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Contraposition Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
What does 'so far as' mean?
So far as you are wholly concentrated on bringing about a certain result, clearly the quicker and easier it is brought about the better. Your resolve to secure a sufficiency of food for yourself and your family will induce you to spend weary days in tilling the ground and tending livestock; but if Nature provided food and meat in abundance ready for the table, you would thank Nature for sparing you much labour and consider yourself so much the better off. An executed purpose, in short, is a transaction in which the time and energy spent on the execution are balanced against the resulting assets, and the ideal case is one in which the former approximates to zero and the latter to infinity. Purpose, then, justifies theefforts it exacts only conditionally, by their fruits.
J.L. Stocks, "The Limits of Purpose"
As a learner, not a native, 'so far as' is in many cases very difficult to understand about what it means in context although my having consulted many dictionaries. Many questions from learners about 'so far as', 'in so far as' are answered by native helpers and native teachers with 'to the extent that' but it is of little help to learners, I think.
So far as you are wholly concentrated on bringing about a certain result, clearly the quicker and easier it is brought about the better. Your resolve to secure a sufficiency of food for yourself and your family will induce you to spend weary days in tilling the ground and tending livestock; but if Nature provided food and meat in abundance ready for the table, you would thank Nature for sparing you much labour and consider yourself so much the better off. An executed purpose, in short, is a transaction in which the time and energy spent on the execution are balanced against the resulting assets, and the ideal case is one in which the former approximates to zero and the latter to infinity. Purpose, then, justifies theefforts it exacts only conditionally, by their fruits.
J.L. Stocks, "The Limits of Purpose"
As a learner, not a native, 'so far as' is in many cases very difficult to understand about what it means in context although my having consulted many dictionaries. Many questions from learners about 'so far as', 'in so far as' are answered by native helpers and native teachers with 'to the extent that' but it is of little help to learners, I think.
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com/dictionary/inasmuch+as . Try clicking on each one and looking at their explanations. Does that help at all?
- com/dictionary/inasmuch+as .
- Try clicking on each one and looking at their explanations.
- Does that help at all?
- Remember you can always search phrases in Google by using quotation marks (for example, "so far as").
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Here are some synonyms from merriam-webster.com: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insofar+as, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insomuch+as,
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Hi,
Just from the top of my head, I thought these types of phrases were called 'hedges'. Their purpose is usually to express the writer's attitude to the utterance that follows.
There are different types of hedges with different functions, but the main idea is that they lessen the impact of what is being written or said. Sometimes hedges indicate that what you are saying or writi
Just from the top of my head, I thought these types of phrases were called 'hedges'. Their purpose is usually to express the writer's attitude to the utterance that follows.
There are different types of hedges with different functions, but the main idea is that they lessen the impact of what is being written or said. Sometimes hedges indicate that what you are saying or writi
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You could paraphrase is by saying
Since you are wholly concentrated on bringing about a certain result...
however, it does simplify the meaning a bit.
Since you are wholly concentrated on bringing about a certain result...
however, it does simplify the meaning a bit.
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