Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without design or purpose.
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- adverb In an
unintentional manner; notintentionally .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without intention; in an unintentional manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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As its title unintentionally suggests, Sting's sixth solo outing isn't the high point of his career.
Mercury Falling 1996
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Trying out styles and imitating them, even unintentionally, is the natural process of growing as a writer.
Episode 009 2010
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And here's the empirical prediction: we shall not observe any such evolution. stunney: Now, if you disagree, and you know of any case of a code actually having been observed to have evolved unintentionally from a non-code in nature, then I'm all ears.
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This statement would still require specific empirical predictions of the posited 'Barrier'. stunney: Now, if you disagree, and you know of any case of a code actually having been observed to have evolved unintentionally from a non-code in nature, then I'm all ears.
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So supply your example of an actually observed case of code's evolving unintentionally from a non-code.
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From the posited existence of a 'Barrier', please provide specific empirical predictions that we can test. stunney: So supply your example of an actually observed case of code's evolving unintentionally from a non-code.
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Then specify an observed instance of a code arising unintentionally from a non-code, with 'code' defined as per your preferred definition, whatever your preferred definition is.
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Now, if you disagree, and you know of any case of a code actually having been observed to have evolved unintentionally from a non-code in nature, then I'm all ears.
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May 14th, 2007 at 8: 57 pm stunney Says: I think the question of whether codes can arise from non-codes unintentionally is very important.
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A 'yes' or 'no' will suffice. stunney: So supply your example of an actually observed case of code's evolving unintentionally from a non-code.
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