Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).

Given the existence of a Godlike object in one world, proven above, we may conclude that there is a Godlike object in every possible world, as required.

An analytic philosopher, Rorty believed that combining Willard Van Orman Quine's criticism of the analytic-synthetic distinction with Wilfrid Sellars's critique of the " Myth of the Given " allowed for an abandonment of the view of the thought or language as a mirror of a reality or external world.

Given that assumption, the evidence for the one-seed theory is the fact that a woman can conceive without coming to orgasm ( though this was still a matter of dispute in the ancient world and the Middle Ages ).

Given India's historic position that the original intent of the line was to separate the two nations by the highest mountains in the world, in these locations India extended its forward posts northward to the ridges, regarding this move as compliant with the original border proposal, although the Simla Convention did not explicitly state this intention.

Given this view, the difficulty or impossibility of finding a plausible explanation for evil in a world created by God is to be expected, and so the argument from evil is assumed to fail unless it can be proven that God's reasons would be comprehensible to us.

" As Shelly Kagan says, “ Given the parameters of the actual world, there is no question that …( maximally )… promoting the good would require a life of hardship, self-denial, and austerity … a life spent promoting the good would be a severe one indeed .”

Given inefficiencies in the heat transfer, the actual NERVA designs were planned to produce about 5 GW, which would make them the largest nuclear reactors in the world.

Given Saint Jerome's comment that, " The whole world groaned in astonishment to find itself Arian ", it appears to have failed.

Given the ensuing decline in world commodity prices, countries heavily dependent on the export of raw materials such as oil were among those most severely hit.

Given that practices similar to courtly love were already prevalent in Al-Andalus and elsewhere in the Islamic world, it is very likely that Islamic practices influenced the Christian Europeans.

Given the supposed closeness of war, the FI thought that the Communist Parties and social democratic parties would be the only significant force that could defend the workers of the world against the imperialist camp in those countries where there were mass forces.

Given the number of unpleasant, harmful or even fatal consequences of coming out in world societies, it is questionable to call being closeted a choice.

Given that Constantine had already crushed his rival Maxentius in 312, the two men decided to divide the Roman world between them.

The school staff is also proposing a new name for this technique: " Given that ' piercing ' is an unfortunate mistake in the veneering world, we chose to use the word " Fusion " instead, by which term the artist expresses his intention of sanding through the veneer as a decorative, textural effect, not as a mistake.

Given the inherent goodness of Ṛta and its absolute power over the operation of the universe, the presence of gross inequality and injustice in the world represented a serious religious, philosophical and ethical dilemma.

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Given the vast territory of the Russian Far East, 6. 7 million people translates to slightly more than one person per square kilometer, making the Russian Far East one of the most sparsely populated areas in the world.

Given the history and the large number of birds hatched in Basel since 1959, it may be concluded that most of the Greater Flamingo zoo colonies around the world are related to the one at Basel.

Given the innately rich and personal world of fantasy he has left himself locked into, Morgan goes off the deep end, enacting a series of bizarre stunts in a campaign to win Leonie back, including putting a skeleton in her bed and crashing her wedding dressed as a gorilla, for which scene Reisz borrows clips from from the original King Kong film to illustrate Morgan's fantasy world.

Given the epidemic proportions of obesity in the Western world, and the fact that it is increasing rapidly in some poorer countries, observers expect developments in this area to snowball in the near future.

Given Orr / Alex's desire to remain within the world of the Bridge, a world where he is well treated and lives a fairly pampered life, his attempts to stonewall and block the doctor's attempts to cure him are understandable.

Given Rico's skill with a firearm, Joe would later posit the theory that Rico was trying to commit suicide by cop out of a deep disgust at what he had become, rather than trying to kill him.

Given its small staff of only 24 men, the Einsatzgrupppe Ägypten would have needed as much help as possible from the local Arabs and from the Afrika Korps to kill the roughly 50, 000 Jews of Egypt, to say nothing of the half million or so Jews of the Yishuv.

Given the circumstances during a pilot whale hunt, the whaling knife is considered the safest and most effective equipment with which to kill the whales.

* Given the weather, anyone appearing at the window and doing something horrifying enough to instantly kill someone would have had to trample the flowerbed, which is still intact, and come right up to the window ;

Given the mission to kill all members of the X-Factor team, Bolivar Trask designates Absorbing Man and Bastion to do the task for him.

Given how much trouble it was to deal with the Enforcers once they stopped being useful, since they could hardly be passed off as normal humans, they begin the project Adonai, creating a non-cyborg human who will have the qualities they want and be easier to control, not to mention kill if necessary.

Given that John of Worcester wrote his chronicle after the eruption of the Canterbury – York supremacy struggle, the story of Ealdred renouncing any claims to Worcester needs to be considered suspect.

* Given any combination of complex numbers, bras, kets, inner products, outer products, and / or linear operators, written in bra-ket notation, its Hermitian conjugate can be computed by reversing the order of the components, and taking the Hermitian conjugate of each.

Given the opportunity, adults eat hatchlings, which may be protected by separating the two groups with a net, breeding box or separate tank.

" Given its general release in January 1931, City Lights proved to be a popular and financial success — eventually grossing over $ 5 million.

Given the then GDP ($ 7. 095 bln ) of the country, military spending is roughly estimated to be about $ 300 million.

Given this popular understanding of the term, it can also be used illegitimately and inappropriately, as a means to dismiss what are in fact substantial and well-evidenced accusations.

Given the large number of U. S. military personnel and their dependents residing in Europe, it was expected that over 7 % of donors would be deferred due to the policy.

Given the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

Given an asymmetric subunit on a triangular face of a regular isosahedron, with three subunits per face 60 such subunits can be placed in an equivalent manner.

Given r, the rate of rotation is easy to infer from the constant angular momentum L, so a 2D solution can be easily reconstructed from a 1D solution of this equation.

Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented.

Given that one cannot be motivated by reason alone, requiring the input of the passions, Hume argued that reason cannot be behind morality.

Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

Given a simple, binary component feed, analytical methods such as the McCabe-Thiele method or the Fenske equation can be used.

Given a subset X of a manifold M and a subset Y of a manifold N, a function f: X → Y is said to be smooth if for all p in X there is a neighborhood of p and a smooth function g: U → N such that the restrictions agree ( note that g is an extension of f ).

Given the variety of single stranded viruses that have been described this scheme-if it is accepted by the ICTV-will need to be extended.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

) Given a smooth Φ < sup > t </ sup >, an autonomous vector field can be derived from it.

Given the conflicting information available, the true identity of his killer may well be lost to history.

Given that the vast majority of all emeralds are treated as described above, and the fact that two stones that appear visually similar may actually be quite far apart in treatment level and therefore in value, a consumer considering a purchase of an expensive emerald is well advised to insist upon a treatment report from a reputable gemological laboratory.

Given limited defense budgets, air forces tended to be conservative in their aircraft purchases, and biplanes remained popular with pilots because of their agility, and remained in service long after they had ceased to be competitive.

Given Pauling's recent success in discovering the Alpha helix, they feared that Pauling might also be the first to determine the structure of DNA.

Given two groups G and H and a group homomorphism f: G → H, let K be a normal subgroup in G and φ the natural surjective homomorphism G → G / K ( where G / K is a quotient group ).