A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxy | galaxies with it, like spots on an inflating balloon.

In 1790, Immanuel Kant wrote in Kritik der Urtheilskraft ( Critique of Judgement ) that the analogy of animal forms implies a common original type, and thus a common parent.

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

Marx, on the other hand, uses a measurement analogy, arguing that for commodities to be comparable they must have a common element or substance by which to measure them, and that labor is a common substance of what Marx eventually calls commodity-values.

Compound that are not the semantical sum of their of its constituents can be interpreted through analogy, common sense and context

Any linear-chain heteropolymer can be said to have a " primary structure " by analogy to the usage of the term for proteins, but this usage is rare compared to the extremely common usage in reference to proteins.

A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —" in satire, irony is militant "— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing.

The methodology of legal precedent and reasoning by analogy ( Qiyas ) are also similar in both the Islamic and common law systems.

The word has survived in common usage today only to define a place where rabbits breed and live, thus a network of underground interconnecting rabbit burrows, and by analogy an overcrowded place or building.

* 1937: Orson Welles ' famous production at the Mercury Theatre drew fervoured comment as the director dressed his protagonists in uniforms reminiscent of those common at the time in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, as well as drawing a specific analogy between Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer ( Cetonia aurata ), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.

He has developed this argument in two different fashions: firstly, in God and Other Minds, by drawing an equivalence between the teleological argument and the common sense view that people have of other minds existing by analogy with their own minds.

The common analogy is with the rolling of a small ball of snow down a snow-covered hillside.

The two most prominent systems, canon law and shari ' a, differ from other religious laws in that Canon law is the codification of Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox law as in civil law, while shari ' a derives many of its laws from juristic precedent and reasoning by analogy ( like in a common law tradition ).

Seahenge is so named by analogy with Stonehenge and does not possess an extant henge and appears to have had little functionally in common with its namesake.

The common analogy given to describe this is trying to determine the type of animal from its footprints.

In the common analogy of an object causing a dip in a flat cloth, normal de Sitter space has a curvature analogous to a flat cloth sitting atop a sphere with a very slight curvature because it is so large.

In the common analogy of an object causing a dip in a flat cloth, anti de Sitter space has a curvature analogous to a flat cloth sitting on a saddle, with a very slight curvature because it is so large.

Some propose that classifier – noun pairings are based on innate semantic features of the noun ( for example, all " long " nouns take a certain classifier because of their inherent longness ), and others claim that they are motivated by analogy to more prototypical pairings ( for example, " dictionary " takes the same classifier as the more common word " book ").

A common analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer, presents these parts of society as " organs " that work toward the proper functioning of the " body " as a whole.

A binary asteroid is a system of two asteroids orbiting their common center of mass, in analogy with binary stars.

The common analogy is that of material being removed or displaced by a cutting or plowing operation.

Our discussion of this involves using Erik Erikson's schema of `` identity vs. identity diffusion '' as a conceptual tool in superimposing a few common denominators onto the diverse personality and family configurations of the unwed mothers from whose case histories we quoted earlier.

In academic use, an arbitrage involves taking advantage of differences in price of a single asset or identical cash-flows ; in common use, it is also used to refer to differences between similar assets ( relative value or convergence trades ), as in merger arbitrage.

A common identification assay involves culturing a sample of the organism deep within a block of nutrient agar.

Breast reduction surgery is a common procedure that involves removing excess breast tissue, fat, and skin, and the repositioning of the nipple-areola complex.

The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.

More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law.

Another possible mechanism involves mutations leading to ineffective GABA ( the brain's most common inhibitory neurotransmitter ) action.

Subsurface exploration usually involves in-situ testing ( two common examples of in-situ tests are the standard penetration test and cone penetration test.

The most common form of genetic engineering involves the insertion of new genetic material at an unspecified location in the host genome.

The most common form of gene therapy involves using DNA that encodes a functional, therapeutic gene in order to replace a mutated gene.

The most common form of genetic engineering involves the insertion of a functional gene at an unspecified location in the host genome. This is accomplished by isolating and copying the gene of interest, generating a construct containing all the genetic elements for correct expression, and then inserting this construct into a random location in the host organism.

Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings ; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity that inevitably leads to a very sticky face.

The most common type of home run involves hitting the ball over the outfield fence, or above a line on the outfield fence specifically designed to indicate a home run, in flight, in fair territory, without it being caught or deflected back by an outfielder into the playing field.

This involves being the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts such as salt ( less common today ), coal, shortbread, whisky, and black bun ( a rich fruit cake ) intended to bring different kinds of luck to the householder.

Often, as a last resort if other treatments have failed, the most common procedure is prosthetic implants which involves the insertion of artificial rods into the penis.

Thus, although there is an esoteric tradition in Judaism ( Kabbalah ), Rabbinic scholar Max Kadushin has characterized normative Judaism as " normal mysticism ", because it involves everyday personal experiences of God through ways or modes that are common to all Jews.

A common workflow for film editing involves edge-coding printed film simultaneously with the film's synchronized audio track, on 35mm magnetic film, so that a foot of film and its synchronized audio have identical edge numbers.

" A common argument against noise pollution laws involves a false choice.

As also noted below, the most common isotopic molybdenum application involves molybdenum-99, which is a fission product.

The most common way to increase contrast is to stain the different structures with selective dyes, but this involves killing and fixing the sample.

This is more common when the misdemeanor is related to the privilege in question ( such as the loss of a taxi driver's license after a conviction for reckless driving ), or when the misdemeanor involves moral turpitudeand in general is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

" A common feature of all four multiverse levels is that the simplest and arguably most elegant theory involves parallel universes by default.

A common classical idea of beautiful art involves the word mimesis, the imitation of nature.

" Cumberland argues that the mature development (" perfection ") of human nature involves the individual human willing and acting for the common good.