An analogy may be made with an iceberg-it always floats with a certain proportion of its mass below the surface of the water.

In ordinary, non-technical Greek, logos had a semantic field extending beyond " word " to notions such as, on the one hand, language, talk, statement, speech, conversation, tale, story, prose, proposition, and principle ; and on the other hand, thought, reason, account, consideration, esteem, due relation, proportion, and analogy.

The last phrase, " in proportion to his faith " is in Greek ἀναλογίαν τῆς πίστεως (" analogy of faith ").

The specific analogy to the dilemma of love is the problem of the `` breakthrough '' in the realm of art.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

Although the Af calculation is obvious by analogy with that for gravitational field and osmotic pressure, it is interesting to confirm it by a method which can be generalized to include related effects.

This hypothesis is evolved in analogy to the demonstrated action of organic actives in detergency.

It is not a farfetched analogy to say that this is what Thomas did to poetry.

This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent, America.

" His term for analogy is Latin analogia.

The analogy is said of being in many different ways, but the key to it is the real distinction between existence and essence.

A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxy | galaxies with it, like spots on an inflating balloon.

One helpful analogy is that by creating multiple VLANs, the number of broadcast domains increases, but the size of each broadcast domain size decreases.

Burnt-in timecode ( often abbreviated to BITC by analogy to VITC ) is a human-readable on-screen version of the timecode information for a piece of material superimposed on a video image.

The analogy in the case of rotating bucket is that the element of water surface will " slide " up or down the surface unless the normal to the surface aligns with the vector resultant formed by the vector addition F < sub > g </ sub > + F < sub > Cfgl </ sub >.

In some situations where 4NT is a quantitative invitation, especially where 4 is a jump, many partnerships use the Gerber convention by some analogy to the Blackwood family: 4 asks for the number of aces or key cards.

To find out what the precise law is that applies to a particular set of facts, one has to locate precedential decisions on the topic, and reason from those decisions by analogy.

This analogy is extremely simplistic and incomplete: The rapid propagation of a sound wave does not impart any change in the air molecules ' drift velocity, whereas EM waves do carry the energy to propagate the actual current at a rate which is much, much higher than the electrons ' drift velocity.

For the sake of this analogy, the chess pieces are objects, they and their positions constitute states of affairs and therefore facts, and the totality of facts is the entire particular game of chess.

He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.

Most companies that use this title generally have large numbers of people with the title of vice president with different categories ( e. g. vice president for finance, or vice president in charge of hiring ); their closest analogy within the US federal government structure is therefore not the Vice President as such, but a Cabinet Secretary.

Socrates comes to the conclusion that this is absurd and therefore he discards the birdcage analogy.

He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.

It is commonly supposed that such a teapot would melt, and be impossible to use, therefore the term is often used as an analogy for any useless item.

This was adopted by Origen and later on by Athanasius, and applied to the generation of the Son from the Father, because they believed that this analogy could be used to support the notion that the Father, as immutable, always had been a Father, and that the generation of the Son is therefore eternal and timeless.

Such a terminated process process whose data has not been collected is called a zombie process, or simply a zombie, in the UNIX parlance ( in a possibly humorous analogy that dubs the terminated process as " no longer alive " or " dead " -- since it has really ceased functioning --, and a lingering dead process still " incarnated " in the " world of the living " processes — the process table — is therefore actually " undead ", or " zombie ").

The hypothetical most recent common ancestor was therefore jocularly dubbed " Y-chromosomal Aaron ", in analogy to Y-chromosomal Adam.

This has therefore strengthened the analogy with the Selberg trace formula to the point where it gives precise statements.

In Ismaili thought, therefore, the truth lay not in subjective opinion ( ra ’ y ) and analogy ( qiyās ), but rather in the teaching of the bearer of truth ( muhiqq ), that is, the Imam of the time.

The MATLAB language introduces the left-division operator to maintain the essential part of the analogy with the scalar case, therefore simplifying the mathematical reasoning and preserving the conciseness:

: This weak analogy, the so-called Van Gogh fallacy, assumes that because P was Q, and I am P, therefore I am Q, when this is not necessarily the case, and is a propositional fallacy known as affirming the consequent .</ div >

• Ethonomics, by analogy therefore, is the rules governing ethics in the marketplace.

He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.

In moral philosophy, the nature of Sandflies is used as an analogy for a particular implied inference, the " noseeum inference " where one fallaciously concludes that since one cannot see something, it therefore cannot exist.

Proponents hold that the indulgence analogy is flawed because they claim carbon offsets actually reduce carbon emissions, changing the business as usual, and therefore address the root cause of climate change.

But by analogy with electromagnetism, we should expect the gravitational field to carry energy, and on the basis of Einstein's work on relativity theory, we should expect this energy to be equivalent to mass and therefore, to gravitate.

Apparent exceptions are possible, due to analogy and other regularization processes, or another sound change, or an unrecognized conditioning factor.

However, eventually convinced, as foretold by psychohistory, that his power would be most vulnerable to that of his own successful general ( a possible analogy with that of the Roman empire at various times ), the Emperor finally orders withdrawal of his fleet.

An analogy here is that operation is similar to B8ZS or HDB3 in T1 / E1 systems, except that there is an actual gain in the information rate by coding 16 possible binary states to one of 27 ternary states.

The Stanford University Press website gives a much more thorough description, including the following more informative blurb by Adrienne Harris of NYU: " Kaja Silverman's thesis, pursued over centuries of artistic work and thought, is that it is in the experience of analogy that an authentic approach to mortality is possible.

Many scholars have suggested a possible analogy with the story of Isaac's attempted sacrifice by his father Abraham in the Bible, which was also stopped at the last minute ( though it had first been encouraged ) by divine intervention.

In analogy with arithmetic, it is possible to define addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of functions, in those cases where the output is a number.

The " analogy of faith ," as a rule of interpretation, he greatly limits, and teaches that it can never afford of itself the explanation, of words, but only determine the choice among their possible meanings.

In this framework, because one of the observed properties of the electric field was that it was irrotational, and one of the observed properties of the magnetic field was that it was divergenceless, it was possible to express an electrostatic field as the gradient of a scalar potential ( Coulomb's electrostatic potential, entirely analogous, mathematically, to the classical gravitational potential ) and a stationary magnetic field as the curl of a vector potential ( then a new concept-the idea of a scalar potential was already well accepted by analogy with gravitational potential ).

In the history of western thought, essence has often served as a vehicle for doctrines that tend to individuate different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties ; in this eminently logical meaning, the concept has given a strong theoretical and common-sense basis to the whole family of logical theories based on the " possible worlds " analogy set up by Leibniz and developed in the intensional logic from Carnap to Kripke, which was later challenged by " extensionalist " philosophers such as Quine.

While most languages do not have a specific term for coronets, but simply use the word meaning crown, it is possible to determine which of those crowns are for peerage or lower-level use, and thus can by analogy be called coronets.

Taking this analogy back to wireless communications, the far transmitter would have to drastically increase transmission power which simply may not be possible.

Henry defends the importance of beauty in language and skill in writing using an analogy with a cricket bat: good writing is like hitting a ball with a cricket bat ( i. e. something that has been carefully designed to hit balls in the best manner possible ); bad writing is like hitting it with a plank of wood ( i. e., something that has the same composition as a cricket bat, and bears it some resemblance, but is ultimately random and inferior ).

" In particular, Stalnaker does not accept Lewis ' attempt to argue on the basis of a supposed analogy with the epistemological objection to mathematical Platonism that believing in possible worlds as he ( Lewis ) imagines them is no less reasonable than believing in mathematical entities such as sets or functions.

Kull believes that it is only possible to accept Hoffmeyer's view as an analogy to the concept of an ecological niche as it is traditionally used in biology, so that the community develops according to the semiotic understanding of the processes which are responsible for the building of Umwelt.

Duschene makes this refer to a Bidding Litany to follow the Homily, but judging from the analogy of the Stowe Mass, which places a litany between the Epistle and Gospel, and of the Mozarabic, which on Sundays in Lent has a very similar litany between the Prophetical Lesson and the Epistle, said by the priest who " prosternat se ad pedem altaris ", it might be possible to understand " audita Apostoli praedicatione " to mean " after the Epistle ".

It's also possible that the modal semantics developed in the parent language and later developments in Pre-Greek removed them and put back the basic meaning of the aorist and imperative, by analogy.

An analogy would be a person walking across a room ; rather than examining every possible route in advance, the person would generally walk in the direction of the destination and only deviate from the path to avoid an obstruction, and make deviations as minor as possible.