There is considerable debate about whether his conception of natural law was more akin to that of Aquinas ( filtered through Richard Hooker ) or Hobbes ' radical reinterpretation, though the effect of Locke's understanding is usually phrased in terms of a revision of Hobbes upon Hobbesean contractualist grounds.

Thomas Aquinas advanced a version of the omnipotence paradox by asking whether God could create a triangle with internal angles that did not add up to 180 degrees.

There is disagreement among theologians as to whether the distinction between solemn and simple vows derives simply from a decision of the Church to treat them differently or whether, in line with the opinion of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a solemn vow is, antecedently to any decision by the Church, a more strict, perfect and complete consecration to God.

However, it remains unclear whether the difference between Aquinas and Anselm is one of terminology or of substance.

For this reason, knowing whether a file uses premultiplied or straight alpha is essential to correctly process or composite it.

The dispatcher needs to be able to quickly and correctly determine whether instructions can be executed in parallel, as well as dispatch them in such a way as to keep as many execution units busy as possible.

We must first judge how human reason works, and within what limits, so that we can afterwards correctly apply it to sense experience and determine whether it can be applied at all to metaphysical objects.

Many clients accept both RFC 1951 and RFC 1950-formatted data for the " deflate " compressed method, but a server has no way to detect whether a client will correctly handle RFC 1950 format.

Feedback notification is required to indicate whether the gesture has been entered correctly by indicating the gesture recognized and the corresponding command activated, although Sensiva does approach this to some extent in providing voice notification.

Super-stare decisis is a term used for important precedent that is resistant or immune from being overturned, without regard to whether correctly decided in the first place.

" The controversial idea that some decisions are virtually immune from being overturned, regardless of whether they were decided correctly in the first place, is the idea to which the term " super stare decisis " now usually refers.

That is, the only way to check to see if one has applied the symbol S correctly to a certain mental state is to introspect and determine whether the current sensation is identical to the sensation previously associated with S. And while identifying one's current mental state of remembering may be infallible, whether one remembered correctly is not infallible.

Occasionally, the host gives the correct answer whether the contestant is able to answer the question correctly or not.

A mere spec of dirt, or a mere bit too much squeeze, obscure the truth of whether the instrument is able to read correctly.

There is slight controversy over whether the idea of the modern cotton gin and its constituent elements are correctly attributed to Eli Whitney.

This system allows the operator to place wires without concern about whether they are on the correct pin, since the computer places the gun correctly.

His father dies, and Stevens is too occupied with worrying about whether his butlering is being carried out correctly to mourn ( something that he later reflects on with great pride ).

However, putting the markers over the right graves was impossible due to years of decay and it is uncertain whether the markers correctly correspond with the individuals buried there.

After correctly predicting several deaths, he tells his friend Captain Riker what he is able to see, but the Captain does not know whether to believe him or not.

Painter in 1922 was not certain whether the diploid number of humans was 46 or 48, at first favouring 46, but revised his opinion from 46 to 48, and he correctly insisted on humans having an XX / XY system.

This result showed that there is no algorithmic procedure that can correctly decide whether arbitrary mathematical propositions are true or false.

Informally, a set of natural numbers A is Turing reducible to a set B if there is an oracle machine that correctly tells whether numbers are in A when run with B as the oracle set ( in this case, the set A is also said to be ( relatively ) computable from B and recursive in B ).

* A recent US television advertisement for the Orbitz online travel service is styled to suggest Supermarionation, though whether it could correctly be described by the term is open to question.

While this makes it more difficult for a small number of disruptors to block a decision, it puts increased responsibility on the chair, and may lead to divisive debates about whether rough consensus has in fact been correctly identified.

As the avifauna of the Mascarenes is predominantly of Indian origin though as old as to be highly distinct, it is not clear to which clade these starlings belong — or even if they are indeed starlings, as the Réunion Starling at least was highly aberrant and there have always been lingering doubts about whether they are correctly placed here.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

In a superscalar pipeline, multiple instructions are read and passed to a dispatcher, which decides whether or not the instructions can be executed in parallel ( simultaneously ).

This distinction had previously contributed to debate in the early Church about whether they should be read in the churches and thus be classified as canonical texts.

In these cases there is a design element ( usually text ) which is not symmetric and should be read in the same direction, regardless of whether the hoist is to the viewer's left or right.

Through the use of flags defined in the IMAP4 protocol, clients can keep track of message state: for example, whether or not the message has been read, replied to, or deleted.

System flags indicate state information such as whether a message has been read.

Rousseau had read about an essay competition sponsored by the Académie de Dijon to be published in the Mercure de France on the theme of whether the development of the arts and sciences had been morally beneficial.

Although many programs read and write this information, few ( if any ) include this level of certification when calculating whether to trust a key.

Petrarch confessed to Boccaccio that he had never read the Commedia, remarks Contini, wondering whether this was true or Petrarch wanted to distance himself from Dante.

It is unknown whether he had obtained a copy of Hill ’ s booklet or if he had simply read about it in The Times newspaper, which had, on two occasions, on 25 March 1837 and on 20 December 1837, reported in great detail Hill ’ s proposals.

An even more recent addition to the rn family has been the addition of scoring, which allows a more complex method of evaluating articles to determine whether the user wishes to read them ; originally this was implemented in a code fork of trn called strn, but later this was integrated into the official trn distribution.

), a key consideration during the final judging is whether or not the art would make the viewer want to read the accompanying story.

Consequently, it is difficult to read him with objectivity, as his writings reflect the thought of his time, but as Dawkins observed, his was a strong and logical approach to evidence, whether human or natural.

However, it goes on to say " It was clear, however, that systematic phonics instruction is critical if children are to be taught to read well, whether or not they experience reading difficulties.

Stein's letter received no answer, and it is not known for sure whether Pius XI ever even read it.

Messages formatted to SWIFT standards can be read by, and processed by, many well-known financial processing systems, whether or not the message traveled over the SWIFT network.

) Assuming the student has read the case and can articulate the court's argument, the professor then asks whether the student agrees with the argument.

On this subject I ought to report the opinion of many but I doubt whether my letters may not miscarry or be read, wherefore it is better to keep silence than to speak ill ." Philip II had already been informed shortly before Dudley's decoration:

Numerous people that have read A Midsummer Night's Dream appear confused about whether Puck's intentions are deliberately done to try to mock and insult others for his own amusements, or because he is generally careless.

* Moreover, if only one item is possessed, the rule against distribution of the joint possessive introduces ambiguity ( unless the context happens to resolve it ): read in light of a rule requiring distribution, the sentence " Jason and Sue's dog died after being hit by a bus " makes clear that the dog belonged to Sue alone and that Jason survived or was not involved, whereas a rule prohibiting distribution forces ambiguity as to both whether Jason ( co -) owned the dog and whether he was killed.

The subjects, whether proponents or opponents, reported shifting their attitudes slightly in the direction of the first study they read.