By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many.

By contrast, an informal investigation by the High Priest and his cronies ( without witnesses being called ), as told by John, is both historically possible in an emergency on the day before a festival, and accords with the external evidence from Rabbinic sources that Jesus was put to death on the Day of Preparation for the Passover.

In contrast, Wittgenstein's book treats philosophy as an activity, rather along the lines of Socrates's famous method of maieutics ; he has the reader work through various problems, participating actively in the investigation.

This was in contrast to the views of many theologians of the time who insisted that some parts of creation, in particular the human soul, were beyond the realm of scientific investigation.

In one of these, on the political economy of Adam Smith, he exhibits in a very interesting way the co-existence in The Wealth of Nations of historical-inductive investigation in the manner of Montesquieu with a priori speculation founded on theologico-metaphysical bases, and points out the error of ignoring the former element, which is the really characteristic feature of Smith's social philosophy, and places him in strong contrast with the school of Ricardo.

Also, in contrast to atoms, it is relatively easy to connect quantum dots by tunnel barriers to conducting leads, which allows the application of the techniques of tunneling spectroscopy for their investigation.

" In one investigation, the mother and infant engaged in a variety of behaviors while they looked at each other ; by contrast, when they looked away from each other, the rate of such behaviors dropped considerably ".

In contrast to the usual structure of Royal Commissions, which are staffed primarily by lawyers and administrators, the commission had three investigation teams composed of lawyers, accountants, investigators and current and former officers from every Australian and common-law jurisdiction excepting New South Wales.

In sharp contrast to a nearly two-decade-long investigation by the CBI, an income tax tribunal bench has ruled that Rs.

In contrast to SDS-gel electrophoresis, the electrophoresis in agarose allows native conditions, preserving the native structure and activities of the proteins under investigation, therefore immunoelectrophoresis allows characterization of enzyme activities and ligand binding etc.

The contrast between the roles of these gods is reflected in the adjectives Apollonian and Dionysian.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.

The issue of gender roles also becomes apparent in this piece, as the women in Horatii greatly contrast the group of brothers.

By contrast, a number of Irish people abroad converted to Asian religions and played significant roles in anti-colonial revival movements, such as the Irish Buddhist monk U Dhammaloka (? Laurence Carroll?

It took his career some time to recover from this blow and in contrast to his earlier major roles, he for some years had only occasional small parts.

Basses have a long history in opera, having been used in opera seria in supporting roles, and sometimes for comic relief ( as well as providing a contrast to the preponderance of high voices in this genre ).

This stands in contrast to the traditional fat client, a computer designed to take on these roles by itself.

The Parsons model was used to contrast and illustrate extreme positions on gender roles.

As was common in BBC radio at that time, Hatch served both as the show's announcer and as a cast member ( similar to Douglas Smith's role in Round the Horne ; Hatch however did give his roles some characterisation, in contrast to Smith's totally deadpan style ).

It is one of the first major American film productions in which Chinese Americans are portrayed in a realistic fashion, using many non-actors, in contrast with other films in which Chinese and Chinese Americans are portrayed in predictable and limited roles based on stereotypes.

By contrast, she had a greater variety of roles in Mexican films ; sometimes she also sang and danced.

In contrast to most of his contemporaries, Derzhavin was highly devoted to his state ; he served in the military, before rising to various roles in Catherine II's government, including secretary to the Empress and Minister of Justice.

In contrast with most of Handel's oratorios, the singers in Messiah do not assume dramatic roles, there is no single, dominant narrative voice, and very little use is made of quoted speech.

" By contrast, the same critics held Richardson up as peerless in classic comic roles.

In contrast the Medieval European's sense of self was linked to a network of social roles: " the household, the kinship network, the guild, the corporation-these were the building blocks of personhood ", Stephen Greenblatt observes, in recounting the recovery ( 1417 ) and career of Lucretius ' poem De rerum natura: " at the core of the poem lay key principles of a modern understanding of the world.

By contrast, she played a poverty-stricken old woman in one of her most acclaimed film roles, in The Whisperers ( 1967 ).

Little is known about her, and her actions and roles are poorly documented in the historical record, in contrast to those of Akhenaten's first ( and chief ) royal wife, Nefertiti.

Callas, in contrast, considered herself a dramatic coloratura soprano and started her career in the heaviest roles, but soon after, concentrated on the bel canto repertoire, which were not a good fit for Tebaldi's vocal range and technique.

The military concept of a radio operator provides a contrast with the musical roles of a DJ or a vocalist using a microphone.

Standing six-foot-two, heavyset and possessing a distinctive baritone voice, Goulding made an effective contrast to his partner both physically and vocally, usually taking on similarly outsize roles in their skits.

The critic for The National Post, Robert Fulford, commented on the " superb performance " of Power as " the seedy, stop-at-nothing exploiter of women " which was in sharp contrast to his earlier swashbuckling roles and romantic heroes.

They contrast with figurehead presidents, common in most Parliamentary republics, in which the president serves symbolic, nonpolitical roles ( and often is appointed to office by parliament ) while the prime minister holds all relevant executive power.

This is in contrast to the roles quarterbacks were required to perform in other systems, which were to be an adept game manager with a strong arm.

In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.

In contrast with enumerative combinatorics which uses explicit combinatorial formulae and generating functions to describe the results, analytic combinatorics aims at obtaining asymptotic formulae.

This is in contrast to an interval estimator, where the result would be a range of plausible values ( or vectors or functions ).

It emphasizes the application of functions, in contrast to the imperative programming style, which emphasizes changes in state.

In contrast also, ICI Mond Division's Works Records System, the first known shared public spreadsheet used the 3270 successfully for what was, in effect, a high powered version of today's spreadsheets with additional functions.

It was first formulated by Alonzo Church as a way to formalize mathematics through the notion of functions, in contrast to the field of set theory.

In contrast, the concept of genetics gained concrete evidence with the discovery of the biological functions of DNA.

In contrast, the Coulomb repulsion of the electrons, i. e. the tendency that they try to avoid each other by this repulsion, would lead to an antisymmetric orbital function ( i. e. with the-sign ) of these two particles, and complementary to a symmetric spin function ( i. e. with the + sign, one of the so-called " triplet functions ").

Detectives, in contrast to uniform police, typically wear ' business attire ' in bureaucratic and investigative functions where a uniformed presence would be either a distraction or intimidating, but a need to establish police authority still exists.

By contrast, in vivo experiments on proteins ' activities within cells or even within whole organisms can provide complementary information about where a protein functions and how it is regulated.

In contrast, particles with integer spin ( called bosons ) have symmetric wave functions ; unlike fermions they may share the same quantum states.

In contrast, the ideal sanity test exercises the smallest subset of application functions needed to determine whether the application logic is generally functional and correct ( for example, an interest rate calculation for a financial application ).

In contrast, functions that are not Lebesgue measurable are generally considered pathological, at least in the field of analysis.

The security of quantum key distribution relies on the foundations of quantum mechanics, in contrast to traditional key distribution protocol which relies on the computational difficulty of certain mathematical functions, and cannot provide any indication of eavesdropping or guarantee of key security.

In contrast, sinh < sup >- 1 </ sup > x refers to the inverse function arsinh x and not to a reciprocal ( and again likewise for the other hyperbolic functions ).

Socionics is a modification of Jung's personality type theory that uses eight psychic functions, in contrast to Jung's model, which used only four.

The IPC functions as an umbrella organization, representing several sports and disabilities, in contrast to other international sports organizations for athletes with a disability, which are predominantly limited to a single sport or disability.

In contrast to the commercial model, there is non-profit publishing, where the publishing organization is either organised specifically for the purpose of publishing, such as a university press, or is one of the functions of an organisation such as a medical charity, founded to achieve specific practical goals.

In contrast, on a compact Riemann surface every holomorphic function is constant, while there always exist non-constant meromorphic functions.

In contrast, the Portage tree does not contain directories of Makefiles, but of so-called ebuilds, Bash-like scripts that describe separate functions to download, configure, make, install and remove a package and additional functions that can be used to set up the operating environment for a package.

The contrast between balance and dynamic space manifests a pluralistic invitation for scientific study in structures developed to accommodate their respective functions as parts of a research facility.

As an adjective, " okay " means " adequate ," " acceptable " (" this is okay to send out "), " mediocre " often in contrast to " good " (" the food was okay "); it also functions as an adverb in this sense.

By contrast to an extinct language which no longer has any speakers, a dead language may remain in use for scientific, legal, or ecclesiastical functions.