Denying the existence of a deity, and refusing to admit as evidence all a priori arguments, d ' Holbach saw in the universe as nothing more than matter in motion, bound by inexorable natural laws of cause and effect.

Denying the case against tobacco was " closed ," they called for more research as a tactic to delay regulation.

On 5 September 1996, Irving filed a libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher Penguin Books for publishing a British edition of Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust, which had first been published in the United States in 1993.

In the company's tradition of courting controversy, Penguin published Deborah Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust which accused David Irving of Holocaust denial.

Denying the immortality of Zeus, then, was the lie of the Cretans.

Denying any special status to the priesthood, Lollards thought confession to a priest was unnecessary since according to them priests did not have the ability to forgive sins.

The book was penned " By a LOVER of TRUTH, Denying Human Infallibility.

Denying that his program was socialist, Long stated that his ideological inspiration for the plan came not from Karl Marx but from the Bible and the Declaration of Independence.

Denying that the kit change was merely a publicity stunt, club chairman Jan van den Elzen told Reuters:

Denying fascism's claim to philosophical respectability, Hobsbawm writes ," Theory was not the strong point of movements devoted to the inadequancies of reason and rationalism and the superiority of instinct and will " and further on the same page " Mussolini could have readily dispensed with his house philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, and Hitler probably neither knew nor cared about the support of the philosopher Heidegger.

2003 ): Denying a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) request seeking the names of post-9 / 11 detainees and their attorneys, the D. C. circuit, articulating what would become known as the Mosaic theory, held that this information was within FOIA ’ s law enforcement exemption.

Denying that classes and sets exist is the contemporary meaning of nominalism.

According to Finkelstein, Deborah Lipstadt claims there is widespread Holocaust denial-yet in " Denying the Holocaust " her prime example is Arthur Butz, author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.

* Affirming the consequent and Denying the antecedent: draws a conclusion from premises that do not support that conclusion by confusing necessary and sufficient conditions.

In her book, Denying the Holocaust, Lipstadt called Irving a Holocaust denier, falsifier, and bigot, and said that he manipulated and distorted real documents.

Denying the substance of space, he seems to have regarded it, in opposition to Aristotle, as the mere arrangement and position ( taxis and thesis ) of bodies.

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Denying the belief that sensory experience is primary, Radischev, in On Man, His Mortality, His Immortality, speaks in favor of man's higher virtues as the main elements in complex human thought.

Denying an individual and their support system an opportunity to explore psychological or spiritual concerns is just as harmful as forcing them to deal with issues they either don't have or choose not to deal with.

Denying pet birds the opportunity to fly may also contribute to sedentary behavior, obesity and related health problems.

In 2007, Lautenberg proposed the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007, designed to deny weapons purchases by persons that the government has placed on the terrorist watchlist.

Deborah Esther Lipstadt ( born March 18, 1947, New York City ) is an American historian and author of the books Denying the Holocaust and The Eichmann Trial.

David Irving sued her and her publisher, Penguin Books, for libel in an English court, after she characterized some of his writings and public statements as Holocaust denial in her book Denying the Holocaust.

* Suspension of Uranium Enrichment Is Like Denying Iran Nuclear Technology Feb. 2005 transcript

* Suspension of Uranium Enrichment Is Like Denying Iran Nuclear Technology Feb. 2005

Even in such technical curricula as engineering, the senior is much more likely than the freshman to choose, as an ideal, liberal education over specific vocational preparation.

But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.

A mathematical formula is nothing more than a pattern for solving a specific problem.

Here there is a specific preventive component which applies in a more generalized sense to any casework situation.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

But it would seem more intended as a tract advocating the prosodic theory than a paper directed to the specific problems of Igbo phonology.

Chapter 15 provides more detailed information about specific techniques used in evaluating pupil progress.

As the hour progresses, the sensitive seems to probe more deeply and to make more personal and specific statements.

All he can do is to be an objective and careful questioner, seeking to help the sensitive in clarifying and making more specific her paranormal impressions.

Although the resolution might have been far more specific, it was considerably tougher than the earlier one.

Virgilia Peterson, a critic by trade, has turned her critical eye pitilessly and honestly on herself in an autobiography more of the mind and heart than of specific events.

When someone does develop chronic or severe problems with anxiety, such problems are usually classified as being one or more of the specific types of Anxiety Disorders.

Other researchers see these motifs as part of a more generalized Puebloan style and / or spiritual significance, rather than evidence of a continuing specific elite socioeconomic system.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more limited sense of a threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force.

Also, Caracalla perhaps felt more comfortable about campaigning in the upper Main because he was not declaring war on any specific historic tribe, such as the Chatti or Cherusci, against whom Rome had suffered grievous losses.

Irregular past tense forms, such as " broke " or " was / were ", can be seen as still more specific cases ( since they are confined to certain lexical items, like the verb " break "), which therefore take priority over the general cases listed above.

Initially a study of systems of polynomial equations in several variables, the subject of algebraic geometry starts where equation solving leaves off, and it becomes even more important to understand the intrinsic properties of the totality of solutions of a system of equations, than to find a specific solution ; this leads into some of the deepest areas in all of mathematics, both conceptually and in terms of technique.

It focuses on historical Norse paganism of the Viking Age as described in the Eddas, but proponents also take a more inclusive approach, defining it as " Northern European Heathenry " not limited to a specific historical period.

However, other styles of guitar have been introduced and enjoy moderate popularity, generally in more specific genres:

The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music ( in music theory and religious contexts ), or more generally, a song ( or composition ) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term " national anthem " or " sports anthem ".

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

However, chlorpromazine proved to reduce the effects of psychosis in a more effective and specific manner than lobotomy, even though it was known to be capable of causing severe sedation.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, alcohol dependence in general was called dipsomania, but that term now has a much more specific meaning.