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Instead, he proposed the existence of the apeiron, an indefinite substance from which all things are born and to which all things will return .< ref > Simplicius, Comments on Aristotle's Physics ( 24, 13 ).< DK 12 A9, B1 ></ ref > Apeiron ( endless or boundless ) is something completely indefinite and Anaximander was probably influenced by the original chaos of Hesiod ( yawning abyss ).
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Instead Arminius proposed that the election of God was of believers, thereby making it conditional on faith.
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Instead, they challenged it in court, appealed to Congress for its repeal, and proposed several constitutional amendments.
Instead he proposed that a revolutionary society should “ transform itself immediately into a communist society ,” that is, should go immediately into what Marx had regarded as the “ more advanced ,” completed, phase of communism.
Instead, South Africa proposed that it be allowed to annex South-West Africa, a proposal rejected by the United Nations General Assembly.
Instead of suggesting that the mechanical properties of objects changed with their constant-velocity motion through an undetectable aether, Einstein proposed to deduce the characteristics that any successful theory must possess in order to be consistent with the most basic and firmly established principles, independent of the existence of a hypothetical aether.
Instead, Szilard proposed using mixtures of lighter known isotopes which produced neutrons in copious amounts.
Instead they proposed over-provisioning of capacity as more cost-effective at the time.
" Instead he paid more attention to the industrial regions and the needs of Ontario and Quebec, particularly with respect to the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway project with the United States.
Instead, he proposed a government sponsored system in which the price of farm land was set at a high enough level to prevent urban workers from easily purchasing it and thus leaving the labour market.
Instead, he proposed that Goodall work for him as a secretary.
Instead they proposed a rule based on a partially computable process which having read any N elements of the sequence, decides if it wants to select another element which has not been read yet.
Instead, they proposed that in the aftermath of the giant impact, while the Earth and the proto-lunar disk were molten and vaporized, the two reservoirs were connected by a common silicate vapour atmosphere, and that the Earth – Moon system became homogenized by convective stirring while the system existed in the form of a continuous fluid.
Instead, the commonly accepted subgrouping scheme is that proposed by Ives Goddard ( 1994 ).
Instead they proposed a simple log cabin shrine.
Instead, Truman met with Stevenson in Washington and proposed that Stevenson seek the Democratic nomination for president ; Truman promised him his support if he did so.
Instead of Mirrorball, a new series of Absolutely Fabulous was proposed to the BBC, who later commissioned the fourth series in 2001.
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Instead he proposed regular, " anticipatory-type " sessions devoted, as Johnson explained at the first of the new series, to " discussion of complex problems requiring careful exploration before they were to come to him for decision.
Instead he proposed that the Prime Minister, Lord North, make peace with the rebellious American colonies.
Instead of the drastic social changes he proposed in the past, his government chose a reformist line, passing new retirement, tax, labour and judicial legislation, and discussing university reform.
Instead, in 1973, the Park Service proposed to build a smaller glass pavilion for the bell at the north end of Independence Mall, between Arch and Race Streets.
Instead, they proposed and were able to liberalize procedure for obtaining Belgian citizenship.
Instead, a Royal Commission was set up to review English local government entirely, and its report ( known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report ) proposed a much wider Merseyside metropolitan area covering southwest Lancashire and northwest Cheshire, extending as far south as Chester and as far north as the River Ribble.
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Instead, its existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation, and the large scale structure of the universe.
Instead of adopting a form of eliminativism or mental fictionalism, positions that deny that inner mental phenomena exist, a behaviorist was able to adopt epiphenomenalism in order to allow for the existence of mind.
Instead, in the Bahá ' í understanding, the world of creation emanates from God, in that all things have been realized by him and have attained to existence.
Instead, every individual reader creates a new and individual purpose, meaning, and existence for a given text.
Instead, Deism holds that religious beliefs must be founded on human reason and observed features of the natural world, and that these sources reveal the existence of a supreme being as creator.
Instead, Foucault analyzes the discursive and practical conditions for the existence of truth and discursive meaning.
Instead, in the Bahá ' í understanding, the world of creation emanates from God, in that all things have been realized by him and have attained to existence.
Instead it created a sign for a long e with it, keeping the letter Ε for the short e. The digamma dropped out, and Ψ and Ξ came into existence, bringing the Attic alphabet to its classic 24-letter form.
Instead, they concentrated on the experience of one's own existence.
Instead the court ruled that diminished responsibility required the existence of an abnormality of mind which had the effect that the accused's ability to determine or control his actings was substantially impaired.
Instead of postulating matter and form, he bases existence on matter and force.
Instead, Mach held sensory phenomena to be " pure data " whose existence was to be considered anterior to any arbitrary distinction between mental and physical categories of phenomena.
Instead of emerging from FTL speed in the middle of Centarus ( the sun around which the Centaurian Empire is built ) and blowing it, and the surrounding Centaurian system, out of existence, it turns out that Cole transformed ( or fixed ) Icarus into a working hyperdrive.
Instead of " is-ness " generating " actuality ," he argued that existence and actuality come first, and the essence is derived afterward.
Instead these were viewed as existing merely as nominal entities without any ultimate existence.
Instead, therefore, of these commissioners settling the disputed point as to the existence or nonexistence of animal magnetism, their reports only gave the subject an additional interest and the cause of magnetism was embraced by a sizeable number of new supporters and interest in animal magnetism was sustained in France during the ensuing decades.
Instead of taking their seats in the British House of Commons, they assembled in the Lord Mayor of Dublin's residence and proclaimed the Irish Republic to be in existence and themselves Dáil Éireann ( the Assembly of Ireland )-its parliament.
Instead, the Leader of ARC ( the Ambazonia Restoration Council ), Fon Gorji-Dinka, was arrested and tried for treason for claiming the continuing existence of the sovereignty of the ' Southern Cameroons ' in the Republic of Ambazonia.
Instead we set out to create a very strange world with a lot of weird values and customs, steeped in superstition, where the clothes and manners of the people were rough, their homes and villages primitive and their countryside almost primeval, so that the idea of magic would be a natural part of their existence.
Instead, most of them keep to their own planets, and the only space-faring ones ( humans and, probably, Wanderers ) have chosen a selfless existence assisting in the scientific development of less advanced civilizations (" progressing " or " progressorizing ") rather than building a galactic empire based on their technological advantage.
Instead, she goes behind everyone's back and contacts the Stepford Cuckoos, who are loyal to Cyclops and would keep X-Force's existence a secret.
Instead, through marriage a woman's existence was incorporated into that of her husband, so that she had very few recognized individual rights of her own.
Instead of forcing a hard existence upon the Patryns and teaching them to care for others through relying on one another, it created a lethal, murderous hell where survival was the cruel torture of having hope dangled in your face, only to have it ripped away.
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