While this is at odds with Tolkien's statements that the First Age was the longest by far it is a common misapprehension because the subsequent ages all took place entirely during the Years of the Sun.

It is this fact which gives the lie to the common misinterpretation of Occam's razor that " the simplest " one is usually the correct one.

To temper ad hoc hypothesizing in science, common practice includes falsificationism ( somewhat in the philosophy of Occam's razor ).

Gentile's theory may be considered an extreme form of Occam's Razor, though it can appear to common sense to defy Occam's Razor outright by the complex thinking involved to relate with his theory.

Razor burn is a common problem, especially among those who shave coarse hairs on areas with sensitive skin like the bikini line, pubic hair, underarms, chest, and beard.

The idea of national responsibility thus has become a common feature of the nations of the non-Soviet world.

The Charles Men has a tremendous range of characters, of common folk even more than of major figures.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

History has demonstrated many times that concerts of nations based solely on the negative spur of common danger are unlikely to survive when the external danger ceases to be dramatically urgent.

The New York Central has pointed out that this control, if approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would give the combined C. & O. - B. & O. Railroad a total of 185 points served in common with the New York Central.

By dealing with common landscape in an uncommon way, Roy Mason has found a particular niche in American landscape art.

only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom, common to our culture, which he has evidently heard, over and over, from a parent until he experiences it as part of him.

This carryover right has a number of things in common with a net operating loss carryover.

We come upon a rabbit that has been caught in one of the brutal traps in common use.

It is no common thing for a listener ( critical or otherwise ) to hear a singer `` live '' for the first time only after he has died.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

The analysis of variance has been studied from several approaches, the most common of which uses a linear model that relates the response to the treatments and blocks.

In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.

In Western countries, a bead frame similar to the Russian abacus but with straight wires and a vertical frame has been common ( see image ).

While most everyone has an experience with anxiety at some point in their lives, as it is a common reaction to real or perceived threats of all kinds, most do not develop long-term problems with anxiety.

Although panic attacks are not experienced by every person who has anxiety, they are a common symptom.

The family has a worldwide distribution, and is most common in the arid and semi-arid regions of subtropical and lower temperate latitudes.

The most common criticism of HH Price's afterlife hypothesis has come from the religious community as his suggestions are not consistent with traditional Christian teaching, nor the teachings of any other monotheistic religion.

Agrarianism has two common meanings.

However, the availability of commercially farmed abalone has allowed more common consumption of this once rare delicacy.

A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

Because of the mountain slopes, terracing has been a common practice.

In common usage, it refers to the simpler properties when using the traditional operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with smaller values of numbers.

In the case of persons that common usage has called saints from " time immemorial " ( in practice, since before 1500 or so ), the Church may carry out a " confirmation of cultus ", which is much simpler.

Practical devices generally use simpler chords for common characters ( e. g., Baudot ), or may have ways to make it easier to remember the chords ( e. g., Microwriter ), but the same principles apply.

This definition is more rigorous and expandable than a simpler one involving common divisors, and it is often necessary to use it to determine the rationality or reducibility of numbers that are expressed in terms of variables.

Although acid-free paper has become more common, a large body of acidic paper still exists in books made after the 1850s because of its cheaper and simpler production methods.

There is, however, a Scandinavian breed of the common elk in which the antlers are simpler and recall those of the East Siberian animals.

A common approach to finding the rank of a matrix is to reduce it to a simpler form, generally row-echelon form by row operations.

This approach is common in most self-replicating systems, including biological life, and is simpler in that it does not require the program to contain a complete description of itself.

The common form of the razor, used to distinguish between equally explanatory hypotheses, may be supported by the practical fact that simpler theories are easier to understand.

In such cases it is common to use the simpler, approximate versions of the laws, instead of the more accurate general laws.

In a simpler sense, multistatic radars are systems which have two or more receiving sites with a common spatial coverage area, and data from these coverage areas are combined and processed at a central location.

*. 177 ( 4. 5 mm ): the most common caliber, also used in ISSF shooting events at the Olympic Games, it has the flattest trajectory of all the calibers for a given energy level, making accuracy simpler.

The most common basic approach to studying nonlinear partial differential equations is to change the variables ( or otherwise transform the problem ) so that the resulting problem is simpler ( possibly even linear ).

A common opinion of the car is that in stock form it is somewhat underpowered, and a variety of solutions have been implemented, from complete engine swaps ( either to a larger PRV engine, or to completely different engines such as the Cadillac Northstar engine ), turbocharger kits ( single or twin-turbo ), down to simpler solutions such as improved exhausts and other normal engine tuning work.

These factors are usually also considered to contribute to high quality Riesling wines, so the petrol note is in fact more likely to develop in top wines than in simpler wines made from high-yielding vineyards, especially those from the New World, where irrigation is common.

Parabolic reflectors are used to collect energy from a distant source ( for example sound waves or incoming star light ) and bring it to a common focal point, thus correcting spherical aberration found in simpler spherical reflectors.

Double-acting piston bellows are a type of bellows used by blacksmiths and smelters to increase the air flow going into the forge, with the property that air is blown out on both strokes of the handle ( in contrast to simpler and more common bellows that blow air when the stroke is in one direction and refill the bellows in the other direction ).

A common approach is to create an image mask which only includes pixels that match certain criteria, then perform simpler scanning operations on the resulting mask.

In modern mathematics it is common to study a category by associating to every object of this category a simpler object which still retains a sufficient amount of information about the object in question.

Semi-active radar homing ( SARH ) guided missiles are simpler and more common.

Although it is simpler in design than later carpet pages and contains motifs not found in later carpet pages, it shows a subtlety of pattern and alternation of colors common to Insular manuscripts.

Because of its relative complexity ( the D-shaped metal shield, the screws and nuts ), D-sub connectors are now quite expensive compared to other, mostly simpler, common connectors.

The study of these diverse organisms means that the subject is often broken up into simpler, more focused units, which use common techniques, even if they are not studying the same organisms or diseases.

It is easier, simpler and cheaper to produce in volume, and hence the more common choice for commercial manufacturers.