In a figurative sense, skeleton can refer to technology that supports a structure such as a building.

The official policy of the Republic of China, the government that has ruled Taiwan since acquiring it from Japan in 1945, supports Chinese reunification in the sense that the united body would be governed by the ROC, and not the PRC.

* In the narrow sense SDSL is a particular DSL variant that supports data only on a single line and does not support analog calls.

In a precise sense, given by what is known as a universal construction, the exterior algebra is the largest algebra that supports an alternating product on vectors, and can be easily defined in terms of other known objects such as tensors.

It comprises a quality improvement process, which is generic in the sense it can be applied to any of these activities and it establishes a behavior pattern, which supports the achievement of quality.

The age for Upanayanam supports this as Brahmins devote their life in pursuing the knowledge of " Brahman " and hence makes sense to start early and continue for a longer time.

They consciously want to make sense of what has happened and selectively retrieve memory that supports the current outcome.

Field supports the return of national service to tackle growing unemployment and instil “ a sense of order and patriotism ” in Britain ’ s young men and women.

Order is restored and the general is then questioned by the hero about the reason why he personally supports the war against Sparta-is it out of his sense of duty or because he gets paid?

The Peng bird can either be construed as an image of freedom, even the epitome of the highest Daoist ideal, which supports the argument that Zhuangzi does privilege a perspective and hence is not a relativist in the rigid sense of the term ; or it is taken for a creature that is no better or worse than the cicada and the little birds, which serves to illustrate the relativist view that all perspectives are equal.

More and more inanimate matter on the Earth will be restructured to form useful computer substrate, but it will eventually prove insufficient, and the future machine race will radiate out from the Earth in all directions, " saturating " first the solar system, then the Milky Way galaxy, and eventually the entire cosmos with " intelligence " by converting unstructured, inanimate " dumb " matter ( e. g., Moon rocks, dead gas giant planets, meteoroids ) into structured " smart " matter that lives in the sense that it supports thinking, feeling A. I .' s.

In this sense, market liberalism depicts a political ideology, combining free market economy with personal liberty and human rights, in contrast to social liberalism, which, while also supporting personal liberty and human rights, supports a more mixed economy with state produced public services.

The camera occasionally pulls back to show the entire stage structure and its supports, increasing the sense of unreality.

The surprising fact that they are essentially equivalent, in the sense that they are all encodable into each other, supports the Church-Turing thesis.

This other plane cannot be a dream, or at least not in Jeremy Rifkin ’ s sense of a dream — unless we make this dream the principle of all politics and economics — but then it would be necessary to elaborate a general libidinal economy, which would be very unevocative of Rifkin, who seems not to see the libido as an issue in the world of capitalism, even though he is American, and who in any case supports his arguments with the summary analyses of narcissism proposed by Christopher Lasch.

In a wider sense, it refers to a political movement that advocates the idea of a strong and centralized state, where populist rhetoric supports of a strongman or caudillo.

In the modern sense, a system that supports extensible programming will provide all of the features described below.

The phrase association cultuelle ( quite distinct from association culturelle, association promoting culture ) thus refers to an organisation that supports religious worship, not to a " cult " in the often derogatory sense found in the English language.

After the affair of plagiarism, Guo has been called “ Super Plagiarism Boy ”, “ out-and-out thief ”, and “ no sense of decency ” by outraged people ; however, it did not affect the supports of his fans.

These circumstances are today considered symptomatic of social phobia ( fear of social contact ) and agoraphobia ( in the sense of fear of social gatherings or visitors outside a defined space they feel in control of ); this supports a diagnosis of panic disorder, which is also common following a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage.

As extended Smart Antenna technology, MIMO supports spatial information processing, in the sense that conventional research on Smart Antennas has focused on how to provide a beamforming advantage by the use of spatial signal processing in wireless channels.

This supports her assertion in the first episode-that it was no longer her place to act as Te Xuan Ze-and is pragmatic, in the sense that it prevents June from shirking her responsibilities.

In contrast to vision and hearing, the two traditional senses employed in HCI, the sense of touch is proximal: it senses objects that are in contact with the body, and it is bidirectonal in that it supports both perception and acting on the environment.

Peacott, in the tradition of the 19th century American individualist anarchists, supports private property in the sense of ownership based on labor and trade except for in land where he supports property titles only while the land is being occupied or used and opposes profit in economic relations.

Boredom is in fact taken in this sense by virtually all existentialist philosophers as well as by Schopenhauer.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

And lest we should become too consistent, in the sense of becoming heedless of new fields of scholarship and new points of view in the arts, the Foundation's Board of Trustees maintains a trickle -- not a flow!!

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

In the strict sense, however, agnosticism is the view that humanity does not currently possess the requisite knowledge and / or reason to provide sufficient rational grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

However, most Methodists view apostolic succession outside its high church sense.

Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.

Since many commentators view the notion of sense as identical to the notion of concept, and Frege regards senses as the linguistic representations of states of affairs in the world, it seems to follow that we may understand concepts as the manner in which we grasp the world.

From the point of view of differential topology, the donut and the coffee cup are the same ( in a sense ).

This is an inherently global view, though, because there is no way for the differential topologist to tell whether the two objects are the same ( in this sense ) by looking at just a tiny ( local ) piece of either of them.

According to this view, ethics is more a summary of common sense social decisions.

According to the " two sense " view of existence, which derives from Alexius Meinong, existential statements fall into two classes.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepted that this has implications not normally acceptable to philosophers.

The view held by Conservative Judaism is that while God is real, the Torah is not the word of God in a literal sense.

He manifests there that " No social ideal, from the point of view of anarchism, could be referred to as absolute in a sense that supposes it ’ s the crown of human wisdom, the end of social and ethical quest of man.

In this sense it is the western view of the Holy Grail which comes closest to the Sufic ideal ; for to the Sufis Perfection is the Grail ; and the Holy Grail is for those who after they become perfect by giving all they have to the poor then go on to become " Abdal " or " changed ones " like Enoch who was " taken " by God because he " walked with God ".

Early German use of the term judenchristlich (" Jewish-Christian "), in a decidedly negative sense, can be found in the late writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, who emphasized what he saw as neglected aspects of continuity between the Jewish world view and that of Christianity.

His analysis showed the Puritans as providing the foundational values of America, based on their strong Hebrew Bible view of the world, which included fighting for earthly political justice, an emphasis on laws and education, and the " chosenness " which the Puritans identified with, giving them a sense of moral mission in founding America.

Some historians view cases of cross-dressing women to be manifestations of women seizing power they would naturally be unable to enjoy in feminine attire, or their way of making sense out of their desire for women.

The term misogynist is frequently used in a looser sense as a term of derision to describe anyone who is considered to hold a prejudiced view about women as a group.

Some scholars have attributed this to the Merovingians lacking a sense of res publica, but other historians have criticized this view as an oversimplification.

A distinction may be made here between etic and emic viewpoints – the purely descriptive ( etic ) approach which simply considers any system that is actually used, and the emic view which takes account of language users ' perceptions of correctness, which are analogous in some ways to a moral sense of right and wrong.

These are usually illustrated with " paradoxes " in which an event appears different when observed from two different points of view, seeming to violate " common sense ".

In a vernacular sense, the term " political philosophy " often refers to a general view, or specific ethic, political belief or attitude, about politics that does not necessarily belong to the technical discipline of philosophy.