The contemporary view of beauty is not based on innate qualities, but rather on cultural specifics and individual interpretations.

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

However, later interpretations and further excavation work in 2002 suggested that the have more in common with the later Maeshowe type rather than the stalled Orkney-Cromarty cairns.

Many-worlds is often referred to as a theory, rather than just an interpretation, by those who propose that many-worlds can make testable predictions ( such as David Deutsch ) or is falsifiable ( such as Everett ) or by those who propose that all the other, non-MW interpretations, are inconsistent, illogical or unscientific in their handling of measurements ; Hugh Everett argued that his formulation was a metatheory, since it made statements about other interpretations of quantum theory ; that it was the " only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

Folklorists generally resist universal interpretations of narratives and, wherever possible, analyze oral versions of tellings in specific contexts, rather than print sources, which often show the work or bias of the writer or editor.

This article, however, focuses on the interpretations of probability rather than theories of statistical inference.

The differences between these interpretations are rather small, and may seem inconsequential.

It provides interpretative strategies, so that UUs ( among others ) might be able to engage in public debate about what the Bible says from a liberal religious perspective, rather than relinquishing to religious conservatives, and other more literal interpretations, all control over the book's contents and significance in matters of public and civic import.

More fundamentally, Christopher Green argues that Douglas Cooper's terms were " later undermined by interpretations of the work of Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger that stress iconographic and ideological questions rather than methods of representation.

Other approaches suggest modifications to the formalism, and are therefore, strictly speaking, alternative theories rather than interpretations.

" She went on to note however that " Childe's Marxism frequently differed from contemporary ' orthodox ' Marxism ; partly because he had studied Hegel, Marx and Engels as far back as 1913 and still referred to the original texts rather than later interpretations, and partly because he was selective in his acceptance of their writings.

Bayesian probability is the name given to several related interpretations of probability, which have in common the notion of probability as something like a partial belief, rather than a frequency.

Confusion of causality and determinism is particularly acute in quantum mechanics, this theory being acausal in the sense that it is unable in many cases to identify the causes of actually observed effects or to predict the effects of identical causes, but arguably deterministic in some interpretations ( e. g. if the wave function is presumed not to actually collapse as in the many-worlds interpretation, or if its collapse is due to hidden variables, or simply redefining determinism as meaning that probabilities rather than specific effects are determined ).

They engage in the opposite of plagiarism, giving credit to those undeserving by not using precise words but rather loose interpretations and paraphrasing.

It also rejects the stories of Jewish deicide as a blasphemous absurdity, and other similar stories in the Gospels play no part in the Muslim educational system The Quran does not present itself as a fulfillment of the Hebrew Bible but rather a restoration of its original message – thus, no clash of interpretations between Judaism and Islam can arise.

Criterion-referenced score interpretations are generally more applicable to achievement tests rather than psychological tests.

Froude's historical writing was characterised by its dramatic rather than scientific treatment of history, an approach Froude shared with Carlyle, and also by Froude's intention to defend the English Reformation ( which he asserted was " the hinge on which all modern history turned " and the " salvation of England ") against the interpretations of Catholic historians.

And Lucas himself does not accept any one of these interpretations as his own but adopts a rather different one based on " the Greek doctine of Humours " which has not received wide subsequent acceptance.

Although Kant was intensely critical of the use of examples as moral yardsticks, because they tend to rely on our moral intuitions ( feelings ) rather than our rational powers, this section will explore some interpretations of the categorical imperative for illustrative purposes.

In contrast to other countries in which stare decisis gives the power of both final interpretation and adjudication to a supreme court, within the People's Republic of China constitutional and legal interpretation is considered to be a legislative activity rather than a judicial one, and the functions are split so that the NPCSC provides legal interpretations while the Supreme People's Court and the Courts of Final Appeal of Hong Kong and Macau actually decide cases.

Present day interpretations based on Ōita's topography state that Oita's name comes from " Okita ", meaning " many fields ", rather than " vast " or " great " field, because of Ōita's complex terrain.

In feminist interpretations ( particularly by Marija Gimbutas ) however, it is also interpreted as a symbol of the Mother Goddess and compared to the shape of a butterfly rather than an axe.

Professor Wolfgang Helck concludes that " We therefore think it is safer to start from the regnal dates rather than from interpretations of real or supposed Sirius ( Sothic ) or New Moon dates ".

Our experience is interpreted, and our interpretations often rely upon acquired practices.

Double entendres generally rely on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning.

Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab was influenced by the writings of Ibn Taymiyya and questioned the prevalent philosophical interpretations of Islam being the Ash ' ari and Maturidi schools, claiming to rely on the Qur ' an and the Hadith without speculative philosophy so as to not transgress beyond the limits of the early Muslims known as the Salaf.

He argued that instead of being troubled about the true nature of evil, people merely rely on customary interpretations.

The interpretations of these examples rely on the following logic: ( 1 ) the total system captures embodiment ; ( 2 ) one or more agent systems capture the intrinsic dynamics of individual agents ; ( 3 ) the complete behavior of an agent can be understood as a change to the agent's intrinsic dynamics in relation to its situation in the environment ; and ( 4 ) the paths of an open dynamical system can be interpreted as representational processes.

It divides those texts and interpretations of texts that extol violence (" an eye for eye ," " I bring not peace but a sword ") from those that extol peace and seek to rely on persuasion rather than coercion.

The visual system dislikes interpretations which rely on a unique vantage point.

Muhammad Abduh argued that Muslims could not simply rely on the interpretations of texts provided by medieval clerics, they needed to use reason to keep up with changing times.

The jurist ash-Shafi ' i, however, preferred to rely solely on traditions from the prophet and thereafter on the method known as qiyas ( analogy ) where interpretations were to be derived from comparisons with relative subjects dealt with in the Qur ' an or the traditions.

Prior to that time, most artists and engravers had been forced to rely on tracings and other manual methods which often resulted in interpretations of the artists ' works.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

The burden of proof should be on the people who make these statements, to show where they got their information from, to see if their conclusions and interpretations are valid, and if they have left anything out.

Various paranormal interpretations appeared in the popular culture, and one of the more outspoken proponents of rods as alien life forms is Jose Escamilla, who claims to have been the first to film them on March 19, 1994 at Roswell, New Mexico, while attempting to film a UFO.

Eurocentric interpretations focus on interaction with Europe as the driving force behind recent Chinese history.

Instead of seeking a grand pattern of history, post-modern interpretations tend to focus on a small subset of Chinese history.

Christians explain that such selectivity is based on rulings made by early Jewish Christians in the Book of Acts, at the Council of Jerusalem, that, while believing gentiles did not need to fully convert to Judaism, they should follow some aspects of Torah like avoiding idolatry and fornication and blood, including, according to some interpretations, homosexuality.

The religion has been likened to Zen, based on similarities with absurdist interpretations of the Rinzai school, as well as Taoist philosophy.

The following notes are based on interpretations by the Polish historian Gerard Labuda.

Numerous other interpretations, which together largely converged on Dearborn's interpretation, quickly followed.

It is possible to object to this interpretation of general relativity on the grounds that light rays might be improper physical models of Euclid's lines, or that relativity could be rephrased so as to avoid the geometrical interpretations.

When Cecil Sharp produced his interpretations he was working in the dark, and others have built on ( and sometimes disagreed with ) his work.

The novel has been the subject of various interpretations, primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas.

Notwithstanding different interpretations on his first language, no evidence suggests that Xavier's mother tongue was other than Basque, as stated by himself and confirmed by the sociolinguistic environment of the time.

The truth of this formula depends on which object is denoted by a, and on the interpretations of " Phil " and " Schol ".

The difficulty in translation has given rise to errors or loose interpretations bordering on artistic licence.

* It burned on water, and, according to some interpretations, was ignited by water.

A key feature of GA is its emphasis on geometric interpretations of certain elements of the algebra as geometric entities.

In fact, in many occurrences the manipulation of horror presents cultural definitions that are not accurate, yet set an example to which a person relates to that specific cultural from then on in their life .< ref name = Carta > The visual interpretations of a films can be lost in the translation of their elements from one culture to another like in the adaptation of the Japanese film Ringu into the American film The Ring .< ref name = Holm > The cultural components from Japan were slowly " siphoned away " to make the film more relatable to an American audience.

The rabbis, who made many additions and interpretations of Jewish Law, did so only in accordance with regulations they believe were given for this purpose to Moses on Mount Sinai, see Deuteronomy 17: 11.