In these final pieces he offered a critique of Western science in which he suggested that non-European languages often referred to physical phenomena in ways that more directly reflected aspects of reality than many European languages, and that science ought to pay attention to the effects of linguistic categorization in its efforts to describe the physical world.

This change was a recognition of the reality that little remained of Imperial authority in the areas that had been the Western Empire, with even Rome and Italy itself now ruled by the essentially autonomous Odoacer.

* Либретто во сне и наяву ( Libretto in dream and in reality ), holding Russian and some Western libretti ( in the Russian language, as Microsoft Word files ), notably: Libretti of classic Russian operas ( in Russian )

Derrida contributed to " the understanding of certain deeply hidden philosophical presuppositions and prejudices in Western culture ", arguing that the whole philosophical tradition rests on arbitrary dichotomous categories ( such as sacred / profane, signifier / signified, mind / body ), and that any text contains implicit hierarchies, " by which an order is imposed on reality and by which a subtle repression is exercised, as these hierarchies exclude, subordinate, and hide the various potential meanings.

Nevertheless, as a food source guinea pigs are generally considered taboo in other countries in America and Europe ; in reality television, guinea pig meat has been consumed as an exotic dish by such Western celebrity chefs as Andrew Zimmern ( for his show Bizarre Foods ), Anthony Bourdain in No Reservations and Jeff Corwin in his show Extreme Cuisine.

It did not help that the Heat were placed in the Midwest Division of the Western Conference, in defiance of all geographic reality.

Western confusion regarding magical realism is due to the "... conception of the real " created in a magical realist text: rather than explain reality using natural or physical laws, as in typical Western texts, magical realist texts create a reality "... in which the relation between incidents, characters, and setting could not be based upon or justified by their status within the physical world or their normal acceptance by bourgeois mentality.

Magical realism plot lines characteristically employ hybrid multiple planes of reality that take place in "... inharmonious arenas of such opposites as urban and rural, and Western and indigenous.

In Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, the literary critic Erich Auerbach considers the Hebrew narrative of the Binding of Isaac, along with Homer's description of Odysseus's scar, as the two paradigmatic models for the representation of reality in literature.

Mulla Sadra bought " a new philosophical insight in dealing with the nature of reality " and created " a major transition from essentialism to existentialism " in Islamic philosophy, several centuries before this occurred in Western philosophy.

Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality.

Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality.

It's not clear, however that this stereotypical view reflects the reality of East Asian classrooms or that the educational goals in these countries are commensurable with those in Western countries.

Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum physics and the nature of reality, a Western perspective.

In a 1959 Paris Review interview, Durrell described the ideas behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality.

In these essays, he concentrates on crucial passages which have a metalinguistic function or metacritical implications, particularly those where figural language has a dependency on classical philosophical oppositions ( essence / accident, synchronic / diachronic, appearance / reality ) which are so central to Western discourse.

Various plans regarding the future of the original population were drawn, with one calling for deportation of about 20 million Poles to Western Siberia, and Germanisation of 4 to 5 million ; although deportation in reality meant many Poles were to be put to death, a small number would be " re-Germanized ," and young Poles of desirable qualities would be kidnapped and raised in Germany.

Economic and political reality in Western Europe would soon force the dismantling of the European colonial empires, especially in Africa and Asia.

Eighty-five years later, Zeno would recognize the reality of the Western Empire's reduced domain ( Imperial control had been lost over even the Italian Peninsula ) after the death Western Emperor Julius Nepos and rule as sole emperor.

This war was significant in that it starkly demonstrated the reality that a Western colonial power could be defeated by an indigenous revolutionary force ; the French previously pacified a similar uprising in the Madagascar colony in March, 1947.

In reality, the name refers to the British King Cunobelinus who, alongside his sons, is said to have battled at this site against the Roman Invasion of the British Isles.

The Vandali are described as Asiatic pagans, when in reality they were Germanic and Arian Christians ; and it need not be mentioned that there never was a Vandal invasion of the British Isles.

Petermann was very well aware that even topographic maps were not yet a true representation of reality ( this is illustrated by the depiction of the Liparian Isles, which were not securely situated until Darondeau ’ s French survey in 1858 ), let alone medium-and small-scale maps of the interior of continents and the polar regions.

The A830, sometimes known as the Road to the Isles ( although in reality it forms only a part of that historic route ), is a road in Lochaber, in the Highlands of Scotland, which connects the town of Fort William to the port of Mallaig.

It is not really fire, for fire is an excess of heat and a sort of ebullition ; but in reality, of what we call air, the part surrounding the earth is moist and warm, because it contains both vapour and a dry exhalation from the earth.

In reality, it contains the only mystery quantum mechanics.

Due to the potent combination of anticholinergic substances it contains, Datura intoxication typically produces effects similar to that of an anticholinergic delirium ( as contrasted to hallucination ): a complete inability to differentiate reality from fantasy ; hyperthermia ; tachycardia ; bizarre, and possibly violent behavior ; and severe mydriasis with resultant painful photophobia that can last several days.

Unlike quantum mechanics, the more complete theory contains variables corresponding to all the " elements of reality ".

The material world, as he dubs it, contains the “ mere supernatural ” which is not a transcendent reality but a vague treasure that belongs solely to humans.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.

This work contains Marx's criticism of materialism ( for being contemplative ), idealism ( for reducing practice to theory ) and overall, criticising philosophy for putting abstract reality above the physical world.

This created a perception of MIDI as low-quality audio, while in reality MIDI itself contains no sound, and the quality of its playback depends entirely on the quality of the sound-producing device.

For example, belief in dragons, however sincere, does not mean reality contains any dragons.

The most influential and dominant school of Indian philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, rejects theism and dualism by insisting that “ Brahman reality is without parts or attributes … one without a second .” Since, Brahman has no properties, contains no internal diversity and is identical with the whole reality it cannot be understood as God.

The Duderstadt Center also contains multiple computer labs, video editing studios, electronic music studios, an audio studio, a video studio, multimedia workspaces, and a 3D virtual reality room.

The id contains the libido, which is the primary source of instinctual force that is unresponsive to the demands of reality.

Plato's Phaedo contains similar imagery to that of the Allegory of the Cave ; a philosopher recognizes that before philosophy, his soul was " a veritable prisoner fast bound within his body ... and that instead of investigating reality by itself and in itself it is compelled to peer through the bars of its prison ".

The Gong mythology contains many similarities to concepts from Buddhist belief, eg the search for self, the denial of absolute reality and the search for the path to enlightenment.

Adherents of Christian Science believe that Genesis ( creation ) contains two interleaved stories of creation, one spiritual, the other material and hold that the reality of all that God made is spiritual, and not material.

Seeing the dismayed expressions of her " parents ", combined with a series of sudden realizations, including the fact that the family photo album contains no pictures of her as a child, she arrives at the shocking reality that she, too, is a robot, albeit much more emotionally sophisticated than the ones that were dismantled.

Eliade argues that religious thought in general rests on a sharp distinction between the Sacred and the profane ; whether it takes the form of God, gods, or mythical Ancestors, the Sacred contains all " reality ", or value, and other things acquire " reality " only to the extent that they participate in the sacred.

For example, some software by Microsoft and Eudora for Windows purportedly encoded their output using the ISO-8859-1 encoding while, in reality, used Windows-1252 that contains extra printable characters in the C1 range.

It contains several distinct concepts, which are limit cases that never occur in reality but allow an understanding of the physics of waves, and has become a very important concept in quantum physics.

The books contains contributions on " Fluid flow, fractals, plant growth, genetic sequencing, the configuration of distant galaxies, virtual reality to artistic inspiration ", and focuses on use of computers as tools for simulation, art and discovery.

Fredkin's digital philosophy contains several fundamental ideas: Everything in physics and physical reality must have a digital informational representation.