The question concerned the educational value of pre-Christian classical thought: " Given that the body of knowledge of the pre-Christian Romans was heathen in origin, was it safe to teach it to Christian children?

Given the dual status of science as objective knowledge and as a human construct, good historiography of science draws on the historical methods of both intellectual history and social history.

" Given a memex, a scholar could create her own knowledge tools as connections within reams of information, share these tools, and use complexes of tools to create yet more sophisticated knowledge that could in turn be deployed toward this work.

Given that premise, the notion of absolute knowledge ( as described by Plato and the rationalists ) is seen as mere illusion, and this is what he set out to demonstrate in the first part of his magnum opus " The Critique of Pure Reason " ( 1781 ).

Given that the right to be politically active has granted them the opportunity to expand their knowledge and influence in current affairs, they are now considered one of the main components in the country's decision-making in both politics and economy.

Given the closeness shared by the countries bordering the Mediterranean basin, and very topical interest to the consolidation of the European Union's enlargement policy, he also intended to establish trade relations with the Republic of Malta aimed at encouraging mutual knowledge and awareness in a profitable way their local communities on European issues of common interest and current.

Given an encoding of the known background knowledge and a set of examples represented as a logical database of facts, an ILP system will derive a hypothesised logic program which entails all the positive and none of the negative examples.

Given that Maxwell's textbook was written before the discovery of the electron, it is understandable that Maxwell exhibits what ( in terms of modern knowledge ) is inconsistency in the use of the term " electromotive force ".

Given that male authors had limited knowledge of her rites and attributes, ancient speculations about her identity abound, among them that she was an aspect of Terra, Ops, the Magna Mater, or Ceres, or a Latin form of Damia.

Given his jazz and salsa conga playing experience and knowledge ( working as a sideman with such bands as salsa's Frankie Dante's Orquesta Flamboyan and jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp ), Dawson also created the long running " Salsa Meets Jazz " weekly concert series at the Village Gate jazz club where jazz musicians would sit in with an established salsa band, for example Dexter Gordon jamming with the Machito band.

Given their relative isolation, the cult participants generally have little knowledge of modern manufacturing and are liable to be skeptical about modern explanations.

Given the philosophical definition that knowledge differs from belief ( knowledge is often defined as a justified, true belief ), Dorff's works explicitly analyze epistemological questions.

Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established ; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try to evaluate the body of evidence which does exist and examine it critically.

Given the explosion of medical knowledge in the 20th century, it is easily appreciated that this led to a vast expansion of the book, which threatened to collapse under its own weight in a metaphorical and physical sense.

Given the initial positions ( e. g. from theoretical knowledge ) and velocities ( e. g. randomized Gaussian ), we can calculate all future ( or past ) positions and velocities.

Given that even players with poor chess knowledge can use the strongest computer programs to analyse their games, the gap between the beginner and master player has narrowed in recent years.

Given that the success of any organization is founded on the knowledge of the people who work for it, these activities will and, indeed, must continue.

Given an encoding of the known background knowledge and a set of examples represented as a logical database of facts, an ILP system will derive a hypothesized logic program which entails all the positive and none of the negative examples.

Given the preceding information, the knowledge gap hypothesis can be expressed using the following set of related propositions:

Given that folk psychology represents causal knowledge associated with the mind ’ s categorization processes, it follows that folk psychology is actively employed in aiding the explanation of everyday actions.

" Given the subject matter of his poetry he was likely a " man in holy orders ," and the deep Christian knowledge conveyed through his verse implies that he was well learned in ecclesiastical and hagiographical literature, as well as the dogma and doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Given the philosophical definition that knowledge differs from belief ( knowledge is often defined as a justified, true belief ), Gillman's works explicitly analyze epistemological questions.

: Given a point ( in terms of its coordinates ) and the direction ( azimuth ) and distance from that point to a second point, determine ( the coordinates of ) that second point.

Given the differences of opinion within the Lord Aberdeen cabinet over the direction of foreign policy with regard to relations between Britain and the French under Napoleon III, it is not surprising that debate raged within the government as Louis Bonaparte, now assuming the title of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

Given their original purpose, military marching bands typically march in a forward direction with ( no variation of ) straight lines.

Given that this is a plane wave, each vector represents the magnitude and direction of the electric field for an entire plane that is perpendicular to the axis.

Given an embedding of a rooted tree in the plane, if one fixes a direction of children ( starting from root, then first child, second child, etc.

About the new markets, Ergen said, " Given the assets we've been accumulating, I don't think it's hard to see we're moving in a different direction from simply pay-TV, which is a market that's becoming increasingly saturated.

Given the similarities with readings from people living on loess soils, the general direction of the local movement according to Price et al., is from the northeast to the southwest.

Given the direction of the current, it is clear that the buoys would be dragged in the opposite direction to that claimed by Mr Jim Brooks.

Given estimates of the image gradients, a search is then carried out to determine if the gradient magnitude assumes a local maximum in the gradient direction.

Given vector fields and lying in the tangent bundle, the affine connection describes how to differentiate the vector field along the direction.

Given an incident direction from the surface to the light source and the surface normal direction the specularly reflected direction ( all unit vectors ) is:

Given Bernal's Marxist and pro-Soviet sympathies it is perhaps remarkable that there has never been any suggestion that he fed any information in that direction.

Given the change in direction apparent in his poetry, scholars assume only his death a short time after publication prevented him from further exploration ; the collection may in fact have been published posthumously.

Given a unit vector u = ( u < sub > x </ sub >, u < sub > y </ sub >, u < sub > z </ sub >), where u < sub > x </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > + u < sub > y </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > + u < sub > z </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > = 1, the matrix for a rotation by an angle of θ about an axis in the direction of u is

Given an arbitrary direction z ( usually determined by an external magnetic field ) the spin z-projection is given by

Given charge of policy direction for the government in the latter role, he was often dubbed the " Minister for Thought " by the Press.

Given that v < sup > 2 </ sup > ignores direction, it is logical to assume that the formula can be extended to the entire sample, replacing m with the entire sample's mass, equal to the molar mass times the number of moles n yielding

Given a differential equation of the form ( for example, when F has zero slope in the x and y direction at F ( x, y ) ):

Given the abundance of these different guidance cues it was previously believed that growth cones integrate various information by simply summing the gradient of cues, in different valences, at a given point in time, to making a decision on the direction of growth.