According to the logical positivists, unless a statement could be verified by experience, or else was true or false by definition ( i. e. either tautological or contradictory ), then it was meaningless ( this is a summary statement of their verification principle ).

According to this view, ethics is more a summary of common sense social decisions.

According to the site's summary of the critical consensus, " Chasing Amy explores gender roles, sexual mores, and the limits of friendship with a mixture of sensitivity, raw honesty, and director / screenwriter Kevin Smith's signature raunchy humor.

According to the summary on ABC. com, each new Bachelor episode contains a rose ceremony during which one or more contestants is eliminated.

According to some former CIA Air America pilots, he made a small fortune as an opium warlord as they regularly flew his planeloads of opium to Saigon, he engaged in summary executions, and ran a Hmong Army with child soldiers as young as 14 .( ref.

* The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine According to What Has Been Heard from Heaven With an Introduction Concerning The New Heaven and the New Earth ( Swedenbog Society 1911 ; Swedenborg Foundation 1951 ) This book is one of the Writings but is included in the present section because it provides an extremely compact summary of the Writings that was written by Swedenborg himself.

According to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon.

According to Athanasius, Arius authored a poem called the Thalia (" abundance ", " good cheer " or " banquet "): a summary of his views on the Logos.

According to this summary, the Fourth Assessment Report finds that human actions are " very likely " the cause of global warming, meaning a 90 % or greater probability.

According to the CRS, " The LIS ... provides bill summary and status, full text of legislation and public laws, full text of committee reports, hearings, and other documents, and the Congressional Record for the current and earlier Congresses.

According to Hunter Miller's notes, " the Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic " and " Article 11 ... does not exist at all.

According to an executive summary, the battle of Takur Ghar was the most intense firefight American special operators have been involved in since 18 U. S. Army Rangers were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993.

According to a Better Business Bureau summary released in February 2004:

According to an FBI summary, Pellicano sometimes played Hollywood clients against each other, at one point asking financier ( and Bing friend ) Ron Burkle for a $ 100, 000 to $ 250, 000 shakedown in order not to be investigated by Michael Ovitz, another Pellicano client.

According to ATCB, the following is the minimum of which must be documented: “ the current goals of any treatment plan, verbal content of art therapy sessions relevant to client behavior and goals, artistic expression relevant to client behavior and goals, changes ( or lack of change ) in affect, thought process, and behavior, suicidal or homicidal intent or ideation ” ( 2005 ) and a summary of the " clients response to treatment and future treatment recommendations " ( 2005 ).

According to the summary by C. Rajagopalachari, she resorted to penance and received a garland of blue lotuses from Lord Subramanya and it was foretold that anyone wearing the garland would become the cause of Bhishma's death.

According to C. Rajagopalachari's Mahabharata summary, when Shikhandini was still a young woman she discovered the garland of ever-blooming blue lotuses hung on the palace gate.

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According to summary by C. Rajagopalachari, she resorted to penance and received a garland of blue lotuses from Lord Subramanya and it was foretold that anyone wearing the garland would become Bhishma's enemy.

According to Pickover ( 1999 ) in summary, he " described an algorithm which could be used for the creation of diverse and complicated forms resembling invertebrate organisms.

According to the summary report of the new lines, the construction cost including West and South Island Lines is between HK $ 14. 6-16. 5 billion.

According to the summary report of the new lines, the construction cost including the South Island Line would be between HK $ 14. 6-16. 5 billion.

According to the enrollment summary for the fall of 2006, though the majority of Northern State University's students are Caucasian, it consists of students from many different cultures.

According to the SSCI report, " Iraqi Support for Terrorism contained the following summary judgments regarding Iraq's provision of training to al-Qaida: Regarding the Iraq-al-Qa ' ida relationship, reporting from sources of varying reliability points to ... incidents of training ... The most disturbing aspect of the relationship is the dozen or so reports of varying reliability mentioning the involvement of Iraq or Iraqi nationals in al-Qa ' ida's efforts to obtain CBW training.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

According to this theory, depressed people acquire a negative schema of the world in childhood and adolescence as an effect of stressful life events, and the negative schema is activated later in life when the person encounters similar situations.

According to some of their contemporary enemies Cathars did not accept the Trinitarian understanding of Jesus, but considered him the human form of an angel similar to Docetic Christology.

According to Samsung this was because the " Demand for the old ' Square monitors ' has decreased rapidly over the last couple of years ," and " I predict that by the end of 2011, production on all 4: 3 or similar panels will be halted due to a lack of demand.

According to Metzer it was written in the 50s while Paul was in prison, Colossians is similar to Ephesians, also written at this time.

According to Chinese sources, the meaning of the word Tūjué was " combat helmet " ( 兜鍪 ; Pinyin: dōumóu, Wade-Giles: tou-mou ), reportedly because the shape of the Jinshan ( 金山 jīnshān, Altai Mountains ), where they lived, was similar to a combat helmet-hence they called themselves 突厥 ( Tūjué / T ' u-chüeh ).

" A similar example is in the book The World According to Garp when the hero Garp decides to buy a house a moment after a small plane crashes into it, reasoning that the chances of another plane hitting the house have just dropped to zero.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

According to paleontology, the early hominids ' skull anatomy was similar to that of the gorilla and chimpanzee, great apes that also evolved in Africa, but the hominids had adopted a bipedal locomotion and freed their hands.

According to Tarnow's theory, long-term memories are stored in dream format ( reminiscent of the Penfield & Rasmussen ’ s findings that electrical excitations of cortex give rise to experiences similar to dreams ).

According to the counterpart theory of David Lewis, the objects should be regarded as similar rather than identical.

According to one of the various myths about him, he founded Ife and dispatched his sons and daughters to establish similar kingdoms in other parts of what is today known as Yorubaland.

According to Sobran and other researchers, the themes and personal circumstances expounded by the author of the Sonnets are remarkably similar to Oxford's biography.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

According to the story, however, instead of dying he was moved from within to stand up and perform movements similar to his normal Muslim prayer routine.

According to this model, recency is a result of the final items ’ processing context being similar to the processing context of the other items and the distinctive position of the final items versus items in the middle of the list.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

According to Joel, he " came up with the idea of just laying free-form neon stars on top of it and doing a similar free-form star thing on the interior ".

According to its title, the Theft Act 1968 revises the law as to theft and similar or associated offences.

According to Gretzky, Pocklington needed money as his other business ventures were not doing well ( a similar reason to the cause of Babe Ruth being sold to the New York Yankees ), and had gone " sour " on Gretzky and wanted to move him.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " This and other similar doctrines found in the Zohar are now known to be much older than Christianity, but the Christian scholars who were led by the similarity of these teachings to certain Christian dogmas deemed it their duty to propagate the Zohar.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Milan has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ); the Mediterranean Sea is too far to exert any influence, so Milan's climate is similar to much of northern Italy's inland plains, where sultry summers and cold, wet winters prevail.

According to Douglas Cooper: The first true Cubist sculpture was Picasso's impressive Woman's Head, modeled in 1909-10, a counterpart in three dimensions to many similar analytical and faceted heads in his paintings at the time.

According to Malcolm Baird, his son, what is known is that in 1926 Baird filed a patent for a device that formed images from reflected radio waves, a device remarkably similar to radar, and that he was in correspondence with the British government at the time.

According to Pasqualini it was a deity similar to Vediove, wielder of lightningbolts and chthonic, who was connected to the cult of the founders who first inhabited the Alban Mount sanctuary.