A way of doning something

Does "a way of doing something" mean: a way in which something is done?

Not precisely.
"a way of doing something" means: "a way in which something can be done"

It's hard to make sense of the little words like "of" sometimes. It's just idiomatic, that's all—we use "of" with "way" in this context. What online dictionary do you use? I will try to identify the definition number that applies, for what it's worth.

Hi,

Yes, I wait for your Gold finger.

Many thanks in advance.
http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/of

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You don't need to copy the dictionary here; I can just go to the link. I'd say 8a is the closest one. It's a bit like "the art of painting", general to specific, one way among many ways of doing something. But, again, it's merely idiomatic. You shouldn't try to define the little words—we don't.

Hi,

Thanks a lot enoon.

I want to know the exact meaning of "a state of mind".

The teacher here CJ told me "a state that concerns mind", but I am very uncertain as to the intrinsic logic meaning of concern.

According to your suggestions, "a way of doing something" that means that "doing something" typically has a quality of a way, so "a way" can mark / sign / ty

That seems sound enough, and I think it is useful. But you are putting too much weight on that tiny word "of" again. "Of" is not about doing so much as being, but even that is overthinking it. I guess your native language does not have prepositions like the ones in English. What I have been trying to tell you about them is that you should just let them be, memorize which ones go where, and they wi

enoonBut you are putting too much weight on that tiny word "of" again.

Enoon;
Bepleased has been collecting our perceptions of "of," "is", "unto" and a few other hard-to-nail-down words for his upcoming book on philosophy of English. His thesis is to solve some knotty persistent conundrums and present a methodology with graphical notation which will revol

AlpheccaStarsEnoon;Bepleased has been collecting our perceptions of "of," "is", "unto" and a few other hard-to-nail-down words ....

Ah. Thanks for that. If I may talk about him as though he isn't right there listening, I sensed a deep intelligence at work behind what looks at first glance like the kind of fanatical analytical approach that you see in many lear

As an afterthought, the King James Bible was written in a consciously antiquated style even in its day, I am sure you all know, and is therefore not really representative of Early Modern.

Yes, and its variation on style (ancient to contemporary), even within a single chapter, has been used as an illustration to one of bepleased's former posts regarding the definition of "unto."
This beloved, poetic, and profound book was translated by a committee of scholars without the benefits of modern word processors, so these stylistic variations were inevitable.