But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

( Hume 1974: 330-332 ) Here he is describing what would become known as the problem of induction.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

This process, which could take months, would start with Chaplin describing to the composer ( s ) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing a tune he had come up with on the piano.

Other broad distinctions include those between positive economics ( describing " what is ") and normative economics ( advocating " what ought to be "); between economic theory and applied economics ; between rational and behavioral economics ; and between mainstream economics ( more " orthodox " and dealing with the " rationality-individualism-equilibrium nexus ") and heterodox economics ( more " radical " and dealing with the " institutions-history-social structure nexus ").

He later refined the term, describing it as " The whole system, ... including not only the organism-complex, but also the whole complex of physical factors forming what we call the environment ".

By 1918, two French mathematicians, Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia, though working independently, arrived essentially simultaneously at results describing what are now seen as fractal behaviour associated with mapping complex numbers and iterative functions and leading to further ideas about attractors and repellors ( i. e., points that attract or repel other points ), which have become very important in the study of fractals ( see Figure 3 and Figure 4 ).

In the 19th century Henry Darcy developed what is now known as Darcy's Law describing the flow of fluids in porous media.

Commonly given examples from Moby Dick are the interpretation of male bonding from what is termed the " marriage bed " episode involving Ishmael and Queequeg, and the " Squeeze of the Hand " chapter describing the camaraderie of sailors extracting spermaceti from a dead whale.

In a response to the Gnostic teaching, Irenaeus created the first document describing what is now called apostolic succession.

A behavioral script is a type of frame that describes what happens temporally ; the usual example given is that of describing going to a restaurant.

SGML specified a syntax for including the markup in documents, as well as one for separately describing what tags were allowed, and where ( the Document Type Definition ( DTD ) or schema ).

The purpose of the relational model is to provide a declarative method for specifying data and queries: users directly state what information the database contains and what information they want from it, and let the database management system software take care of describing data structures for storing the data and retrieval procedures for answering queries.

The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its photosphere ( what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light ), giving an objective measure of the photosphere's temperature.

Mike Emery of The Austin Chronicle praised the film's " subtle touches "— such as radio broadcasts heard in the background describing grisly murders around Texas — and said that what made it so dreadful was that it never strayed too far from potential reality.

Most of what is known about Malory stems from the accounts describing him in the prayers found in the Winchester Manuscript, distinguishing him from the other six individuals also bearing the name Thomas Malory in the 15th century when Le Morte d ' Arthur was written.

A novelization of this script by Edward Bryant, Phoenix Without Ashes, was published in 1975 ; this contained a lengthy foreword by Ellison describing what had gone on in production.

The second traditional definition comes from the 10th century Tantric scholar Rāmakaṇṭha, who belonged to the dualist school called the Śaiva Siddhānta: A tantra is a divinely revealed body of teachings, explaining what is necessary and what is a hindrance in the practice of the worship of God ; and also describing the specialized initiation and purification ceremonies that are the necessary prerequisites of Tantric practice.

In describing what constituted " gross disproportionality ," the Court could not find any guidance from the history of the Excessive Fines Clause and so relied on Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause case law:

") is famous as Caesar's utterance in the play Julius Caesar, although it is not his last words, and the sources describing Caesar's death disagree about what his last words were.

Turnbull was explicitly describing what happens to a society that is forced into hardship, and the fierce individualism that results.

Otto Frisch, the discoverer of the possibility of chain reactions from fission, in an article in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists describing his first impressions of Los Alamos: I also met Stan Ulam early on, a brilliant Polish topologist with a charming French wife.

There are several versions of the story describing Bonnie's and Clyde's first meeting, but the most credible version indicates that Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow in January 1930 at a friend's house.

Before he left the United States in March 1888, Chamberlain proposed to Mary, describing her as ' one of the brightest and most intelligent girls I have yet met '.

Germanus may have made a second visit to Britain in the mid 430s or mid 440s, though this is contested by some scholars who suggest it may be a ' doublet ' or variant version of the visit that has been mistaken as describing a different visit and erroneously included as such by Constantius, according to whom Germanus was joined by Severus, Bishop of Trier and met Elafius, described by Bede as ' a chief of that region '.

Merton began by describing the negative consequences of political machines, and then changed the angle and demonstrated how the people in charge of the machines, acting in their own interest, were meeting the social needs not met by government institutions.

However, Macready, British Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, confirmed the death sentence describing Mac Eoin as “ nothing more than a murderer ” and writing that he was probably responsible for other " atrocities ", but also later recorded in his memoirs that Mac Eoin was the only IRA man he had met, apart from Collins, to have a sense of humour.

Dors did not take to him when she met him during filming, describing him as the " slick society doctor among the jet set ".

She said at the time that she had met Van Gogh 100 years before, in 1888, as a thirteen-year-old girl in her uncle's fabric shop, where he wanted to buy some canvas, later describing him as " dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable ", and " very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick ".

As Vice-Chamberlain, he wrote a letter ( hand-carried by messenger, or sent by telegram ) directly to the Queen at the end of each day the House of Commons met, describing the debates, reactions, and political gossip of the day.

When describing a character whom the Baudelaires have met before, Snicket often describes the character first and does not reveal the name of the character until they have been thoroughly described.

While Wilde's conversion may have come as a surprise, he had long maintained an interest in the Catholic Church, having met with Pope Pius IX in 1877 and describing the Roman Catholic Church as " for saints and sinners alone – for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do ".

The album was met with mixed critical response, with Allmusic rating it as four stars out of five and BBC Internet Music Reviews describing it as " one of the finest releases of the year so far.

In fact, he did visit and met the artists, describing the work as " lively ".

The Early Days was met with critical acclaim, with Allmusic describing it as " A masterpiece.

He soon met with Sir Joseph Banks, describing the growth of New South Wales, and submitting a paper presenting his views on the customs and laws of the colony.

In fact, he did visit and met the artists, describing the work as " lively ".

A few of those Conover met on the rails were Mexican nationals, and in his next book, Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants ( 1987 ), he turned his attention to illegal immigrants, describing them as " the true modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo.

When describing his first pilgrimage to Makka, Thomson wrote: “ When I had first embraced Islam some four years earlier, I had known next to nothing about it, other than the fact that the community of Muslims whom I had joined were more knowledgeable and radiant and better behaved than any other human beings that I had ever met during my life up until then.

* August Wilson's 1990 play, The Piano Lesson, contains a reference in Act One, Scene 2 wherein one character, Doaker, in describing his family history during slavery says, " See that?

* Fully parametric: The probability distributions describing the data-generation process are assumed to be fully described by a family of probability distributions involving only a finite number of unknown parameters.

The Sagas of Icelanders ()— many of which are also known as family sagas — are prose histories mostly describing events that took place in Iceland in the 10th and early 11th centuries, during the so-called Saga Age.

Alvin tells the hitchhiker about the importance of family by describing a bundle of sticks that is hard to break (" United we stand ; divided we fall ").

The precise number of children in the family was historically contentious: the commentary on 30 May in the Acta Sanctorum, for example, initially states that they were nine, before describing Peter as the tenth child.

* Royal Thai ( ราชาศ ั พท ์): ( influenced by Khmer ) used when addressing members of the royal family or describing their activities.

Grimm's law ( also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift or the Rask's-Grimm's rule ), named after Jacob Grimm, is a set of statements describing the inherited Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic ( the common ancestor of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family ) in the 1st millennium BC.

There are no hard rules that a taxonomist needs to follow in describing or recognizing a family.

He represents the capitalist ruling class, repeatedly describing himself with pride as a " hard-headed businessman ", and the head of a patriarchal family structure, and is arguably the main subject of Priestley's social critique.

In 1977 C. W. Scott-Giles, an expert in heraldry, published a history of Lord Peter Wimsey's family, going back to 1066 ( but describing the loss of the family tree going back to Adam and Eve ); the book is based on material from his correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers, who wrote at least two of the family anecdotes in the book, one of them in the French language of the Middle Ages.

* Corwin, when describing the royal family to Ganelon in Sign of the Unicorn, says that Oberon had two other sons with Benedict's mother Cymnea, the first being Osric, who shares his name with a courtier in Hamlet.

The most practical way to start describing a perfume is according to the elements of the fragrance notes of the scent or the " family " it belongs to, all of which affect the overall impression of a perfume from first application to the last lingering hint of scent.

When used in the name of an instrument, these terms are relative, describing the instrument's range in comparison to other instruments of its family and not in comparison to the human voice range or instruments of other families.

Kathy's family and friends approved of her choice of husband, describing Whitman as a " handsome young man.

Two other books about Huntington include History of Huntington County, IN by Frank Sumner Bash in 1914 ( describing its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests ) and Huntington County, IN: Histories and Families by Turner Publishing Company in 1993 as a result of the Huntington County Historical Society officers and board of directors meeting in the summer of 1992 to discuss the family history of Huntington, the glue that has held together the city and county of Huntington in the heartland of the Midwest for more than 175 years.

Toward the close of this period in which many later-developed themes were first experimented with, the Xiao family of the Southern Liang Dynasty ( 502-557 ) engaged in highly refined and often denigrated court-style poetry lushly describing sensual delights as well as the description of objects.

The genealogical preface to this manuscript, as well as the annual entry ( covering years 855 – 859 ) describing the death of Æthelwulf, both make king Egbert of Wessex the son of an Ealhmund, who was son of Eafa, grandson of Eoppa, and great-grandson of Ingild, the brother of king Ine of Wessex, and descendant of founder Cerdic, and therefore a member of the House of Wessex ( see House of Wessex family tree ).

In the 21st century, emerged the term “ conspicuous compassion ”, describing a variant consumerist behaviour that is the practice of publicly donating great sums of money to charity, as a means of enhancing the social prestige of the donor man, woman, or family ; thus buildings emblazoned with the donor ’ s name.

Later describing his upbringing, Divine would recollect: " I was an only child in, I guess, your upper middle-class American family.

He also ventured his first archaeological opinion aged eight, when friends visiting the Petrie family were describing the unearthing of Brading Roman villa in the Isle of Wight.

The first classification of specimens was published by George Robert Waterhouse, describing the species in 1836 and the family in 1841.