Both the lenticular casing of the Ænima album packaging as well as the chorus of the title track " Ænema " make reference to a sketch from Hicks's Arizona Bay album, in which he contemplates the idea of Los Angeles falling into the Pacific Ocean.

The idea of ideas ( Eidos-Eidôn ), provides a model of the Paradigm of the Universe, which the Demiurge contemplates in his articulation of the ideas and his creation of the world according to the Logos.

Another Cadmus official later contemplates releasing Croc to try and lure Hush out, but Amanda Waller dismisses the idea due to the potential for collateral damage.

Later on, Eric contemplates in front of his friends the idea of proposing to Donna, something they all instantly pick out the idiocy.

Finding Misfit similarly trapped, but almost completely brainwashed and vulnerable, she briefly contemplates the idea of stealing her teleport abilities to flee alone.

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

His recent experience in motor car advertising, a love for cars of themselves, the existence of A-Z's useless Wisconsin set-up, exposure to exciting conceptions of Hamrick's that nobody would buy, and the coincidental recent failure of a respected but out-dated small-car manufacturer called Ticonderoga Motors had given him an idea of such dimensions he was almost afraid to broach it.

Ampère also provided a physical understanding of the electromagnetic relationship, theorizing the existence of an “ electrodynamic molecule ” ( the forerunner of the idea of the electron ) that served as the component element of both electricity and magnetism.

Connectionism relies on the idea that the mind / brain is composed of simple nodes and that the power of the system comes primarily from the existence and manner of connections between the simple nodes.

Abelard in his Dialectica made an argument against the idea that the copula can express existence based on a reductio ad absurdum.

* It explicitly acknowledges the existence of internal mental states ( such as belief, desire, idea, knowledge and motivation ).

Although Kronecker had conceded, Hilbert would later respond to others ' similar criticisms that " many different constructions are subsumed under one fundamental idea " — in other words ( to quote Reid ): " Through a proof of existence, Hilbert had been able to obtain a construction "; " the proof " ( i. e. the symbols on the page ) was " the object ".

Charles Baudelaire, in the later, " metaphysical " phase of dandyism defined the dandy as one who elevates æsthetics to a living religion, that the dandy's mere existence reproaches the responsible citizen of the middle class: " Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism " and " These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking ....

If neither A nor B includes the idea of existence, then " some A are B " simply adjoins A to B. Conversely, if A or B do include the idea of existence in the way that " triangle " contains the idea " three angles equal to two right angles ", then " A exists " is automatically true, and we have an ontological proof of A's existence.

" Is a " triangle " — an abstract idea — part of existence in the same way that a " man " — a physical body — is part of existence?

Similarly, the ancient metaphysical and unfalsifiable idea of the existence of atoms has led to corresponding falsifiable modern theories.

Modern game theory began with the idea regarding the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in two-person zero-sum games and its proof by John von Neumann.

The idea of the " number " concept evolving gradually over time is supported by the existence of languages which preserve the distinction between " one ", " two ", and " many ", but not of numbers larger than two.

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

" It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as " an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins " rather than " a religious-based idea ".

The main theme of the poem is the idea that was novel in the times of early nationalisms based on centralized nation-statesthat the lack of political sovereignty does not preclude the existence of a nation.

Even in the absence of a completely satisfying theoretical physics framework, the idea of exploring extra, compactified, dimensions is of considerable interest in the experimental physics and astrophysics communities.

By the late twenties, the idea for electrified string instruments had been around for some time, and experimental banjo, violin and guitar pickups had been developed.

In May 2003 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates ; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon.

Furthermore, experimental results obtained using these measurement methods has shown that the hardness number can be used to predict the stress required to permanently deform steel, a characteristic that fits in well with our idea of resistance to permanent deformation.

He said, " because of its very experimental and unprecedented nature ... we have no idea what can be expected from such a production.

Disney had plans to make the Toccata and Fugue an experimental three-dimensional film, with audiences being given cardboard stereoscopic frames with their souvenir programs, but this idea was abandoned.

The idea of organic selection came from the interpretation of the observable data in Baldwin's experimental study of infant reaching and its role in mental development.

In a phone call to Whiteman next morning, Gershwin was told that Whiteman's rival Vincent Lopez was planning to steal the idea of his experimental concert and there was no time to lose.

You know, the whole thing was experimental, but I knew it was an idea that would spawn some historic music.

The conflict between this idea and experimental evidence that the weak interaction has a very short range requires further theoretical insight.

Washburn used her experimental studies in animal behavior and cognition to present her idea that mental ( not just behavioral ) events are legitimate and important psychological areas for study in her book, The Animal Mind ( 1908 ).

The hybrid sport of International Rules football presents a slight anomaly since penalty boxes are native to neither of the sports from which International Rules was conceived, namely Gaelic football and Australian rules football ( although the Gaelic Athletic Association did experiment with the idea, before moving on to another experimental format, which requires a player given a yellow card to be substituted ).

What makes these papers remarkable is that, in each case, Einstein boldly took an idea from theoretical physics to its logical consequences and managed to explain experimental results that had baffled scientists for decades.

The initial contract with the Air Force provided for the design and construction of a small experimental system to determine at the beginning whether the idea was practicable.

Unusually, he had thoroughly worked out the theory of this invention before making any experimental instrument, having explained the idea in 1850.

WEA, however, did not like the idea releasing an entirely instrumental album of experimental music, after the group had gained success with their more accessible style of music.

This idea was supported by the experimental evidence because polyhydroxyalkanes 1, 6, 11, 16-hexadecanetetraol and 2, 7, 12, 17-octadecanetetraol exhibited significant anaesthetic potency as was originally proposed.

As Frisch himself later recalls, a fundamental idea of the direct experimental proof of the nuclear fission was suggested to him by George Placzek.

In the book, Hamilton explained that the idea of illustrating this complex, experimental novel occurred to him when he was doing his National Service in 1947.

Far more experimental and dissonant than its predecessor, Acquiring the Taste was shaped primarily by Kerry Minnear's broad classical and contemporary classical music training and also showed the band diversifying in their already impressive instrumentation ( although many years later Derek Shulman would admit " we recorded ( Acquiring The Taste ) without any idea of what it would be like before we got into the studio.

In his classic work The Perception of the Visual World ( 1950 ) he rejected the then fashionable theory of behaviorism for a view based on his own experimental work, which pioneered the idea that animals ' sampled ' information from the ' ambient ' outside world.

The idea took root and in due course a 46 MW_th ( megawatt thermal ) experimental pebble bed reactor ( the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor, or AVR ) was built at the Jülich Research Centre in Jülich, West Germany.

Depretis began his term as Prime Minister by initiating an experimental political idea called Trasformismo ( transformism ).

The highly experimental band was the idea of Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess.