He says that the matter is far from resolved, and that certain facts may soon come to light which will clear up the matter.

Reductive materialism being at one end of a continuum ( our theories will reduce to facts ) and eliminative materialism on the other ( certain theories will need to be eliminated in light of new facts ), Revisionary materialism is somewhere in the middle.

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines research in more detail as " a studious inquiry or examination ; especially: investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws ".

These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.

Those who idolize ' facts ' never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light.

In the light of facts about the diplomatic work of Stibor and the Clan of Ostoja that was following the politics of King Sigismund, one can question if Sigismund really joined the anti-Polish alliance in reality.

:: Example: “ Each case must be scrutinized on its particular facts to determine whether a trial error is harmless error or prejudicial error when viewed in the light of the trial record as a whole, not whether each isolated incident viewed by itself constitutes reversible error .” United States v. Grunberger, 431 F. 2d 1062, 1069 ( CA2 1970 ).

The subject is most commonly addressed in reference to fictional universes that differ markedly from reality, such as those that introduce entire fictional cities, countries, or even planets, or those that contradict commonly known facts about the world and its history, or those that feature fantasy or science fiction concepts such as magic or faster than light travel — and especially those in which the deliberate development of the setting is a substantial focus of the work.

The Freespire. com site states that it is " dedicated to shedding light on the REAL Michael Robertson ," and discloses information and facts about Robertson.

The SEC report read, " In light of the facts uncovered, it would be difficult to establish that, even assuming ( Mr .) Bush possessed material nonpublic information, he acted with sentience or intent to defraud ".

" In light of the facts mentioned above, I feel that though we have won the battle of Brickman, we have lost the war for self preservation and home rule.

Because of these two facts, light water reactors have a relatively small moderator volume and therefore have compact cores.

By the time these facts can come to light, the voters have cast their ballots.

To summarize, nerve interference is described, by modern-day advocates of this concept, as a reduction of neural or mental impulses, which occurs in response to a bone-out-of-place ( BOOP ) subluxation ... Clearly, the BOOP subluxation model fails miserably when considered in the light of basic neuroscience facts ... BOOP subluxationists become angry and defensive when the BOOP model of subluxation is criticized ...

But where we find that the legislators, in light of the facts and testimony before them, have a rational basis for finding a chosen regulatory scheme necessary to the protection of commerce, our investigation is at an end.

His main argument was that the facts presented in the book were unrealistic in light of broader historical knowledge about Napoleonic campaigns and the politics of the Duchy of Warsaw.

" Since then, as the public excitement grew and the facts of Peace's extraordinary career came to light, the press had responded loyally to the demands of the greedy lovers of sensation, and piled fiction on fact with generous profusion.

While not outright deception, techniques such as spin cast events and facts in a more favorable light to others so as to, again, keep them happy while getting a particular way.

He later wrote that such facts " seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species ".

Many have charged Bonnet with " editing " his papers to present himself in the best possible light, regardless of the facts.

In 1870 appeared his Other Worlds Than Ours, in which he discussed the question of the plurality of worlds in the light of new facts.

Steinbuch's complaint and related filings, filed in federal court in Washington, D. C., describe the case as for " defamation ," " false light ," " invasion of privacy for public revelation of private facts ," the " intentional infliction of emotional distress ," and " other causes of action.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

Ptolemy's problem is to forecast where, against the inverted bowl of night, some particular light will be found at future times.

The light at that time is a benediction.

Above, the glowing ivory baton of their searchlight pointed at the clouds, diluting the valley's dark to a pallid light.

Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought of Simms Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air.

He was brigadier of the club's locker-room light infantry, and at one time or another declared war on Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and China.

from the early evening lights of them which had first startled Izaak to look at her in an uncousinly way, they had faded to a near-absence of color which had, possibly from her constant looking at the water, something of the light of the sea in them.

These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.

Tests have shown that such a device, with a fresh battery, will furnish light continuously for at least 10 days.

In the light of these circumstances, as well as the fact that the issue at trial in this respect centered entirely on the Department's recommendation, which petitioner repudiated but which both the appeal board and the courts below found supported by the record, we find no relevancy in the hearing officer's report and notes.

it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.

Often one floodlight high in a tree will provide all the light you need at much less expense.

Where the microscope under visible light may show only vague shadows or nothing at all, ultraviolet illumination and subsequent translation into a color TV picture reveal a wealth of detail.

The photochemical exchange occurs with a quantum yield of the order of unity in the liquid phase at 65-degrees using light absorbed only by the Af.

The rate of the gas phase exchange reaction appears to be proportional to the first power of the absorbed light intensity indicating that the radical intermediates are removed at the walls or by reaction with an impurity rather than by bimolecular radical combination reactions.

The last column shows the rate of exchange that would have been observed at a relative intensity of 4 ( 14.7 cm. distance ) calculated on the assumptions that the incident light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the lamp from the cell and that the rate is directly proportional to the incident light intensity.

But when what is new in a particular context is also fairly obvious, there is normally only light stress or no stress at all.

Geometric pottery has not yet received the thorough, detailed study which it deserves, partly because the task is a mammoth one and partly because some of its local manifestations, as at Argos, are only now coming to light.

On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.

As the child addresses the shepherd in a dream, light -- in the form of the major mode -- begins to appear, and at the moment of the miracle we hear a clear and shining D major.