According to skeptics, many apparently fulfilled prophecies can be explained as coincidences ( possibly aided by the prophecy's own vagueness ), or that some prophecies were actually invented after the fact to match the circumstances of a past event (" postdiction ").

According to Rodrik: " While the lessons drawn by proponents and skeptics differ, it is fair to say that nobody really believes in the Washington Consensus anymore.

According to Sextus, they are attributed only " to the more recent skeptics " and it is by Diogenes Laertius that we attribute them to Agrippa.

According to critics of paranormal beliefs, postdiction ( or post-shadowing, retroactive clairvoyance, or prediction after the fact ) is an effect of hindsight bias that explains claimed predictions of significant events, such as plane crashes and natural disasters.

According to the legend recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian, he was gifted with clairvoyance from a deity when he was working as a noble hostel staff.

According to him, it can be perceived by a person gifted with clairvoyance as being of " peach-blossom color ".

According to the Extrasensory perception ( ESP ) hypothesis of mediumship the " medium is believed to have the ability to exercise Psi capacities ( telepathy, clairvoyance, retrocognition, precognition and psychokinesis.

According to Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to Philippoff, the recoverable shear S is given by Af where **yc is the angle of extinction.

According to Whipple ( 1955 ), cometary debris is sufficient to replenish the material spiraling into the sun, maintaining a fairly steady state.

According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

According to Dr. Ellis, the average 20-year-old American woman is capable of far greater sexual arousal than her partner.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

According to Cauchy's functional equation theorem, the logarithm is the only continuous transformation that transforms real multiplication to addition.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to one analyst, Armenia's economic system is anticompetitive due to the structure of the economy being a type of " monopoly or oligopoly ".

According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

According to the theory, the human experience of moral obligations was the result of evolutionary pressures, which attached a sense of morality to human psychology because it was useful for moral development ; this entail that moral values do not exist independently of the human mind.

According to this new theory, the shorter Alexandrian text is closer to the original, and the longer Western text is the result of later insertion of additional material into the text.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

As a result, his art was sometimes criticized as being “ vulgar ,” because he painted what he saw: “ rutted and edged hodgepodge of bushes, mounds of earth, and trees in various stages of development .” According to one source, details such as those were equivalent to today ’ s art showing garbage cans or beer bottles on the side of a street scene.

According to TFI, as a result of Flirty Fishing, " over 100, 000 received God's gift of salvation through Jesus, and some chose to live the life of a disciple and missionary ".

According to Rummel, these were not cases of genocide because those who were killed were not selected on the basis of their race, but were killed in large numbers as a result of government policies.

According to the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed by Carlo Rovelli, observations such as those in the double-slit experiment result specifically from the interaction between the observer ( measuring device ) and the object being observed ( physically interacted with ), not any absolute property possessed by the object.

According to a supposition, the peculiarities of this language may be the result of a supposed long isolation from other Eskimo groups, being in contact only with speakers of unrelated languages for many centuries.

According to M. S. Fischer, reconsideration of the Biogenetic Law is possible as a result of two fundamental innovations in biology since Haeckel's time: cladistics and developmental genetics.

According to Klein and Ralston, the merging of companies into giant corporations or the privatization of government-run industry and national assets often result in monopolies ( or oligopolies ) requiring government intervention to force competition and reasonable prices.

According to this view, " after observing a long run of red on the roulette wheel, for example, most people erroneously believe that black will result in a more representative sequence than the occurrence of an additional red ", so people expect that a short run of random outcomes should share properties of a longer run, specifically in that deviations from average should balance out.

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 principal architect Stephen P. Morse, this was a result of a more software centric approach than in the design of earlier Intel processors ( the designers had experience working with compiler implementations ).

According to Campbell's Model of The Determinants of Job Performance, job performance is a result of the interaction between declarative knowledge ( knowledge of facts or things ), procedural knowledge ( knowledge of what needs to be done and how to do it ), and motivation ( reflective of an employee's choices regarding whether to expend effort, the level of effort to expend, and whether to persist with the level of effort chosen ).

According to figures published in 1945, 66, 000 people were killed as a direct result of the Hiroshima blast, and 69, 000 were injured to varying degrees ..

According to this view, all that exists is matter and void, and all phenomena result from different motions and conglomerations of base material particles called " atoms " ( literally: " indivisibles ").

According to Heinsohn and Steiger's theory, the state persecuted the midwives as witches in an effort to repopulate the European continent which had suffered severe loss of manpower as a result of the bubonic plague which had swept over the continent in waves, starting in 1348.

According to Plutarch, Seleucus even proved the heliocentric system, but it is not known what arguments he used ( except that he correctly theorized on tides as a result of Moon's attraction ).

According to Aristotle, legend held that Midas died of hunger as a result of his " vain prayer " for the gold touch.

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: " a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people ;" " a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people "; " a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation "; " a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

According to Norberto Bobbio, one of the major exponents of this distinction, the Left believes in attempting to eradicate social inequality, while the Right regards most social inequality as the result of ineradicable natural inequalities, and sees attempts to enforce social equality as utopian or authoritarian.

According to film historian Ephraim Katz, " His characters derive added authenticity from his squinty gaze, the result of the loss of an eye ..."