Dalton's atomic hypothesis did not specify the size of atoms.

However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

Another consideration was that the Flag Resolution of 1777, which defined official United States flags, did not specify the arrangement of stars.

After 1918, the newly independent Polish state returned to the Napoleonic tradition and the 1932 criminal code did not specify homosexuality as a crime.

Without Virginia, a new convention might have been held and a new constitution written in a much more polarized atmosphere, since the constitution did not specify what would happen if it was only partially ratified.

Polish law had no provision for a female ruler ( queen regnant ), but did not specify that the King had to be a male.

The Supreme Court did not specify the exact wording to use when informing a suspect of their rights.

" We did not adequately specify how to handle a future MIME version ," Borenstein said.

When Edward Witten named M-theory, he did not specify what the M stood for — perhaps because the nascent theory was not fully defined.

In 1867, three years before it happened, for example, Le Pelletier did so to anticipate either the triumph or the defeat of Napoleon III in a war that, in the event, begged to be identified as the Franco-Prussian war, while admitting that he could not specify either which or when.

Montesquieu did specify that " the independence of the judiciary has to be real, and not apparent merely ".

In 1969, the BBC asked Smallfilms to produce a new series for colour television, but did not specify any particular storyline.

Cromwell ’ s brief instructions establishing the registration system did not specify what sort of register book was to be provided.

Uruguay did not specify the borders of the Palestinian state as part of the recognition.

The term wakizashi did not originally specify swords of any official blade length and was an abbreviation of " wakizashi no kataka " (" sword thrust at one's side "); the term was applied to companion swords of all sizes.

While both sides agreed that all of Vancouver Island would remain British, the treaty did not specify which channel the boundary should follow between the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, resulting in a boundary dispute.

The chronicler Jan Długosz, known for his antipathy towards the king and his father, alleged that there was something unusual about Wladyslaw's sexuality, though Dlugosz did not specify what: "(…) too subject to his carnal desires (…) he did not abandon his lewd and despicable habits " ( Polish: " zbyt chuciom cielesnym podległy (…) nie porzucał wcale swych sprośnych i obrzydłych nałogów (…)" ).

There were two main routes by which Wallace could move his unit to the front, and Grant ( according to Wallace ) did not specify which one he should take.

It did not specify whether it meant the Nicene Creed as adopted by the First Council of Nicaea in 325, or as added to and modified by the First Council of Constantinople in 381.

The original IEEE 754 standard from 1985 ( IEEE 754-1985 ) only described binary floating point formats, and did not specify how the signaled / quiet state was to be tagged.

Ian Hacking noted that traditional " Dutch book " arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

For most of history, most cookbooks did not specify quantities precisely, instead talking of " a nice leg of spring lamb ", a " cupful " of lentils, a piece of butter " the size of a walnut ", and " sufficient " salt.

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer did not specify a particular rite to be observed on Good Friday but local custom came to mandate an assortment of services, including the Seven Last Words from the Cross and a three-hour service consisting of Matins, Ante-communion ( using the Reserved Sacrament in high church parishes ) and Evensong.

He possessed the fighter pilot's horror of bad weather and instrument flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did drop, whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in this unfamiliar territory.

Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.

But Papa's death had further complicated the financing of Tom's hoped-for third year, and for the weeks following it Tom did not know whether his return to Harvard could be arranged.

In reply to a question of whether they now tax boats, airplanes and other movable property excluding automobiles, nineteen said that they did and twenty that they did not.

Your application must include the following information: ( 1 ) your reasons for requesting an extension, ( 2 ) whether you filed timely income tax returns for the 3 preceding years, and ( 3 ) whether you were required to file an estimated return for the year, and if so whether you did file and have paid the estimated tax payments on or before the due dates.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

Certain individual giants recorded later did fail to show a reasonable difference after maturity, but it is impossible to know whether this is due to captive conditions.

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded: the success of Communism's war against the West does not depend on such spectacular and definitive conquests.

His son who did not know whether he wanted to be doctor, lawyer, merchant or chief.

Most modern Pueblo peoples ( whether Keresans, Hopi, or Tanoans ) assert the ancient Pueblo did not " vanish ", as is commonly portrayed in media presentations or popular books, but migrated to areas in the southwest with more favorable rainfall and dependable streams.

he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

He did not grasp the cosmological implications of this fact, and indeed at the time it was highly controversial whether or not these nebulae were " island universes " outside our Milky Way.

It is not known whether Domitian had other children, but he did not marry again.

" Videotapes of the incident are inconclusive as to whether Mason's upswept hand was intended to be an indecent gesture ( as Mason's fingers are just barely off-camera ), but Sullivan's body language immediately afterward made it clear that he was convinced of it, despite Mason's panic-stricken denials later, claiming that he did not know what the " middle finger " meant, and that he did not make the gesture anyways.

Historians question whether the Roman government distinguished between Christians and Jews prior to Nerva's modification of the Fiscus Judaicus in 96 ( Jews paid the tax, Christians did not ).

It was a gamble which did not pay off, and whether through military error or betrayal, the Damascus campaign was a failure, and the royal family retreated to Jerusalem and then sailed to Rome and back to Paris.