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Ature N. See Has The X Nature.
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nature n.
See has the X nature.
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has the X nature [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
has the X nature: [seems to derive from Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?
] adj. Common hacker construction for `is an X', used for humorous emphasis....
Nature abhors normality. -- Dr. Blockhead, X-file
koan /koh'an/ n. A Zen teaching riddle. Classically, koans are attractive paradoxes to be meditated o
heir purpose is to help one to enlightenment by temporarily jamming normal cognitive processing so that something more interesting can happen (this practice is associated with Rinzei Zen Buddhism)....
he X that can be Y is not the true X: Yet another instance of hackerdom's peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things.
The template is from the "Tao te Ching": "The Tao which can be spoken of is not the true Tao....
Man has now conquered almost everything in nature except human nature.
index of X n. See coefficient of X.
factor n. See coefficient of X.
quotient n. See coefficient of X.