St. Anselm's ontological argument, in its most succinct form, is as follows: " God, by definition, is that for which no greater can be conceived.

Turing gave a succinct definition of the experiment in his 1948 essay, " Intelligent Machinery ".

Perhaps the most succinct working definition was provided by the American linguist James D. McCawley in 1968: a mora is “ Something of which a long syllable consists of two and a short syllable consists of one .” The term comes from the Latin word for “ linger, delay ”, which was also used to translate the Greek word chronos ( time ) in its metrical sense.

John O ' Connor Power's definition is succinct: ' Blarney is something more than mere flattery.

Also, despite the amount of research and literature on knowledge work there is yet to be a succinct definition of the term ( Pyöriä, 2005 ).

However the most succinct definition would be: " how large numbers of people act in the same ways at the same times.

The most succinct definition of a chiefdom in anthropology is by Robert L. Carneiro: " An autonomous political unit comprising a number of villages or communities under the permanent control of a paramount chief " ( Carneiro 1981: 45 ).

The Wilderness Act is well known for its succinct and poetic definition of wilderness:

The rule of faith, however, seems to be also applied by Tertullian to some distinct formula of doctrine, and he gives a succinct statement of the Christian faith under this term ( De praescriptione, xiii ).

The Board did, however, note that " doubts exist regarding the legal basis of heraldic functions exercised in the State prior to the establishment of the Board " and that " with minor amendment, the wording of the Act could be made more succinct ".

Others argue that “ rather than trying to dissolve the ambiguous tension of Emerson ’ s texts, the different arguments should be valued as a part of a dialectic that productively captures the friction of opposing poles .” In this way, “ the workings of Emerson (…), as well as his aphoristic, succinct expressiveness could be characterized as Emersonian inceptions: getting us to start thinking, planting thoughts .“ Still others found an overarching unity of design to transcend the fragmentation of Emerson ’ s individual essays within the volume as a whole.

The film, and particularly Heston's performance, did earn a rave review from Howard Thompson of The New York Times, who called the " consistently engrossing " film, "... a succinct, stinging and often strong gridiron drama ...." Thompson described Heston's performance as " a brooding, scorching and beautifully disciplined tour de force for the actor .... If Heston could have been better, we don't know how.

Chapter 2: 12 contains a succinct but unequivocal message: “ You also, O Ethiopians, / Shall be killed by my sword .”

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

The Sermon on the Mount may be compared with the similar but more succinct Sermon on the Plain as recounted by the Gospel of Luke ( 6: 17 – 49 ), which occurs at the same moment in Luke's narrative, and also features Jesus heading up a mountain, but giving the sermon on the way down at a level spot.

doing, these equations can be further condensed into an even more elegant and succinct form.

In its most ideal form, news writing strives to be intelligible to the majority of readers, as well as to be engaging and succinct.

Similarly, a contextually irrelevant part of a sentence or anecdote can be removed to construct a more effective, succinct delivery.

A succinct statement of the German law can be found in the following judicial statement from the Marlene Dietrich case BGH 1 ZR 49 / 97 ( 1 December 1999 ),

The intuition mentioned above ( that constructions that can be carried out in D can be " lifted " to D < sup > C </ sup >) can be made precise in several ways ; the most succinct formulation uses the language of adjoint functors.

The possibility should not be ignored that the letter was composed by Epiphanius, in the manner of composed speeches that ancient historians put into the mouths of their protagonists, as a succinct way to sum up.

A succinct statement of Delbrück's views on Germany's responsibility for World War I and an English reply can be found in articles by Delbrück and J. W. Headlam-Morley in the Contemporary Review ( March 1921 ).

The report is not meant to be a replacement for traditional financial or operational reports but a succinct summary that captures the information most relevant to those reading it.

Although Patañjali's work does not cover the many types of Yogic practices that have become prevalent, its succinct form and availability caused it to be pressed into service by a variety of schools of Yogic thought.

Roman conservatism finds succinct expression in an edict of the censors from 92 BCE, as preserved by the 2nd-century historian Suetonius: “ All new that is done contrary to the usage and the customs of our ancestors, seems not to be right .” But because the mos maiorum was a matter of custom, not written law, the complex norms it embodied evolved over time.

Herbert Silberer described a process he called autosymbolism, whereby hypnagogic hallucinations seem to represent, without repression or censorship, whatever one is thinking at the time, turning abstract ideas into a concrete image, which may be perceived as an apt and succinct representation thereof.

One of his contributions to the magazine singles him out as a radical liberal: Despre starea socială a muncitorilor plugari în Principatele Române în deosebite timpuri (" On the Social Status of the Ploughmen of the Romanian Principalities at Various Times ") argues for a land reform, aimed at dispossessing the boyars of large plots of land ( that would in turn be awarded to landless peasants ); it was used as reference by Karl Marx in his succinct analysis of the events, a fact which was to earn Bălcescu credentials in Communist Romania.

:: It is obviously right that constituency names should as far as possible reflect the geography and character of the constituency but equally they should be as succinct as reasonably possible

Although no pathological studies were performed on these children the clinical descriptions are so succinct that the diagnosis of the Spielmeyer-Sjogren ( juvenile ) type is fully justified.

A succinct data structure is one which takes the absolute minimum possible space, as established by information theoretical lower bounds.

* Truthfulness ( Satya ): Truth, which is ( hita ) beneficial, ( mita ) succinct, and ( priya ) pleasing.

Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher.

A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or ( sometimes ) a normative principle.

The death cap was first described by French botanist Sébastien Vaillant in 1727, who gave a succinct phrase name " Fungus phalloides, annulatus, sordide virescens, et patulus ", which is still recognizable as the fungus today.

In 1900, Don Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Juan's son, published Bibliografia in Madrid which presents in succinct form as complete a list of his father's writings.

A succinct formulation which avoids these problems uses universal quantification:

Unlike the entries for the Compsons themselves, which are lengthy, detailed, and told with an omniscient narrative perspective, the servants ' entries are simple and succinct.

This succinct, extremely focused writing style and realistic treatment of plot structure are exemplified by the series of one-act plays that make up Noches de amor efímero ; each dramatizes a brief nighttime encounter between a man and a woman as a result of which their lives are profoundly changed.

While other scholars had also treated the Talmud as a multi-layered work, Halivni's innovation ( primarily in the second volume of his Mekorot u-Mesorot ) was to distinguish between the onymous statements, which are generally succinct Halachic rulings or inquiries attributed to known Amoraim, and the anonymous statements, characterised by a much longer analysis often consisting of lengthy dialectic discussion, which he attributed to the later authors-" Stamma ' im " ( or Savora ' im ).

This subject is still regularly discussed by that group, but during that time, substantial conclusions were drawn and he wrote a document which, although now somewhat dated, provides a succinct record of what was expected at that time.

Earlier works had attempted to summarize the semantic differences under the vague ( though preliminarily useful ) rubric of the “ Iconicity Principle ” ( see Huang and Su ( 2005 ) for a succinct discussion ), which basically posits a correlation between the degree of formal compactness of the linguistic material encoding the causative macroevent and the perceived directness of the relationship between causing event () and caused event (): i. e., shorter forms, on the whole, were posited to encode more direct causation than longer forms, as in the classic English I killed him.

Martin Kettle, writing in The Guardian on 11 July 2008, described it as " devastatingly succinct " and " the fatal shot " which would ensure that the Government's " plans were holed below the water line ".

In 1919, Gerald Page-Wood-an Art Director of Erwin, Wassey & Company, Hoover's advertising agency-came up with a succinct slogan which summed up The Hoover's cleaning action-' It Beats ... as it Sweeps ... as it Cleans '.