Assertion: contemplation | /r/HasProperty | useless
Facets:
value: in the (strict) sense
type: OTHER
value: evidently
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Walker papers over an ambiguity here in the notion of being 'useless', since while contemplation is evidently useless in the (strict) sense of not subserving any higher functions, it is not so in the (looser) sense of being valueless.
text: Even if one accepts these criticisms, however, it does not follow that contemplation is 'useless' vis-à-vis human biological and practical functioning.