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This provided a simple scientific interpretation of the cosmological anthropic principle: Our world may consist of different parts, but we can live only in those parts of the multiverse which can support life as we know it.

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I come now to a third argument, which again is very simple.
simple: Cosmological argument
In theoretical computer science, currying provides a way to study functions with multiple arguments in very simple theoretical models such as the lambda calculus in which functions only take a single argument.
Disjunction introduction or addition is a simple valid argument form, an immediate inference and a rule of inference of propositional logic.
There is no such simple argument to enable us to find the maxima of the diffraction pattern.
He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
He is best known for his books Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
A common way out of this argument is not to answer the question ( e. g. with a simple ' yes ' or ' no '), but to challenge the assumption behind the question.
The argument that minimum wages decrease employment is based on a simple supply and demand model of the labor market.
In propositional logic, modus ponendo ponens ( Latin for " the way that affirms by affirming "; often abbreviated to MP or modus ponens ) or implication elimination is a valid, simple argument form and rule of inference.
Moore's argument in Principia Ethica is ( among other things ) a defense of ethical non-naturalism ; he argues that the term " good " ( in the sense of intrinsic value ) is indefinable, because it names a simple, non-natural property.
* A simple argument for the Mac
An equally simple argument is made by Columbia University professor James S. Shapiro, author of the book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
This argument can be generalized to concave simple polygons, if external angles that turn in the opposite direction are subtracted from the total turned.
Academic reviews of the topic are more equivocal, noting that although the argument that animals have at least simple conscious thoughts and feelings has strong support, some critics continue to question how reliably animal mental states can be determined.
The algorithm for deciding this is conceptually simple: it constructs ( the description of ) a new program t taking an argument n which ( 1 ) first executes program a on input i ( both a and i being hard-coded into the definition of t ), and ( 2 ) then returns the square of n. If a ( i ) runs forever, then t will never get to step ( 2 ), regardless of n. Then clearly, t is a function for computing squares if and only if step ( 1 ) terminates.
The simple but powerful logic of her argument impressed some committee members.
The tortoise discusses with Achilles a simple deductive argument.
A simple argument for ( 2 ) is as follows.
To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships are more complex than a simple online / offline dichotomy, he observes that some people draw no distinction between an on-line relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an offline relationship, such as being pen pals.
He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
According to McGuckin, Cyril viewed the " elevated intellectual intellectual argument about christology " as ultimately one and the same as the " validity and security of the simple Christian life ".
To those who see the tradition as constantly evolving and supplying answers to question that it itself has raised, the argument that there would be no reason to develop and transmit material which seems derogatory of the Prophet or of Islam is too simple.
In this simple example there may be a call to an event handler called < tt > OnKeyEnter ()</ tt > that includes an argument with a string of characters, corresponding to what the user typed before hitting the ENTER key.

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As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.
Most avant-garde creators, true to their interest in the self-sufficiency of pure movement, have tended to dress their dancers in simple lines and solid colors ( often black ) and to give them a bare cyclorama for a setting.
Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.
Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??
Catholics who were truly Christians longed for the simple penance of days gone by.
Here briefly in this humble tribute I have sought for some simple and succinct summation that would define the immense service of this patriot to his country.
They should provide for simple recreation.
They should know simple exercises that could prepare less fortunate children for the sports we will demand be taught.
Recently many doctors have installed ultrasonic vibration machines for deep massage of bruises, contusions, and simple bursitis.
Af appeared to be well suited for the study of these matters, since it is a normal paramagnet, with three unpaired electrons on the chromium, its crystal structure is very simple, and the unknown position of the hydrogen in the strong Af bond provides structural interest.
We are reporting these investigations here briefly because of their relevancy to problems of the study of apparently simple exchange reactions of chlorine and because the results furnish some information on the activation energy for abstraction of chlorine atoms from carbon tetrachloride.
In considering roleplaying for analysis we enter a more complex area, since we are now no longer dealing with a simple over-all decision but rather with the examination and evaluation of many elements seen in dynamic functioning.
Thomas also presents a simple equation for deriving an index of persistence, which weights not only the number of stems ( ' roots ' ) per meaning, but their relative frequency.
This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.
If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.
It is a simple matter, for one so disposed, to take a work like The Sane Society and shred it into odds and ends.
The simple time-temperature equivalence valid for many amorphous systems did not hold here.
A simple process for the preparation of nearly monodisperse polystyrene of predictable molecular weight has been developed.
Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.
But his is still a simple life relatively free of the female presence or influence, and he must go far, even though he may go fast, for sophisticated pleasures.

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