This sense of moderation and fairness is superbly exemplified in an exchange of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee, Peter Van Schaack.

The process stipulates that the choreographer sense the quality of the initial movement he has discovered and that he feel the rightness of the quality that is to follow it.

It is not a mess you can make sense of ''.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.

Piepsam is not, certainly, religious in any conventional sense.

Mimesis here is not to be confused with literalism or realism in the conventional sense.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

The corporation in America is in reality our form of socialism, vying in a sense with the other socialistic form that has emerged within governmental bureaucracy.

Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.

In a sense, Einstein's theory is simpler than Newton's, and there is a corresponding sense in which Copernicus' theory is simpler than Ptolemy's.

The only way to describe Paula Sandburg is to say she is beautiful in a Grecian sense.

It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.

Modern western mysticism and new age philosophy often use the term ' the Divine ' as a noun in this latter sense: a non-specific principle and / or being that gives rise to the world, and acts as the source or wellspring of life.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

Ba does not mean " soul " in the western sense, and has to do with power, reputation, force of character, especially in the case of a god.

Anjou () is a former county ( in the sense of being ruled by a count, from c. 880 ), duchy ( 1360 ) and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower Loire Valley of western France.

It is the cause in the sense that the virtues, which are defined to be the " perfected ability " of man as a spiritual person ( spiritual personhood in the classical western understanding means having intelligence and free will ), achieve their " perfection " only when they are founded upon prudence, that is to say upon the perfected ability to make right decisions.

" Before allotment, reservation territory was not owned in the usual western sense, but was reserved for the benefit of entire Indian tribes, with its benefits apportioned to tribe members according to tribal law and custom.

The term can be said to originate in Germany, in a sense that a ruler in the then Germany's western borders was the first to be called so, and that it was a German overlord, the Holy Roman Emperor, whose vassal ( although an Italian ) was first granted the official title by the Pope.

In this sense, the Western Hemisphere consists of the Americas, the western portions of Africa and Europe, the extreme eastern tip of Russia, numerous territories in Oceania, and a portion of Antarctica, while excluding some of the Aleutian Islands to the southwest of the Alaskan mainland.

And on the western point of the island is the bayside which is unique in its own sense.

The roughly half-dozen varied icons of the Virgin and Child in Rome from the 6th-8th century form the majority of the representations surviving from this period ; " isolated images of the Madonna and Child ... are so common ... to the present day in Catholic and Orthodox tradition, that it is difficult to recover a sense of the novelty of such images in the early Middle Ages, at least in western Europe ".

After occasionally having toured the countryside with the theatre group " Hoffmans Comic Teater " ( consisting in Reiser, his brothers and a group of friends ), Reiser went on to continue theatrical projects in Berlin where he joined an improvisation theatre group which played scenes from the everyday life of pupils and trainees, thus adopting and reflecting the social problems among young people in the western Berlin of the Sixties, as well as its tense and sense of imminent social change.

The deeply rooted tradition of duty among both Asian and Latin American cultures contributes to much of the strong sense of duty that exists in comparison to western cultures.

The book acknowledged that they were mutually unintelligible and that the term " dialect " was used in a different sense than the western term, in which a dialect was merely indicative of a small difference in pronunciation, while in China, the entire grammar and idiom were different ; the written language was what united the different Chinese dialects.

The Academy movement in the U. S. in the early 19th century arose from a public sense that education in the classic disciplines needed to be extended into the new territories and states that were being formed in the Old Northwest, in western New York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.

There is no such term as civilians in the modern western sense.

It seems that in at least one country newly added names are dedicated each year at a special eucumenical service in the presence of family members, veterans and invited dignitaries ; the historical and political issues that are involved are arguably numerous and complicated ; they can certainly be said to include both the issue of whether it makes any historical sense whatsoever that the names of the dead in war can be added in this fashion into what seems to be intended to be an indefinite future while completely ignoring those of the military who died in what is effectively, from the point of view of nationality and politics, the same military actions over the period of all the previous centuries in which the country in question existed, and also an issue which is perhaps even more relevant from a personal and legal point of view, namely whether the relatives and others who should in principle, together with any others involved in point of law, be in some sort of control of the use of the names of the dead for commemorative purposes will necessarily be in accordance with the military decisions taken by the government, or the character of the government itself, it being the case that if they are not they may not wish the names to be included ( this citizen right having it seems, on the record, been generally observed at the time of the erection of the war memorials after the First World War in particular in western Europe, if not it seems after the Second World War ).

In this sense, the aims of the Soviet Union may not have been aggressive expansionism but rather consolidation, i. e., attempting to secure the war-torn country's western borders.

More structures were added over the ensuing decades, outside the periphery of the original site – as they were not part of Mies's master plan for the Centre – but still located close enough, and in such locations, as to visually impact the sense of space within areas of the centre, forming Miesian western and southern walls to the lawn, and a tall eastern flank to the plaza.

It is used in a narrow sense for the area lying between northern Lake Tanganyika, western Lake Victoria, and lakes Kivu, Edward and Albert.

However, western etiquette advocates the use of longhand in personal notes ( e. g., thank-you notes ) to provide a sense that a real person is involved in the correspondence.

According to the Encyclopædia Iranica, the proto-Armenians had settled in Artsakh already by the 7th century BC, though until the 6th-5th centuries BC the Armenians in the strict sense must have lived only on the western half of the Armenian Plateau ( in areas between Cappadocia, the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the lake of Van ).

" Notions of western betrayal " are a reference to " a sense of historical and moral responsibility " for the West's " abandonment of ( Central and ) Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War ," according to professors Charlotte Bretherton and John Vogler.

This " preoccupation with their historical sense of ' damaged self ' has fueled resentment " towards the west generally and reinforced the western betrayal concept in particular, according to Ilya Prizel.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

And lest we should become too consistent, in the sense of becoming heedless of new fields of scholarship and new points of view in the arts, the Foundation's Board of Trustees maintains a trickle -- not a flow!!

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

In the strict sense, however, agnosticism is the view that humanity does not currently possess the requisite knowledge and / or reason to provide sufficient rational grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

However, most Methodists view apostolic succession outside its high church sense.

Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.

Since many commentators view the notion of sense as identical to the notion of concept, and Frege regards senses as the linguistic representations of states of affairs in the world, it seems to follow that we may understand concepts as the manner in which we grasp the world.

From the point of view of differential topology, the donut and the coffee cup are the same ( in a sense ).

This is an inherently global view, though, because there is no way for the differential topologist to tell whether the two objects are the same ( in this sense ) by looking at just a tiny ( local ) piece of either of them.

According to this view, ethics is more a summary of common sense social decisions.

According to the " two sense " view of existence, which derives from Alexius Meinong, existential statements fall into two classes.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

Hume argued in keeping with the empiricist view that all knowledge derives from sense experience, but he accepted that this has implications not normally acceptable to philosophers.

The view held by Conservative Judaism is that while God is real, the Torah is not the word of God in a literal sense.

He manifests there that " No social ideal, from the point of view of anarchism, could be referred to as absolute in a sense that supposes it ’ s the crown of human wisdom, the end of social and ethical quest of man.

Early German use of the term judenchristlich (" Jewish-Christian "), in a decidedly negative sense, can be found in the late writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, who emphasized what he saw as neglected aspects of continuity between the Jewish world view and that of Christianity.

His analysis showed the Puritans as providing the foundational values of America, based on their strong Hebrew Bible view of the world, which included fighting for earthly political justice, an emphasis on laws and education, and the " chosenness " which the Puritans identified with, giving them a sense of moral mission in founding America.

Some historians view cases of cross-dressing women to be manifestations of women seizing power they would naturally be unable to enjoy in feminine attire, or their way of making sense out of their desire for women.

The term misogynist is frequently used in a looser sense as a term of derision to describe anyone who is considered to hold a prejudiced view about women as a group.

Some scholars have attributed this to the Merovingians lacking a sense of res publica, but other historians have criticized this view as an oversimplification.

A distinction may be made here between etic and emic viewpoints – the purely descriptive ( etic ) approach which simply considers any system that is actually used, and the emic view which takes account of language users ' perceptions of correctness, which are analogous in some ways to a moral sense of right and wrong.

These are usually illustrated with " paradoxes " in which an event appears different when observed from two different points of view, seeming to violate " common sense ".

In a vernacular sense, the term " political philosophy " often refers to a general view, or specific ethic, political belief or attitude, about politics that does not necessarily belong to the technical discipline of philosophy.