This word has the dictionary meaning of to be correlated to each other in some way and to be in a pleasant coherence, correspondence, and conformity with each other . Coming somewhat close to this meaning, the English-speaking culture has the expression this was meant to be in the face of events where they felt that a conscious hand was at work behind what was happening.
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The argument that our article on typography uses the word " art " does not appear compelling to me, because of the dictionary meanings of " the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning : ( the art of baking; the art of selling ); the craft or trade using these principles or methods . " Most typography I would not consider art in the usual sense of " fine arts ".
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Although it is useful to distinguish semantic ( i . e . denotative or referential ) meaning ( dictionary meaning ) from pragmatic meaning, and thus metasemantic discourse ( for example, " Mesa means'table'in Spanish " ) from metapragmatic utterances ( e . g . " Say'thank you'to your grandmother, " or " It is impolite to swear in mixed company " ), meta-semantic characterizations of speech are a type of metapragmatic speech.
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The dictionary meaning of " reliable "-able to be relied on ( by whom ? ) is clearly relevant . ( And the source at hand, BOI seems prima facie reliable and making unexceptional claims-Would we be having this discussion if it contradicted known reliable sources ? ) That accepted source A in fact does rely on source B is evidence of nonzero weight that B is reliable in the ordinary sense, and I and many others hold, according to Wikipedia rules.
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A good example of problems with this method is " R v Maginnis " ( 1987 ) in which several judges in separate opinions found several different dictionary meanings of the word " supply . " Another example might be " Fisher v Bell ", where it was held that a shopkeeper who placed an illegal item in a shop window with a price tag did not make an offer to sell it, because of the specific meaning of " offer for sale " in contract law.
