Skeptics say that instances of apparent telepathy are explained as the result of fraud, self-delusion and / or self-deception and that telepathy does not exist as a paranormal power.

A consensus on the identification of self-deception remains elusive to contemporary philosophers, the result of the term's paradoxical elements and ambiguous paradigmatic cases.

When a person, who disbelieves p, intentionally tries to make himself believe or continue believing p by engaging in such activities, and, as a result unintentionally misleads himself into believing or continuing to believe p via biased thinking, he deceives himself in a way appropriate for self-deception.

As a result, self-deception evolves so as to better hide the signs of deception from others.

The large number of experiments exploring the physics and chemistry of these so-called " colloidal crystals " has emerged as a result of the relatively simple methods that have evolved in the last 20 years for preparing synthetic monodisperse colloids ( both polymer and mineral ) and, through various mechanisms, implementing and preserving their long-range order formation.

As a result some recent text books classify ctenophores as triploblastic, and it has been suggested that cnidarians evolved from triploblastic ancestors.

As a result, humans evolved the ability to sweat: a process which was facilitated by the loss of body hair.

As a result, multiple defense mechanisms have also evolved to recognize and neutralize pathogens.

As a result, some provincial authorities have evolved tendencies of operating on a de facto federal system with Beijing.

Layouts and an " evolved " human ( meaning someone who has undergone expensive genetic treatments by a German " doctor " which are supposed to push the client " forward " on an evolutionary scale, and which result in gross physical, as well as mental, modifications ), hears rumors that Eldritch discovered an alien hallucinogen in the Prox system with similar properties to CAN-D, and that he plans to market it as " Chew-Z ," with U. N. approval, on off-world colonies.

As a result caterpillars have evolved various means of defense.

Tambiah also believes that the perceptions of these three ideas have evolved over time as a result of Western thought.

Like most temperate-latitude trees, cherry seeds require exposure to cold in order to germinate ( a mechanism the tree evolved to prevent germination during the autumn which would then result in the seedling being killed by winter temperatures ).

Different animal species may use different gaits due to differences in anatomy that prevent use of certain gaits, or simply due to evolved innate preferences as a result of habitat differences.

The result of research done at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s, Ethernet evolved into a widely implemented physical and link layer protocol.

The exact origins of Two-up are obscure, but it seems to have evolved from pitch and toss, a gambling game involving tossing a single coin into the air and wagering on the result.

As a result of the industrial revolution, the sauna evolved to use a metal woodstove, or kiuas, with a chimney.

Some populations of Z. m. mexicana display Vavilovian mimicry within cultivated maize fields, having evolved a maize-like form as a result of the farmers ' selective weeding pressure.

It is commonly believed that General American English evolved as a result of an aggregation of rural and suburban Midwestern dialects, though the English of the Upper Midwest can deviate quite dramatically from what would be considered a " regular " American Accent.

In the Pixar film WALL-E, humans are shown to have evolved into obese, docile, and lazy people as a result of robots being able to do everything for them.

The culture of Norway evolved as a result of its sparse population, harsh climate, and relative isolation from the rest of Europe.

Following a number of years hallmarked by internal problems and a listener rebellion as a result of management decisions, the station eventually evolved into its current format of conventional modern rock.

Zapffe believed that existential angst in humanity was the result of an overly evolved intellect, and that people overcome this by " artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

As a result, SAMs evolved rapidly in the 1960s.

The characteristics attributed to subspecies generally have evolved as a result of geographical distribution or isolation.

Initially, the only income the farm produced was from wagonloads of firewood Almanzo sold for 50 cents in town, the result of the backbreaking work of clearing the trees and stones from land that slowly evolved into fertile fields and pastures.

It evolved into a Sydney suburb in the mid 20th century, partly as the result of a major state housing project in the nearby Liverpool area in the 1960s that in turn swallowed Cabramatta.

The result was the document " Basic Values for Guards " ( Handlingsnorm för väktare ), a list of 20 theses describing how a security guard should act, which over the years has evolved into the group's current basic values for employees guide.

The usage and meaning of the term mahāmudrā evolved over the course of hundreds of years of Indian and Tibetan history, and as a result, the term may refer variously to " a ritual hand-gesture, one of a sequence of ' seals ' in Tantric practice, the nature of reality as emptiness, a meditation procedure focusing on the nature of mind, an innate blissful gnosis cognizing emptiness nondually, or the supreme attainment of buddhahood at the culmination of the Tantric path.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

Better `` hand '', a more luxurious feel, and better insulating properties were claimed to be the result.

As a result no comparable literature of the period is better known and better studied nor more often performed than the English madrigal.

No other atypical studied ( risperidone, quetiapine, and ziprasidone ) did better than the typical perphenazine on the measures used, nor did they produce fewer adverse effects than the typical antipsychotic perphenazine ( a result supported by a meta-analysis by Dr. Leucht published in Lancet ), although more patients discontinued perphenazine owing to extrapyramidal effects compared to the atypical agents ( 8 % vs. 2 % to 4 %, P = 0. 002 ).

Regions have water with different mineral components ; as a result, different regions were originally better suited to making certain types of beer, thus giving them a regional character.

This limits the resources available for investments in the country's deteriorated public infrastructure, investments in many cases that would result in higher quality infrastructure if they were better planned.

In many cases, such as the cabinet-directed prohibition on foreign ownership for broadcasters and the legislated principle of the predominance of Canadian content, these acts and orders often leave the CRTC less room to change policy than critics sometimes suggest, and the result is that the commission is often the lightning rod for policy criticism that could arguably be better directed at the government itself.

If the transaction was a " good bargain " contract generally gives a better result for the claimant.

If the transaction were a " bad bargain ", tort gives a better result for the claimant.

As a result, former mayor Phil Yerington publicly expressed the view that if they " let Mother Nature take her course, we'll all be better off ".

A selfbolting door is called as such because of its special hinges that permit the panel leaf to move laterally so that the door itself becomes a giant bolt for better security result.

As a result, according to philosopher Steven Crowell, defining existentialism has been relatively difficult, and he argues that it is better understood as a general approach used to reject certain systematic philosophies rather than as a systematic philosophy in itself.

Theoretically, this should result in a better specific impulse than for rocket engines.

The result from these projects is not yet known but is hoped to bring a better market economy to the Faroe Islands.

However as a result of intense pressure from the U. S. authorities, widespread efforts are currently being made to introduce systematic anti-money laundering initiatives on a global scale, to better curb the activities of the financiers of terrorism and those engaged in laundering the profits of drug smuggling.

In 1974, Theodore Barber and his colleagues published an influential review of the research which argued, following the earlier social psychology of Theodore R. Sarbin, that hypnotism was better understood not as a " special state " but as the result of normal psychological variables, such as active imagination, expectation, appropriate attitudes, and motivation.

The result is that the world is better off in an absolute sense and no one is worse off.

The final result of my labours was that I found nothing better to do than to watch for and take observations at night of the conjunction of one planet with another, and especially of the conjunction of the moon with the other planets, because the moon is swifter in her course than any other planet.

" Eisenhower was saying that when both parties cooperate and act in mature fashion, it will be easier to work out situations and a better outcome will result because of it.

The R5000 FPU had more flexible single precision floating-point scheduling than the R4000, and as a result, R5000-based SGI Indys had much better graphics performance than similarly clocked R4400 Indys with the same graphics hardware.

As a result, it is generally better tolerated than morphine.

Unlikely events do occur but if the risk is unlikely enough to occur it may be better to simply retain the risk and deal with the result if the loss does in fact occur.

If used in a business application, synergy means that teamwork will produce an overall better result than if each person within the group were working toward the same goal individually.