But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

I am suggesting that a case-history approach to the Oedipus complex is a blind alley for a storyteller.

As we find out at the end, it is not the stool ( symbolizing Doris, therefore the English ) that he is punishing but the piece of Venetian blind.

( 2 ) What evidence is there that he was psychically blind??

The new birth is necessary because the natural man is spiritually dead and blind.

An adapted abacus, invented by Tim Cranmer, called a Cranmer abacus is still commonly used by individuals who are blind.

Although blind students have benefited from talking calculators, the abacus is still very often taught to these students in early grades, both in public schools and state schools for the blind.

The abacus teaches mathematical skills that can never be replaced with talking calculators and is an important learning tool for blind students.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

One approach used in testing astrology quantitatively is through blind experiment.

It is flanked by twin towers decorated with blind arcading.

Its blind cave form, however, is notable for having no eyes and being albino, that is, completely devoid of pigmentation ; it has a pinkish-white color to its body.

This fish, especially the blind variant, is reasonably popular among.

A. mexicanus is famous for its blind cave form, which is known by such names as blind cave tetra, blind tetra, and blind cavefish.

The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.

It is not unfair to add on the other side that the crude and almost vitriolic approach of certain fundamentalist sects toward the cultures and religions among which they work has contributed measurably to this heightening of anti-Christian sentiment.

There have also been periodic tensions with both mainstream and fundamentalist Christians, who think the religion is aligned with Gnosticism or is a cult, and fault it for departing from traditional Christian doctrine.

The valley is also settled by descendants of United Empire Loyalists, some of whom established fundamentalist Christian congregations in the area which continue to influence certain segments of society.

" However, some U. S .- led Baptist and other fundamentalist denominations still believe it is their duty to engage in what they refer to as outreach to " unbelieving " Jews.

The contemporary North American usage of the term is influenced by the evangelical / fundamentalist controversy of the early 20th century.

While the North American perception is important to understand the usage of the term, it by no means dominates a wider global view, where the fundamentalist debate was not so influential.

Some Christian theologians, some fundamentalists, and others pejoratively refer to any philosophy which they see as literal-minded or they believe carries a pretense of being the sole source of objective truth as fundamentalist, regardless of whether it is usually called a religion.

According to economist John Quiggin, the standard features of " economic fundamentalist rhetoric " are " dogmatic " assertions and the claim that anyone who holds contrary views is not a real economist.

... Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by " truth ".

I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere.

One of the most common is that some claims made by a fundamentalist group cannot be proven, and are irrational, demonstrably false, or contrary to scientific evidence.

Another major division within Islamism is between the fundamentalist " guardians of the tradition " of the Salafism or Wahhabi movement, and the " vanguard of change " centered on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Today, polygamy is practiced only by fundamentalist groups that have broken with the LDS Church.

Jemaah Islamiyah is a militant Islamic terrorist organization dedicated to the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy in Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, the south of Thailand and the Philippines.

This is an " SF satire on the Middle East crisis and the War on Terrorism, and concerns what happens when the liberal Western Galactic Empire relocates the oppressed Minervan sect to their ancient homeland of Kennewick, Washington, in the midst of a US ruled by Christian fundamentalist fanatics .".

Segregation of women in the Jewish orthodox and Muslim fundamentalist minorities in Israel is becoming more and more of a problem.

Of the most widely used textbooks, there is only one listing evolution in the index and in the wake of the trial, under the pressures of fundamentalist groups, the entry is countered with biblical quotations.

The Taliban (), alternative spelling Taleban, (, meaning " students " in Pashto ) is an Islamic fundamentalist militant movement of Pashtun tribesmen.

In Australia, fundamentalist Christianity is the base for Fred Nile and his small Christian Democratic party, as well as the Family First Party.

This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.

There is no explanation of terms nor a qualification that most such revolts have been dealt with by force -- only a bald dogmatism that they must, because of some undefined compulsion, be so repelled.

Miss Hardwick speaks of his `` superb gift for intellectual friendship '', and it is certainly a joy to see the intellectual life lived so free from either academic aridity or passionate dogmatism.

What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race ... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.

Derrida states that deconstruction is not a critique in the Kantian sense. This is because Kant defines the term critique as the opposite of dogmatism.

For Derrida the concept of neutrality is suspect and dogmatism is therefore involved in everything to a certain degree.

As a possible reaction to skepticism, dogmatism is a set of beliefs or doctrines that are established as undoubtedly in truth .< ref >, " dogma " The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

Falkland is notable not for his writings or political career, but his intellectual position, his isolation from his contemporaries seeking reformation in the inward and spiritual life of the church and state and not in its outward and material form, and as a leader of rationalism in an age dominated by intolerance and dogmatism.

Hence, the intellectually restrictive politics of dogmatism (“ My answer is right, and all others are wrong ”), scepticism (“ All answers are equally true or ; everyone has a right to his own truth ”), and eclecticism (“ Each meaning gives a partial view, so the more meanings the better ”) are inappropriate philosophic stances for managing a political term that has more than one meaning.

Today in China, " the 28 Bolsheviks " is synonymous with dogmatism.

The most outspoken of the women, Leah is prone to dogmatism and concerned with her own salvation.

Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.

James Montmarquet's theory of intellectual virtue is similar to Code's, but specifically defines additional intellectual virtues in order to defuse the potential dogmatism or fanaticism that is compatible with Code's desire for truth.

The Programme is named after the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, known as an opponent of dogmatism, who lived and worked in many places in Europe to expand his knowledge and gain new insights, and who left his fortune to the University of Basel in Switzerland.

# Realism is better than dogmatism

The question of the efficacy of art in the context of dogmatism and violence of a massive scale is central to the narrative.

He is viewed by some commentators in the alternative science community as a pseudoskeptic for his alleged dogmatism and scoffing attitude.

The dogmatism of Marxism is a form of fascism, i. e. a doctrine which originates in the degradation of the individual whose elimination is considered as legitimate, whereas capitalism substitutes economic entities such as money, profit or interest for the real needs of life.

In short, the Kālāma Sutta is opposed to blind faith, dogmatism and belief spawned from specious reasoning.