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 a summary of a similar story preserved in Peniarth MS 98B ( which dates from the late sixteenth century ) the poem describes a battle between Gwydion and Arawn, the Lord of Annwn.

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.

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 those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

According to the US, the Cuban Government has taken no action against al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.

According to Young, the following steps should be taken when dealing with a patient possibly in a coma:

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BCE, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to certain authorities, twelve teeth of the saint were taken from the tomb in the fifteenth century and kept in the treasury, but these have now disappeared ( Stokes, Apennines, p. 183 ).

According to Rewald, Pissarro had taken on an attitude more simple and natural than the other artists.

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

According to the decree 900 this land had to be taken and redistributed for the agricultural purposes, mainly to the peasant communities and the natives.

According to Muslim tradition, in 620 Muhammed was taken on spiritual journey from Mecca to the " farthest mosque ", whose location is considered to be the Temple Mount, returning the same night.

According to Caesar, those killed had been the Tigurini, on whom he had now taken revenge in the name of the Republic and his family.

According to news reports, Mr Tsvangirai was taken to hospital with head and neck injuries.

According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to " descend to the Merkabah " one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the Prophet Elijah in I Kings 18: 42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees.

According to some sources, the Reform movement has maintained that a Jew who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew, and the Israeli Government has also taken that stance after Supreme Court cases and statutes.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

According to the Christian historian Sozomen, Libanius was supposed to have said on his deathbed that John would have been his successor " if the Christians had not taken him from us ".

According to the agreements reached at San Remo, France had its control over what was termed Syria recognised, the French having taken Damascus in 1920.

According to Marx, “ Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together.

According to the Mevo Hatalmud many rulings were given about specific things that could have been taken out of context or where a ruling was revisited but the second ruling was not as popularly known.

According to Mark Humphries, the deliberate concealment of Mithraic cult objects in some areas suggests that precautions were being taken against Christian attacks.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BC, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to the Biblical narrative, the Deluge covered the whole world, killing every surface-dwelling creature except Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, sea creatures, and the animals taken aboard Noah's Ark.

According to the tale, Callixtus jumped overboard to avoid capture but was rescued and taken back to his master.

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

According to a computer bio screen, barely visible in the episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", and taken from the memory banks of the USS Defiant, Sato was born in Kyoto, Japan.