The central tenet of Christianity is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah ( Christ ).

Adherents, referred to as Latter-day Saints or, more informally, Mormons, view faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement as the central tenet of their religion.

He adumbrated a school of thought that is known as Critical Rationalism with a central tenet being the rejection of the idea that knowledge can ever be justified in the strong form that is sought by most schools of thought.

The central political tenet of ethnic nationalism is that ethnic groups can be identified unambiguously, and that each such group is entitled to self-determination.

Independence from men as oppressors was a central tenet of lesbian-feminism, and many believers strove to separate themselves physically and economically from traditional male-centered culture.

In young Earth creationism and baraminology a central tenet is that evolution can explain diversity in a limited number of created kinds which can interbreed ( which they call " microevolution ") while the formation of new " kinds " ( which they call " macroevolution ") is impossible.

This had, as its central tenet, the absolute rule of law, but also contained numerous meritocratic elements.

He then dispatched two letters to Leo, denying the Imperial right to interfere in matters of doctrine, the central tenet of Caesaropapism.

To eliminate such suffering and achieve personal peace, followers in the path of the Buddha adhere to a set of teachings called the Four Noble Truths — a central tenet in Buddhist philosophy.

To eliminate such suffering and achieve personal peace, followers in the path of the Buddha adhere to a set of teachings called the Four Noble Truths — a central tenet in Buddhist philosophy.

As with structuralism, antihumanism is often a central tenet.

His central tenet was that the style should be proper " to the occasion, the subject, and the persons.

This doctrine is a central tenet of the Indian religions and is a belief that was held by such historic figures as Pythagoras, Plato and Socrates.

The equality of women and men is a central tenet and hallmark of Reconstructionist Judaism.

It is a central tenet of Christian faith and theology and part of the Nicene Creed: " On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures ".

Proponents of positive rights, by attributing the protection of negative rights to the society rather than the government, respond that individuals would not have any rights in the absence of societies — a central tenet of communitarianism — and thus have a personal responsibility to give something back to it.

It made non-violence both its central tenet and its primary method of confronting racism.

By 1851, at the second National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, the issue of women's right to vote had become a central tenet of the women's rights movement.

The central tenet of the foreign policy of John II in the West was to maintain an alliance with the German emperors ( Holy Roman Empire ).

Fraternities and sororities are officially prohibited by Brandeis University, as they are contrary to a central tenet of the university, namely, that student organizations be open to all students, with membership determined by competency or interest.

Jehovah's Witnesses consider that the falling away from faithfulness was already complete before the Council of Nicaea, when the Nicene Creed was adopted, which then enshrined the Trinity doctrine as the central tenet of nominal " Christian " orthodoxy.

* Rastafari movement, for whom a central tenet is the right of return of the descendants of enslaved black people to Africa.

A central tenet of the firefighter's claims was that their level of pay did not reflect the risks inherent in their day-to-day activities.

' This exploration of the relationship between writer, audience, and subject has become a central tenet of contemporary anthropological and ethnographic practice wherein active collaboration between the researcher ( s ) and subject ( s ) has helped blend, in certain instances, the practice of collaboration in ethnographic fieldwork with the process of creating the actual ethnographic product that emerges from the research itself.

As such, anthropology has been central in the development of several new ( late 20th century ) interdisciplinary fields such as cognitive science, global studies, and various ethnic studies.

The modern computer, or Von Neumann machine, would play a central role in cognitive science, both as a metaphor for the mind, and as a tool for investigation.

However, the sibling field of cognitive neuroscience has provided evidence of physiological brain states that directly correlate with mental states-thus providing support for the central assumption of cognitive psychology.

Sub-acute combined degeneration of the spinal cord secondary to pernicious anaemia can lead to anything from slight peripheral nerve damage to severe damage to the central nervous system, affecting speech, balance and cognitive awareness.

In psychology, the subject of imagination was again explored more extensively since Whitehead, and the question of feasibility or " eternal objects " of thought became central to the impaired theory of mind explorations that framed postmodern cognitive science.

Working memory is a theoretical concept central both to cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

The central executive ( see executive system ) is, among other things, responsible for directing attention to relevant information, suppressing irrelevant information and inappropriate actions, and for coordinating cognitive processes when more than one task must be done at the same time.

In combination, these drug actions work to depress various aspects of the central nervous system including the motor system, memory, and various cognitive processes.

The falsifiability of this claim is perhaps the central problem in the cognitive science of mathematics, a field that attempts to establish a foundation ontology based on the human cognitive and scientific process.

He argued that cognitive processes of appraisal are central in determining whether a situation is potentially threatening, constitutes a harm / loss or a challenge, or is benign.

Generally, the fundamental attribution error has been researched central to a social cognitive framework.

Boredom has been defined by C. D. Fisher in terms of its central psychological processes: “ an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity .” M. R. Leary and others describe boredom as “ an affective experience associated with cognitive attentional processes .” In positive psychology, boredom is described as a response to a moderate challenge for which the subject has more than enough skill.

Therefore the feedback that is read by this central regulator could include chemical and mechanical as well as cognitive cues.

Neural systems that regulate attention serve to attenuate awareness among complex animals whose central and peripheral nervous system provides more information than cognitive areas of the brain can assimilate.

Joseph Jordania suggested that the ability to ask questions is the central cognitive element that distinguishes human and animal cognitive abilities.

Fodor does not argue that the entire mind is modular ; rather he proposes that the central cognitive system responsible for complex cognitive activities ( such as analogical reasoning ) is not modular, but that input systems ( which interpret the neural signals from physical stimuli, and are responsible for basic cognitive activities such as language and vision ) are likely to be modular.

* PhD in: cognitive science ; comparative gender studies ; comparative history of central, southeastern and eastern Europe ; economics ; environmental sciences and policy ; mathematics and its applications ; medieval studies ; philosophy ; political science ; sociology and social anthropology

Furthermore, prenatal alcohol exposure may also damage the central nervous system, which can result in impaired cognitive and behavioral functioning similar to that described by Goddard.

Korb states that, " I believe that the central thesis will be relatively uncontentious for most cognitive scientists, but that its use as a cleaning solvent for messy puzzles will be viewed less happily in most quarters.