Appointment is an interesting and mysterious word. Because when it comes to a knife or fork, you can still say something. And when the question of man is raised, then many are silent, because it is not clear what exactly is worth saying. Too many definitions that a person easily incorporates into himself. But today we won’t let us knock ourselves off the pantalik and talk first of all about the meaning of the word “appointment”, and the rest will work out.
Value
Let us return to the relief, from our point of view, comparison of the living and the nonliving. The first always gives a lot of trouble when you need to determine its purpose. Even when it comes to animals. You can approach the issue objectively, that is, reduce the diversity of the animal world to a set of food chains and say something like that in simple animals, the purpose (and this suggests itself) is to be food for higher ones. It may be so, but it all depends on the point of view. In order to somehow orient ourselves, we will open an explanatory dictionary. And the last one says the following:
- The same as to appoint.
- The scope, scope of someone (or something).
- Purpose, purpose.
Of course, someone is eager to see various sentences with the object of study that would fully reveal the meaning of the noun. But it will wait. First, we must reveal the semantic content of the infinitive, without it it will be difficult to master the material. So, the meaning of “assign” is as follows:
- Outline, establish, determine.
- Put in some position, give work.
And even a person who is very ill with mathematics will understand that we need four sentences to cover all the meanings of the object of study.
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Of course, purpose is a mysterious subject, but some meanings are obvious. The reader will have to endure for the sake of a lofty goal - to possess new knowledge. However, in the direction of the preface, we proceed:
- This was the destination of fate.
- Our colleague received a high appointment. Evil tongues, of course, said that all this is undeserved.
- The purpose of the knife is to cut.
- The doctor's prescription is to treat.
The last two sentences are specially made on the same principle so that the reader sees how such a technique is suitable for the subject and not suitable for the person. But in general, of course, there is no deception here. A man is truly associated in his profession in modern society (and indeed in any society) above all. Another thing is that a person is judged not only by his specialty.
About people and cats
The concept of purpose is especially difficult to interpret when we leave the objective world and think about a person or animals. For example, if we talk about cats, it’s also not clear why they are needed. It is one thing the village, when the mustachioed are predators that rid the house of rodents, and the city apartment is no different, where there are no rodents, and the cat turns into a companion. To each other, but what about the appointment? This is an open question. The writer Alexey Ivanov in one book suggested that cats develop coziness. By the way, the same can be said about dogs and even fish.
The same story is with people: the harsher the conditions of existence, the fewer questions about the purpose. In a caste society, such thoughts do not arise at all, because everything is determined by the social position of a person. We Westerners, entangled in a network of information technology, are relatively free in this regard. Of course, we fall into the snare of another slavery, but this is a different story. And for us, the question of appointment is what we have to choose all the time. Because every minute everything can change.