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discussion and hypothesis
He does not claim a systematic decipherment of Linear A, and remarks in the book that he intended his Luwian hypothesis to provoke discussion rather than to settle the issue.
An alternate explanation of these later deposits was undergoing much discussion as part of the Snowball Earth hypothesis.
The representation also depends on whether the noun or the determiner is taken to be the head of the phrase ( see the discussion of the DP hypothesis in the previous section ).
At times, the discussion became quite heated ; the Italian Marxist historian Rosario Villari, speaking of the work of Trevor-Roper and Mousnier, claimed that: " The hypothesis of imbalance between bureaucratic expansion and the needs of the state is too vague to be plausible, and rests on inflated rhetoric, typical of a certain type of political conservative, rather than on effective analysis.
While the 2SH remains the most popular explanation for the origins of the synoptic gospels, two questions, the existence of the so-called " minor agreements ", and problems with the hypothesis of Q, continue at the centre of discussion over its explanatory power.
The special-mechanism hypothesis has been the subject of considerable discussion in recent years, with some authors endorsing the hypothesis and others noting potential problems. This hypothesis divides memory processes into different categories, positing that different mechanisms underlie flashbulb memories.
See statistical hypothesis testing for further discussion of this issue.
* Helminthic therapy ( includes more discussion of hygiene hypothesis )
* IEEE Spectrum article " Who's Afraid of the Uncanny Valley ," April 2, 2010 A compilation of images of humanoid robots, lifelike mannequins and CGI humans, and a discussion of origins and scientific foundations of the uncanny valley hypothesis.
Part One, entitled " We “ Other Victorians ”", opens with a discussion of what Foucault calls the " repressive hypothesis ", the widespread belief among late 20th-century westerners that sexuality, and the open discussion of sex, was socially repressed during the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, a by-product of the rise of capitalism and bourgeois society.
It also prepares us for the subsequent discussion of knowledge by hypothesis.
An example of Cassuto's style of argument can be seen in his discussion of the divine names-one of the main criteria by which the documentary hypothesis distinguishes between separate sources-where he argued that Yahweh and Elohim are each consistently employed within a particular context and for a specific purpose, " Yahweh " signifying the personal God of revelation and Israel and " Elohim " the more impersonal God of nature and the world: to construe the two names as evidence of two authors was, according to Cassuto, to ignore the overwhelming evidence of Jewish literature itself on this matter.
It is a hypothesis that aroused both interest and ire in the scientific community and continues to be a topic of discussion over a quarter century later.
This hypothesis is based on claiming that the earliest inscriptions of the second and third centuries, found in bogs and graves around Jutland ( the Vimose inscriptions ), exhibit word endings that, being interpreted by Scandinavian scholars to be Proto-Norse, are considered unresolved and long having been the subject of discussion.
In 2000, the Royal Society held a meeting to discuss data on the origin of AIDS ; the OPV AIDS hypothesis was a central topic of discussion.
* TheMostReadBook. org forums Extensive and detailed discussion of the hypothesis of abrogation in the Quran in principle and of each claim made in the classic literature
Some suggest that the talking circles are ceremonial, and others support a hypothesis that they were places for political discussion that suggest " aboriginal democracy.
" The most recent publication supporting the Glottalic Theory is Bomhard ( 2008 and 2011 ) in a discussion of the controversial Nostratic hypothesis.
Brand's discussion of the disparity between races in average cognitive ability test scores has caused controversy, especially because of his support for the hereditarian hypothesis of such differences.

discussion and Summers
In January 2005, at a Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Summers sparked controversy with his discussion of why women may have been underrepresented " in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions ".
Summers then concluded his discussion of the three hypotheses by saying: So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers ' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.
In another episode that warranted discussion, French prisoner Christian David was interviewed by author Anthony Summers.

discussion and said
but if George has just been mentioned prominently ( and the trip to be made has been under discussion ), what is said is probably I'll go with him, and dominant stress is probably on the preposition with.
For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives to his position variously represented by the other participants in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative.
Public interest in, and debate over, Hill's testimony is said to have launched modern-day public awareness and open discussion of the issue of workplace sexual harassment in the United States with the ultimate result that the behavior is less tolerated today.
He remained to the end a staunch Catholic, though all Chemnitz had gone over to the Lutheran creed, and it is said that his life was ended by a fit of apoplexy brought on by a heated discussion with a Protestant divine.
He once said: " I can't get in a mild discussion without turning it into an argument.
They are often the subject of discussion of the case, how they will decide who is guilty, and are given by the judge in order to make sure their interests are represented and nothing prejudicial is said.
In April 2007, the Malaysian Foreign Ministry parliamentary secretary Ahmad Shabery Cheek said Malaysia and other Asean members had decided not to defend Burma if the country was raised for discussion at any international conference.
William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, is noted to have said in a letter to a friend, " I am interested in the spread of Christian civilization, but to go into a dogmatic discussion of creed I will not do whether I am defeated or not.
It is said that at the time, public morality severely restricted open discussion of sexuality as a human characteristic, and specific sexual practices, especially sexual behaviours that did not lead to procreation.
He does not explicitly acknowledge any anticipation of his demonstration of electrostatic repulsion by the latter but, as he quotes a passage from the same page, could not have been unaware that, in a discussion of the nature of electrical attraction, Cabeo had written ( Philosophia Magnetica p. 192 ): " When we see that small bodies ( corpuscula ) are lifted ( sublevari et attolli ) above the amber and also fall back to the motionless amber, it cannot be said that such erratic behaviour ( talem matum-but if " matum " is taken as a misprint for " motum ", then the translation is simply " such motion ") is an attraction by the gravity of the attracting body.
No discussion of this episode would be complete without mention of Sir James Tyrrell, the loyal servant of Richard III who is said to have confessed to the murder of the princes in 1502.
The term IDM is said to have originated in the United States in 1993 with the formation of the IDM list, an electronic mailing list originally chartered for the discussion of music by ( but not limited to ) a number of prominent English artists, especially those appearing on a 1992 Warp Records compilation called Artificial Intelligence.
Machiavelli said that The Prince would be about princedoms, mentioning that he has written about republics elsewhere ( possibly referring to the Discourses on Livy although this is debated ), but in fact he mixes discussion of republics into this in many places, effectively treating republics as a type of princedom also, and one with many strengths.
At a round-table discussion on July 7, 2006, Jan T. Gross said, " I repeat three times in the book ( Neighbors ) that the murder happened by order of the Germans " (" mord był z rozkazu Niemców ").
However, despite their notoriety and frequent citing in books on musical instruments and in on-line discussion forums, these instruments were never placed in production and were, perhaps, more along the lines of engineering achievements and curiosities ( despite the fact that the EEE ♭ model could be a viable instrument, it is said that only three were made ).
After a lengthy discussion Bob Hardison said “ Well if you have no objection, we will name it after my old white horse, Arapahoe .” So it was decided and a new application filed.
Feminist Susan Faludi discussed the film in Backlash, arguing that major changes had been made to the original plot in order to make Alex wholly negative, while Dan's carelessness and the lack of compassion and responsibility raised no discussion, except for a small number of fundamentalist men's groups who said that Dan was eventually forced to own up to his irresponsibility in that " everyone pays the piper ".
In the discussion of grammar to follow, the variety of Mongolian treated is Standard Khalkha Mongolian ( i. e., the standard written language as formalized in the writing conventions and in the school grammar ), but much of what is to be said is also valid for vernacular ( spoken ) Khalkha and other Mongolian dialects, especially Chakhar.
Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".
" Concerning the campaign, Griffin said, " It is active, it is positive, it is about making tomorrow better than today, a discussion about politics and the actions and passions of our time.
On 29 June 2011: " During Prime Minister ’ s questions ", " Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert asked :" " Does the Prime Minister believe that drugs policy has been failing for decades, as he said in 2005, and does he agree that the Government should initiate a discussion of alternative ways including the possibility of legalisation regulation to tackle the global drugs dilemma as he voted for in 2002.
On the whole, it may be said that the prince adhered to the school of Guibert, and a full discussion will be found in Max Jahns ' Gesch.
Nonetheless, such a teleological ( goal-oriented ) reading of Karl Marx, supported by Alexandre Kojève before the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ), was criticized by Louis Althusser in his discussion of “ random materialism ” ( matérialisme aléatoire ), in which he said that such a teleological reading rendered the proletariat as the subject of history ; therefore, such an interpretation was tainted with Hegelian idealism, with the “ philosophy of the subject ”, that had been in force for five centuries, which he criticized as the “ bourgeois ideology of philosophy ”.
" Genet himself, in discussion with Schidor, said that he had not seen the film, commenting, " You can't smoke at the movies.
FAIR has said that in the range of opinion discussed in the mass media, the right side of a discussion is usually represented by a committed supporter of right-wing causes, while the left side is often represented by a centrist.

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