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Our and understanding
Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.
Our understanding will very probably require both these commentaries.
Our understanding of what is happening sometimes lacks similarity of structure with what is actually happening.
Our understanding of the Universe back to very early times suggests that there is a past horizon, though in practice our view is also limited by the opacity of the Universe at early times.
Our understanding of gravity is still a work in progress.
Our understanding of the world is shaped by social facts ; for example the notion of time is defined by being measured through a calendar, which in turn was created to allow us to keep track of our social gatherings and rituals ; those in turn on their most basic level originated from religion.
Our understanding of herbivory in geological time comes from three sources: fossilized plants, which may preserve evidence of defence ( such as spines ), or herbivory-related damage ; the observation of plant debris in fossilised animal faeces ; and the construction of herbivore mouthparts.
Our current understanding of mutualism.
Our understanding of how reactions proceed at the atomic level in the solid state was advanced considerably by Carl Wagner's work on oxidation rate theory, counter diffusion of ions, and defect chemistry.
A U. S. official said that " Our understanding is that the threat against President Karzai was real, was credible, but it was only in the early stages of planning.
* Our understanding of the evolution of the atmosphere of Earth has progressed.
* Our common-sense understanding of belief is correct-Sometimes called the " mental sentence theory ", in this conception, beliefs exist as coherent entities and the way we talk about them in everyday life is a valid basis for scientific endeavour.
* Our common-sense understanding of belief may not be entirely correct, but it is close enough to make some useful predictions-This view argues that we will eventually reject the idea of belief as we use it now, but that there may be a correlation between what we take to be a belief when someone says " I believe that snow is white " and how a future theory of psychology will explain this behaviour.
* Our common-sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong and will be completely superseded by a radically different theory that will have no use for the concept of belief as we know it-Known as eliminativism, this view, ( most notably proposed by Paul and Patricia Churchland ), argues that the concept of belief is like obsolete theories of times past such as the four humours theory of medicine, or the phlogiston theory of combustion.
* Our common-sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong ; however, treating people, animals, and even computers as if they had beliefs is often a successful strategy-The major proponents of this view, Daniel Dennett and Lynne Rudder Baker, are both eliminativists in that they believe (?
Our understanding of the extent of these aquifers and how much water can be withdrawn from them depends critically on our knowledge of the rocks that hold them ( the reservoir ).
Our modern scientific understanding involves the mathematicized understanding of the world represented by modern physics.
Our understanding of gravity is still a work in progress.
Our understanding of sentences about Odysseus consists then in our " playing along " ( see Gareth Evans, Saul Kripke ).
Our understanding of hemodynamics depends on measuring the blood flow at different points in the circulation.
Our modern understanding of instinctual behavior in animals owes much to their work.
Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus is the two-volume Likutei Moharan ( Collected of Our Teacher and Rabbi, Nachman ), a collection of 411 lessons displaying in-depth familiarity and understanding of the many overt and esoteric concepts embedded in Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar and Kabbalah.
Our understanding of our own sun serves as a guide to our understanding of other stars.

Our and world
Our weapons production, our world prestige, our ideas of democracy, our actions of trust or stubbornness or secrecy or espionage??
Our problem, therefore, is to devise processes more modest in their aspirations, adjusted to the real world of sovereign nation states and diverse and hostile communities.
Our own freedom, and the future of freedom around the world, depend, in a very real sense, on their ability to build growing and independent nations where men can live in dignity, liberated from the bonds of hunger, ignorance and poverty.
Our research and development program, serving as it does an industry which must compete against low-cost production throughout the world, continues to have primary emphasis at Leesona.
* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics
* " Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena ; they invented the telescope ... now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.
He wrote, cursed those Jesuits, saying, ' Our world used to be peaceful, but it has been filled by greedy colonialists, who make war every year and shorten our lives ’”.
Our pursuit of self-set ideals such as truth and justice enriches our awareness of the world.
He consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1942, in accordance with the second " secret " of Our Lady of Fátima.
Our own minds can think thoughts, perceive the world, experience feelings, and make decisions.
* Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) by H. G. Wells, men and women in an alternative universe live without world government in a perfected state of anarchy ; " Our education is our government ," a Utopian named Lion says ; sectarian religion, like politics, has died away, and advanced scientific research flourishes ; life is governed by " the Five Principles of Liberty ," which are privacy, free movement, unlimited knowledge, truthfulness, and free discussion and criticism.
Several Roman Catholic Marian churches around the world have also been named after the rosary, e. g. Our Lady of the Rosary Basilica, in Rosario Argentina, the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes and Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Professor of religion Huston Smith says in The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions " But for their defeat by Charles Martel in the Battle of Tours in 733, the entire Western world might today be Muslim.
Jung saw collective neuroses in politics: " Our world is, so to speak, dissociated like a neurotic " ( Jung, 1964: 85 ).
Laforgue put three of the " complaints " of his first published volume of poems ( 1885 ) into " Lord " Pierrot's mouth — and dedicated his next book, The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon ( 1886 ), completely to Pierrot and his world.
Ben-Gurion published two volumes setting out his views on relations between Zionists and the Arab world: We and Our Neighbors, published in 1931, and My Meetings with Arab Leaders published in 1967.
In 1911, the Encyclopaedia Britannica noted that " Our knowledge of Praxiteles has received a great addition, and has been placed on a satisfactory basis, by the discovery at Olympia in 1877 of his statue of Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, a statue which has become famous throughout the world.
Our much more dynamic modern world breaks such soft layers from rocks long before they can accumulate, so that modern granite rocks age not by getting softer, but by getting smaller.
Our basis of being concrete about the world.
The topic of divorce became a major topic that centered around the Here, My Dear album, while Gaye's concerns of the world in the context of his religious beliefs and his conflict with " good " and " evil " formed the basis of the In Our Lifetime album.
In Patterns in Comparative Religion, he writes, " The most popular prayer in the world is addressed to ' Our Father who art in heaven.
* Pages 1 – 2: " Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us in a certain way but there's a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can't help people knowing about you.
Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

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