Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals ; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole ; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones ; and secret planning, not public discussion.

Darwin's aims were twofold: to show that species had not been separately created, and to show that natural selection had been the chief agent of change.

One of Williams ' aims, in experimenting with his " variable foot ", was to show the American ( opposed to European ) rhythm that he claimed was present in everyday American language.

The awards show, produced by VH1, is dedicated to honoring people who do good and is powered by Do Something, an organization that aims to empower and inspire young people.

With colleagues Giuseppe Longo and Maël Montévil, Stuart Kauffman wrote ( January 2012 ) " No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere ," which aims to show that evolution is not law entailed, as is physics, and that, without selection, evolution enables its own future possibilities.

This section aims to define neoliberalism more accurately and to show how its evolution has influenced the different uses of the word.

Paul Boghossian raised an objection to the class of Twin-Earth style arguments for externalism in the form of an argument that aims to show that externalism is incompatible with privileged self-knowledge.

As the above equations show, calculating a rate – distortion function requires the stochastic description of the input X in terms of the PDF P < sub > X </ sub >( x ), and then aims at finding the conditional PDF Q < sub > Y | X </ sub >( y | x ) that minimize rate for a given distortion D < sup >*</ sup >.

Schenker's primary theoretic aims were to prove the superiority of music of the common practice period ( especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Fryderyk Chopin, and Johannes Brahms ) over more modern music such as that of Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, and to show that most of the established music theory teaching of the time, with an emphasis on the theories of his contemporary Hugo Riemann, was misleading and useless for an understanding of the " masterworks.

( The work of the population geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza aims to show the gene-linguistic co-evolution of people ).

There are two recorded interview that show the true aims of the founders of the Bond from the very beginning.

The documentary aims to show the mass media bias as it juxtaposes original protest footage with those images shown on the nightly news.

Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

" One of the aims of the play is to show what happens after the wedding as sentimental conclusion in plays of the period through the figures of Courtine and Sylvia.

He argues for this position with what he calls his " basic argument ", which aims to show that no-one is ever ultimately morally responsible for their actions, and hence that no one has free will in the sense that usually concerns us.

Mimetic Convergence thus aims to show the process of fixation of meaning through discursive articulations that repeat, alter and subvert political issues that come into play.

The dub aims to be a faithful translation, without attempts to sanitize the show for younger viewers ( meaning there is profanity and utterances of the word " kill ").

It ’ s a show that aims to not just entertain, but also educate and inform viewers about their rights as South African consumers.

In this account he develops a theory of cooperation, to show how people of different intellectual positions can nevertheless cooperate to achieve common practical aims.

He argues for this position with what he calls his " basic argument ," which aims to show that no-one is ever ultimately morally responsible for their actions, and hence that no one has free will in the sense that usually concerns us.

He characterizes democracy as " publicly owned government ," which he compares to monarchy —" privately owned government "— to conclude that the latter is preferable ; however, Hoppe aims to show that both monarchy and democracy are deficient systems compared to his preferred structure to advance civilization — what he calls the natural order, a system free of both taxation and coercive monopoly in which jurisdictions freely compete for adherents.

The show aims to be a conservative alternative to The View.

In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic.

Brüno also interviews fashion aficionados and ' party people ' and exposes their extreme views of how unfashionable people should be treated and aims to show the superficiality, hypocrisy and inconsistency of the fashion world.

The Alexander technique aims to teach people how to stand, hold themselves and move differently in order to eliminate unnecessary tension in their bodies.

* ZCAN-" The Zen of Comprehensive Archive Networks "-a document that aims to explain how and why CPAN succeeded and how to duplicate it in similar efforts.

The Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition ( AAHM ) aims to address how countries and organizations can be more effective in advocating and carrying out actions to address hunger and malnutrition.

Multivariate statistics concerns understanding the different aims and background of each of the different forms of multivariate analysis, and how they relate to each other.

Two central questions about science are ( 1 ) what are the aims of science and ( 2 ) how should one interpret the results of science?

In simple terms, it aims to find out how the changes in an individual's DNA sequence affects the risks of developing common diseases such as cancer, which is of great importance to improving methods of diagnosing, preventing, and treating these diseases.

Science education research aims to define or characterize what constitutes learning in science and how it is brought about.

This system aims to promote a non-competitive atmosphere that focuses more on the student learning the material rather than learning how to take a test.

Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of cognitive psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes.

A fitness function is a particular type of objective function that is used to summarise, as a single figure of merit, how close a given design solution is to achieving the set aims.

In addition, Stanford aims to deepen public understanding of academic medicine by demonstrating how discoveries made in laboratories and clinics lead to profound improvements in human health.

His case played a very important role in the development of theories that explain the link between brain function and memory, and in the development of cognitive neuropsychology, a branch of psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes.

The railway aims to preserve the line as near as possible to how it was in the first three decades of its existence, but with particular emphasis on the early 1920s.

In contrast, SDP aims to protect individuals against majoritarian policy enactments which exceed the limits of governmental authority — that is, courts find the majority's enactment is not law, and cannot be enforced as such, regardless of how fair the process of enforcement actually is.

The MP aims to get to know how much of the Principles and Parameters model can be taken as a result of this hypothetical optimal and computationally efficient design of the human language faculty.

Ivor Wilkins and Hans Strydom recount how, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, a leading broeder ( brother or member ) said: for understandable reasons it was difficult to explain aims … n the beginning people were allowed in … who thought it was just another cultural society ( Wilkins & Strydom, 1980, 45 ).

This ' logic model ' is often not stated expicitly by people who run programs, it is simply assumed, and so an evaluator will need to draw out from the program staff how exactly the program is supposed to achieve its aims and assess whether this logic is plausible.

He does not assume market equilibrium, but aims to explain how the process of convergence between supply and demand practically occurs, that is, why supply and demand meet at a given price point when a sale is realised in a specific market.

The Stresa Front could be seen as a failure due to its vague terms and the fact that it wasn't clear how its aims should be upheld.

The event aims to offer advice on how to grow your business in a changing and challenging environment.

IRGC focuses in particular on emerging, systemic risks for which governance deficits exist, and aims to provide recommendations for how policymakers can correct these deficits.

Thus for Aristotle episteme concerns practical wisdom, and those possessing practical wisdom ( phronimos ) have a knowledge about how to achieve the highest aims, in ways that cannot be reduced to scientific knowledge of general truths, nor to technical know-how about how to get morally neutral things done.