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Gunkel's observation that if, however, we consider figures like Abraham, Issac, and Jacob to be actual persons with no original mythic foundations, that does not at all mean that they are historical figures ... For even if, as may well be assumed, there was once a man call ' Abraham ,' everyone who knows the history of legends is sure that the legend is in no position at the distance of so many centuries to preserve a picture of the personal piety of Abraham.
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** Gunkel's Commentary on Genesis ( Nowack Series ) may be consulted for incidental references to Biblical Astronomy ;
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It is as if we, in our center of human observation, from time to time penetrate more deeply into the unknown.
Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;
Again, if this is a true observation, it may reflect a real change in how the media consumer perceives negative events.
Classical physics draws a distinction between particles and energy, holding that only the latter exhibit waveform characteristics, whereas quantum mechanics is based on the observation that matter has both wave and particle aspects and postulates that the state of every subatomic particle can be described by a wavefunction — a mathematical expression used to calculate the probability that the particle, if measured, will be in a given location or state of motion.
For Deists, human beings can only know God via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or supernatural manifestations ( such as miracles ) – phenomena which Deists regard with caution if not skepticism.
Likewise, if he / she chooses to observe the interference pattern, then he / she has no influence whatsoever over where in the observation plane he / she will observe a specific particle.
Autocorrelation can be visualized on a data plot when a given observation is more likely to lie above a fitted line if adjacent observations also lie above the fitted regression line.
That something is " falsifiable " does not mean it is false, rather it means that if it is false, then observation or experiment will at some point demonstrate its falsehood.
Even if such civilizations are rare, the scale argument indicates they should exist somewhere at some point during the history of the universe, and since they could be detected from far away over a considerable period of time, many more potential sites for their origin are within range of our observation.
Singer wrote: " My conclusion there is, and here I back Shklovsky, that if the satellite is indeed spiraling inward as deduced from astronomical observation, then there is little alternative to the hypothesis that it is hollow and therefore martian made.
This interesting numerical observation is called the gauge coupling unification, and it works particularly well if one assumes the existence of superpartners of the Standard Model particles.
One line of argument in favor of externalism begins with the observation that if what justified our beliefs failed to eliminate significantly the risk of error, then it does not seem that knowledge would be attainable as it would appear that when our beliefs did happen to be correct, this would really be a matter of good fortune.
In statistical usage, bias merely represents a mathematical property, no matter if it is deliberate or either unconscious or due to imperfections in the instruments used for observation.
One problem encountered throughout scientific fields is that the observation may affect the process being observed, resulting in a different outcome than if the process was unobserved.
This particular deviation is disputed by some if only because E. F. Codd himself eventually advocated the use of special marks and a 4-valued logic, but this was based on his observation that there are two distinct reasons why one might want to use a special mark in place of a value, which led opponents of the use of such logics to discover more distinct reasons and at least as many as 19 have been noted, which would require a 21-valued logic.
Adams refers to Sidgwick ’ s observation that “ Happiness ( general as well as individual ) is likely to be better attained if the extent to which we set ourselves consciously to aim at it be carefully restricted .” Trying to apply the utility calculation on each and every occasion is likely to lead to a sub-optimal outcome.
This observation is known as the anthropic principle and is particularly relevant if the creation of the universe was probabilistic or if multiple universes with a variety of properties exist ( see below ).
Generally, if a structure pre-dates another structure in evolutionary terms, then it often appears earlier than the second in an embryo ; this general observation is sometimes summarized by the phrase " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ".
If is close to zero, will be very close to one after a single observation of an object which turned out to have the predicate, while if is much larger than, will be very close to regardless of the fraction of observed objects which had the predicate.
The result of the measurement should be qualified by an indication if the period, usually limited, of the observation.
Lossberg disagreed, believing that the British would launch a broad front offensive, that the ground east of the Sehnen Iine was easy to defend, that the Menin Road Ridge could be held if it was made the schwerpunkt ( point of main effort ) and that Pilckem Ridge deprived the British of ground observation over the Steenbeek Valley, while the Germans could see the area from Passchendaele Ridge, allowing German infantry to be supported by observed artillery fire.
The conundrum created by our certainty that abstract deductive propositions, if valid ( i. e., if we can " prove " them ), are true, exclusive of observation and testing in the physical world, gives rise to a further reflection ... What if thoughts themselves, and the minds that create them, are physical objects, existing only in the physical world?
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One such star, however, with a right ascension nearly equal to that of γ Draconis, but in the opposite sense, was selected and kept under observation.
For example, the methodology attempts to determine the cognitive capacity of animals through observation without the necessity that this observation be regulated or controlled as in an experiment ; however, behavior in an experiment can be interpreted using the methodology.
Subsequent scholars examining the Italian and Spanish texts have been unable, however, to confirm Toland's observation.
No phenomena which have come under their observation, however, lend support to the theory of ‘ animal magnetism ’.
Many theoretical search techniques for detecting Kaluza-Klein Resonances have been proposed using the mass couplings of such resonances with the top quark, however until the LHC reaches full operational power observation of such resonances are unlikely.
In order to perform this calculation, however, a person needs to have a chronometer ( watch ) set to UTC and needs to determine local time by solar or astronomical observation.
He was knowledgeable about Greek and Arabic medicine, and followed the principles of humorism in the tradition of Galen, however, he did not blindly accept authority but used his own observation and experience.
The concept of " mutual aerial observation " was initially proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Geneva Conference of 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; however, the Soviets promptly rejected the concept and it lay dormant for several years.
A more recent sunspot observation was made on 17 March 807 AD by the Benedictine monk Adelmus, who observed a large sunspot that was visible for eight days ; however, Adelmus incorrectly concluded he was observing a transit of Mercury.
" These are not necessarily incompatible, however, since while an observer is free to choose the definition of order that they wish to take, once it is chosen that definition applies objectively to any system independently of observation.
He did, however, maintain that concrete observation in remote parts of the world does not always lead to illuminating views on the past or even on the present.
Much of his work, however, and much of that of his students and followers later, relies on speculation rather than empirical observation of the body.
All thought experiments, however, employ a methodology that is a priori, rather than empirical, in that they do not proceed by observation or physical experiment.
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.
Anthropologist C. Loring Brace in a recent study on cranial metric traits however, was also able to identify a " clear link " to North African populations for early Natufians based on his observation of gross anatomical similarity with extant populations found mostly in the Sahara.
" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.
When assessing land by observation of indicator species however it is good practice to observe plant communities or consistent populations of indicator species rather than individual specimens which may not be typical.
If the giant kills Jack, we have missed the whole point of the story .” This observation, however, is from the Cold War perspective, wherein the West are the " good " and the East is " evil ", implying that the story's ending with the British Secret Service agent killed by East German border guards is a victory for Evil.
These wheels are sometimes referred to as observation wheels, and their cars referred to as capsules, however these alternative names are also sometimes used for wheels with conventional gravity-oriented cars.
Flash animated greeting cards can include interactivity, for example, asking the viewer to choose a picture to animate ; however, most Flash e-cards are designed to convey the sentiment of the sender through simple observation.
There are however no published epidemiological studies to support this observation.
More recent observation, however, has documented significant crossbreeding and hybridisation in the wild.
They were, however, almost completely surrounded-the only escape route to the east was under observation by artillery batteries, making it usable only at night.
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