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Performance
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Overview

A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other forms of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.

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  1. (9) performance on a single occasion of a dramatic literary work published at least ten years before the date of the performance, by or in the course of a transmission specifically designed for and primarily directed to blind or other handicapped persons who are unable to read normal printed material as a result of their handicap, if the performance is made without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial…

    United States, Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92

    Names Performance several times; states what Performance is.

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  2. TOPIC 5.--_Performance of the Promise, supposed to have been made by the Lord, in favour of Paul, to Ananias._ If the supposed promise is inadequate to the occasion, the supposed performance is still more inadequate with reference to the promise. In the supposed promise are two distinguishable parts, and in neither of them is the one thing needful to be found.

    Jeremy Bentham, Not Paul, but Jesus

    States what Performance is; names Performance twice.

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  3. But with reference to the performance of an action, which was the second topic of those which were attributed to things, the place, and the time, and the manner, and the opportunity, and the facilities will be inquired into. The place is taken into consideration in which the thing was done; with reference to the opportunity which the doer seems to have had of executing the business; and that opportunity is measured…

    Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

    Opens on Performance; names Performance.

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Related ideas

Opposing perspectives

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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