The lack of contradiction can be defined in either semantic or syntactic terms.

The development of the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things is likely to accelerate this present trend.

Or another way you can think of it is the mean, although it does measure central tendency, it's not quite as indicative of all the numbers.

)This work was originally delivered in his John Locke Lectures at Oxford, and launched a large endeavor by many philosophers to develop Davidsonian semantical theories for natural language.

They may write about it conceptually, but its meaning a world in which their country is only primus inter pares has not really penetrated the national psyche.