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.

* This article only considers the mainstream Christian views, in contrast to, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Adventism, Early Christianity, Nontrinitarianism and others.

* This article only considers the mainstream Jewish views, in contrast to Karaite Judaism.

She was also attracted to the music of more mainstream artists like Olivia Newton-John and The Police, perhaps explaining the contrast in her later music between sweet, melodic " pop " songs and more hard rock oriented material.

) In 1999, Susan Blackmore, a psychologist at the University of the West of England, published The Meme Machine, which more fully worked out the ideas of Dennett, Lynch, and Brodie and attempted to compare and contrast them with various approaches from the cultural evolutionary mainstream, as well as providing novel, and controversial, memetic-based theories for the evolution of language and the human sense of individual selfhood.

In the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands.

This is in contrast to various independent media, such as alternative weekly newspapers, specialized magazines in various organizations and corporations, and various electronic sources such as podcasts and blogs ( Though certain blogs are more mainstream than others given their association with a mainstream source.

In contrast to mainstream academic usage, some politically correct authors ( like Christopher I. Beckwith noted above ) argue that using the word " barbarian " is insulting, even in historical contexts.

In contrast to many country's, Italy's roots revival has resulted in very little mainstream success.

Today's mainstream social conservatives, in contrast to " small-government " conservatives and " states-rights " advocates, have increasingly appealed to federal legislators and Presidential candidates with the notion that the federal government should bear the responsibility to overrule the states in order to preserve their stated ideal of traditional values ; this is not to take away from the fact that a significant portion of " small-government " and " states-rights " conservatives also share many of the ideals of mainstream social conservatives.

The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game ( often called " tackle football " for contrast ), but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier (" deflagging ") to end a down.

Industrial relations scholarship assumes that labor markets are not perfectly competitive and thus, in contrast to mainstream economic theory, employers typically have greater bargaining power than employees.

The short films he compiled from the daily video footage brought a unique historical and humanitarian perspective to the events that was in stark contrast to the coverage of much of the mainstream media.

Touch football is a variant of American football in which the basic rules are similar to those of the mainstream game ( called " tackle football " for contrast ), but instead of tackling players to the ground, the person carrying the ball need only be touched by a member of the opposite team to end a down.

In contrast, mainstream publishers, whether major companies or small presses, derive their profit from sales of the book to persons other than the author.

In contrast, mainstream commercial technology at the time was in the 3 to 5 μm range.

Examples of firm using a focus strategy include Southwest Airlines, which provides short-haul point-to-point flights in contrast to the hub-and-spoke model of mainstream carriers, and Family Dollar.

He is an unscrupulous, cunning intrigant, but in contrast to mainstream versions his motives are understandable.

In contrast to the melodrama of the mainstream theatre of the 19th century, lurid actions ( such as Konstantin's suicide attempts ) are not shown onstage.

MRR reinforces the values of the punk underground by remaining independent and not-for-profit in contrast to the small number of the major media conglomerates which fund most mainstream artists.

A fakaleiti ( or leiti or fakafefine or lady ) is a Tongan male who behaves in effeminate ways, in contrast to mainstream Tongan men, who tend to be very masculine.

She became known for literary works that portrayed indigenous people in a positive light, in contrast to the mainstream views of her society.

This ease of access to stage performers was another contrast to mainstream rock festivals in the same era.

In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake implies that a visit of Jesus would briefly create heaven in England, in contrast to the " dark Satanic Mills " of the Industrial Revolution.

But, this is in sharp contrast with the contextually relative interpretation of historicism that its proponents argue for.

His straightforward understanding of the Scriptures – in contrast to the Alexandrian tendency towards allegorical interpretation – meant that the themes of his talks were practical, explaining the Bible's application to everyday life.

Burman, by contrast, has shown that the misunderstanding that memes are " real " is a result of a popularization based on a confused interpretation of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene.

Interpretivist social scientists, by contrast, may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense.

Uniformitarianism was originally proposed in contrast to catastrophism, which states that the distant past " consisted of epochs of paroxysmal and catastrophic action interposed between periods of comparative tranquility " Especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most geologists took this interpretation to mean that catastrophic events are not important in geologic time ; one example of this is the debate of the formation of the Channeled Scablands due to the catastrophic Missoula glacial outburst floods.

This vision clashes with an older interpretation of the First Republic as a progressive and increasingly democratic regime that presented a clear contrast to Salazar ’ s ensuing dictatorship.

Ucko highlighted that in his writings, Childe accepted the subjectivity of archaeological interpretation, something which was in stark contrast to the processualists ' insistence that archaeological interpretation could be objective.

In setting the opposite, an individual brings out a contrast in the meaning ( e. g., the definition, interpretation, or semantics ) by an obvious contrast in the expression.

By contrast, on Windows, wildcard interpretation is conventionally performed by each application.

In contrast, when he says that the body is no longer the same body after its death, he is using the word " body " to refer to the fully organized body, which ( according to this interpretation ) does not remain the same thing after death.

In contrast to the previous interpretation, dishonesty is not specifically expressed in the literal meaning, but is often implied.

Dispensationalism, in contrast to the Millerite Adventist movement, had its beginning in the 19th century, when John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren religious denomination, incorporated into his system of Biblical interpretation a system of organizing Biblical time into a number of discrete dispensations, each of which marks a separate covenant with God.

As such, the image is not only dependent on the number of electrons hitting the screen, making direct interpretation of phase contrast images more complex.

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.

This interpretation was in contrast to De Broglie ’ s own interpretation, in which the wave corresponds to the physical motion of a localized particle.

This is in concord with most moderate Protestant bodies and in contrast to the LCMS and WELS, which practice the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation.

The conventional interpretation of the word " but " will always create the implicature of a sense of contrast.

One interpretation of the play's structure is that Shakespeare meant to contrast the mercy of the main Christian characters with the vengefulness of a Jew, who lacks the religious grace to comprehend mercy.

By contrast, the prophets themselves only had a partial interpretation revealed to them.

In contrast, setoids may be used when a difference between identity and equivalence must be maintained, often with an interpretation of intensional equality ( the equality on the original set ) and extensional equality ( the equivalence relation, or the equality on the quotient set ).