The usual meaning of gnostikos in Classical Greek texts is " learned " or " intellectual ", such as used in the comparison of " practical " ( praktikos ) and " intellectual " ( gnostikos ) in Plato's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ( 258e ).

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Socrates responds that the reason for this comparison is that Meno, a " handsome " man, is inviting counter-comparisons because of his own vanity, and Socrates tells Meno that he only resembles a stingray if it numbs itself in making others numb, and Socrates is himself ignorant of what virtue is.

Instructive in this respect is a comparison of Sozomen, Socrates, and Rufinus on the childhood of Athanasius.

The text gives clear indication on the charges brought against Socrates by Anytus, and is often used on this point in comparison with Plato's version of the trial.

The Naiyayikas ( the Nyaya scholars ) accepted four valid means ( pramaṇa ) of obtaining valid knowledge ( prama )-perception ( pratyakṣa ), inference ( anumāna ), comparison ( upamāna ) and verbal testimony ( śabda ).

In comparison to most other countries of this period, female Norwegian musicians were widely accepted, and were even published and given stipends by the state.

Yet Theodosius accepted comparison with Hercules and Jupiter as a living divinity in the panegyric of Pacatus, and despite his active dismantling of Rome's traditional cults and priesthoods could commend his heirs to its overwhelmingly Hellenic senate in traditional Hellenic terms.

Each method has unique strengths and weaknesses and relative comparison is limited by the absence of a widely accepted " gold standard " measurement.

The work of the CBS follows internationally accepted standards which enable comparison of statistical information with other countries.

Google Product Search was different from most other price comparison services in that it neither charged any fees for listings, nor accepted payment for products to show up first.

The investigators concluded that bite mark comparison is always subjective and no standards for comparison have been accepted across the field.

American Express is the only accepted credit card ( in the United States, Canada, and Japan ) because they charge Costco very low interchange fees ( a percentage of revenue from total sales made ); as Costco's margins are low in comparison to other retailers.

The application of mass comparison led Greenberg not only to propose novel classifications but to break apart previously accepted ones.

The blunt gaff became generally accepted since its invention in 1993, and it is not only more effective, but it is also more humane by comparison to the other gaff.

A comparison of the Sherston memoirs to Sassoon's later, undiluted autobiographical trilogy ( The Old Century, The Weald of Youth, and Siegfried's Journey ) shows their strict similarity, and it is generally accepted that all six books comprise a composite portrait of the author and his life as a young man.

While the WADA code has been accepted by numerous sport organizations, leagues, and federations around the world, the overwhelming majority of U. S. professional sport leagues ( NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, MLS ); state athletic federations ( boxing, UFC ); as well as the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) are not signatories of the WADA Code and are often criticized for having less-effective anti-doping programs in comparison to the Olympic, Paralympic and Pan-American movements, as well as those professional sport programs in other countries that have become signatories of the WADA Code.

If a comparison to piston engines and the " accepted " norm must be made and " accepted " norm being a 4 stroke piston engine.

While mainstream scholarship is generally in agreement with Rao's approach of comparison, the details of his decipherment have not been accepted, and the script is still generally considered undeciphered.

This theory rejects traditional formulations of competition and argues that the affirmative should be prepared to attack the counterplan alone in comparison to the plan because it falls within the accepted and predictable wording of the resolution.

However, these conditions are assumed because they yield a uniform standard of value, after applying generally accepted valuation techniques, which allows meaningful comparison between businesses which are similarly situated.

The principal adviser of the two last-named Popes, Anastasius Bibliothecarius, accepted the Byzantine comparison of the pentarchy with the five senses of the human body, but added the qualification that the patriarchate of Rome, which he likened to the sense of sight, ruled the other four.

Like most of Haug's interpretations, this comparison is today so well entrenched that a gloss of ' yazata ' as ' angel ' is almost universally accepted ; both in publications intended for a general audience as well as in ( non-philological ) academic literature.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

The study framework, which came to be called the Collier-Hoeffler Model, examined 78 five-year increments when civil war occurred from 1960 to 1999, as well as 1, 167 five-year increments of " no civil war " for comparison, and subjected the data set to regression analysis to see the effect of various factors.

It includes the description and analysis of foreign legal systems, even where no explicit comparison is undertaken.

In a related advertisement, naturalist William Beebe was quoted as saying that the Britannica was " beyond comparison because there is no competitor.

( For comparison, a sphere is an orientable surface with no boundary.

His video also has no other objects for size comparison.

However, no actual compression took place, and the information stored in the names of the files was necessary in order to reassemble them in the correct order into the original file, and this information was not taken into account in the file size comparison.

A 2008 study tested participants repeatedly for 90 minutes in a magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI ) environment and showed no detectable psi effect, no baseline measure outside of the fMRI was collected for comparison.

There is no canonical information concerning the true size of the Romulan Empire in comparison to the Federation.

Darwin described natural selection as being analogous to the artificial selection practised by animal breeders, and emphasised competition between individuals ; Wallace drew no comparison to selective breeding, and focused on ecological pressures that kept different varieties adapted to local conditions.

Edmond Halley was the first to suggest, in 1695, that the mean motion of the Moon was apparently getting faster, by comparison with ancient eclipse observations, but he gave no data.

( In other words the comparison is with the conditions at the given point as they would be if there were no externally-generated field acting unequally at the given point and at the center of the reference body.

By comparison, the 180 ° flat-6 boxer engine is only moderately wider than the 120 ° V6, and unlike the V6 is a fully balanced configuration with no vibration problems, so it is more commonly used in aircraft and in sports / luxury cars where space is not a constraint and smoothness is important.

However, there was no comparison with other strategies nor experiments in the real Web.

In comparison to the commercial television networks, there is no central unified arm of broadcast programming, meaning that each PBS affiliate has a significant amount of freedom to schedule television shows as they consent to.

Strictly speaking, in most jurisdictions, there are essentially no differences between the legal requirements to obtain a patent for an invention in the chemical or pharmaceutical fields, in comparison to obtaining a patent in the other fields, such as in the mechanical field.

For example, a switched analog connection in the telephone network has energy below 300 Hz and above 3400 Hz removed by bandpass filtering ; since the signal has no energy very close to zero frequency, it may not be considered a baseband signal, but in the telephone systems frequency-division multiplexing hierarchy, it is usually treated as a baseband signal, by comparison with the modulated signals used for long-distance transmission.

While rather small in comparison to chemical thrusters, the radiation pressure force is inexorable and requires no fuel mass.

The General Sherman of California has a volume of 1, 489 cubic meters ; by way of comparison, the largest giant sequoias in Great Britain have volumes no greater than 90-100 cubic meters, one example being the 90-cubic-meter specimen in the New Forest.

In comparison to more expensive technologies like thermal wax, dye sublimation, and laser printing, inkjets have the advantage of practically no warm up time, and lower cost per page.

It has also been shown by L. Berman in 1980 that the problem of verifying / falsifying any first-order statement about real numbers that involves only addition and comparison ( but no multiplication ) is in EXPSPACE.

There is no consensus, as there is no direct formal comparison.