Whitehead is here questioning David Hume's understanding of the nature of experience ; ;

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

`` As long as Mr. Khrushchev is convinced that the balance of world power is shifting his way, no amount of either smiles or toughness, neither Camp David talks nor kitchen debates, can compel him to enter fruitful negotiations ''.

G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.

This may be unfortunate, perhaps, from the standpoint of David Hedison, Providence's contribution to Hollywood, who is appearing by special arrangement with 20th Century-Fox.

Kempthorne and his students make an assumption of unit treatment additivity, which is discussed in the books of Kempthorne and David R. Cox.

In Agatha Christie's Poirot, George is played by actor David Yelland.

David D. Friedman says he is not an absolutist rights theorist but is also " not a utilitarian ", however, he does believe that " utilitarian arguments are usually the best way to defend libertarian views ".

David Fontana however on the subject of parapsychology has said that " the evidence for survival is so strong that anyone who cares to study it is likely to end up convinced ".

He is joined by producer David Heyman, who Cuarón worked with on Harry Potter.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

( Paradoxically, in the modern version it is the rebellious son who has the first name " David ".

* Absalom's attempted coup against his father David is explored in the novel " Zoheleth " by J Francis Hudson ( Lion Publishing 1994 ).

"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.

Scottish empiricist David Hume made a similar argument, that belief in objective moral truths is unwarranted and to discuss them is meaningless.

Authors such as David Schneider, Clifford Geertz, and Marshall Sahlins developed a more fleshed-out concept of culture as a web of meaning or signification, which proved very popular within and beyond the discipline.

There is an increasing number of published compositions and arrangements for double bass ensembles, and the International Society of Bassists regularly features double bass ensembles ( both smaller ensembles as well as very large " mass bass " ensembles ) at its conferences, and sponsors the biennial David Walter Composition Competition, which includes a division for double bass ensemble works.

F. Phillip Bowden and David Tabor ( 1950 ) showed that at a microscopic level, the actual area of contact between surfaces is a very small fraction of the apparent area.

In 1999, there was an unconfirmed sighting of a pair of birds in the Pearl River region of southeast Louisiana by a forestry student, David Kulivan, which some experts considered very compelling.

David Angel said: " String players would talk to me during the break and say, " You're doing something very unusual here.

As in painting, early Italian Mannerist sculpture was very largely an attempt to find an original style that would top the achievement of the High Renaissance, which in sculpture essentially meant Michelangelo, and much of the struggle to achieve this was played out in commissions to fill other places in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, next to Michelangelo's David.

However, Salon's David Futrelle opined that such content was very much a part of Mads past:

Upon the death of his father-in-law, Sir David Hanmer, in late 1387, knighted earlier that very year by Richard II, Glyndŵr returned to Wales as executor of his estate.

It later became known that Stalin was actually aware of the atomic bomb before Truman was, as he had multiple spies that had infiltrated the Manhattan Project from very early on ( notably Klaus Fuchs, Ted Hall, and David Greenglass ), while Truman had only learned about the weapon after Roosevelt's death.

In very rare instances, botched circumcisions have also resulted in full or partial penectomies, as with David Reimer.

Although Paine liked to say that he read very little, his writings belie this statement ; The Age of Reason has intellectual roots in the traditions of David Hume, Spinoza, and Voltaire.

* September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as " The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4 ″ in diameter ; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight.

David Roberts ( 1796 – 1864 ) produced architectural and landscape views, many of antiquities, and published very successful books of lithographs from them.

At the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, the fictional character Rhett Butler warns a group of upper-class secessionists of the folly of war with the North in terms very reminiscent of those Sherman directed to David F. Boyd before leaving Louisiana.

Aren Maeir, director of the excavation, comments: " Here we have very nice evidence the name Goliath appearing in the Bible in the context of the story of David and Goliath … is not some later literary creation.

A story very similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, where the young Nestor fights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion.

As the years went by, Isabella became very close to her daughter Joan, especially after Joan left her unfaithful husband, King David II of Scotland.

Brought out by Gallimard, it had been written in under two months, and would be described by Foucault biographer David Macey as " a very personal book " that resulted from a " love affair " with Roussel's work.

Dr. David Rubinow, UNC's chair of Psychiatry, and one of two principal investigators on the NIH-funded 5-year study, notes there is a very important difference between the UNC study and the WHI estrogen study.

Most of them derive from early models formulated by David Marr and James Albus, which were motivated by the observation that each cerebellar Purkinje cell receives two dramatically different types of input: On one hand, thousands of inputs from parallel fibers, each individually very weak ; on the other hand, input from one single climbing fiber, which is, however, so strong that a single climbing fiber action potential will reliably cause a target Purkinje cell to fire a burst of action potentials.

AutoLISP was derived from a very early version of XLISP, which was created by David Betz.

Because steam locomotives are very loud, Lantieri's crew would respond to first assistant director David Tomblin's radioed directions by making the giraffes nod or shake their heads to his questions, which amused the crew.

Charlotte Bronte referred to the novel in a letter to William Smith Williams on 13 September 1849, noting that " I have read David Copperfield ; it seems to me very good — admirable in some parts.

Immanuel Kant started as a traditional rationalist, having studied the rationalists Leibniz and Wolff, but after studying David Hume's works, which " awoke from dogmatic slumbers ", he developed a distinctive and very influential rationalism of his own, which attempted to synthesize the traditional rationalist and empiricist traditions.