Many definitions of art have been proposed by philosophers and others who have characterized art in terms of mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other values.

Many contemporary definitions of " artist " and " art " are highly contingent on culture, resisting aesthetic prescription, in much the same way that the features constituting beauty and the beautiful, cannot be standardized easily without corruption into kitsch.

Many definitions tend to postulate or assume that complexity expresses a condition of numerous elements in a system and numerous forms of relationships among the elements.

Many definitions of music implicitly hold that music is a communicative activity which conveys to the listener moods, emotions, thoughts, impressions, or religious, philosophical, sexual, or political concepts or positions.

Many unions are a blend of these two philosophies, and the definitions of the models themselves are still debated.

Many mass transit trains are built symmetrically with paired control booths, and definitions of forward, backward, left, and right are temporary.

Many of these definitions are not equivalent, resulting in different sets of objects being called polytopes.

Many order theoretical definitions for partially ordered sets can be generalized to preorders, but the extra effort of generalization is rarely needed.

Many of the terms associated with ragtime have inexact definitions, and are defined differently by different experts ; the definitions are muddled further by the fact that publishers often labelled pieces for the fad of the moment rather than the true style of the composition.

Many different definitions of standard reference conditions are currently being used by organizations all over the world.

Many definitions that describe a specific conformation ( IUPAC Gold Book ) exist:

Many definitions and images ( Visualizing Sustainability ) of sustainable development coexist.

Many developing countries are also quite liberal in their restrictions and definitions.

Many different definitions have been proposed — some based on density, some on atomic number or atomic weight, and some on chemical properties or toxicity.

Many definitions of essence hark back to the ancient Greek hylomorphic understanding of the formation of the things of this world.

Many definitions of the precautionary principle exist.

Many of the following notions also exist for not necessarily commutative rings, but the definitions and properties are usually more complicated.

Many tournaments meet both definitions ; for example, the Wimbledon tennis championship.

Many sociologists have pointed out the differences between definitions of a moral panic for American and British sociologists.

Many dictionary definitions include a reference to envy or envious feelings.

Many other definitions of attractor occur in the literature.

Many dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster, and Oxford, now include definitions in their publications defining it as such.

Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.

Many translations are written by people with a foundation in Chinese language and philosophy who are trying to render the original meaning of the text as faithfully as possible into English.

Many scholars are convinced that Peter was not the author of this letter because the author had to have a formal education in rhetoric / philosophy and an advanced knowledge of the Greek language.

Many new age authors have written books which mix New Age teachings with Gaia philosophy this is known as New Age Gaian.

Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.

Many of Adams's ideas in composition are a reaction to the philosophy of serialism and its depictions of " the composer as scientist.

Many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like St. Augustine.

Many organizations and journals that had their origins in the eugenics movement began to distance themselves from the philosophy, as when Eugenics Quarterly became Social Biology in 1969.

Many of these people see Biko's philosophy as irrelevant after 1994.

Many Humanists derive their moral codes from a philosophy of utilitarianism, ethical naturalism or evolutionary ethics, and some advocate a science of morality.

Many non-fiction works are also listed, primarily from the areas of religion, mythology, science, philosophy, psychology, economics, politics, and history.

Many communitarians trace their philosophy to earlier thinkers.

Many of the concepts of science and philosophy are often defined culturally and socially.

Many sophists specialized in using the tools of philosophy and rhetoric, though other sophists taught subjects such as music, athletics, and mathematics.

Many ancient Greek works of science and philosophy were not available in Latin translation.

Many of these approaches are informed by various strands of Continental philosophy and sociology.

Many philosophers have offered critiques of dialectic, and it can even be said that hostility or receptivity to dialectics is one of the things that divides twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy from the so-called " continental " tradition, a divide that only a few contemporary philosophers ( among them, G. H.

Many rabbis were drawn into controversies with both Jews and non-Jews, and had to fortify their faith against the attacks of contemporaneous philosophy as well as against rising Christianity.

Many of the new authors in this decade were formally educated in literature, philosophy and other academic subjects at the many schools or institutes for writers established throughout Norway.

Many Bangladeshi intellectuals take a keen and informed interest in German literature, art, architecture and philosophy.

" Many thought Isherwood, who had built his own literary reputation by then and was studying Indian philosophy, was the basis for the book ’ s hero.

Many of the Absurdists were contemporaries with Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosophical spokesman for Existentialism in Paris, but few Absurdists actually committed to Sartre's own Existentialist philosophy, as expressed in Being and Nothingness, and many of the Absurdists had a complicated relationship with him.

Many sources have testified that he taught for decades the philosophy of Avicenna in Nishapur where Khayyám was born and buried and where his mausoleum today remains a masterpiece of Iranian architecture visited by many people every year.