Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

The role and legitimacy of coincidence has frequently been the topic of heated arguments ever since Ronald A. Knox categorically stated that " no accident must ever help the detective " ( Commandment No. 6 in his " Decalogue ").

Historically, Fianna Fáil has been seen as to the left of Fine Gael and to the right of the Labour Party and is generally seen as a classic " catch all " populist party-representing a broad range of people from all social classes with the belief in the coincidence of economic growth and social progress.

However, Stephen Greenblatt has argued that the coincidence of the names and Shakespeare's grief for the loss of his son may lie at the heart of the tragedy.

Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating " that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

However, a second definition and usage has historically been in practice in many fields of computer science and information technology, which defines the prefix kilo when used with byte or bit units of data as 1024 ( 2 < sup > 10 </ sup >); this is due to the mathematical coincidence that Thus, in these fields 1 kilobyte is equal to 1 kibibyte, a new unit standardized as part of the binary prefixes to resolve the ambiguity.

This similar denomination is not a coincidence ; the Type IIA string theory has the Type IIA supergravity theory as its low-energy limit and the Type IIB string theory gives rise to Type IIB supergravity.

Tengai cannot believe this be just a coincidence ( partly due to Igarashi proving that it is, indeed the same robot ), and has the three Silvergun pilots on standby.

Capitalizing on this coincidence, the town has built a Star Trek-themed tourist station ( the Tourism and Trek Station ), which provides tourist information, displays Star Trek memorabilia, provides unique photo opportunities, and allows visitors to participate in The Vulcan Space Adventure virtual reality game.

Despite these events occurring on the same day, Prince's attorney has called it pure coincidence and stated that the site did not close due to the trademark dispute.

It is not clear whether this coincidence has had any legal repercussions.

The similarity to Atlantis has led some to conclude that Akallabêth is one very long setup for what Tolkien would have considered a delightful pun, but Tolkien described it as merely a happy coincidence.

Cleopatra ’ s power has been described as “ naked, hereditary, and despotic ,” and it is argued that she is reminiscent of Mary Tudor ’ s reign — implying it is not coincidence that she brings about the “ doom of Egypt .” This is in part due to an emotional comparison in their rule.

In a happy coincidence, however, he discovers what Tiggers really like best is extract of malt, which Kanga has on hand because she gives it to her baby, Roo, as " strengthening medicine ".

His clan name Zhao has nothing to do with being born at the Kingdom of Zhao, it was a coincidence.

The town has gained a certain popularity due to its name, a coincidence with Leetspeak, a common Internet sociolect.

By coincidence, Svidrigaïlov has taken up residence in a room next to Sonya's and overhears the entire confession.

Huey has a strong belief that the concepts of fate and coincidence are somehow mysteriously linked together ; he also believes that they are judges on whether the trio are able to have something or not.

The most impressive diving exhibited by shearwaters is found in the Short-tailed Shearwater, which has been recorded diving below 70 m. Some albatross species are also capable of some limited diving, with Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses holding the record at 12 m. Of all the wing-propelled pursuit divers, the most efficient in the air are the albatrosses, and it is no coincidence that they are the poorest divers.

Koenig, who had been on Nelson's organizing committee in 1969, has said that the idea came to him by the coincidence of his birthday with the day selected, April 22 ; " Earth Day " rhyming with " birthday ," the connection seemed natural.

However a later scholar has observed that the catchword principle can be made to work for just about any anthology as a matter of coincidence due to thematic association.

Anthony has said that the coincidence of the word Xanth sounding like a portion of his name (" Pier-XANTH-Ony ") was unintentional, and in fact he only realized this years after the series was created.

It has been suggested by Dunning and Sheard ( 2005 ) that it was no coincidence that this investigation was conducted in 1895, at a time when divisions within the sport led to the schism ; the split into the sports of league and union.

§ 7 ), and a closer examination shows that this is no chance coincidence, and that Monoimus is really to be referred to that sect, although Hippolytus himself has classed them separately ; for Monoimus describes his first principle as bisexual, and applies to it the titles " Father, Mother, the two immortal names ," words taken out of a Naassene hymn.

An associate of a senior Hezbollah operative is thought to have been on the same flight, although this may have been a coincidence.

It is commonly believed that this matching is unlikely to be a coincidence, and is often quoted as one of the main motivations to further investigate supersymmetric theories despite the fact that no supersymmetric partner particles have been experimentally observed ( March 2011 ).

Another is that there is no direct evidence that Hunter's Hood had ever been an outlaw or any kind of criminal or rebel at all ; the theory is built on conjecture and coincidence of detail.

Craddock is aware of the events, because by coincidence he had been born that very day.

Some proponents of this theory argue, only on cultural grounds, that both etymologies may well be correct, and that there may have been a conscious poetic exploitation of the phonological coincidence between trobar and the triliteral Arabic root TRB when sacred Sufi Islamic musical forms with a love theme first spread from Al-Andalus to southern France.

It is no coincidence that the rise of popular music was tied with the rise of television, as the format allowed for many new stars to be exposed that previously would have been passed over by Hollywood, which normally required proven acts in order to attract an audience to the box office.

Of course, now that the pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction, we can expect courts to explain where the limits on the newly expanded equity of redemption lie ... and it is probably not a coincidence that the cases that have eroded Graf v. Hope Building Corp. have been accompanied by the rise of arbitration as a means for enforcing mortgages.

The 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal, who may have served in Britain under Agricola, wrote in Satires that " arms had been taken beyond the shores of Ireland ", and the coincidence of dates is striking.

Had the self-preservations been perfect, the coincidence in space would have been complete, and the group of reals would have been inextended ; or had the several reals been simply contiguous, i. e. without connection, then, as nothing would actually have happened, nothing would appear.

An associate of a senior Hezbollah operative is thought to have been on the same flight, although this may have been a coincidence.

Concerns a house where murder has been committed, bought ( by the merest coincidence ) by someone who as a child saw the body.

Corwin and Benedict decide that the arm being the right weapon in the right place at the right time is too unlikely a coincidence to be true, and so it must have been arranged by some guiding force — Oberon.

At more or less the same time, a coincidence ends Reggie's ordeal: Just as he is walking along a street near where he has been held prisoner, Joey / Reggie comes along driving a police motorcycle and hitting the kid.

This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.

For decades after the discovery of GRBs, astronomers searched for a counterpart at other wavelengths: i. e., any astronomical object in positional coincidence with a recently observed burst.

In the paper, Wigner observed that the mathematical structure of a physics theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to empirical predictions, and argued that this is not just a coincidence and therefore must reflect some larger and deeper truth about both mathematics and physics.

The type of " coincidence " (++, −−, +− or −+) observed for any given pair of particles is determined by the region within which their hidden variable falls.

We have to match both the behaviour of the individual light beam on passage through a polariser and the observed coincidence curves.

They also note the embroidered coat of arms with a " W " letter observed by the servant boy at the Ashworth incident, a notorious coincidence with his title's name.

She argues that the evidence, including that contained in these reports shows that, while many diseases such as tuberculosis were introduced by British colonists, this was not so for smallpox and that the speculations of British responsibility made by other historians were based on tenuous evidence, largely on the mere coincidence that the 1789-90 epidemic was first observed afflicting the Aborigines not long after the establishment of the first British settlement.