The authors set about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient's ability, tactually, ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space, with his eyes closed ( or turned away from the object concerned ).

When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

These conventions allow some operators in both languages to serve both as predicates ( answering a boolean-valued question ) and as returning a useful value for further computation, but in Scheme the value '() which is equivalent to NIL in Common Lisp evaluates to true in a boolean expression.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

Since the bundle-theory interpretation portrays Hume as answering an ontological question, philosophers who see Hume as not very concerned with such questions have queried whether the view is really Hume's, or " only a decoy ".

Instead, it is suggested, Hume might have been answering an epistemological question, about the causal origin of our concept of the self.

The significance of the political factors in any attempt at answering the question " what is a language?

However, unlike Johnson, Hodge confined the term to exclude those like Asa Gray who combined Christian faith with support for Darwin's natural selection theory, before answering the question posed in the book's title by concluding: " It is Atheism.

The absurdity of the greasepaint was never discussed on-screen, but in a famous scene in Duck Soup, where both Chicolini ( Chico ) and Pinky ( Harpo ) disguise themselves as Groucho, they are briefly seen applying the greasepaint, implicitly answering any question a viewer might have had about where he got his mustache and eyebrows.

However, he and Bacall appeared on Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person in which they disagreed in answering every question.

" However, this is not quite answering the intended question.

* Question answering: Given a human-language question, determine its answer.

Answering the former question set first is called particularism, whereas answering the latter set first is called methodism.

Particularist theories organize things already known and attempt to use these particulars of knowledge to find a method of how we know, thus answering the second question set.

Trudeau presented a determined public stance during the crisis, answering the question of how far he would go to stop the terrorists with " Just watch me ".

Asking the questions is the point of metaphysics, but answering them is not, because once you answer this kind of question, you cross the line into religion.

* Kirk's middle name was revealed in this series as Tiberius, answering the question of what the ' T.

Grace began his Cricketing Reminiscences ( 1899 ) by answering a question he had frequently been asked: i. e., was he " born a cricketer "?

Use of gdt required answering a random question requiring deep knowledge of the game.

In English, adverbs of manner ( answering the question how?

On answering the first question correctly, the contestant wins £ 100 ( in the UK – other countries vary the currency but have the same basic format ).

Prizes are not cumulative ; answering the £ 500 question gives the contestant £ 500, not the previous £ 300 plus £ 500 ( i. e. £ 800 ).

Early in 1940, he was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting brigadier with a Greek proverb ; on several occasions, he told colleagues that he expected to be at least a major-general by the end of the war.

" Subsequently, Admiral Rickover was asked to testify before Congress in the general context of answering the question as to why naval nuclear propulsion had succeeded in achieving a record of zero reactor-accidents ( as defined by the uncontrolled release of fission products to the environment resulting from damage to a reactor core ) as opposed to the dramatic one that had just taken place at Three Mile Island.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

Another track, " Digestion Machine ", features a varied collage of voices answering the question asked by Mangum, " What does the digestion machine mean to you?

Socrates concludes that, in the virtuous people of the present and the past, at least, virtue has been the result of divine inspiration, akin to the inspiration of the poets, whereas a knowledge of it will require answering the basic question, ' What is virtue ?'.

When pressed by television reporters on the matter, Trudeau would only freely admit having moved his lips, answering the question, " What were you thinking, when you moved your lips?

The website allowed fans to upload videos answering the central question, " What Kind of World do You Want?

In answering the question " What makes alternative media alternative?

He saw them as " suppositional " answering the question, " What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?

The text was written in 1754 in response to a prize competition of the Academy of Dijon answering the prompt: What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by natural law?

Each layer is described by answering the question, " What are the factors that affected each and every attribute of the effect being considered?

While in the personal sphere, answering the question ' What do I do with my life?

He saw them as " suppositional " answering the question, " What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?

What is said " of " a subject describes the kind of thing that it is as a whole, answering the question " what is it ?".

" Anybody today with a computer can create a digital story simply by answering such questions as " What do you think?

An alternative, more anthropocentric approach, is to look at it as answering the question: " What is the meaning of one's life and does it have a purpose?

It may also be used for other purposes, such as answering theoretical questions derived from the narrative ( i. e. " What would happen if ...?

* 019 | Open: " What if there ’ s more to prayer than just God listening and answering?

Patrick is one of Omar's friends and is the brother of Danny Spooner, although unlike Danny, he is very intelligent at mathematics, able to perform complex calculations in his head instantly, but shares Danny's stupidity in all other subjects ( answering " F " to " What is the capital of France ?").

Night Lines listeners could call up an answering machine in CBC's Vancouver studios (( 604 ) 662-6099 was the number ) and, after answering a " skill-testing question " ( by rule, something open-ended and usually bordering on philosophical, such as " What do you want to be when you grow up?

In 1865 he visited Holland to investigate the strange rock formations and to explore the possibility of answering the prize contest set up by the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen since 1841 with the theme " What is to be thought of Agassiz's discovery that glacial moraines occur in Northern Europe far from present glaciers ?".