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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "A grant-giving body" mean "a taking-for-granted person"?
1)Does "A grant-giving body" mean "a taking-for-granted person"?
2) Does "his proposed research succeeding" mean "his proposed research that follows"?
Context:
the spontaneous arising of something equivalent to DNA, really was a quite staggeringly improbable event. Suppose it was so improbable as to occur on only one in a billion planets. A grant-giving body would laugh at any chemist who admitted that the chance of his proposed research succeeding was only one in a hundred. But here we are talking about odds of one in a billion. And yet . . . even with such absurdly long odds, life will still have arisen on a billion planets - of which Earth, of course, is one.
2) Does "his proposed research succeeding" mean "his proposed research that follows"?
Context:
the spontaneous arising of something equivalent to DNA, really was a quite staggeringly improbable event. Suppose it was so improbable as to occur on only one in a billion planets. A grant-giving body would laugh at any chemist who admitted that the chance of his proposed research succeeding was only one in a hundred. But here we are talking about odds of one in a billion. And yet . . . even with such absurdly long odds, life will still have arisen on a billion planets - of which Earth, of course, is one.
Top answer
1, No, It's a body/organisation/ that awards grants for study or research.
- 1, No, It's a body/organisation/ that awards grants for study or research.
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1, No, It's a body/organisation/ that awards grants for study or research.
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So succeeding means success here?
Yes.
I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of saying that research is successful or unsuccessful. I would argue that the purpose of research is to establish facts. In this sense, research is always successful.
Yes.
I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of saying that research is successful or unsuccessful. I would argue that the purpose of research is to establish facts. In this sense, research is always successful.
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