Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.

Many philosophers have attempted to reduce the number of distinct ontological categories.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

Because it consists of the views developed by a number of scientists and philosophers during the second quarter of the 20th Century, there is no definitive statement of the Copenhagen interpretation.

New Thought as a movement had no single origin, but was rather propelled along by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the Unity Church, Religious Science, and Church of Divine Science.

It has a long history, and a great number of prominent religious figures and philosophers have restated its reciprocal, " two-way " nature in various ways ( not limited to the above forms ).

Hedonism has been criticized by a number of modern authors and philosophers.

Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of 19th-and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and his or her emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts.

He left academia several times: serving as an officer on the frontline during World War I, where he was decorated a number of times for his courage ; teaching in schools in remote Austrian villages, where he encountered controversy for hitting children when they made mistakes in mathematics ; and working during World War II as a hospital porter in London, where he told patients not to take the drugs they were prescribed, and where no-one knew he was one of the world's most famous philosophers.

The song's lyrics make a series of scurrilous allegations against a number of highly respected philosophers, usually with regard to their capacity or incapacity for imbibing intoxicating liquors.

A relatively small number of major philosophers prefer not to be quick, but to spend more time trying to get extremely clear on what the problem is all about.

A number of other philosophers, including David Miller and Donald A. Gillies, have proposed propensity theories somewhat similar to Popper's.

Zeno propounded a number of celebrated paradoxes, much debated by later philosophers, which try to show that supposing that there is any change or multiplicity leads to contradictions.

A similar difficulty of translation is true of Hegel, Heidegger, and a number of other German philosophers and poets.

Vaishnava theology has been a subject of study for many devotees, philosophers and scholars in India for centuries, and in recent decades also has been taken on by a number of academic institutions in Europe, such as the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Bhaktivedanta College.

In the mid-twentieth century a number of philosophers focused on the place of rules in utilitarian thinking.

A number of useful distinctions have been made by philosophers in the treatment of value.

" Although there have been a number of philosophers who have formulated similar anti-razors since Chatton's time, no one anti-razor has perpetuated in as much notability as Chatton's anti-razor, although this could be the case of the Late Renaissance Italian motto of unknown attribution Se non è vero, è ben trovato (" Even if it is not true, it is well conceived ") when referred to a particularly artful explanation.

this rage to be distinguished, that we own what is best and worst in men – our virtues and our vices, our sciences and our errors, our conquerors and our philosophers – in short, a vast number of evil things and a small number of good.

Talk of a philosophical movement can often function as a shorthand for talk of the views of a great number of different philosophers ( and others associated with philosophy, such as historians, artists, scientists and political figures ).

The sheer number of phenomena that could be organised by the theory was so impressive that younger " philosophers " soon adopted the methods and language of the Principia.

The Wilkins circle was a group whose activities led to the formation of the Royal Society, comprising a number of distinguished mathematicians, creative workers and experimental philosophers.

In 1992, a number of analytical philosophers from Cambridge University and external institutions tried to stop the granting of the degree, but were outnumbered when it was put to a vote.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

`` The ship is huge '', said Macneff, `` but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

The Tartessian language from the southwest of the Iberian peninsula, written in a version of the Phoenician script in use around 825 BC, which John T. Koch has claimed to be able to readily translate, has been accepted by a number of philologists and other linguists as the first attested Celtic language, but the linguistic mainstream continues to treat Tartessian as an unclassified ( Pre-Indo-European?

A number of Hungarian anthropologists and linguists have long had an interest in the Turkic peoples, fueled by the eastern origin of the Hungarians ' ancestors.

It is a member of the Japonic ( or Japanese-Ryukyuan ) language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which have gained wide acceptance among historical linguists ( see Classification of Japonic ).

His line of thought was continued by linguists and anthropologists such as Harry Hoijer and Dorothy D. Lee who both continued investigations into the effect of language on habitual thought, and George L. Trager who prepared a number of Whorf's left-behind papers for publishing.

Hymes was influenced by a number of linguists and anthropologists, notably Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and Harry Hoijer of the Americanist Tradition and Roman Jakobson and others of the Prague Linguistic Circle.

He provided an example of this in his 1889 article, " On Alternating Sounds " A number of linguists at Boas ' time had observed that speakers of some Native American languages pronounced the same word with different sounds indiscriminately.

Following similar First Nations ' models to Canada, academic linguists throughout the United States are working closely with Native American reservations communities to establish immersion and second-language programs for a number of respective tribal languages including Navajo, Hopi, Cherokee, Ojibwe, Lakhota, and Sioux, among others.

A number of linguists, anthropologists and others have formally documented another common Aboriginal myth occurring across Australia.

It is thought by a number of Russian linguists and historians that the Ducher people encountered by Russian explorers on the middle Amur and lower Sungari in the early 1650s ( who were evacuated by the Qing authorities further south a few years later ) were the descendants of the Amur Jurchens, and that the word " Ducher " itself is simply a variation of jušen.

Though not part of normal orthography, a number of devices exist that are used by linguists and others to indicate the position of stress ( and syllabification in some cases ) when it is desirable to do so.

Even a number of famous linguists are monolingual.

Now published in 2010, Vajda's paper has been favorably reviewed by several experts on Na-Dene and Yeniseian languages, including Michael Krauss, Jeff Leer, James Kari, and Heinrich Werner, as well as a number of other well-known linguists, including Bernard Comrie, Johanna Nichols, Victor Golla, Michael Fortescue, and Eric Hamp, so that a broad consensus has formed in support of this connection.

The books carried a number of words that are considered loaded names by linguists and translators, meaning that they carry a semantic load, and that their morphology ( structure ) and phonology ( sound ) need to be adapted when translating them to a foreign language, for example the house names ( Ravenclaw = raven + claw ), or Voldemort's name (" flight of death " or " theft of death " in French ).

Determining the number of categories of initials and finals actually represented thus took a good deal of careful work on the part of Chinese linguists.

But despite support from a small number of trained linguists in China and overseas, GR met with public indifference and even hostility due to its complexity.

Support for GR, being confined to a small number of trained linguists and Sinologists, " was distinguished more for its quality than its quantity.

The Zhuang language ( or language group ) has been divided by Chinese linguists into northern and southern " dialects " ( fangyan 方言 in Chinese ) each of which has been divided into a number of vernacular varieties ( known as Tǔyǔ 土语 in Chinese ) by Chinese linguists ( Zhang & Wei 1997 ; Zhang 1999: 29-30 ).

There may in fact have been important Mbundu influence on these two peoples, but the work of a number of linguists places their languages firmly with the set that includes Ruund, Lunda, and Chokwe.

In February 2008 a proposal relating Na-Dene ( excluding Haida ) to the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia was published and well received by a number of linguists.