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A parallel function for philosophy is the study of the relation between perceptions experientially received and conceptions logically formed.
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Since the 12th century, courts have had parallel and co-equal authority to make law -- " legislating from the bench " is a traditional and essential function of courts, which was carried over into the U. S. system as an essential component of the " judicial power " specified by Article III of the U. S. constitution.
First, let T = T ( s ) be the force of tension as a function of s. The chain is flexible so it can only exert a force parallel to itself.
In the far field, wherein the parallel rays approximation can be employed, the Green's function,
It should be noted that a good deal of the American use of cross-cutting was not the rapid alternation between parallel chains of action developed by D. W. Griffith, but a limited number of alternations to make it possible to leave out uninteresting bits of action with no real plot function.
This scheme attempts to grasp the heterogeneity of components involved in the production of subjectivity, as Guattari understands it, which include both signifying semiotic components as well as " a-signifying semiological dimensions " ( which work " in parallel or independently of " any signifiying function that they may have ).
The King also made sure that his own court, the Reichshofrat, continued to function in parallel to the Reichskammergericht.
For the normal Mercator projection ( on the ellipsoid ) this function defines the spacing of the parallels: if the length of the equator on the projection is E ( units of length or pixels ) then the distance, y, of a parallel of latitude φ from the equator is
In the equivalence of models of computability, a parallel is drawn between Turing machines which do not terminate for certain inputs and an undefined result for that input in the corresponding partial recursive function.
For example, the boolean AND function is realised by connecting normally open relay contacts in series, the OR function by connecting normally open contacts in parallel.
They are also said to draw power from the entire universe as revealed in the episode " Rise of the Cybermen " ( 2006 ), in which the TARDIS is brought to a parallel universe and cannot function without the use of a crystal power source from within the TARDIS, charged by the Doctor's life force.
The ADC / DAC, which became known as the " Tandy DAC " in games that supported it, was broadly similar in function to sound devices which connected to the parallel port ( such as the Disney Sound Source ), but unlike those devices it was integrated onto the motherboard, supported DMA transfers and could sample at frequencies up to 48 kHz.
Although the Oregon Treaty of 1846 settled the boundaries of US jurisdiction upon all lands south of the 49th parallel, the Provisional Government continued to function until 1849, when the first governor of Oregon Territory arrived.
* according to another description, transceivers are limited to providing an electrical-optical function only ( not differentiating between serial or parallel electrical interfaces ), whereas transponders convert an optical signal at one wavelength to an optical signal at another wavelength ( typically ITU standardized for DWDM communication ).
From a geometric standpoint, if we consider f ( x, θ ) as a function of two variables then the family of probability distributions can be viewed as a family of curves parallel to the x-axis, while the family of likelihood functions are the orthogonal curves parallel to the θ-axis.
The function of this part of the human brain has been mapped to be composed of fiber tracks associated with numerous parallel cortico-striato-thalamocortical circuits ( CSTC ), which are involved in sensorimotor, motor, oculomotor as well as the cognitive processes that are manifested by the limbic system.
The interpretation of these values is somewhat meaningless without analysis of the clinical history and is often impossible without parallel measurement of renal function.
One approach is to use n LFSRs in parallel, their outputs combined using an n-input binary Boolean function ( F ).
Because LFSRs are inherently linear, one technique for removing the linearity is to feed the outputs of several parallel LFSRs into a non-linear Boolean function to form a combination generator.
To find the slope of the line tangent to the function at that is parallel to the xz-plane, the y variable is treated as constant.
Toolbox genes, as well as being highly conserved, also tend to evolve the same function convergently or in parallel.
The resulting “ von Neumann bottleneck ” led to research into parallel computing, including non-von Neumann or dataflow models that did not use a PC ; for example, rather than specifying sequential steps, the high-level programmer might specify desired function and the low-level programmer might specify this using combinatory logic.
Formally, an elliptic function is a function meromorphic on for which there exist two non-zero complex numbers and with ( in other words, not parallel ), such that and for all.
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To document his charge, Pike set up two parallel columns in The Advocate showing the price charged by The Gazette and the considerably lower price for which the work could be done elsewhere.
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.
Place the template ( Fig. 2 ) on the fabric so that the sides of the 10 inch square cut out of the template are parallel to the warp and filling for woven fabrics, or the wales and courses for knitted fabrics, and so that the same amount of fabric extends beyond the edges of the template on all sides.
he sees a parallel also to the Jewish day of preparation for the Sabbath.
The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.
This methodology could be used for parallel computation of statistical moments with subsequent combination of those moments, or for combination of statistical moments computed at sequential times.
The analogue interface was normally used for joysticks, the parallel for a printer.
Externally, political activity on the part of Ásatrú organizations has surrounded campaigns against alleged religious discrimination, such as the call for the introduction of an Ásatrú " emblem of belief " by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to parallel the Wiccan pentacle granted to the widow of Patrick Stewart in 2006.
The speedup of a program using multiple processors in parallel computing is limited by the time needed for the sequential fraction of the program.
For this reason, parallel computing is only useful for either small numbers of processors, or problems with very high values of P: so-called embarrassingly parallel problems.
He fundamentally defined his arbitrary orientation for the cell as being that in which the internal current would run parallel to and in the same direction as a hypothetical magnetizing current loop around the local line of latitude which would induce a magnetic dipole field oriented like the Earth's.
She is thought to bear the name of the deity who was derived from Libya, where known as Neith, the same source sometimes identified as the parallel for Athene.
A nearly parallel path toward autonomy has been to start with a concern for environmental impacts, which cause disadvantages.
Bahamian tastes in consumer products roughly parallel those in the U. S. With approximately 85 % of the population of primarily African descent, there is a large and growing market in the Bahamas for " ethnic " personal care products.
The chain stays run parallel to the chain, connecting the bottom bracket to the rear dropout, where the axle for the rear wheel is held.
Clinical evidence for this effect was found in a series of studies performed in parallel in adolescent school children in the UK and Malawi.
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At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".
The book provides an overview of the philosophy, architecture and software for the Connection Machine, including data routing between CPU nodes, memory handling, Lisp programming for parallel machines, etc.
In a parallel tradition, Hermetic philosophy rationalized and systematized religious cult practices and offered the adept a method of personal ascension from the constraints of physical being, which has led to confusion of Hermeticism with Gnosticism, which was developing contemporaneously.
Khayyám was very careful to respect the boundaries of each discipline, and criticized ibn al-Haytham in his proof of the parallel postulate precisely because he had broken this rule and had brought a subject belonging to natural philosophy, that is, motion, which belongs to natural bodies, into the domain of geometry, which deals with mathematical bodies.
He studied the basics of Indian philosophy, and, in parallel, learned Sanskrit, Pali and Bengali under Dasgupta's direction.
In parallel with the development of this work on mind and language, McDowell also made significant contributions to moral philosophy, specifically meta-ethical debates over the nature of moral reasons and moral objectivity.
Nonetheless, although Taylorism attempted to justify scientific management as a holistic philosophy rather than a set of principles, the human relations movement worked parallel to the notion of scientific management aiming to address the social welfare needs of workers and therefore elicit their co-operation as a workforce.
The " management philosophy " was to explore the use of many techniques in parallel, to find which looked promising, and then to focus on these.
Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the Renaissance, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music and science.
Barton, who has offered the core of research about ethnomathematics and philosophy, asks whether " ethnomathematics is a precursor, parallel body of knowledge or precolonized body of knowledge " to mathematics and if it is even possible for us to identify all types of mathematics based on a Western-epistemological foundation.
The position of Judah ha-Levi in the domain of Jewish philosophy is parallel to that occupied in Islam by Ghazali, by whom he was influenced.
* Explicitly parallel instruction computing, a design philosophy based on VLIW used in Itanium CPUs
According to the philosophy of unity among all Christians, IFES allows only one member organisation per country, although in some bilingual and multilingual countries ( i. e. Canada, Belgium, Switzerland ), there are parallel organizations for different linguistic groups.
Jaspers saw in these developments in religion and philosophy a striking parallel without any obvious direct transmission of ideas from one region to the other, having found no recorded proof of any extensive intercommunication between Ancient Greece, the Middle East, India, and China.
Primarily influenced by John Cage's Experimental Music Composition classes at the New School for Social Research and an emerging interest in eastern philosophy, a number of avant-garde artists in New York were beginning to run parallel and competing happenings at the beginning of the 1960s.
This draws a direct parallel with the Party's general philosophy of doublethink, of which the memory hole is in a sense the physical embodiment ; as the novel describes it, " to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again ".
Possible Worlds, written in 1990 by John Mighton, is part murder mystery, part science-fiction, and part mathematical philosophy, and follows the multiple parallel lives of the mysterious George Barber.
Some may consider their philosophy a slight twist to accidentalism, but a far more relevant parallel is the Cynics ( Greek κῠνικός " dogs ") of antiquity.
Spinoza's philosophy contains as a key proposition the notion that mental and physical ( thought and extension ) phenomena occur in parallel, but without causal interaction between them.
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