In the new situation, philosophy is able to provide the social sciences with the same guidance that mathematics offers the physical sciences, a reservoir of logical relations that can be used in framing hypotheses having explanatory and predictive value.

He took courses in philosophy at the Sorbonne, and he collaborated with L ' Humanité, writing articles on the situation in Albania under the pseudonym Lulo Malësori.

He remained in that position until 1800, when the college's worsening financial situation led him to resign his post and begin a new career in Manchester as a private tutor for mathematics and natural philosophy.

As the war situation deteriorated for the Japanese and the territories controlled by the " Area Fleets " fell one after another to the United States Navy, the Imperial General Headquarters and the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff acted to force the American fleet into a " decisive battle " in the Philippines per the kantai kessen philosophy.

His mailings to prospective students and their parents could run to three or four typed pages, intermixing his philosophy of education with practical concerns directed to the inquirer ’ s situation.

In the belief that 20th century relativism, scientism, historicism, and nihilism were all implicated in the deterioration of modern society and philosophy, Strauss sought to uncover the philosophical pathways that had led to this situation.

In addition the philosophy of remaining " unfixed " also applies to the defense techniques, in that there is no defined response to a given situation, and they attempt to fit the situation as it arises.

He has a love of big words, Latin phrases, philosophy, and colorful puns relating to his immediate situation (" Were I to ride upon this sawhorse he would not only be an animal, he would become an equipage for he would then be a horse and buggy ").

The theory of non-well-founded sets has been applied in the logical modelling of non-terminating computational processes in computer science ( process algebra and final semantics ), linguistics and natural language semantics ( situation theory ), philosophy ( work on the Liar Paradox ), and in a different setting, non-standard analysis.

The US Marine concept of maneuver however is a " warfighting philosophy that seeks to shatter the enemy ’ s cohesion through a variety of rapid, focused, and unexpected actions which create a turbulent and rapidly deteriorating situation with which the enemy cannot cope.

The solution to this problematic situation was the inclusion, within the philosophy of raison d ' état, the incorporation of the populace which the machinery of the state had to govern.

According to Professor George di Giovanni, of McGill University, Reinhold tried to provide a foundation for Kant's philosophy in order to remedy this situation.

The triumph of the PC over the Mac was a blow for that philosophy, a situation which was then reversed by the serial successes of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad-only for the Android challenge to reopen the debate again.

In the North American situation, the two main exponents today of Vollenhoven's consequent problem-historical method ( CPHM ) are Dr John Kok of Dordt College, who wrote his dissertation on Vollenhoven's early development ; and Dr Robert Sweetman ( ICS, Toronto ), who holds the H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Philosophy, who is a Medieval philosophy specialist, and who brings an incipient theory of discourse to a gap in the archtectonics of this school of historical-philosophical thought.

Alternatively, " irrational escalation " ( sometimes referred to as " irrational escalation of commitment " or " commitment bias ") is a term frequently used in psychology, philosophy, economics, and game theory to refer to a situation in which people can make irrational decisions based upon rational decisions in the past or to justify actions already taken.

Daly had many published works, as recently as 2004, and was known for his views on philosophy, theology and on the Northern Ireland situation, attracting global acclaim for writing the speech which Pope John Paul II used on his 1979 visit to Drogheda to ask for an end to violence on the island.

In 1879, the family's financial situation improved and, after his Abitur exam, Grabowski studied philosophy and natural science at the University of Breslau in Breslau ( now Wrocław ).

* The Primacy of the body, not the primacy of perception: How the body knows the situation and philosophy

Lévi-Strauss ' approach arose, fundamentally, from the philosophy of Hegel who explains that in every situation there can be found two opposing things and their resolution ; he called these " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

Many punks of that years came directly from the Italian proletariat and sub-proletariat, so the lyrics of the bands were focused on the social situation and on the distance between punk movement and the growing Italian-yuppie philosophy.

* Positive mental attitude-a philosophy of having an optimistic disposition in every situation

Positive mental attitude ( PMA ) is the philosophy that having an optimistic disposition in every situation in one's life attracts positive changes and increases achievement.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

These polar concerns ( imitation vs. formalism ) reflect a philosophical and religious situation which has been developing over a long period of time.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

Thus, there has come into being a situation in which the state must raise all of its own revenues and, in addition, must give assistance to its local governments.

By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.

Assume, for example, a situation where a farm has a packing shed and fields.

Every retiring person has a different situation facing him.

Obviously, the bridal pair has many adjustments to make to their new situation.

So this proxy situation has set up at least a partial barrier between the medium's ESP and the absent sitter's mind.

one study in Pittsburgh, however, has illuminated the situation.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

`` I don't know whether that threatening letter of hers has anything to do with this situation or not, but I want to see who takes the call ''.

Should there be evidence they are shirking, he has said, the state police will step into the situation.

`` The financial situation of the Baltimore & Ohio, has become precarious -- much worse than at any time since the depression of the 1930s '', he told the hearing.

The net result is that under American leadership the general world situation has become bad.

The contrast between the " careful control against the almost inconceivable perversion of his scheme " and " the ridiculousness of the proposal " create a situation in which the reader has " to consider just what perverted values and assumptions would allow such a diligent, thoughtful, and conventional man to propose so perverse a plan ".

He thinks only of his own personal happiness and the unfairness of the situation in which he has been placed but gradually comes to recognize his membership in a larger human community, which makes demands on him that he cannot ignore.

There are two types of allophones, based on whether a phoneme must be pronounced using a specific allophone in a specific situation, or whether the speaker has freedom to ( unconsciously ) choose which allophone he or she will use.

Recently, Abandan has been the site of major labor activity as workers at the oil refineries in the city have staged walkouts and strikes to protest non-payment of wages and the political situation in the country.

However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

Since the attacks, the situation for crew members, passengers and hijackers has changed.

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.