In many of Plato's dialogues, such as the Meno, and in particular the Theaetetus, Socrates considers a number of theories as to what knowledge is, the last being that knowledge is true belief that has been " given an account of " — meaning explained or defined in some way.

He considers bare repetition of the Jesus Prayer as a mere string of syllables, perhaps with a ' mystical ' inner meaning beyond the overt verbal meaning, to be worthless or even dangerous.

The traditional etymology considers the second element cognate with Latin planum " plain " ( with the characteristic Celtic loss of p ), and holds that the original meaning is " mid-plain ", " situated in the middle of the plain ".

Another theory, that is supported by modern linguistics, considers " Salamis " to come from the root " Sal -" ( meaning salty water ) and "- amis " ( meaning the middle ); thus Salamis = ( the place ) amid salt water.

He discusses very carefully the nature and meaning of the divine attributes ; considers universals to be the ideal forms pre-existing in the divine mind according to which things were shaped ; holds matter to be pure potentiality which receives individual being and determinateness from the formative power of God, acting according to the ideas ; and finally maintains that the intellectus agens has no separate existence.

Álfröðull also occurs as a kenning for the sun in skaldic verse ; the simplex, röðull, is used with the same meaning and Alaric Hall therefore suggests in his book on the elves that the choice of " álfröðull " depended on alliteration, but that the existence of the kenning suggests that the concepts of the sun and the elves were " semantically congruent "; he considers the álfr ( elf ) in " álfröðull " possibly a heiti for Freyr.

Capdeville considers Cedrenus ' text to be due to a paleographic error: only Coenulus is indubitably an epithet of Janus and the adjective used to explain it, meaning to present and to treat well at dinner, was used in a ritual invocation before meals, wishing the diners to make good flesh.

Since there can be no originating anchor of meaning in the possible intentions of the author, Barthes considers what other sources of meaning or significance can be found in literature.

The methodology of reform can be classified into two groups, one depending on re-interpreting the traditional texts which constitutes Islamic law ( ijtihad ); this varies widely from little deviation from the traditional interpretation, to the more liberal which considers only the meaning of Qur ' an as a divine inspiration, while the wording is believed to be from the prophet Muhammad intended by him to suit his time and situation, therefore interpreting the problematic verses in modern times allegorically or even not considering them.

The film's narrator, an old-fashioned cowboy played by Sam Elliott, insinuates that he considers the term ' dude ' in its traditional sense, meaning a pretentious city-slicker type, rather than in its more contemporary sense.

There has been considerable progress in describing finite quotients of quantum groups such as the above for q < sup > n </ sup > = 1 ; one usually considers the class of pointed Hopf algebras, meaning that all subcoideals are 1-dimensional and thus there sum form a group called coradical:

Therefore, he considers this pre-Greek root to be of Thracian origin, meaning " great ".

While the terms " scientific management " and " Taylorism " are often treated as synonymous, an alternative view considers Taylorism as the first form of scientific management, which was followed by new iterations ; thus in today's management theory, Taylorism is sometimes called ( or considered a subset of ) the classical perspective ( meaning a perspective that's still respected for its seminal influence although it is no longer state-of-the-art ).

However, properly targeted research on young males, particularly those from disadvantaged ethnic groups, which considers both the meaning and duration of unemployment, has yet to be done.

Sontag is strongly averse to what she considers to be contemporary interpretation, that is, an overabundance of importance placed upon the content or meaning of an artwork rather than being keenly alert to the sensuous aspects of a given work and developing a descriptive vocabulary for how it appears and how it does whatever it does.

One view proposed by Soviet scholars considers the Boykos an autochthonous population with specific language and dialectal features, of which their use of bo ye meaning " yes " is a prominent example ( hypothesis of I. Verkhratsky ).

Joseph Brodsky considers the work deeply suspicious of the meaning of language, especially political language.

Shung often refers to those he considers inferior ( meaning everyone ) by nicknames, such as calling his underlings " Wartsnippers ", Christa " Long Hair ", and Kevin " Quickmouth ".

As of 2012, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy considers the Percheron to be " recovering ", meaning that the breed has exceeded the numbers required to be in one of the " watch " categories, but still needs to be monitored.

He also considers problems of reference to objects in fictions and hallucinations, and to the meaning of saying that something exists which doesn't.

Currently, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy considers the population of the Shire to be at " critical " levels, meaning that the estimated global population of the breed is less than 2, 000 and there are less than 200 registrations annually in the US.

Judaism, unlike Christianity and Islam, is not an openly proselytizing religion: unlike Christianity, many of the followers of which maintain that belief in Jesus is a prerequisite for salvation, and Islam, which considers it imperative that each person practice Islam, Judaism teaches that the righteous of all nations have a place in the afterlife.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

He has frequently refused to move from white lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he considers unjust, while in other cases he has appealed to federal laws.

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.

Loomis considers ranking a product of the evaluation process.

Loomis considers six such processes in his paradigm.

The model of this paper considers an industry which is not characterized by vigorous price competition, but which is so basic that its wage-price policies are held in check by continuous critical public scrutiny.

the child who had once considered it a treat to accompany his parents on picnics and family gatherings now considers it a bore.

Since the change to better nutrition, he feels he can report on improvements in health, though he considers the following statements observations and not scientific proof.

The Church considers this to be the method provided by nature and its divine Author: It involves no frustration of nature's laws, but simply an intelligent and disciplined use of them.

Having once committed himself to an ideal which he considers worthwhile, he inevitably creates forms for its expression and institutions for its continuance.

The engagement was supposed to be all set for the big theater in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker extraordinary, considers the finest house of its kind in the country -- and of course he doesn't weep at the capacity, either.

Jainism considers all living things to be equal.

The importance lies in sacrifice for the sake of the greater good ; Islam considers those practicing i ' thar as abiding by the highest degree of nobility.

Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.

Dawkins considers temporary agnosticism an entirely reasonable position, but views permanent agnosticism as " fence-sitting, intellectual cowardice.

The Anglican Communion considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Reformed.

In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.

This article considers transport in Armenia.

Yet Janda ( 2010 ) considers the connection with " foam " genuine, identifying the myth of Aphrodite rising out of the waters after Cronus defeats Uranus as a mytheme of Proto-Indo-European age.

However, physicists distinguish between atomic physics — which deals with the atom as a system consisting of a nucleus and electrons — and nuclear physics, which considers atomic nuclei alone.

Atomic physics always considers atoms in isolation.

While modelling atoms in isolation may not seem realistic, if one considers atoms in a gas or plasma then the time-scales for atom-atom interactions are huge in comparison to the atomic processes that are generally considered.