The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

Lewis's account of convention received an extended critique in Margaret Gilbert's On Social Facts ( 1989 ), where an alternative account is offered.

Although the existence of dark matter is generally accepted by the mainstream scientific community, several alternative theories have been proposed to try to explain the anomalies for which dark matter is intended to account.

An alternative account of probability emphasizes the role of prediction – predicting future observations on the basis of past observations, not on unobservable parameters.

Stich doesn't defend any alternative theory of knowledge or justification, but instead argues that all accounts of normative epistemic terms are culturally biased and instead only a pragmatic account can be given.

Salmon attempted to provide an alternative account for some of the problems with Hempel and Oppenheim's model by developing his statistical relevance model.

A recent alternative explanation is that the geometry of space is not homogeneous ( due to clusters of galaxies ) and that when the data are reinterpreted to take this into account, the expansion is not speeding up after all, however this conclusion is disputed.

An alternative account of John's death, ascribed by later Christian writers to the early second century bishop Papias of Hierapolis, claims that he was slain by the Jews.

In an alternative account, Apollonius identifies the buried sickle as a scythe belonging to Demeter, yet the name Drepane probably originated in the sickle-shape of the island.

These provide an alternative account of historical development and emphasize the self-destructive contradictions and law of motion of specific modes of production.

An alternative is the linear discriminant analysis, which does take this into account.

In the alternative account of the origin of Typhon ( Typhoeus ), the Homeric Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus or Mars, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and confined there in the enigmatic Arima, or land of the Arimoi, en Arimois ( Iliad, ii.

Plantinga seeks to defend this view of proper function against alternative views of proper function proposed by other philosophers which he groups together as ' naturalistic ' including the ' functional generalization ' view of John Pollock, the evolutionary / etiological account provided by Ruth Millikan, and a dispositional view held by John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter.

An alternative account says that the Roman general Pompey believed he could make himself immune to poison by ingesting small amounts of various poisons, and he took this treatment with a grain of salt to help him swallow the poison.

eBay announced that starting in March 2008, eBay had added to this requirement that all sellers with fewer than 100 feedbacks must offer PayPal and no merchant account may be used as an alternative.

There is an alternative account of Uther Pendragon's background in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.

GDP does not take into account other aspects such as leisure time, environmental quality, freedom, or social justice ; alternative measures of economic well-being have been proposed ( more ).

A new model, efficiency sensing, which takes into account both problematics, population density and spatial confinement, has been proposed as an alternative.

* For an alternative account of the trial, see Anne Somerset's Unnatural Murder ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997 ).

( An alternative account is given in a Maya chronicle from the Colonial era, claiming that Mayapan was contemporary with Chichen and Uxmal and in alliance with those cities, but archeological evidence shows this version to be less likely.

However, as prior continuity established the existence of alternative Dalek installations and colonies outside their homeworld, Skaro's own survival is unnecessary to account for post-nova remnants.

However, this theory has been questioned based on results showing that in brain slices of immature mice incubated in artificial cerebrospinal fluid ( ACSF ) ( modified in a way that takes into account the normal composition of the neuronal milieu in sucklings by adding an energy substrate alternative to glucose, beta-hydroxybutyrate ) GABA action shifts from excitatory to inhibitory mode.

The A + L show at PS1 offered an alternative account of the antecedents and legacy of ' classic ' Conceptual Art and reinforced a transatlantic rather than nationalistic version of events 1968-72.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

" He says " the makeup of a gene pool a human population's total reservoir of alternative genes causally affects the probability of any particular ideology being adopted.

However, there is still room within an originalist paradigm for stare decisis ; whenever the plain meaning of the text has alternative constructions, past precedent is generally considered a valid guide, with the qualifier being that it cannot change what the text actually says.

It is also called the alternative denial, since it says in effect that at least one of its operands is false.

* Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) by H. G. Wells, men and women in an alternative universe live without world government in a perfected state of anarchy ; " Our education is our government ," a Utopian named Lion says ; sectarian religion, like politics, has died away, and advanced scientific research flourishes ; life is governed by " the Five Principles of Liberty ," which are privacy, free movement, unlimited knowledge, truthfulness, and free discussion and criticism.

On 30 June 2000, Muslim nations that are members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, an alternative document that says people have " freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari ’ ah ", without any discrimination on grounds of " race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations ".

" Simek says that Hoddmímis holt " should not be understood literally as a wood or even a forest in which the two keep themselves hidden, but rather as an alternative name for the world-tree Yggdrasill.

where v is any fixed vector satisfying Av = b. Geometrically, this says that the solution set to Ax = b is the translation of the null space of A by the vector v. See also Fredholm alternative.

Heinlein acknowledged that such a long life span should not be expected as a result of a mere three generations of selective breeding, but offers no alternative explanation except by having a character declare, " A mutation, of course — which simply says that we don't know ".

" Simek says that Hoddmímis holt " should not be understood literally as a wood or even a forest in which the two keep themselves hidden, but rather as an alternative name for the world-tree Yggdrasill.

The Sabine language is scantily attested, mainly by glosses of ancient commentators on classical authors and inscriptions, where the commentator gives an alternative word he says is the Sabine.

Bede says that Alhfrith alone nominated Wilfrid, and that Oswiu subsequently proposed an alternative candidate, " imitating the actions of his son ".

An alternative characterization of the Wiener process is the so-called Lévy characterization that says that the Wiener process is an almost surely continuous martingale with W < sub > 0 </ sub > = 0 and quadratic variation = t ( which means that W < sub > t </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > − t is also a martingale ).

D ' Souza says " living creatures are the products of intelligent design ," but is not a proponent of the intelligent design ( ID ) movement, as he does not consider ID to be a satisfactory alternative to the theory of evolution by natural selection.

An alternative version of this story says that Thor threw the earth at the Devil, who was annoying Thor by jumping across the Devil's Jumps.

An alternative account says that Elgin had initially considered the destruction of the Forbidden City, but fearing that it might interfere with the signing of the Convention of Beijing, which was where it was being negotiated, he opted for the destruction of the Old Summer Palace in its stead.

Parfit gives the example of A + being a possible state of the world before the Atlantic was crossed, and says that A, in that case, represents an alternative history in which the Americas had never been inhabited by any humans.

An alternative folktale says that one should not prick the berries with a metal fork unless it is made of silver.

However, Tweedy and Heidorn dispute this claim, and Farrar says that there is no difference between alternative country and other genres such as roots rock.

However, the audience might reject it, or negotiate some comprise interpretation between what they think and what they text is saying, or contest what the text says with some alternative interpretation ".

" The Alpha course, because of its didactic style, its narrow-mindedness and its closed nature, doesn't facilitate alternative views ", he says.

When Scott Calvin ( Tim Allen ) is giving alternative names for Santa Claus to the police officer in the interrogation scene, Scott imitates Ed Sullivan when he says the name " Topo Gigio.

McDermott says he was saddened by The Sideshows cancellation as he believed it was an excellent venue for performers of alternative work which would have achieved ratings success if it had been allowed to continue.