What is "contributes"

Usage examples of "contributes".

If the Ego camps still absolutize the noosphere, the Eco camps are still absolutizing the biosphere, utterly unaware that this contributes every bit as much as the Ego camps to the destruction of the biosphere itself.

Everywhere the paradox of damage: absolutizing the biosphere contributes inexorably to its destruction.

Taylor maintains that each succeeding social holon "builds upon the properties and societal experiences of the level(s) below and in turn contributes its own 'emergent qualities,' which take the form of new technologies and societal structures, accompanied by new apperceptions of the human-environment relationship.

A month of rigid weather is supposed to brace up the moral nature, and a month of gentleness is supposed to soften the asperities of the disposition, but February contributes to neither of these ends.

That is, no one element seems to be especially more important or more dominant, and each contributes more or less equally to the health of the whole level (so-called "bootstrapping").

And that which does not contribute to the integration of both contributes directly to the destruction of each.

Thus, by simply absolutizing the biosphere, by privileging it in an ontology of regressive leveling, the Eco camp contributes precisely nothing to noospheric integration (and thus everything to biospheric disintegration).

All in all, the relation of vassal tribe to conquering tribe probably contributes more to the peace of the Tahari than to its hostilities.

It swims slowly and smoothly, its fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to its own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods.

Every facet contributes exponentially to the overall-" Subble saw that Veg wasn't following, so shifted his ground.

All the learning in the world can't make a man grasp the obvious, when that learning contributes to a prescribed mode of thinking.

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time.

The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains.

He has not yet the means to indulge his taste, and perhaps his taste is not yet equal to his means, but there is no question of his adaptability to the sort of display which is so pleasing to the greater part of the human race, and which contributes so much to the brightness and cheerfulness of this world.

The only safety against the influence of a rolling mill is a college, the only safety against the practical and materializing tendency of an industrial school is the increased study of whatever contributes to the higher and nonsordid life of the mind.