Most or all philosophical dictionaries list the neutral sense as the first or only definition.

" Most philosophers consider logical positivism to be, as John Passmore expressed it, " dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes.

Most philosophical debate has focused on the propositions stating that God cannot exist with, or would want to prevent, all evils ( premises 3 and 6 ), with defenders of theism arguing that God could very well exist with and allow evil in order to achieve a greater good.

Most prominent recently are two contrasting approaches in the philosophical literature, to theory of mind: theory-theory and simulation theory.

Most of the many notable philosophical, religious and literary works of the Jews in the Orient were written in Arabic using a modified Hebrew alphabet.

Most of his major writings contain critical, though often philosophical, views on man and society as a result of his studies and interest in psychology, biology, ethnology, and physics.

" Most philosophers consider logical positivism to be, as John Passmore expressed it, " dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes.

The smallest logic satisfying the above conditions is called K. Most modal logics commonly used nowadays ( in terms of having philosophical motivations ), e. g. C. I. Lewis's S4 and S5, are extensions of K. However a number of deontic and epistemic logics, for example, are non-normal, often because they give up the Kripke schema.

Most of the lyrics on Tri-Logy have almost religious philosophical / mythological tone in them, and they are partially based on the Bock Saga, an eccentric explanation about the origins of the alphabets, words and the whole human history.

Most of the dechristianisation of France was motivated by political and economic concerns, but philosophical alternatives to the Church developed gradually as well.

Most important of the latter is the general affirmation of the centrality of the person for philosophical thought.

Most members lean towards scientific and philosophical humanism, but there is recognition of the merit of other faith traditions.

" Most critics see the Poetomachia as a mixture of personal rivalries and serious artistic concerns —" a vehicle for aggressively expressing differences ... in literary theory ... basic philosophical debate on the status of literary and dramatic authorship.

Most philosophical conceptions of randomness are global — because they are based on the idea that " in the long run " a sequence looks truly random, even if certain sub-sequences would not look random.

Most of Philoponus ’ early philosophical works strive to define the distinction between matter, extension, place and various kinds of change.

Most other Sri Lankan Hindus follow what is commonly known as folk Hinduism without the baggage of philosophical school of thought They usually worship a village, clan or tribal deity within or outside the accepted pantheon of Hindu deities.

Most of the music was religious, but the purpose of communal singing was not primarily spiritual.

Most removals of the clitoris occur as female genital mutilation, defined by the World Health Organisation as " all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

Most proxies for " grievance "-the theory that civil wars begin because of issues of identity, rather than economics-were statistically insignificant, including economic equality, political rights, ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization.

Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

* Most of the Polytheistic religious deities and texts of Pre-Western Americas, Oceania, and Africa, were destroyed by Christian missionaries and their converts.

Most of the manuscripts were created by Christian monks, who may well have been torn between the desire to record their native culture and their religious hostility to pagan beliefs resulting in some of the gods being euhemerized.

Most Jewish Israelis classify themselves as " secular " ( hiloni ), " traditional " ( masorti ), " religious " ( dati ) or Haredi.

Most outers target those who support decisions and further policy, both religious and secular, which discriminate against gay people while they themselves live a clandestine gay existence.

Most presidents have been formal members of a particular church or religious body, and a specific affiliation can be assigned to every president from Garfield on.

Most claim that men and women have complementary, yet different roles in religious life, resulting in different religious obligations.

Most Iranians had a deep respect for the Shi ' a clergy or Ulema, and tended to be religious, traditional, and alienated from the process of Westernization pursued by the Shah.

Most countries of the Middle East and North Africa maintain a dual system of secular courts and religious courts, in which the religious courts mainly regulate marriage and inheritance.

Most of the early Uyghur literary works were translations of Buddhist and Manichean religious texts, but there were also narrative, poetic, and epic works apparently original to the Uyghurs.

Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece.

Most major religious groups are represented including Jewish, Islamic, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, Christian and Catholic.

Most major religious festivals of the main communities are included in the list of national holidays.

Most Reconstructionist Jews reject theism, and instead define themselves as religious naturalists.

Most of the villages have their own temple, mosque or church depending on the local religious following.

Most of them have a church and a " Casa do Povo " ( people's house ), where the village's summer romarias or religious festivities are usually held.

Most channels that serve the entire market are receivable in Kalamazoo, including WWMT, WOOD-TV ( NBC ), WXMI ( Fox ), WZPX ( Ion ) and WLLA ( religious ).

Most of them start wearing a white tudung ( Malaysian version of the Muslim headscarf or hijab ) upon entering secondary school, for religious reasons.

Most of the history of Llandaff centres on its role as a religious site.

Most Ancient Egyptian festivals were religious, but others were not such as one festival established by Rameses III to celebrate his victory over the Libyans.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

* Most Reformation and post-Reformation churches use the term Catholic ( often with a lower-case c ) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church regardless of denominational divisions ; e. g., Chapter XXV of the Westminster Confession of Faith refers to the " catholic or universal Church ".

Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.

Most participants show signs of optimism bias ( the irrational belief that they will beat the odds ).

Most literature supports the belief that IC's symptoms are associated with a defect in the bladder epithelium lining allows irritating substances in the urine to penetrate into the bladder — essentially, a breakdown of the bladder lining ( also known as Adherence Theory ).

Most reliabilists maintain that a belief can be justified, or can constitute knowledge, even if the believer does not know about or understand the process that makes the belief reliable.

Most modern Christian churches continue to uphold the belief that there will be a final Resurrection of the Dead and World to Come, perhaps as prophesied by the Apostle Paul when he said: "... he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world ..." ( Acts 17: 31 KJV ) and "... there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

For both the Yu ' piak and Iñupiaq, the meaning is closest to an understanding of a world in which " Most Arctic peoples believe all the world is animate, and that animals have souls or spirits ", ( Berlo and Phillips 161 ) a foundational belief of the continuum and interconnectivity of all life and spirit of all that which is, that which has been, and that which is yet to be.

Most notably, philosopher Stephen Stich has argued for this particular understanding of belief.

Most of the early prisoners were of two sorts: they were either prisoners of personal conviction ( belief ), political prisoners whom the Nazis deemed in need of " re-education " to Nazi ideals, or resistance leaders in occupied western Europe.

Most ARGs do not have any fixed rules — players discover the rules and the boundaries of the game through trial and error — and do not require players to assume fictional identities or roleplay beyond feigning belief in the reality of the characters they interact with ( even if games where players play ' themselves ' are a long standing variant on the genre ).< ref >

" Most Muslims follow the example of Umar: they pay their respects to the Stone in a spirit of trust in Muhammad, not with any inherent belief in the Stone.

Most of the Talmudic rabbis, and Josephus, following the belief that Urim meant lights, argued that divination by Urim and Thummim involved questions being answered by great rays of light shining out of certain jewels on the breastplate ; each jewel was taken to represent different letters, and the sequence of lighting thus would spell out an answer ( though there were 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and only 12 jewels on the breastplate ); two Talmudic rabbis, however, argued that the jewels themselves moved in a way that made them stand out from the rest, or even moved themselves into groups to form words.

Most dimensions of religiosity are correlated, meaning people who often attend church services ( practice dimension ) are also likely to score highly on the belief and spirituality dimensions.

Most women in Czechoslovakia worked, a reflection in part of the labor shortage and in part of the socialist belief that employment for women is the answer to inequality between the sexes.

Most tend to confirm the more common belief that the name arose from the team's parallel striped shirts, their drinking habits or their style of play.

Most Mandinka practice a mix of Islam and traditional African religions, which includes a belief in the existence of spirits.

Most Alevites embrace tolerance and secularism, which helps them to integrate into mainstream German society much better than other belief systems.

Most members of the wise use movement, including the related County Movement, share a belief in individual rights, as opposed to the authority of the federal government, in particular with regard to the rights of land use.

Most adherents of religion consider this to be of critical importance, since it permits belief in unseen and otherwise potentially unknowable aspects of life, including hope of eternal life.

Most of the presumed synarchists were either associated with the Banque Worms or with Groupe X-Crise and were close to Admiral François Darlan, and this has led to the belief that synarchists had engineered the military defeat of France for the profit of Banque Worms.

Most free response questions ask or require the test-taker to state a belief, opinion, or write a short essay and support it with facts, examples, or other evidence.