According to Peirce signs can be divided by the type of relation that holds the sign relation together as either icons, indices or symbols.

According to the Neal Peirce Column of the Washington Post Writers Group, " Far and away the biggest catalyst is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

According to the present view of the situation, quantum mechanics flatly contradicts Einstein's philosophical postulate that any acceptable physical theory must fulfill " local realism ".

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, materialism denies the existence of both deities and " souls.

According to Jacobi, Fichte ’ s absolutization of the ego ( the ' absolute I ' that posits the ' not-I ') is an inflation of subjectivity that denies the absolute transcendence of God.

According to Mark Weber, associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review Director of the IHR, " If by the ' Holocaust ' you mean the political persecution of Jews, some scattered killings, if you mean a cruel thing that happened, no one denies that.

" According to Pakistani reports, Dr. Shakil Afridi told investigators that the charity Save the Children helped facilitate his meeting with U. S. intelligence agents although the charity denies the charge.

According to his own site, Bäckman believes that he was the inspiration for the Muppet character " The Swedish Chef "; however, Bäckman acknowledges that Muppet writer Jerry Juhl denies this contention.

According to local legend, Higgins Lake was once rated by National Geographic as the 6th most beautiful lake in the world although National Geographic denies ever publishing such a ranking.

According to Romans 9 – 11, supporters claim, Jewish election as the chosen people ceased with their national rejection of Jesus as Messiah.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to Barkun, the appeal of conspiracism is threefold: First, conspiracy theories claim to explain what institutional analysis cannot.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

According to the Constantine VII christianization of Croats began in the 7th century, but the claim is disputed and generally christianization is associated with the 9th century.

According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

According to economist John Quiggin, the standard features of " economic fundamentalist rhetoric " are " dogmatic " assertions and the claim that anyone who holds contrary views is not a real economist.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

According to U. S. Census figures from 2000, 41, 000, 000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans.

According to India's claim, it also shares a 106 km ( 66 mi ) border with Afghanistan in northwestern Kashmir, which is under Pakistani control.

According to some historians, Jefferson understood he would have a better claim of ownership to the Pacific Northwest if the team gathered scientific data on animals and plants.

According to the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, the individual who built the mosque has a stronger claim to the title of imam, but this view is not shared by the other schools.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia and other sources, Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made pontiff, although some sources claim 11 or 12.

According to this claim, humans have no inherent rights to destroy nature or set themselves above it in ethical considerations a priori.

According to Barbour and Fordoun, in the late summer of 1305 in a secret agreement sworn, signed and sealed, John Comyn agreed to forfeit his claim to the Scottish throne in favour of Robert Bruce upon receipt of the Bruce lands in Scotland should an uprising occur led by Bruce.

According to Wallis, “ sects lay a claim to possess unique and privileged access to the truth or salvation and “ their committed adherents typically regard all those outside the confines of the collectivity as ' in error '”.

According to the later thirteenth century Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, Raynald captured Saladin's sister in a raid on a caravan, although this claim is not attested in contemporary sources, Muslim or Frankish, instead stating that Raynald had attacked a preceding caravan, and Saladin set guards to ensure the safety of his sister and her son, who came to no harm.

According to McGarvey Paul performed the operation " with his own hand ", but others claim this is unlikely and nowhere attested.

According to his biographers, he supervised the repair of Kiyosu Castle, a claim described as " apocryphal ", and managed the kitchen.

According to psychologist Ian Deary, Gould's claim that there is no relation between brain size and IQ is outdated.

According to the Norman writer William of Jumieges, William had meanwhile sent an embassy to King Harold Godwinson, reminding Harold of his oath to support William's claim, although whether this embassy actually occurred is unclear.

According to the peace treaty Bolesław I lost Lusatia and Meissen and likely gave up his claim to the Bohemian throne.

According to this view, " should " can never be derived from " Being.

According to Monistic views, such as those of stoicism and Spinoza, there is only one substance, often identified as God or Being.

According to Article I of the " Rehat Maryada " ( the Sikh code of conduct and conventions ), a Sikh is defined as " any human being who faithfully believes in One Immortal Being ; ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak Dev to Sri Guru Gobind Singh ; Sri Guru Granth Sahib ; the teachings of the ten Gurus and the baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru ; and who does not owe allegiance to any other religion ".

According to Derrida, Sartre's interpretation of Dasein and other key Heideggerian concerns is overly psychologistic, anthropocentric, and misses the historicality central to Dasein in Being and Time.

According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the name of this priesthood became Melchizedek " because Melchizedek was such a great high priest " and " to avoid the too frequent repetition " of the " name of the Supreme Being ".

According to Vowell, “ Being at least a little Cherokee in northeastern Oklahoma is about as rare and remarkable as being a Michael Jordan fan in Chicago .” She retraced the path of the forced removal of the Cherokee from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma known as the Trail of Tears with her twin sister Amy.

According to Lybi Ma with Psychology Today, “ Being prepared is your first line of attack.

According to Jenkins, he spent time on a spaceship with angels, where he learned that he was the Supreme Being and how to govern the world.

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According to the Western Wisdom Teachings, in the beginning of a Day of Manifestation a certain collective Great Being, God, limits Himself to a certain portion of space, in which He elects to create a Solar System for the evolution of added self-consciousness.

According to the surviving fragments, God was originally only One Being ( hypostasis ), but at the creation of the universe the Word or Logos went out from the Father and was God's Activity in the world.

According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings about the scheme of evolution, in the beginning of a Day of Manifestation a certain collective Great Being, God, limits Himself to a certain portion of space, in which He elects to create a Solar System for the evolution of added self-consciousness.

According to Harmon's autobiography, The Man Behind the Nose, Jolson told him, " Being a doctor of medicine is honorable, but you'll touch so many more lives as a doctor of laughter!