of the writer.
8.
Arid, from the point view of MT methods, given is the formulas for forward problem to EDA included two strata structure.
9.
The significance is illustrated from the point view of definition and rationality of democracy, as well as the way of research.
10.
So how to manage the whole Purchasing Process from the Point view of management process is a very important question in reducing cost and improving competition capability.
11.
This software provides the way to analyze the characteristics of the process from the point view of energy transformation.
12.
This dissertation will try to analyze the typical ethnic social and political systems from the point view of religion and culture.
13.
From point view of distributed system structure and by taking example of automatic system of dam safety monitoring , reliability of distributed system for dam monitoring is analyzed systematically .
14.
I try to analyze our international labor service from the point view of theory and practice by the article, and give a advice on it. 跟读
本文试图从理论和实践的角度分析我国的劳务合作业务并提出自己的建议。
dict.cnki.net
15.
The article discusses the external mechanism and technology model in the externalization of corporate tacit knowledge from the point view of sociology.
16.
The thesis has discuss about the necessity of regulation from the point view of the economic principle and technological characteristics of the natural monopoly industry.
17.
In this paper, the goal and significance of the coordinate transformation in electric machine analysis is reconsidered from point view of decoupling principle.
18.
Editorial as the heave weapon that represents the point view of the newsroom directly will become another competitive spot between the newspapers.
19.
It is not reasonable to put forward the viewpoint that political pluralism should be put into practice in the field of ideology from the point view of present multiple cultures. 跟读
在精神世界,不能简单地从现存文化的多元化现实中提出要在意识形态领域实行指导思想的多元化;
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From the point view it can make teachers aware of the importance of exactly defining the meaning of form words in complex sentences and conduct excellent translation teaching. 跟读
以示教师在翻译教学中注意此翻译特点,更加准确地做好翻译教学。
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For one thing, In the whole point view of mechanism and control to design cutter and cutter frame. 跟读
首先,从机械和控制整体上进行考虑,分别进行刀具和刀架系统的设计。
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This article discussed asset reorganization's problem based on this realistic problem, combining macro-point and micro-point view. 跟读
本文也就是站在这个现实问题的基础之上,结合宏观与微观两方面来阐述我国的资产重组的问题。
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In this paper, the syntax, semantic, inference problem and inference algorithm about SHIQ from the point view of logic were introduced. 跟读
该文从逻辑的角度介绍了SHIQ的语法、语义、推理问题和推理算法。
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This article analyze customer capital management from the point view of value management(VM). 跟读
本文从价值管理的角度对企业客户资本管理进行了分析。
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This treatise is a study from a different point view about this question. 跟读
本文即是就这个问题的一个不同角度的研究和探讨。
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26.
This article will construct a new kind tourism attraction from the point view of Chinese ancient poetry , then produce a new type tourism form for inaugurating new road of cultural tourism. 跟读
试图从中国古典诗词的角度出发,构建一种新的旅游吸引,从而形成一种新的旅游形式,以此开辟出文化旅游的新途径。
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27.
Most researches on EST passive voice have been done from the point view of translation at the level of syntax. 跟读
人们对科技英语被动句的研究大部分是在句法平面从翻译角度进行的。
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In addition, it gives system E-R Diagram by the notional design of systemic database model from the point view of software design. 跟读
站在软件设计的角度上对系统中数据库模型进行了概念性设计,给出了系统的E-R图。
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In this paper the author researched the flight schedule optimization method based on conflicts detecting from the point view of air traffic management. 跟读
本文站在空中交通流量管理者的角度,探讨了基于冲突探测的航班时刻优化方法。
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The final goal of this research present a decision-making support tool, which can be used during design stages to improve the products quality from the manufacturing point view. 跟读
旨在提供一个设计决策支持工具,用于在产品的详细设计过程中从制造的角度来改进设计质量和缩短设计时间。
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 12 May, 2014 11:57 pm
@oristarA,

Quote:
My dictionary gives me a lot of point view. All wrong?:


Yes, sadly, all wrong.

"Pointview" and "point view" are never seen. (except apparently in your dictionary.)
McTag
 
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Reply Wed 14 May, 2014 08:38 am
@McTag,

Maybe the dictionary's author or editor had a "blind spot" about this phrase.
When spoken quickly, they sound very alike. But only one is correct!
oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 14 May, 2014 09:15 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:


Maybe the dictionary's author or editor had a "blind spot" about this phrase.
When spoken quickly, they sound very alike. But only one is correct!


Excellent.
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