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Consider Peter Unger's example of a cloud ( from his famous 1980 paper, " The Problem of the Many "): it's not clear where the boundary of a cloud lies ; for any given bit of water vapor, one can ask whether it's part of the cloud or not, and for many such bits, one won't know how to answer.
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Consider the subset sum problem, an example of a problem that is easy to verify, but whose answer may be difficult to compute.
Consider the example of a coffee cup and a donut ( see < span class =" plainlinks "> this example </ span >).
Consider for example determining which of the following are to be considered diseases ( i. e., abnormal states requiring cure ): alcoholism, homosexuality, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Consider for example workers who take coffee beans, use a roaster to roast them, and then use a brewer to brew and dispense a fresh cup of coffee.
Consider the context of evaluating each one of a class of events A < sub > 1 </ sub >, A < sub > 2 </ sub >, A < sub > 3 </ sub >,..., A < sub > n </ sub > ( for example, is the occurrence of the event harmful or not ?).
Consider the following example ( in Kwakw ' ala, sentences begin with what corresponds to an English verb ):
Consider, for example, what happens when an object in the periphery of the visual field moves, and a person looks toward it.
Consider, for example, the claim that the extinction of the dinosaurs was probably caused by a large meteorite hitting the earth.
Consider an audio DSP example: if a process requires 2. 01 seconds to analyze, synthesize, or process 2. 00 seconds of sound, it is not real-time.
Consider, for example, that when the bride says " I do " at the appropriate time in a wedding, she is performing the act of taking this man to be her lawful wedded husband.
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Consider the equipment needed to protect this many from the weather, to make their cooking easy and their sleeping comfortable.
Consider a complete orthonormal system ( basis ),, for a Hilbert space H, with respect to the norm from an inner product.
* Consider the set of all functions from the real number line to the closed unit interval, and define a topology on so that a sequence in converges towards if and only if converges towards for all.
Consider the logarithm function: For any fixed base b, the logarithm function log < sub > b </ sub > maps from the positive real numbers R < sup >+</ sup > onto the real numbers R ; formally:
< li > Consider the group ( Z < sub > 6 </ sub >, +), the integers from 0 to 5 with addition modulo 6.
Consider a function from a metric space M to a topological space V, and a point c of M. We direct the set M
Consider a point, P, such that light that is initially travelling parallel to the axis of symmetry is reflected from P along a line that is perpendicular to the axis of symmetry.
Consider three things being pulled by the moon: the oceans nearest the moon, the solid earth, and the oceans farthest from the moon.
Consider now the acceleration due to the sphere of mass M experienced by a particle in the vicinity of the body of mass m. With R as the distance from the center of M to the center of m, let ∆ r be the ( relatively small ) distance of the particle from the center of the body of mass m. For simplicity, distances are first considered only in the direction pointing towards or away from the sphere of mass M. If the body of mass m is itself a sphere of radius ∆ r, then the new particle considered may be located on its surface, at a distance ( R ± ∆ r ) from the centre of the sphere of mass M, and ∆ r may be taken as positive where the particle's distance from M is greater than R. Leaving aside whatever gravitational acceleration may be experienced by the particle towards m on account of ms own mass, we have the acceleration on the particle due to gravitational force towards M as:
Consider these three things we say about God: first, God is a spirit ; second, God is the creator of the world ; and third, God exists apart from space and time.
Consider a space ship traveling from Earth to the nearest star system outside of our solar system: a distance years away, at a speed ( i. e., 80 percent of the speed of light ).
Consider a system in which voters can vote for any candidate from any one of many parties ; suppose further that if a party gets 15 % of votes, then that party will win 15 % of the seats in the legislature.
Consider the two endpoints of a rod of length L. The length can be determined from the differences in the three coordinates Δx, Δy and Δz of the two endpoints in a given reference frame
Suppose that U: D → C is a functor from a category D to a category C, and let X be an object of C. Consider the following dual ( opposite ) notions:
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