The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

The advantage of such a system lies in its ability to expand its own capacity rapidly and without additional human effort ; in essence, the initial investment required to construct the first clanking replicator would have an arbitrarily large payoff with no additional labor cost, with future returns discounted by their present value.

He observed that the closed social system idea in France resembled in design the essence of a caste system.

In essence, the proposals built on the work done by Professor Elo in devising his Elo rating system.

Although traditional Judaism had adopted some features of Kabbalah, it adapted them to fit its own system: it added to its own ritualism the asceticism of the " practical kabbalists " just across the eastern borders in the ancient Greek and Anatolian Jewish communities under the Ottoman Empire, who saw the essence of earthly existence only in fasting, in penance, and in spiritual sadness.

Galileo proposed a method of establishing the time of day, and thus longitude, based on the times of the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter, in essence using the Jovian system as a cosmic clock ; this method was not significantly improved until accurate mechanical clocks were developed in the eighteenth century.

Or, in other words, the " part of the system " controlled by Carol is, in essence, unavailable.

The endoderm is composed of the entire gut tube and the lungs, the ectoderm gives rise to the nervous system and skin, and the mesoderm gives rise to muscle, bone, blood — in essence, everything else that connects the endoderm to the ectoderm.

In essence, the head of state, usually a monarch or president, is a ceremonial figurehead who is the theoretical, nominal or de jure source of executive power within the system.

The land-reform system will discourage farmers from selling off their properties to large landholders and will be continued in essence for well over 1, 000 years.

Interference that was of little consequence on a telegraph system ( which is in essence digital ) could be very disturbing for a telephone user.

In essence, all endogenous pyrogens are cytokines, molecules that are a part of the innate immune system.

Such a system provides, in essence, a " zero response time ," and can have an enormous impact on positive patient outcomes.

But, provincial and federal ministers, along with loyal national citizen's organizations, ensured that the system remained the same in essence.

The Fund is fully committed to a more effective, coherent and better coordinated United Nations system that ‘ delivers as one ’, which is the essence of the ongoing United Nations reform process.

In its ' essence, Marx's theory stated that economic and political systems went through an inevitable evolution in form, by which the current capitalist system would be replaced by a Socialist state before achieving international cooperation and peace in a " Workers ' Paradise ", creating a system directed by, what Marx called, " Pure Communism ".

A New Kind of Science argues that this is evidence that simple programs are enough to capture the essence of almost any complex system.

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact.

In essence a specialized railroad system, a roller coaster consists of a track that rises in designed patterns, sometimes with one or more inversions ( such as vertical loops ) that turn the rider briefly upside down.

Labour's ' Usehold ' policy on land was in essence the replacement of freehold tenure by a system of perpetual lease from the State, with all land transfer conducted through the State ( the full nationalisation of farmland ).

An argument in favor of this system was that allowing appeals to be tried by active judges after having been decided by a jury would in essence deny popular sovereignty.

Though what constitutes sex discrimination varies between countries, the essence is that it is an adverse action taken by one person against another person that would not have occurred had the person been of another sex.

The actual life of the individual is what constitutes what could be called his or her " true essence " instead of there being an arbitrarily attributed essence used by others to define him or her.

According to John N. Gray, the essence of liberalism is toleration of different beliefs and of different ideas as to what constitutes a good life.

Anthropology professor Lawrence Hirschfeld gives an example of what constitutes the essence of a tiger, regardless of whether it is striped or albino, or has lost a leg.

Invoked also are people within the social science professions which seek to identify, define and conceptualize the very essence of what constitutes a culture or cultural model of human experience.

The universal constitutes the essence of a thing ; when a thing is fully developed ( actual ), the universal is concrete.

Raymond and other cultural feminists like Mary Daly argue that a " she-male " or " male-to-constructed female " is still male and constitutes a patriarchal attack by males upon the female essence.

* " The essence of kleptocracy is that the functioning of the organs of authority is determined by the mechanisms of supply and demand rather than the laws and regulations ; and a kleptocratic state constitutes a curiously generalized model of laissez-faire economics even if its economy is nominally socialist.

Any definition that attempts to set out the essence of something, such as that by genus and differentia, is an intensional definition.

In essence, two objects are isomorphic if they are indistinguishable given only a selection of their features, and the isomorphism is the mapping of the set elements and the selected operations between the objects.

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.

In essence, a Turing machine is imagined to be a simple computer that reads and writes symbols one at a time on an endless tape by strictly following a set of rules.

He alleges that the problems are traceable to a set of related assumptions about the nature of language, which themselves presuppose a particular conception of the essence of language.

Thus, the essence of the axiom is that every set has a power set.

Later ones were horizontal timbers fitted with spikes, a version of what is called a cheval de frise, but the Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the mounting timbers of the originals may have been vertical, since a slightly later sense was of a horizontal cross of timbers turning on a vertical pin, set up to exclude horse-traffic from a footpath, which is in essence the device we now call a turnstile.

The essence of the Mediator Pattern is to " Define an object that encapsulates how a set of objects interact.

In a simple laser, each of these modes will oscillate independently, with no fixed relationship between each other, in essence like a set of independent lasers all emitting light at slightly different frequencies.

As set forth by Thomas Aquinas, the natural essence of money was as a measure of value or intermediary in exchange.

In essence the tribes along the Rhine believed that the Roman empire was finished and decided to set up a rump state in Gaul ruled from Triers by Gaius Julius Civilis.

In essence, the free monoid is simply the set of all words, with no equivalence relations imposed.

After a sojourn in prison he recanted and was set free by the tribunes ( who had the tribunician power, in essence the power of habeas corpus ).

For Schmitt ... the very essence of the bureaucratic conduct of business is reverence for the norm, a standpoint that could not exist in great tension with the doctrines of Carl Schmitt ... Hegel had set an ignominious precedent by according this putative universal class a position of preeminence in his political thought, insofar as the primacy of the bureaucracy tends to diminish or supplant the prerogative of sovereign authority.

Eventually, and proposed a set of formal provisions, the essence of which was introduced into the first International Code of Botanical Nomenclature ().

In philosophy, essence is the attribute or set of attributes that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity.

In the history of western thought, essence has often served as a vehicle for doctrines that tend to individuate different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties ; in this eminently logical meaning, the concept has given a strong theoretical and common-sense basis to the whole family of logical theories based on the " possible worlds " analogy set up by Leibniz and developed in the intensional logic from Carnap to Kripke, which was later challenged by " extensionalist " philosophers such as Quine.

Wolfe deliberately set out to make The Bonfire of the Vanities capture the essence of New York City in the 1980s.

Time is of the greatest essence, as a rival consortium of Japan, Germany, and Holland has also set off into the jungle after the diamonds, turning the entire expedition into a race to the city of Zinj.

The core of the group's lifestyle is the Tanakh, Ben Ammi claims that " the Law and the Prophets ... are the light ; they are the essence of what is required to set man on the path and show him the way back to his Maker.

The live recording of the Sound of Speed EP featured Douglas on only one track, he therefore set about recording additional lead guitar overdubs in the studio, though to keep in with the essence of a live release, he was only given one attempt at recording each song.

Several episodes are, in essence, music videos set to a particular song.

The impact of this set of needs means that it is possible and reasonable to design larger systems using smaller, more expensive performance-systems at the edge of the network where the essence is being used in its intended form and less expensive systems further back for storage and archival.