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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Purpose is the cognitive awareness in cause and effect linking for achieving a goal in a given system, whether human or machine. Its most general sense is the anticipated result which guides decision making in choosing appropriate actions within a range of strategies in the process (a conceptual scheme) based on varying degrees of ambiguity about the knowledge that creates the contextualisation for the action. Purpose serves to change the state of conditions in a given environment, usually to one with a perceived better set of conditions or parameters from the previous state. This change is the motivation that serves the locus of control and goal orientation. In psychology and psychiatry, the experience of lacking a purpose in one's life is known as accidy. First attested in c.1290, from earl Old French porpos "aim, intention", purpose is related to from porposer "to put forth," from Vulgar Latin corruption of por- "forth" (Latin pro- "forth") and Old French poser "to put, place". Purpose is related to the term pose used from 1374 as to "put in a certain position," or "suggest, propose, suppose, assume," a term use in Late Latin debating (c.300–c.700) from pausare "to halt, rest, pause". From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What is the purpose of the pockets on low rise jeans? Q. I am sixteen, and don't think I'm weird or anything, but this is somethign I would like to know. At my high school, hollister, abercrombie, all those jeans are the kinds the girls are wearing. Do the pockets really serve any purpose? I never see girls carrying anything in them and they seem too tight to do anything. The only times I see girls with thehands in them, they are using them to keep them up or something. So, do they have any purpose or are they just another way to pull those low rise jeans up? Asked by LaxGoalie952 - Thu Jul 9 19:08:28 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments What do you think is the purpose of romantic love/limerence? Q. What do you think is its purpose? It can cause great happiness and purpose in our lives, but at the same time bring upon us heart ache and turmoil unlike any we have experienced. You can say its purpose is for reproductive purposes either because thats what the sexual feelings are for. But what about romantic love, or limerence, as they call it? What is the purpose of having an emotion and feeling that is so sensitive, it can bring great distress to our lives? Asked by unknown - Sun Oct 26 20:20:57 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. I don't think it's necessarily for reproduction as much as for raising your offspring. Reproduction can be fairly easily handed with lust. But to keep both partners around to create a safe environment for the offspring, there needs to be a feeling of attachment and loyalty to some degree. Now, romantic love is a somewhat new concept, I've read. It's been pumped into society through movies, fairytales, books, and all sorts of other venues. People don't know whether it's natural, or if they've just been programmed to think it's real. So the heartache and obsessions might be a result of conditioning instead of instincts. Answered by Anna - Sun Oct 26 20:28:02 2008 What is the purpose of adding expansion cards to the motherboard?
Q. What is the purpose of adding expansion cards to the motherboard? Why aren't expansion cards simply built-in to the computer at the time of manufacture? Asked by Krawla - Sat Apr 25 15:47:38 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. So you can upgrade when better hardware is available. You might not have the money to spend on a top of the line machine. So it's nice to have the expansion available if you want to add a better video, ethernet, or sound card. Or, you may buy the best top of the line model. If you have no room to make it better in the future, your machine will be out dated much sooner. Answered by Rob - Sat Apr 25 15:57:04 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "purpose"  news.google.com New York Times By AP The cottage of a Seattle woman who refused to sell to developers for $1 million was bought by a motivational speaker. The home of the woman, ... and more » news.google.com Brian Madden Bravo. thin2go wrote re: A purpose -built-for-remote-display-protocols, software-only WAN accelerator from Wyse?!? I'm not that surprise about Wyse doing ... and more » news.google.com Lower Hudson Journal news America has a long tradition of political negativism (Thomas Paine deemed George Washington a "hypocrite," "an apostate or an impostor"), a long-standing ... From Google News Search: "purpose"  health-care-beauty.com 160px x 53px | 2.50kB [source page] Norelco G270 Multi Trim All Purpose Groomer List Price $25 95 Our Price $15 99 You Save $9 96 38 Availability Usually ships in 24 hours  officefurnitureexpress.co.uk 324px x 360px | 30.90kB [source page] Multi Purpose Shelving Units A very robust and stable multi purpose shelving system that will each support stored or filed items weighing up to 100 kg Available in three From Yahoo Image Search: "purpose"  xdtalk.com mongoose33 ue, 07 Jul 2009 00:30:01 GM Went to the range today to test some loads and decided that, given I've had a couple squibs lately, that I wanted to get a real feel for what that.  consumerfocus.org.uk (News Editor) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GM response to Assembly Government consultation on NEESP.  alteraforum.com veejain Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:22:09 GM Driving Cyclone III PLL using general . purpose. input pin General Altera Discussion. From Google Blog Search: "purpose" Unsourced
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