A related issue is the adoption of the Gospel of Mark as a Canonical Gospel, given that, like the hypothetical Q, it is largely reproduced in Matthew and Luke, but, unlike Q, it did not become " lost ".

In the hypothetical example, this would assist the litigation process, because for example, if the injured person states that the driver ought to have alerted the third party, the driver may be aware that the law imposes no such duty, and can issue a motion ( or application ) to the court to have that part of the claim dismissed.

The role and use of money in a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue.

SPI started out publishing games on historical subjects, but soon started producing games that were more hypothetical ( e. g. World War III, Invasion: America ), and a little later, also tackled fantasy and science fiction subjects, such as Starforce: Alpha Centauri and War of the Ring ( a Lord of the Rings game ), eventually starting a new magazine, Ares which, like S & T, included a new science fiction or fantasy game in each issue.

In issue # 11 of Eightball, published after the conclusion of the Velvet Glove storyline, Clowes did a story about a hypothetical movie based on his book.

It was designed after positive reader reaction to the tenth issue of the comic's cover, which showed cards for a hypothetical XXXenophile CCG.

* Modern War, which covers the period since World War II and hypothetical future wars and also includes a game in every issue ;

This hypothetical vacuum metastability decay event is, of course, contingent on our living in a metastable vacuum in the first place, which is an issue that is far from resolved.

He referred to hypothetical eugenicists ' suggestions for reversing the trend, including some sort of oral contraceptive " in the water supply and ... an antidote " in order to conceive.

Consideration of the possibility of backwards time travel in a hypothetical universe described by a Gödel metric led famed logician Kurt Gödel to assert that time might itself be a sort of illusion.

Note that all 4 of these hypothetical Fredkin measuring devices assume some sort of weird notion of absolute space, time, and information that would depend upon the ' alternate-universe engine ' for any empirical validity.

Key to Howard's address to the conference were the issues of accountability and trust ; the Timetable was intended to give the voters a sort of checklist, so they could tell if a ( hypothetical ) Conservative government was keeping its promises.

Moreover, some of Dutton's categories seem too broad: a physicist might entertain hypothetical worlds in his / her imagination in the course of formulating a theory.

If time, space, and energy are secondary features derived from a substrate below the Planck scale, then Einstein's hypothetical algebraic system might resolve the EPR paradox ( although Bell's theorem would still be valid ).

For example, a hypothetical population might include 10 million men and 10 million women.

One reason why it might not is a hypothetical preference for " the real thing ", although such an opinion could easily be mollified if virtual reality were to develop to a certain level of quality.

Our research, however, demonstrates that when study participants are placed in real, rather than hypothetical, bargaining situations and are presented with accurate information regarding their statistical probability of success, just as they might be so informed by their attorney or the government during a criminal plea negotiation, innocent defendants are highly risk-averse.

Rather than presenting a philosophical problem and its solution, Wittgenstein engages in a dialogue, where he provides a thought experiment ( a hypothetical example or situation ), describes how one might be inclined to think about it, and then shows why that inclination suffers from conceptual confusion.

Superluminal communication is the hypothetical process by which one might send information at faster-than-light ( FTL ) speeds.

If the hypothetical monkey has a typewriter with 90 equally likely keys that include numerals and punctuation, then the first typed keys might be " 3. 14 " ( the first three digits of pi ) with a probability of ( 1 / 90 )< sup > 4 </ sup >, which is 1 / 65, 610, 000.

Thought experiments, which are well-structured, well-defined hypothetical questions that employ subjunctive reasoning ( irrealis moods ) – " What might happen ( or, what might have happened ) if.

In some cases, the hypothetical scenario might be considered metaphysically impossible, or impossible in any sense at all.

If he means coureloms and mammoths separately, then he is not specifically saying that mammoths existed on the American continent at that time, seeing as all the animals are meant as hypothetical examples of what the Jaredites might have brought in their barges.

Love handles are visible deposits on each side of the abdomen or lower back ( that a hypothetical lover might grab to pull the subject into an embrace ).

As a pedagogical exercise, a physics university instructor might ask what the aftermath would be, as nature returns to normal, following a hypothetical miraculous intervention by God, similar to a modern thought experiment.

This led physicist Richard A. Muller to suggest that these extinctions could be due to a hypothetical companion star to the Sun called Nemesis periodically disrupting the orbits of comets in the Oort cloud, and leading to a large increase in the number of comets reaching the inner solar system where they might hit Earth.

The same goes for the hypothetical caller: there may be one, there may be none, or the phone might ring off the hook with would-be suitors ; all that matters is that every time there is a caller, if there is a caller, that caller, and not someone else, should be put off.

Many attempts have been made to reconstruct the plot of the play, but none of them is more than hypothetical, because of the scanty remains that survive from its text and of the total absence of ancient descriptions or résumés-though it has been suggested that a part of Hyginus ' narration of the Oedipus myth might in fact derive from Euripides ' play.

A hypothetical desktop machine might have two of the " low end " transputers handling I / O tasks on some of their serial lines ( hooked up to appropriate hardware ) while they talked to one of their larger cousins acting as a CPU on another.

There are some assets in existence which might replicate some of the hypothetical properties of this asset.

Note that the hypothetical surge in automobiles might be ' uneconomic growth ' from a global perspective, but ' good economic growth ' from those countries ' perspective ( an example of an externality ).

SPI sometimes published games exploring hypothetical — sometimes seemingly far-fetched — conflicts such as warfare in the United States following an all-out nuclear war, or what might happen if the Soviet Union and / or the People's Republic of China attempted to invade the United States under some set of circumstances.

Edward Sapir suggested that the Salishan languages might be related to the Wakashan and Chimakuan languages in a hypothetical Mosan family.

F-19 is a designation for a hypothetical United States fighter aircraft that has never been officially acknowledged, and has engendered much speculation that it might refer to a type of aircraft whose existence is still classified.

Like the hypothetical barrister, Foxe had to deal with the evidence of what actually happened, evidence that he was rarely in a position to forge.

QA research attempts to deal with a wide range of question types including: fact, list, definition, How, Why, hypothetical, semantically constrained, and cross-lingual questions.

Hashmi had begun to deal with such ( what then appeared, or as he termed, hypothetical ) questions a quarter century earlier than anyone else, offering sharp canonical analysis and effectively arguing for a " comparative " aesthetic to foster humane cultural norms.

* Back up civilization Robert Shapiro's response to Edges hypothetical request from the American President: " What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?

It remained in the area to deal with a hypothetical invasion of France by Allies.

The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black body which subtends the same solid angle as the visible disk of the planet.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

Searle's thought experiment begins with this hypothetical premise: suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in constructing a computer that behaves as if it understands Chinese.

* Ethylene dione ( ethylenedione, ethene dione, or ethene 1, 2-dione ), a hypothetical chemical compound with the formula C2O2 ( O = C = C = O )

In general, NNT is always computed with respect to two treatments A and B, with A typically a drug and B a placebo ( in our example above, A is a 5-year treatment with the hypothetical drug, and B is no treatment ).

The hypothetical elementary particles with this property are called tachyonic particles.

In a ring all of whose ideals are principal ( a principal ideal domain or PID ), this ideal will be identical with the set of multiples of some ring element d ; then this d is a greatest common divisor of a and b. But the ideal ( a, b ) can be useful even when there is no greatest common divisor of a and b. ( Indeed, Ernst Kummer used this ideal as a replacement for a gcd in his treatment of Fermat's Last Theorem, although he envisioned it as the set of multiples of some hypothetical, or ideal, ring element d, whence the ring-theoretic term.

The author drew on three primary sources, each representing a distinct community: a hypothetical collection, or several collections, of sayings ( called " Q ", and shared with Luke ); the Gospel of Mark ; and material unique to Matthew ( called " M ", some of which may have originated with Matthew himself ).

Piłsudski's planned East European federation of states ( inspired by the tradition of the multiethnic " Republic of Both Nations " and including a hypothetical multinational successor state to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ) was incompatible, at the time of rising national movements, with his assumption of Polish domination and with the encroachment on the neighboring peoples ' lands and aspirations ; as such it was doomed to failure.

In principle, mesons with more than one quark – antiquark pair may exist ; a hypothetical meson with two pairs is called a tetraquark.

This, along with the general public's increasing lack of familiarity of Greek mythology at the time led to the figure of Pan becoming generalised as a ' horned god ', and applying connotations to the character, such as benevolence that were not evident in the original Greek myths which in turn gave rise to the popular acceptance of Murray's hypothetical horned god of the witches.

For example if a person is charged with speeding, in a hypothetical case the prosecution has to prove that the person was the driver of the motor vehicle and that it was being driven in excess of the proper speed without any lawful excuse.

In common with other philosophers of the day, Rousseau looked to a hypothetical State of Nature as a normative guide.

Central to the Pure Theory of Law is the notion of a ' basic norm ( Grundnorm )'— a hypothetical norm, presupposed by the jurist, from which in a hierarchy all ' lower ' norms in a legal system, beginning with constitutional law, are understood to derive their authority or ' bindingness '.

He came up with a hypothetical new species of long-necked pinniped, to which he gave the scientific name of Megophias megophias.

Instead of suggesting that the mechanical properties of objects changed with their constant-velocity motion through an undetectable aether, Einstein proposed to deduce the characteristics that any successful theory must possess in order to be consistent with the most basic and firmly established principles, independent of the existence of a hypothetical aether.

In the Middle Irish period the name is often spelled Mórrígan with a lengthening diacritic over the ' o ', seemingly intended to mean " Great Queen " ( Old Irish mór, ' great '; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic * Māra Rīganī-s ).