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question and first
It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;
His first thought is about the question itself: Is there a question here for American foreign policy, and, if so, what is it??
For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.
From Gottingen ( 1801 ) where he stayed for 10 days, he wrote, `` The first question asked everywhere is about galvanism.
Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.
I shall first indicate a couple of weaknesses in Fromm's analysis, then argue that, granted these weaknesses, he still has much left that is valuable, and, finally, raise the general question of a philosophical versus a sociological approach to the question of alienation.
The first question is: Would I like to live here??
Now, first question: the bottles.
But he further said that it was better politics to let others question the wisdom of administration policies first.
and one U.S. official said: `` The key question now is which side picks up the phone first ''.
The question whether there is a limit to the degree of cold possible, and, if so, where the zero must be placed, was first addressed by the French physicist Guillaume Amontons in 1702, in connection with his improvements in the air thermometer.
This raised the question of what would happen if he were to produce first a daughter and then a son.
This traditional attribution of the Creed to Athanasius was first called into question in 1642 by Dutch Protestant theologian G. J.
Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days.
Hapgood, however, sees through her disguise and wants to question her first.
Otherwise, the question is asked on, i. e. the first variable is assumed to be 0.
The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.
Whenever a confusion between the two kinds of definitions might arise it can be avoided by referring to the more general definition and by reintroducing the erased parameter: writing B < sub > m </ sub >( 0 ) in the first case and B < sub > m </ sub >( 1 ) in the second will unambiguously denote the value in question.
In the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin and Pilate, it might appear from the narratives of Matthew and Luke that Jesus at first refused a direct reply to the high priest's question: " Art thou the Christ?
The first influential philosopher to discuss this question specifically was Descartes, and the answer he gave is known as Cartesian dualism.
However, the details of the story are at best uncertain ( see for discussion of the original Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen source and the changes in other versions ); some authors, such as Joseph Rotman in his book A first course in Abstract Algebra, question whether it ever happened.
Todd Grimshaw began to question his sexuality in 2003, becoming Corrie's first regular homosexual character, after years of criticism about non-representation.

question and type
The civilizational crisis, the third type of change raises the question `` what are we to do ''??
Beyond this, philosophy may urge the social sciences forward by asking the type of question that falls outside the present scope of social inquiry, but within its potential domain of relevance.
What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type of song is in question.
The exact definition of an automorphism depends on the type of " mathematical object " in question and what, precisely, constitutes an " isomorphism " of that object.
The key question is whether Linnaeus's type was a South African plant or a South American plant.
In Gaelic type, a dot over consonants indicates lenition of the consonant in question.
Apart from disputes over the success of the argument or the plausibility of the specific type of semantic externalism required for it to work, there is question as to what is gained by defeating the skeptical worry with this strategy.
General jurisprudence can be broken into categories both by the type of question scholars seek to answer and by the theories of jurisprudence, or schools of thought, regarding how those questions are best answered.
This type of question does not necessarily contain a fallacious presupposition, but rather this usage refers to the question having an unspoken and often emotive implication.
The Supreme Court held that, though the United States was a defendant, the case in question was not an actual controversy ; rather, the statute was merely devised to test the constitutionality of a certain type of legislation.
Computer-aided design is one of the many tools used by engineers and designers and is used in many ways depending on the profession of the user and the type of software in question.
Pasteur deduced that the molecule in question is asymmetric and could exist in two different forms that resemble one another as would left-and right-hand gloves, and that the organic form of the compound consists of purely the one type.
There were two types of disputationes: the first was the " ordinary " type, whereby the questions ( quaestiones ) to be disputed were announced beforehand ; the second was the quodlibetal, whereby the students proposed a question to the teacher without prior preparation.
Begging the question ( Latin petitio principii, " assuming the initial point ") is a type of logical fallacy in which a proposition relies on an implicit premise within itself to establish the truth of that same proposition.
A more classical-liberal approach that dates from the 1970s that denotes ' public-choice ' theory type approaches which question the benevolence of social planners to maximize the utility of a representative individual and instead stress how political forces affect the choice of policies that may not be so benevolent.
This type of question is written specifically to test quick recall skills of players, and does not discriminate the different levels of knowledge that the players possess, as pyramid-style questions do.
It can give us the precise definition of site, the type and degree of the lesion, along with revealing the abnormalities that are in question.
The question of whether a case should be determined by a jury depends largely on the type of relief the plaintiff requests.
In 1921, Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, examined the Piltdown and Sheffield Park finds and declared that the jaw and skull belonged together " without question " and that the Sheffield Park fragments " were exactly those which we should have selected to confirm the comparison with the original type.
The Australian Electoral Survey that is conducted following all elections by the Australian National University has found that support for a republic has remained reasonably static since 1987 at around 60 %, if the type of republic is not part of the question.
In order for a district court to entertain a lawsuit, Congress must first grant the court subject matter jurisdiction over the type of dispute in question.
The film starred Mitchum against type, as an idealistic young doctor, who marries an older nurse ( Olivia de Havilland ), only to question his morality many years later.
He suggests, for instance, that Orwell may exaggerate the visceral contempt that the English middle classes hold for the working class, adding, however, that, " I may be a bad judge of the question, for I am a Jew, and passed the years of my early boyhood in a fairly close Jewish community ; and, among Jews of this type, class distinctions do not exist.

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