They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.

The first " true alphabet " in this sense is believed to be the Greek alphabet, which is a modified form of the Phoenician alphabet.

An argument of this form is invalid, i. e., the conclusion can be false even when statements 1 and 2 are true.

One way to demonstrate the invalidity of this argument form is with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion.

" This was thought to favour the doctrine of absolute non-resistance, and accordingly the convention parliament enacted the form that has been in use since that time – " I do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty ..."

With the axiom of dependent choice ( which is a weakened form of the axiom of choice ), this result can be reversed: if there are no such infinite sequences, then the axiom of regularity is true.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

Thus, intuitionists are ready to accept a statement of the form " P or Q " as true only if we can prove P or if we can prove Q:

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

But Aleister Crowley regarded it as possessing great power ; he said its true form is abrahadabra.

During the mid 1st century AD, the Zarubintsy and Lukashevka cultures came to an end in their true form, possibly due to Sarmatian invasions and perturbations of central European trade due to Caesar's invasion of Gaul ( the ' heart ' of the La Tene culture ).

More commonly it is fired in a kiln of some sort to form a true ceramic.

Brown left the band in 1932 to form the Musical Brownies, the first true Western swing band.

Whereas the first part of the film takes place in society restrained by law and order, the second part, including the flashback scene, occurs in the world of individuals and thus the characters seen in the first part of the film are revealed in their true form.

In his book, Cities and Economic Development, Paul Bairoch takes up this position in his argument that agricultural activity appears necessary before true cities can form.

Some definitions also add that for any production rule of the form u → v of a context-sensitive grammar, it shall be true that | u |≤| v |.

The application of the catenary to the construction of arches is attributed to Robert Hooke, whose " true mathematical and mechanical form " in the context of the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral alluded to a catenary.

where he wrote that he had found " a true mathematical and mechanical form of all manner of Arches for Building.

His doctrine of the Resurrection is not quite so realistic as that of other Fathers ; but his conception of the Church is decidedly empirical: the existing catholic Church form is the true one, intended by Christ, the completion of the Church of the Old Testament.

Some researchers consider that contemporary Russia is not a true democracy and instead resembles a form of dictatorship.

Stevenson has identified persuasive definition as a form of stipulative definition which purports to describe the " true " or " commonly accepted " meaning of a term, while in reality stipulating an altered use, perhaps as an argument for some specific view.

The Data Vault model is not a true 3rd normal form, and breaks some of the rules that 3NF dictates be followed.

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

The truth values of logical formulas usually form a finite set, generally restricted to two values: true and false, but logic can also be continuous-valued, e. g., fuzzy logic.

Thus a statement of the form is said to be true, under a particular interpretation, if there is some object in the domain of discourse of that interpretation that satisfies the predicate that the interpretation uses to assign meaning to the symbol Phil.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

It may be true that pool lighting dramatizes an evening scene, but lights also attract all the insect life for miles around.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

Some of this may prove to be true, or even considerable of it, whether by genetic ramification or by diffusion and coalescence.

He may then very well conclude that `` everybody '' is probably not the true target of her resentment.

Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available.

This may be true whether the farm is owned or rented.

Though it may exist in either literate or illiterate societies, it assumes a role of true cultural importance only in the latter.

Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

In this way, red wine warms of itself quite rapidly -- and though it is true that it may not attain its potential of taste and fragrance until after the middle of the meal ( or the course ), in the meantime it will have run the gamut of many beguiling and interesting stages.

Intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the chief Shepherd, the vicar of thy Son.

This may not be true of many writers, but it certainly is true of Mr. Sansom.

It may have been true for all I know, because his glasses were like the bottoms of milk bottles, but it didn't prevent the paintings from being exciting.

Acquaintances may be bored by analogies that often lead her to a deeper realization about the true nature of a crime.

Animism may further attribute souls to abstract concepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology.

Any player may declare the game over at any time during his turn if either of two conditions is true: one chain has 41 or more tiles, or there is at least one chain on the board and every chain on the board has 11 or more tiles.

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

The anecdote may or may not be true.

In particular, we cannot in general claim that " P or not P " is true ( the law of Excluded Middle ), since in some cases we may not be able to prove the statement " P " nor prove the statement " not P ".

These narratives may be true and may be false ; the veracity of the stories is not a determining factor.