Gradually Varied Function

Famous quotes containing the words gradually, varied and/or function:

“The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“The intension of a proposition comprises whatever the proposition entails: and it includes nothing else.... The connotation or intension of a function comprises all that attribution of this predicate to anything entails as also predicable to that thing.”
—Clarence Lewis (1883–1964)