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As the ultimate principle, Speusippus would not, with Plato, recognise the Good, but, with others, ( who doubtless were also Platonists ), going back to the older Theologi, maintained that the principles of the universe were to be set down as causes of the good and perfect, but were not the good and perfect itself, which must rather be regarded as the result of generated existence, or development, just as the seeds of plants and animals are not the fully formed plants or animals themselves.
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The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's " Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ", Mies Van Der Rohe's " Less is more ", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's " It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away ".
Konoe and his allies had become convinced that if the Army would only agree, in principle, to an ultimate withdrawal from China, a negotiated settlement could be reached with the United States.
The ultimate abstract principle of actual existence for Whitehead is creativity.
The principle of Privacy by Design states that privacy and data protection are embedded throughout the entire life cycle of technologies, from the early design stage to their deployment, use and ultimate disposal.
They are all the ultimate recipients of stolen land, for to regard our planet as a commodity offends every conceivable principle of natural rights.
By this I mean the principle that, in deciding what is good and what is bad for a given individual, the ultimate criterion can only be his own wants and his own preferences .”
According to Jains, the ultimate principle should always be logical and no principle can be devoid of logic or reason.
Yāska, commenting on this Rigvedic verse, accepts the following meanings of Ātman: the pervading principle, the organism in which other elements are united and the ultimate sentient principle.
The principle of yin and yang is represented in Taoism by the Taijitu ( literally " diagram of the supreme ultimate ").
If self is actually so given, we do not need the principle of causality to infer it ; if it is not so given, causality could never give us either the notion or the fact of self as a cause or force, far less as an ultimate one.
And further, the principle of causality, if fairly carried out, as universal and necessary, would not allow us to stop at personality or will as the ultimate cause of its effect — volition.
In such circumstances, the formative spiritual principle that, in the ultimate analysis, governs the transcendent ' superhistory ' of humankind might literally reconstitute the individuals of the primordial creative race of Hyperborea.
His object in the Traité des vérités prèmieres ( 1717 ), his best-known work, is to discover the ultimate principle of knowledge.
Elements of Titoism are characterized by policies and practices based on the principle that in each country, the means of attaining ultimate communist goals must be dictated by the conditions of that particular country, rather than by a pattern set in another country.
According to Osborn Aristogenesis was a mysterious factor in evolution, an intelligent agency and creative principle, with the ultimate outcome of evolution being the production of mankind.
He rejected Plato's Theory of Forms, and whereas Plato had identified the Good with the ultimate principle, Speusippus maintained that the Good was merely secondary.
The ultimate principle he designated, like Plato, as the absolute One, but it was not to be regarded as an existing entity, since all entities can only be the result of development.
The term " Logos " was used in Greek philosophy ( see Heraclitus ) and in Hellenistic Jewish religious writing ( see Philo Judaeus of Alexandria ) to mean the ultimate ordering principle of the universe.
Although this usage is inspired by the principle, accurate in other contexts, that the entity that receives a donation is the beneficiary of that donation, the usage is ambiguous in the development-aid context, where the identities of the donation's ultimate, substantive recipients are distinct from that of the immediate, formal recipient.
A large portion of the book is dedicated to the exposition, analysis and critique of the Vivarta theory of the grammarians, the Shakta approach to the ultimate reality, the Vijnanavadin nuanced differences with respect to the principle of monism, the Advaita Vedanta concept of ignorance and the fundamental principles of all the other major spiritual schools of the time.
Anuttara is the ultimate principle in Kashmir Shaivism, and as such, it is the fundamental reality underneath the whole Universe.
As the ultimate principle, anuttara is identified with Śiva, Śakti ( as Śakti is identical to Śiva ), the supreme consciousness ( cit ), uncreated light ( prakāśa ), supreme subject ( aham ) and atemporal vibration ( spanda ).
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Like the Yankees' slugger, Mays, the terror of the Giants, has had seasons that would be considered the ultimate by most players, but not by -- or for -- Willie.
Perlman said bankruptcy would not be an immediate effect of the merger, but could possibly be an ultimate effect.
In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly wrote a book of ultimate evil in Arabic, al-Azif, which would later become known as the Necronomicon.
The ultimate Blue Steel would be a range weapon that could be launched by the supersonic Avro 730 under development.
After a term as Praetor, the magistrate would serve as a provincial governor in the office of Propraetor, wielding Propraetor imperium, commanding the province ’ s legions, and possessing ultimate authority within his province ( s ).
( This Zoroastrian conception of polar opposition and conflict would later come to influence the development of Christianity as it elaborated upon the idea of the Devil as an ultimate source of evil opposed to the Christian God, an idea that was previously absent in Judaism.
In most cases, Pinyin romanization more accurately represents Chinese pronunciations than Wade – Giles ; English speakers would read the martial art " Tai Ji Quan " closer to tàijíquán ' great ultimate fist ' than " T ' ai Chi Ch ' üan.
During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto-punk artists led him to develop a concept that would eventually find form in the Ziggy Stardust character: a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing " the ultimate pop idol ".
The number 666 had been identified in the Book of Revelation with the ultimate human despot to rule the world, but who would be replaced by the second coming of the Messiah ; this only added to the belief that the Fifth Monarchy was about to begin.
The ultimate goal of the party was the overthrow of the Dalai Lama's regime, and the creation of a Tibetan Republic which would be an autonomous Republic within the ROC.
Politically, they support the view that constitutional parliamentary monarchy would be the ultimate solution for stability, unity and continuity.
The mare concretum appears to match Strabo's pepēguia thalatta and is probably the same as the topoi (" places ") mentioned in Strabo's apparent description of spring drift ice, which would have stopped his voyage further north and was for him the ultimate limit of the world.
His love of creation is such that He will not withdraw His Presence, which would be the ultimate form of annihilation, not merely imposing death, but ending existence altogether.
Thorstein Veblen saw socialism as an immediate stage in an ongoing evolutionary process in economics that would result from the natural decay of the system of business enterprise ; in contrast to Marx, he did not believe it would be the result of political struggle or revolution by the working class as a whole and did not believe it to be the ultimate goal of humanity.
The interpretant can be ( 1 ) immediate to the sign, all that the sign immediately expresses, such as a word's usual meaning ; or ( 2 ) dynamic, such as a state of agitation ; or ( 3 ) final or normal, the ultimate ramifications of the sign about its object, to which inquiry taken far enough would be destined and with which any actual interpretant can at most coincide.
The ultimate goal for an SSTO vehicle would be airliner-like operations.
The ultimate achievement in terraforming would be to create an open planetary biosphere emulating all the functions of the biosphere of the Earth, one that would be fully habitable for human beings.
At a time of political unrest, with changes from Hindu Rajput rulers to Muslim Moghul emperors and viceroys, and possibly back again, a wise group would display allegiance to both creeds, but its ultimate loyalty was probably only to itself.
At the end of his life he would state his belief that the United States government is the ultimate bully.
Roman Catholic apologists argued that if the Pope has ultimate authority in the Church, then national churches would be more immune to interference from their governments.
Those who are able to read the history in the light of what occurred later may perhaps be convinced that no policy whatever initiated, after 1766 could have prevented or even materially delayed the United States Declaration of Independence ; but to the politicians of that time the coming event had not yet cast so dark a shadow before as to paralyse all action, and if any man could have allayed the growing discontent of the colonists and prevented the ultimate dismemberment of the empire, it would have been Lord Chatham.
He proposed the " Provisional Act " that would both maintain the ultimate authority of Parliamentary sovereignty, while meeting the colonial demands.
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