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featherless

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for featherless.

Editorial note

That is a good questions and I guess we have good progress since Plato whose definition was - A man is a featherless biped.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Having no feathers.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of featherless gathered in one view.

adjective

Having no feathers.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for featherless.

Example sentences

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That is a good questions and I guess we have good progress since Plato whose definition was - A man is a featherless biped.

2

Seriously, you think anyone is gonna cross 50 light-years to kill a bunch of featherless bipeds and plunder some common rocks?

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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded.

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We've not made much progress on this front since Plato's featherless biped.

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Plato: man is a featherless biped The Society for Birdology now has the pleasure of jointly awarding posthumously Plato and Diogenes with the Distinguished Birdologist Award.

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It doesn't matter which side is Plato's, blame isn't interesting, and I don't care much about the specific featherless biped behind the ideas.

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Enjoyed the article and I was ready to try the promoted featherless.ai.

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Tellingly, tribal warfare employed featherless arrows.

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We're super excited to share our new Featherless Cookbook - a collection of ready-to-use code examples that show you exactly how to deploy and use any Hugging Face model in production.

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So, yeah, I think it's pretty debased that we featherless bypeds have to press a single goddamn button to tread a single square foot of earth in deference to cars.

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Basically he sees his role in human development as a Diogenes-esque figure, a cynic whose job is to loudly and frequently point out flaws in the rising tide of connectionist AI research — to throw a plucked chicken at Socrates to disprove his description of humans as featherless bipeds, so to speak.

Quote examples

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It's not a word people use in normal conversation, only really science or philosophy (Plato's "featherless biped").

2

This line of argument reminds me of Plat's "featherless bipeds" as a definition of man.

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When Plato defined Man as "A featherless biped," someone showed him a plucked chicken.

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I can foresee a sort of “featherless biped” scenario here without more details about the question.

Proper noun examples

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Featherless biped -> no-true Scotsman goalpost moving [saving us that step] Humans are no more capable of originality, just more convinced of their illusion of consciousnesses.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use featherless in a sentence?

That is a good questions and I guess we have good progress since Plato whose definition was - A man is a featherless biped.

What does featherless mean?

Having no feathers.

What part of speech is featherless?

featherless is commonly used as adjective.