gradations

Partly by familiar knowledge and partly by the consciousness of certain gradations in the darkness as she became used to it, she had got forward on her way until she had reached the head of the loch where the water was a guide to her.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

Is the “spectrum of personality types” – I like the suggestion that maybe personalities are analog, not digital, but I bet the proponents don’t believe in gradations – between Neuroticism (Woody Allen) to Conscientiousness – not the Dude, man.

mjh's blog — 2010 — January 2010

At all events, no line has ever been drawn between the conscious and the unconscious; for the vegetable shades into the animal by such fine gradations, that is impossible to say where the one ends and the other begins.

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

There are therefore three "gradations" in magnetic sleep as described in the 1813 Ages: a simplification of the six stages outlined in C.A.F. Klüge's 1811 textbook on the subject, which culminate in "Universal Clarity" or the "removal of veils of time and space," such that "the subject perceives things hidden in the past [and] future"

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

Other than by sheer judicial fiat, I can fathom no textual rationale for "gradations" of first amendment freedoms.

Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010

I wrote about meeting Deborah Ball a while back, she taught me that like any profession, there are objective, clear, and assessable gradations of attainment in teaching proficiency.

shibumi 2009

I wrote about meeting Deborah Ball a while back, she taught me that like any profession, there are objective, clear, and assessable gradations of attainment in teaching proficiency.

10 posts from December 2009 2009

The Harvard-MIT chip's transistor connections are not digital on/off but analog, with gradations that act like the ion channels.

Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea Christopher Shea 2011

I wrote about meeting Deborah Ball a while back, she taught me that like any profession, there are objective, clear, and assessable gradations of attainment in teaching proficiency.

Learning 2010

I wrote about meeting Deborah Ball a while back, she taught me that like any profession, there are objective, clear, and assessable gradations of attainment in teaching proficiency.

shibumi 2009