The solution to the puzzle as well as explaining the historical circumstances leading to the choice of the Agri Decumates as a defensive point and the concentration of Germans there are probably to be found in the German attack on the Gallic fortified town of Vesontio in 58 BC.

In the essay What is it like to be a bat ?, Thomas Nagel famously argued that explaining subjective experience — the " what it is like " to be something — is currently beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, because scientific understanding by definition requires an objective perspective, which, according to Nagel, is diametrically opposed to the subjective first-person point of view.

Every patient with a point total of 6 or higher is unequivocally classified as an RA patient, provided he has synovitis in at least one joint and given that there is no other diagnosis better explaining the synovitis.

The folk tale explaining the origin of this Vietnamese tradition is a good illustration of the belief that the combination of areca nut and the betel leaf is ideal to the point they are practically inseparable, like an idealized married couple.

When the movements of celestial objects convinced Philolaus that the world must be not only turning on its own axis but revolving around a fixed point elsewhere in space, he was faced with the problem of explaining how a spherical world could move in this way without spilling everything on the surface into space.

Following the band's reunion in 2008, Weiland once again evolved as a songwriter, explaining: " the ' 90s, I was so overwhelmed with my heroin addiction, and so a lot of the stuff was just from my point of view.

* Christian website explaining Gog and Magog from their point of view.

The track begins at this point, with Francis explaining the conversation to Albini, whose voice is not heard on the track.

Scientific realists point to the success of scientific theories in predicting and explaining a variety of phenomena, and argue that from this we can infer that our scientific theories ( or at least the best ones ) provide true descriptions of the world, or approximately so.

The essential problem is that tools explaining why firm A performs better than firm B at a point in time are unlikely to explain why firm B is growing its performance more rapidly than firm A.

Dierickx and Cool ( 1989 ) point out that this causes serious problems for explaining performance over time:

Furthermore, any information about Shutruk-Nakhunte cannot be found in any textbook, which had been a point Hundert had made in his class way back when, explaining that without contribution to society, one is insignificant.

The encyclopedia was designed to serve the Roman Catholic Church, concentrating on information related to the Church and explaining matters from the Catholic point of view.

The 2099 world has been seen occasionally since, most notably in Peter David's " Future Tense " storyline in Captain Marvel, which revisited both Spider-Man 2099 and the alternate future of the Maestro that David created in The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect, explaining a plot point which had been left dangling since David had abruptly left Spider-Man 2099.

Axel, who, in comparison, is cowardly and anti-adventurous, repeatedly tries to reason with him, explaining his fears of descending into a volcano and putting forward various scientific theories as to why the journey is impossible, but Professor Lidenbrock repeatedly keeps himself blinded against Axel's point of view.

Foaly enjoys keeping track of various humans, keeping track of human technologies, explaining his technological marvels to others, and researching conspiracy theories ( he is quite paranoid about these, to the point of wearing a tinfoil hat ).

* Long Usenet post by Letwin explaining what happened to OS / 2 from Microsoft's point of view-August 1995

At some point in the following years, Leicester wrote her a remarkable letter, pondering on the history of their love, and explaining to her the reasons why he could not marry, not even to beget a legitimate heir ; it would result in his " utter overthrow ": You must think it is some marvellous cause, and toucheth my present state very near, that forceth me thus to be cause almost of the ruin of mine own house ... my brother you see long married and not like to have children, it resteth so now in myself ; and yet such occasions is there ... as if I should marry I am sure never to have queen's favour.

The styloid process also serves as a point of attachment for muscles and has a distinctive pointed shape akin to that of a stylus, explaining the origins of the name.

Vereker dismisses his efforts, explaining that all critics have " missed my little point ," " the particular thing I've written my books most for ," " the thing for the critic to find ," " my secret ," " like a complex figure in a Persian carpet.

I was at a point in my life where I just didn't want to face any of them so I wrote them a long email explaining, like, I'm just done.

Domain-general views have been criticized for not fully explaining how children manage to avoid mapping errors when there are numerous possible referents to which objects, actions, or events might point.

Unbeknownst to everyone else involvedincluding, at one point, his fatherhe gave " backstage " interviews to the filmmakers between sermons and revivals, explaining intimate details of how he and other ministers operated.

Although not explicitly expressing an abolitionist point of view, the Portuguese Dominican Gaspar da Cruz in 1569 strongly criticized the Portuguese traffic in Chinese slaves, explaining that any arguments by the slave traders that they " legally " purchased already-enslaved children were bogus.

Some groups may have multiple FAQ on related topics, or even two or more competing FAQ explaining a topic from different points of view.

This view would produce a wide range of definition of what, exactly, constituted culture and history, but in each case the only means of explaining it was in terms of the historical particulars of the culture itself.

Another economic model proposed by Naomi R. Lamoreaux for explaining the steep price falls is to view the involved firms acting as monopolies in their respective markets.

In this view, it does not focus on explaining actual economies, but instead on describing a " utopia " in which Pareto optimality applies.

Among the few exceptions is the relational view, which outlines a theory for considering dyads and networks of firms as a key unit of analysis for explaining superior individual firm performance ( Dyer and Singh, 1998 ).

: The sacred authors wrote the four Gospels, selecting some things from the many which had been handed on by word of mouth or in writing, reducing some of them to a synthesis, explaining some things in view of the situation of their churches and preserving the form of proclamation but always in such fashion that they told us the honest truth about Jesus

Disciplines such as cybernetics and systems theory strongly embrace a non-reductionist view of science, sometimes going as far as explaining phenomena at a given level of hierarchy in terms of phenomena at a higher level, in a sense, the opposite of a reductionist approach.

Anthropologist John D. Hawks expresses the view that rather than explaining human traits simply and parsimoniously, it actually requires two explanations for each trait-first that proximity to water drove human evolution enough to significantly change the human phenotype and second that there was significant evolutionary pressure beyond mere phylogenetic inertia to maintain these traits ( which would not be adaptive on dry land ) and points out that exaptation is not an adequate reply.

* Contemporary Amalek-Hirhurim-a blog post by Rabbi Gil Student explaining Rav Soloveitchik's controversial view that the Nazis were considered Amalekites

McKellen justifies this application of the theatre term to Lowry's art by explaining that " Lowry ’ s mid-air viewpoint is like a view from the dress circle ", looking down as if to a stage.

Gaiman agrees with Dringenberg's view by explaining that Desire had to be made both male and female, because the character represents everything someone might desire.

The level beneath the unit ( state ) level can be useful both for explaining factors in International Relations that other theories fail to explain, and for moving away from a state-centric view of international relations.

This view is based on fallacies so elementary that I should doubt the necessity of explaining them as fallacies were it not that there are so many people who share Mr Orwell's view.

Pope Shenouda III was involved in theological disagreements concerning the issue of theosis — the transforming effect of divine grace ; he published eight booklets explaining his view of theosis and lectured on the issue in the theological seminary of Cairo and also in the seminary of Alexandria.

Whatever version of this view is preferred, whether cast in terms of the Gricean intentions ( see Paul Grice ) or in terms of the structure of Searlean illocutionary acts ( see speech act ), it does not obviously apply to explaining the absurdity of the commissive version of Moore's paradox.

There are few signs explaining the structures within, but in one section allows a view of main staircases of one of the pyramids, whose nine floors have been excavated from bottom to top.

Steven T. Miller's 2nd article explaining ( in his personal view ) how to determine which officials are covered and suggesting a relatively simple process for ensuring full compliance.

James Hastings and separately Thomas Neufeld have expressed the view that the circumstances of the birth of Jesus were deliberately kept restricted to a small group of early Christians, and were kept as a secret for many years after his death, thus explaining the variations in the accounts in Luke and Matthew.

Captain Herd appears very desirous to cast considerable blame on Mr Marsden .” At the time of this first encounter with the association Williams does not appear to have formed a view as to the consequences of extensive colonisation of New Zealand ; however by 1838, having read the pamphlet explaining the plans of the New Zealand Company, he was actively opposing the activities of the New Zealand Company.

Kant's view is that in explaining the movement of celestial bodies Copernicus rejected the idea that the movement is in the stars and accepted it as a part of the spectator.

The U. S. Army also staffed an awards package for most of their hostages in 2003, explaining that " in view of the expanded criteria for award of the POW Medal in the 1989 amendment, the Soldiers held in Iran are eligible for award of the medal.