He also posited having a personal relationship with God that supersedes all prescribed moralities, social structures and communal norms, since he asserted that following social conventions is essentially a personal aesthetic choice made by individuals.

Its ideology was an entirely secular form of nationalism ; indeed, it posited the complete separation of religion and politics as one of the two fundamental conditions for real national unity.

Some writers have posited a conceptual link between the rejection of private property and the rejection of marriage as a form of ownership.

Furthermore, since any prospective change in the legal rules that reduces the future value of some recognized property right necessarily reduces the present value of that property right as well, Hale posited that the legal idea of property reflected an abstract circularity.

:" Good theorising consists to a large extent in avoiding assumptions ....( with the property that ).... a small change in what is posited will seriously affect the conclusions.

His critique of political economy in this regard was ( 1 ) that relations of production or distribution are posited as " natural and eternal " rather than as historically specific relations, ( 2 ) that forms of distribution of income and products are crucially determined by property relations pertaining to productive assets ; ( 3 ) that by constantly reproducing the relations of production, the mode of production of capital also reproduces the relations of distribution corresponding to it.

Verner posited that the labor was organized into a hierarchy, consisting of two gangs of 100, 000 men, divided into five zaa or phyle of 20, 000 men each, which may have been further divided according to the skills of the workers.

Science writer Timothy Ferris has posited that since galactic societies are most likely only transitory, an obvious solution is an interstellar communications network, or a type of library consisting mostly of automated systems.

The largest family posited for the Papuan region is the Trans – New Guinea phylum, consisting of the majority of Papuan languages and running mainly along the highlands of New Guinea.

Early twentieth-century biologists like Ernst Haeckel viewed embryology as a recapitulation of evolution, which implies a kind of organising memory, and a few modern biologists, such as Rupert Sheldrake, influenced by Jungian ideas and by vitalism, have posited organising fields of life consisting of memories and drives.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

Since such life utilised strong nuclear forces instead of electromagnetic interactions, it was posited that life might function millions of times faster than typical on Earth.

The main research task, then, is generally considered to be the discovery of associations between scores, and of factors posited to underlie such associations.

Phrases such as " It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer " and " A plurality is not to be posited without necessity " were commonplace in 13th-century scholastic writing.

Many species of modern primates demonstrate some sort of aquatic behaviors ( such as swimming, wading or diving ) and use of aquatic environments ( for thermoregulation, display behavior, range, diet and predation ) but many do not display the traits posited by AAH, suggesting the traits posted as evidence for the AAH may facilitate aquatic behavior rather than evolving as a result of it.

To support this he posited that other sacrosanct office holders were seized when they violated their duties, such as Vestal Virgins or the Roman kings, done so the state would benefit from their removal.

In each case, the meaning of the signs was constrained by imputing a particular intention to the Bible, such as teaching morality, but these interpretive bases were posited by the religious tradition rather than suggested by a preliminary reading of the text.

It is posited then that " modern orthodoxy ", as such, may be disappearing, " being sucked into pluralistic Judaism on the left and yeshivish on the right ".

Chomsky posited humans possess a special, innate ability for language and that complex syntactic features, such as recursion, are " hard-wired " in the brain.

In the Western tradition founded by Hippocrates, these vital forces were associated with the four temperaments and humours ; Eastern traditions posited similar forces such as qi and prana.

* Quarks, first posited in the 1960s, have quantized charge, but the charge is quantized into multiples of e. However, quarks cannot be seen as isolated particles ; they exist only in groupings, and stable groupings of quarks ( such as a proton, which consists of three quarks ) all have charges that are integer multiples of e. For this reason, either 1 e or e can be justifiably considered to be " the quantum of charge ", depending on the context.

In religion, folk religion, and superstition, the correlation posited is between religious ritual, such as prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense.

Anthropocentrism has been posited by some environmentalists, in such books as Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman and Green Rage by Christopher Manes, as the underlying ( if unstated ) reason why humanity dominates and sees the need to " develop " most of the Earth.

In order to account for the uniformity of the background, steady state proponents posited a fog effect associated with microscopic iron particles that would scatter radio waves in such a manner as to produce an isotropic CMB.

Through such studies he posited that sociology would be able to determine whether any given society is ' healthy ' or ' pathological ', and seek social reform to negate organic breakdown or " social anomie ".

Prominent scientists in the early 20th century, such as John Bernal posited that science has a social function, and cannot be seen as something apart from society.

However, it is sometimes held that the Buddhist elements of dialectical monism are more accurately characterized as non-dualistic since they deny any fundamental sort of creative principle or " one thing ," such as that posited by dialectical monism.

In contrast to Hobbes, who posited the state of nature as a hypothetical possibility, Locke took great pains to show that such a state did indeed exist.

This change in Japanese phonology following the introduction of foreign words ( here primarily from English ) can be compared to the earlier posited change in Japanese phonology following the introduction of Chinese loanwords, such as closed syllables ( CVC, not just CV ) and length becoming a phonetic feature with the development of both long vowels and long consonants – see Early Middle Japanese: Phonological developments.

Early Christian beliefs were based on the apostolic preaching ( kerygma ), considered to be preserved in tradition and in New Testament scripture, for parts of which scholars have posited dates as late as the third century, although it was then attributed to the Apostles themselves and their contemporaries, such as Mark and Luke.

More recent work, starting with that of John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in the 1950s, has questioned this and instead has posited that the two were mutually constituitive, such that each formed simultaneously in relation to the other.

The developed concept of ice ages, pioneered by Louis Agassiz, seemed to provide evidence of such events, drawing the line between the pre-Adamic era and the modern one ( which she posited as beginning about 6, 000 years ago ).

Commentators have posited that such a " hostile " approach to the issues of church and state were a substantial cause of the breakdown of democracy and the onset of civil war.

His vociferous denunciations of his land of birth, it has been posited, were the culmination of his rejection of his native England's capitalism, in favour of a form of German Romanticism akin to that which he had cultivated in himself during his years at Cheltenham.

Like those of Plato and Aristotle from ancient Greece, and Enlightenment philosophers from the 17th through 19th centuries, the ideas posited by these sociologists continue to be examined today.

It has been posited that an ancient belief existed among the Jews and Samaritans that both the wisest and most aged among them would grow caprine horns, which were known euphemistically as " rays of light " ( נקודת אור ), hence the following ancient Hebrew dictums:

It has also been posited that Gormenghast had its ancient roots in the Forbidden City of Peking.

Spinoza also posited a novel view of the Torah ; he claimed that it was essentially a political constitution of the ancient state of Israel.

Similarly, Plattner ( 1989 ) posited that some generalization across different societies are still possible, meaning that Western and non-Western economics are not entirely different.

In this case, the notion of governmentality refers to societies where power is de-centered and its members play an active role in their own self-government, e. g. as posited in neoliberalism.

) For instance, the " law of the centralization of capital " was posited by Marx as applying to all capitalist societies.