According to the descriptivist theory of meaning, there is a description of the sense of proper names, and that description, like a definition, picks out the bearer of the name.

According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.

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

According to anthropologists Todd Sanders and Harry G. West, evidence suggests that a broad cross section of Americans today gives credence to at least some conspiracy theories.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to him, over time, three different theories have emerged: ( a ) Campbell ordered the demolition on his own authority ( b ) under instructions from the British Government ( c ) upon request of Spanish General Castaños, who was at the time in Cádiz.

According to the American Psychological Association ( APA ), there are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation, but some believe that " sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors ," and that genetic factors play a " significant role " in determining a person's sexuality.

According to most contemporary theories of justice, justice is overwhelmingly important: John Rawls claims that " Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

According to meritocratic theories, goods, especially wealth and social status, should be distributed to match individual merit, which is usually understood as some combination of talent and hard work.

According to needs-based theories, goods, especially such basic goods as food, shelter and medical care, should be distributed to meet individuals ' basic needs for them.

According to contribution-based theories, goods should be distributed to match an individual's contribution to the overall social good.

According to these theories, neither nature nor nurture alone is sufficient to trigger language learning ; both of these influences must work together in order to allow children to acquire a language.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

According to some such theories, the proton has a half-life of about

According to trait theories, introversion and extroversion are part of a continuous dimension, with many people in the middle.

According to my investigation, there are sixty-two main theories which underlie the thousands of philosophies and religions current in our world.

According to objective collapse theories, superpositions are destroyed spontaneously ( irrespective of external observation ) when some objective physical threshold ( of time, mass, temperature, irreversibility, etc.

According to a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views which was carried out in November 2009 ( taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and / or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students ) 44. 9 % of respondents accept or lean towards correspondence theories, 20. 7 % accept or lean towards deflationary theories and 13. 8 % epistemic theories.

According to some theories the name derived from mythical Linda, the wife of Kalev and the mother of Kalevipoeg.

According to them, " During the period in which he worked on this book Jung developed his principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and the process of individuation.

According to other theories, the latter did instead found the city during the fourth century BC.

According to modern theories of planet formation, Theia was part of a population of Mars-sized bodies that existed in the Solar System 4. 5 billion years ago.

According to Peter R. Holland, in a wider Hamiltonian framework, theories can be formulated in which particles do act back on the wave function.

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

According to the terms of the compromise, the election of bishops and abbots was to follow proper procedure, that is, the canons of the cathedral were to elect the bishop.

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine: As such, according to one viewpoint, for those who " belong to the Church ," the term Methodist Catholic, or Presbyterian Catholic, or Baptist Catholic, is as proper as the term Roman Catholic.

According to the direct-reference view, an early version of which was originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, and perhaps earlier by Gottlob Frege, a proper name strictly has no meaning when there is no object to which it refers.

According to normative Judaism, the verses in require that the months be determined by a proper court with the necessary authority to sanctify the months.

According to the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, it is possible that Malachi is not a proper name, but simply means " messenger of YHWH ".

According to German author Andreas Kossert Polish parties were financed and aided by the Polish government in Warsaw, and remained splintergroups without any political influence, e. g. in the 1932 elections the Polish Party received 147 votes in Masuria proper.

According to his " Secretum ", she refused him for the very proper reason that she was already married to another man.

According to one old guide book, it was never a proper platz, but a five-cornered traffic knot on that old trading route across Europe.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

According to the testimony of Julius Caesar, the Gaulish language proper was distinct from the Aquitanian language and the Belgic language.

According to December 31, 2005 official estimates, the city of Dakar proper has a population of 1, 030, 594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 2. 45 million people.

According to January 2012 official estimates, Chișinău proper has a population of 723, 500 and the municipality of Chișinău is home to 794, 800 residents.

According to one estimate, the native population in and around the missions proper was approximately 80, 000 at the time of the confiscation ; others claim that the < u > statewide </ u > population had dwindled to approximately 100, 000 by the early 1840s, due in no small part to the natives ' exposure to European diseases they lacked immunity from, and from the Franciscan practice of cloistering women in the convento and controlling sexuality during the child-bearing age.

According to Bancroft, " The population of San Juan Capistrano in 1834 had decreased to 861 souls, and in 1840 it was probably less than 500 with less than 100 at the pueblo proper ; while in its crops San Juan ( Capistrano ) showed a larger deterioration than any other ( missionary ) establishment.

According to the original Foundation Trilogy ( 1951 ), Asimov states ( by way of the Encyclopedia Galactica ), "... the impossibility of proper administration ... under the uninspired leadership of the later Emperors was a considerable factor in the Fall.

According to Livy, Numa claimed that he held nightly consultations with Egeria on the proper manner of instituting sacred rites for the city.

According to the 2011 Canadian census, the population of the city proper was 123, 363, while the population of the census metropolitan area ( CMA ) was 159, 561.

According to William Carne, Thomas Egerton was the first " proper " Lord Chancellor from the Court of Chancery's point of view, having recorded his decisions and followed the legal doctrine of precedent.

According to the terms of the Treaty on the European Union " In order to ensure the proper functioning and development of the common market, the Commission (…) formulate recommendations or deliver opinions on matters dealt with in this Treaty, if it expressively so provides or if the Commission considers it necessary.

According to another theory, known as the Ontogenetic Hypothesis of REM sleep, this sleep stage ( also known as active sleep in neonates ) is particularly important to the developing brain, possibly because it provides the neural stimulation that newborns need to form mature neural connections and for proper nervous system development.