单词	instrumentality
释义	instrumentality /ɪnstrʊmɛnˈtalɪti / noun (plural instrumentalities) [mass noun] 1The fact or quality of serving as an instrument or means to an end; agency: a corporate body can act only through the instrumentality of human beings... The modelling of all human behaviour on the contractualism and instrumentality of the market corrodes any politics of solidarity and citizenship. The concepts of both realism and instrumentality are tricky ones when it comes to moving from sixteenth-century Germany to late-twentieth-century North America. At the heart of all of them, I would argue, is the idea of instrumentality: a thing, unlike a person, is an instrument or means to the ends of persons; it is not an end in itself. 1.1 [count noun] A thing which serves as a means to an end.There is definitely nothing entirely ‘new’ about a group of almost exclusively white, European or American men inventing new applications that extend and enhance the instrumentalities of technology.... But the modes of doing so are changing with the current technological and institutional developments and our historical habits are increasingly at odds with the contemporary exigencies, instrumentalities and methodologies. Those political formations, which toned down their public opposition to accession, without altering their fundamental ideograph, were seen as possible instrumentalities to counter pan-Islamism and secessionism.
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