Plato feels that man has two competing aspects, his rational faculty and his irrational.

But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin ( the incarnation of the new rational man ) has flown a kite to it.

Since C is rational, this correspondence has K coincidences, each of which implies a line of the pencil which meets its image.

The ravages of the plague in Oran vividly convey the absurdist position that humans live in an indifferent, incomprehensible universe that has no rational meaning or order, and no transcendent God.

* Given an algebraic number, there is a unique monic polynomial ( with rational coefficients ) of least degree that has the number as a root.

If a is algebraic over K, then K, the set of all polynomials in a with coefficients in K, is not only a ring but a field: an algebraic extension of K which has finite degree over K. In the special case where K = Q is the field of rational numbers, Q is an example of an algebraic number field.

A rational function has at most one horizontal asymptote or oblique ( slant ) asymptote, and possibly many vertical asymptotes.

It has been argued that rational people would never use biological weapons offensively.

He believed, according to Maimonides, that one has to practice religion in a rational way.

The customary acceptance of the fact that any real number x has a decimal expansion is an implicit acknowledgment that a particular Cauchy sequence of rational numbers ( whose terms are the successive truncations of the decimal expansion of x ) has the real limit x.

In his 1799 doctorate in absentia, A new proof of the theorem that every integral rational algebraic function of one variable can be resolved into real factors of the first or second degree, Gauss proved the fundamental theorem of algebra which states that every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root.

" It is a rational calculation where states fight for their interests ( whether they are economic, security related, or otherwise ) once normal discourse has broken down.

Every real number, whether integer, rational, or irrational, has a unique location on the line.

This is a Cauchy sequence of rational numbers, but it does not converge towards any rational limit: If the sequence did have a limit x, then necessarily x < sup > 2 </ sup > = 2, yet no rational number has this property.

Nevertheless, equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences are defined as above, and the set of equivalence classes is easily shown to be a field that has the rational numbers as a subfield.

Any rational number with a denominator whose only prime factors are 2 and / or 5 may be precisely expressed as a decimal fraction and has a finite decimal expansion.

If the rational number's denominator has any prime factors other than 2 or 5, it cannot be expressed as a finite decimal fraction, and has a unique eventually repeating infinite decimal expansion.

While mostly a rational man of sound reason, his reading of books of chivalry in excess has had a profound effect on him, leading to the distortion of his perception and the wavering of his mental faculties.

More formally, discrete mathematics has been characterized as the branch of mathematics dealing with countable sets ( sets that have the same cardinality as subsets of the natural numbers, including rational numbers but not real numbers ).

# Designers do not work this way – extensive empirical evidence has demonstrated that designers do not act as the rational model suggests.

Every rational soul has naturally a good free-will, formed for the choice of what is good.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

What additional roles has the scientific understanding of the 19th and 20th centuries played??

The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem.

and he has served our country well as a scientific statesman on international commissions.

aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.

The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.

The scientific debunking of the spirit world has been in a way too successful and too thorough.

This slim book, while giving the reader only a fleeting glimpse of the scientific mind confronting the universe, has the appeal that informed conversation always has.

At the same time, anthropologists urge, as part of their quest for scientific objectivity, cultural relativism, which has an influence on all the sub-fields of anthropology.

The school has been highly influential in setting the agenda for historiography in France and numerous other countries, especially regarding the use of social scientific methods by historians, emphasizing social rather than political or diplomatic themes, and for being generally hostile to the class analysis of Marxist historiography.

Unlike mainstream medicine, CAM often lacks or has only limited experimental and clinical study ; however, scientific investigation of CAM is beginning to address this knowledge gap.

After the separation of the two offices the position of Astronomer Royal has been largely honorary, though he remains available to advise the Sovereign on astronomical and related scientific matters, and the office is of great prestige.

Some scientific testing of astrology has been conducted, and no evidence has been found to support any of the premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions.

Astrology is a pseudoscience that has not demonstrated its effectiveness in controlled studies and has no scientific validity.

" Sven Ove Hansson has disputed anthroposophy's claim to a scientific basis, stating that its ideas are not empirically derived and neither reproducible nor testable.

It has been associated with increased neoplasms in every animal bioassay reported in the scientific literature.

While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

The current worldview has it that everything is made of matter, and everything can be reduced to the elementary particles of matter, the basic constituents — building blocks — of matter.

In this worldview, moral behavior has no influence on rebirth.

It has been noted that many Pagans argue that the adoption of a polytheistic worldview would be beneficial for western society, replacing the dominant monotheism that they believe is by its very nature politically and socially repressive.

As Henry Corbin has documented, the North Pole plays a key part in the cultural worldview of Sufism and Iranian mysticism.

However, little rigorous research in English has gone into exploring the relationship between the linguistic worldview and the transformation and maintenance of this worldview by individual speakers.

The principal among these are: ( a ) it has to be possible to make ( i. e., it has to actually exist ), in spite of its absurdity ; ( b ) it has to remain in the public domain ( i. e., it cannot be given a patent ); and ( c ) it must not be exclusively a vehicle for humor, or the warped satirical worldview of the inventor.

Thus another distinguishing feature of honing theory is that the creative process reflects the natural tendency of a worldview to attempt to resolve dissonance and seek internal consistency amongst its components, whether they be ideas, attitudes, or bits of knowledge ; it mends itself as does a body when it has been injured.

By leaving aside the identity of the wounded man and by portraying the Samaritan traveler as one who performs the law ( and so as one whose actions are consistent with an orientation to eternal life ), Jesus has nullified the worldview that gives rise to such questions as, Who is my neighbor?

" The new function artistamp has in this exhibition is to convey the explosively changing worldview at the turn of the millennium ," said Galántai in an interview.

While contemporary conventional medicine has distanced itself from the less reductionistic and more vitalistic approach of traditional medicine, some areas of complementary medicine continue to espouse various guises of vitalistic concepts and worldview.

In addition to Bailey's technical work in mathematics and computer science, Bailey has written articles on science and religion, emphasizing that the modern theories of geology, biology, physics, astronomy and cosmology must be taken seriously in forming a religious worldview.

This expression has often been used to refer to the " wide worldview " or " wide world perception " of a people, family, or person.

According to Neo-Calvinist David Naugle's World view: The History of a Concept, " Conceiving of Christianity as a worldview has been one of the most significant developments in the recent history of the church.

A paper examining the concept of worldview as it relates to and has been used by Christianity.

However its origin dates back to the times of culture Pucara, in southern Perú, Tiwanaku before, and now it has become a characteristic of the Andean worldview between Perú and Bolivia.

The movement has been criticised by some ( both religious and non-religious ) who have objected to the adoption of the title " bright " because they believe it suggests that the individuals with a naturalistic worldview are more intelligent (" brighter ") than non-naturalists, such as philosophical skeptics or idealists, believers in the paranormal, philosophical theists or the religious.

A good example of differential integration and acculturation based on the immigrant manifesting one communicative modality and worldview while their host culture manifests a different one is to be found in Anne Fadiman's ( 1997 ) book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down about a Laotian girl who has immigrated to Merced, California and who falls ill. How her parents interpret her illness is very different from how her doctors interpret her illness.

For Mohri the universological worldview was an epiphany after seeing the planet from space on two missions in the 1990s, and he has become the chief proponent of universology today.

Finally, Carnage's powers have always been abnormally enhanced from the maniacal will and insane worldview that Cletus Kasady has had from the age of 8 years old onward.

As an educational institution with a worldview perspective, Universitas Indonesia has natural resources that could have a considerable impact on the environment.

* Phenomenologists tend to oppose naturalism ( also called objectivism and positivism ), which is the worldview growing from modern natural science and technology that has been spreading from Northern Europe since the Renaissance ;

Although considering himself to have an expansive and learned worldview, Ignatius has an aversion to ever leaving the town of his birth, and frequently bores friends and strangers with the story of his sole, abortive journey from New Orleans, a trip to Baton Rouge on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, which Ignatius recounts as a traumatic ordeal of extreme horror.