Apr 23, 2007 13:04
17 yrs ago
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German term
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
hängen Öffentlichkeit und Privatsphäre definitorisch voneinander ab
German to English
Social Sciences
Government / Politics
history of liberalism
Ebenso hängen Öffentlichkeit und Privatsphäre definitorisch voneinander ab: Als öffentlich gilt, was nicht privat ist, und umgekehrt.
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(in a) reciprocal relationship
i.e. they affect each other. The second sentence implies that they are mutually exclusive - but that's not what the "hängen voneinander ab" is as such saying.
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Comment: "this seemed to fit best - thanks to all!"
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Marcelo Silveyra
United States
United States
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Likewise, the public and private spheres define each other
A possibility....there's more coming, I'm sure!
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Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
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Germany
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are, by definition, mutually dependent
oder so
Note from asker:
| thanks, for some reason my brain is simply not functioning today... |
Peer comment(s):
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John Farebrother
: nice
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Paul Cohen
: I'm sure that they are mutually dependent, Cilian. But aren't we talking here about how they mutually define each other?
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strictly speaking no, but mathematically much the same thing. They're inversely proportional - as one increases, the other decreases. My understanding at least.
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Steffen Walter
: Or "interdependent"?
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sure, just doesn't sound as nice :-)
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Paul Cohen
Greenland
Greenland
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Greenland
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public and private spheres mutually define each other
They are two sides of the same coin, so to speak.
Here are some similar examples:
"...we should regard space-time and mass energy as just aspects of the same phenomenon in the sense that mass energy consists of curvatures in space-time, and space-time consists of the curvatures subtended by mass energy. Spacetime and mass energy thus ***mutually define each other*** in the relativistic paradigm..."
"This is similar to how Yin and Yang continuously flow into and ***mutually define each other*** as each becomes the other."
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Note added at 4 hrs (2007-04-23 17:21:08 GMT)
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Well, public and private are perhaps not two sides of the same coin, but they do go hand in hand and, like Yin and Yang, they mutually define each other. As the text says, what is not private, is public, and what is not public, is private, and so on.
Here are some similar examples:
"...we should regard space-time and mass energy as just aspects of the same phenomenon in the sense that mass energy consists of curvatures in space-time, and space-time consists of the curvatures subtended by mass energy. Spacetime and mass energy thus ***mutually define each other*** in the relativistic paradigm..."
"This is similar to how Yin and Yang continuously flow into and ***mutually define each other*** as each becomes the other."
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Note added at 4 hrs (2007-04-23 17:21:08 GMT)
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Well, public and private are perhaps not two sides of the same coin, but they do go hand in hand and, like Yin and Yang, they mutually define each other. As the text says, what is not private, is public, and what is not public, is private, and so on.
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