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While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.
Perceived causal associations between actions or events may derive from symbolic associations such as metaphor, metonym, " As above, so below " from Hermeticism and apparent synchronicity ( coincidental magic ).
To understand this axiom, note that the clause in parentheses in the symbolic statement above simply states that A and B have precisely the same members.
During the ten days of Vijayadashami, Deities of Ravana, his brother Kumbhakarna and son Meghanad are erected and burnt by enthusiastic youths at sunset. Traditionally a bonfire on the day of Holi, marks the symbolic annihilation of Holika the demoness as described above.
Even here Xenocrates's preference for symbolic modes of sensualising or denoting appears: he connected the above three stages of knowledge with the three Fates: Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis.
For humans, maintaining an upside down position, with the head vertically below the feet, is highly uncomfortable for any extended period of time, and consequently burial in that attitude ( as opposed to attitudes of rest or watchfulness, as above ) is highly unusual and generally symbolic.
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body ; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs ; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles ,-a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.
If the symbolic aircraft dot is above the horizon line ( blue background ) the aircraft is nose up.
This is just the symbolic version of the informal argument given above, with standing for " all lemons are yellow " and standing for " Santa Claus exists ".
It is thought that some kind of philosophic background effected that choice, since the horusname reveals a clearly defined, symbolic meaning in its translation ( see above ).
Thus, a definite description ( of the general form ' the F is G ') becomes the following existentially quantified phrase in classic symbolic logic ( where ' x ' and ' y ' are variables and ' F ' and ' G ' are predicates-in the example above, F would be " is an emperor of Germany ", and G would be " is gray "):
She also carries within her a yearning, a majestic quasi-religious sensibility which finds its apotheosis in the deification, as she dies, of her pet parrot who floats above her deathbed masquerading as the Holy Ghost, the love she shows to the parrot being symbolic of her altruism.
The revered alvars came from all castes, a symbolic notion in Vaishnavism to show that devotion to God transcends above caste.
In keeping with the Light Verse, the unbelievers too are explained in metaphor, returning to the deeply symbolic tone above:
The main chamber also carries the symbolic element, a mihrab design over the central marble lattice or jaali, facing Mecca in the West, here instead of the traditional Surah 24, An-Noor of Quran which is inscribed on the mihrabs, this one is just an outline allowing light to enter directly into the chamber, from Qibla or the direction of Mecca, thus elevating the status of the Emperor, above his rivals and closer to divinity.
But this permission is limited by two indispensable conditions, first, that from the sense once conventionally established we never, in the same process of reasoning, depart ; secondly, that the laws by which the process is conducted be founded exclusively upon the above fixed sense or meaning of the symbols employed .” While his remarks pertain here to the development of a scientific language of formal reasoning or Logic, they apply equally well to natural languages, for all languages are essentially systems of symbolic communication.
This limits the results of the above search to only regular files, therefore excluding directories, special files, pipes, symbolic links, etc.
Ladder matches are often used as a finale to storylines and it is more common to have symbolic briefcases ( usually " containing " a contract for a future championship match ) or championships belts hung above the ring.
As mentioned above, the term " eruv " in modern Jewish usage often refers to the rope or string that creates a symbolic " walled courtyard ".
A bas-relief above the door, designed by Institute director James Henry Breasted, depicts various symbolic icons and hieroglyphics, figures including Herodotus and Julius Caesar, and includes an image of Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol.
* Supporters: A stag and a cougar hold the shield above the mount, symbolic of the area ’ s wildlife.
The mural, displayed above the platform doors, contains symbolic imageries of water and aquatic animals using the Chinese paper cutting technique.
The obverse has a symbolic representation of the Polar star above and flanked by simulated aerial exhaust trails or stylized wings.
As above, the graffiti is often highly symbolic and may contain more information about the gang's activities, values, and their current opponents.

above and argument
However, as in Cantor's argument ( above ), this idea leads to difficulties.
However, in CL it is necessary to explicitly refer to the function namespace when passing a function as an argumentwhich is also a common occurrence, as in the example above.
" This form of the argument is far more difficult to separate from a purely first cause argument than is the example of the house's maintenance above, because here the First Cause is insufficient without the candle's or vessel's continued existence.
Given the definition of above, we might fix ( or ' bind ') the first argument, producing a function of type.
The above definition implies this one: the upper bound of the empty subset is any existing element of A, because A is nonempty ; furthermore, as provable with an induction argument over the size of nonempty finite subsets, the upper bound of a finite subset may be obtained by finding upper bounds of pairs iteratively.
Then, using the periodic Bernoulli function P < sub > n </ sub > defined above and repeating the argument on the interval, one can obtain an expression of ƒ ( 1 ).
In this notation, the use of a vertical bar as delimiter indicates that the argument following it is the " parameter " ( as defined above ), while the backslash indicates that it is the modular angle.
Heawood noticed Kempe's mistake and also observed that if one was satisfied with proving only five colors are needed, one could run through the above argument ( changing only that the minimal counterexample requires 6 colors ) and use Kempe chains in the degree 5 situation to prove the five color theorem.
The argument above began by giving an unavoidable set of five configurations ( a single vertex with degree 1, a single vertex with degree 2, ..., a single vertex with degree 5 ) and then proceeded to show that the first 4 are reducible ; to exhibit an unavoidable set of configurations where every configuration in the set is reducible would prove the theorem.
The argument above may not hold for the universe as a whole, since travel times may well explain the lack of physical presence on Earth of alien inhabitants of far away galaxies.
An illustration of Cantor's diagonal argument for the existence of uncountable set s. The sequence at the bottom cannot occur anywhere in the infinite list of sequences above.
However, when k ≥ 3, the expected value is well-defined, and by the above argument, it is
Yet he attacks the idealism of Schopenhauer and Descartes with an argument similar to Kant's critique of the latter ( see above );
In the above argument, the assertion " this number is either rational or irrational " invokes the law of excluded middle.
In the argument above, for any and, whenever and are true, necessarily is true.
If S contains two elements that are not pairwise orthogonal ( in particular, the set of all quantum states includes such pairs ) then an argument like that given above shows that the answer is no.
Though some points above may be arguable, but some key points seemingly aren't giving that it would require one to abide by many of the premises to even make an argument to begin with.
In the Leipzig disputation with Martin Luther, 1519, Johann Eck used the Corpus, specifically the Angelic Hierarchy, as argument for the apostolic origin of papal supremacy, pressing the Platonist analogy, " as above, so below ".
Since E < sub > 2 </ sub >-E < sub > 1 </ sub > ≫ kT, it follows that the argument of the exponential in the equation above is a large negative number, and as such N < sub > 2 </ sub >/ N < sub > 1 </ sub > is vanishingly small ; i. e., there are almost no atoms in the excited state.
Paedobaptists point to a number of passages in the New Testament which seem to corroborate the above argument.
It is common to use this first type of argument with propositions such as the one above, concerning the non-existence of some mathematical object.
Thus, as per Draper's argument above, the theory that there is an omniscient and omnipotent being who is indifferent requires no hidden reasons in order to explain evil.
The criterion, given above for the solvability of the word problem in a single group can be extended to a criterion for the uniform solvability of the word problem for a class of finitely presented groups by a straightforward argument.

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