Propensities, or chances, are not relative frequencies, but purported causes of the observed stable relative frequencies.

Propensities do not form ideas, they solely produce propensities common to animals and man

It is invoked after the recitation or singing of the Canticles, and it is the only part of the services in which the congregation traditionally turns to face the altar, if they are seated transversely in the quire.

Homogeneous catalysts function in the same phase as the reactants, but the mechanistic principles invoked in heterogeneous catalysis are generally applicable.

The Church's official recognition of sanctity implies that the persons are now in heavenly glory, that they may be publicly invoked and mentioned officially in the liturgy of the Church, most especially in the Litany of the Saints.

The Rigveda contains a reference to the emerging practice, in RV 10. 15. 14, where the forefathers " both cremated ( agnidagdhá -) and uncremated ( ánagnidagdha -)" are invoked.

Calling Marxism " a truly messianic Judaeo-Christian ideology ", Eliade writes that Marxism " takes up and carries on one of the great eschatological myths of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean world, namely: the redemptive part to be played by the Just ( the ' elect ', the ' anointed ', the ' innocent ', the ' missioners ', in our own days the proletariat ), whose sufferings are invoked to change the ontological status of the world ".

As previously noted, divinities are closely related to the transcendent force ( s ) or power ( s ) credited to them, so much so that in some cases the powers or forces may themselves be invoked independently.

* Users can create their own file associations and scripts that are invoked for certain file types and organize these scripts into a hierarchical tree ( e. g., as a user script library or user menu ).

Within other international contexts, there are intergovernmental organizations such as the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) that have socially and economically significant dispute resolution functions but, again, even though their jurisdiction may be invoked to hear the cases, the power to enforce their decisions is at the will of the states affected, save that the WTO is permitted to allow retaliatory action by successful states against those states found to be in breach of international trade law.

Blacksmiths are credited with magical powers in many parts of the world, and it is significant that the Boudas are workers in iron and clay ; in the Life of N. Pearce ( i. 287 ) a European observer tells a story of a supposed transformation which took place in his presence and almost before his eyes ; but it does not appear how far hallucination rather than coincidence must be invoked to explain the experience.

An arrestee's silence is not a waiver, but on June 1, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that police are allowed to interrogate suspects who have invoked or waived their rights ambiguously, and any statement given during questioning prior to invocation or waiving is admissible as evidence.

IPC allows the operating system to be built from a number of small programs called servers, which are used by other programs on the system, invoked via IPC.

" If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us ... We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

Additionally, children have not mastered the patterns of metaphorical expression that are invoked in proverb use.

Physical probabilities either explain, or are invoked to explain, these stable frequencies.

In Smalltalk, primitive values such as integers, booleans and characters are also objects, in the sense that they are instances of corresponding classes, and operations on them are invoked by sending messages.

Provincial viceroys, however, are able to reserve Royal Assent to provincial bills for the governor general ; this clause was last invoked in 1961 by the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

Quentin Skinner has argued that several critical modern innovations in contract theory are found in the writings from French Calvinists and Huguenots, whose work in turn was invoked by writers in the Low Countries who objected to their subjection to Spain and, later still, by Catholics in England.

Janus, however, has the privilege of being invoked first in rites, since in his power are the beginnings of things ( prima ).

Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.

No doubt there are historians who can explain to a great extent what happened to the plans and projects of the eighteenth century.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

And this helps explain why so many people are now going camping.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

These keys are the working principles of physics, mathematics and astronomy, principles which are then extrapolated, or projected, to explain phenomena of which we have little or no direct knowledge.

This may explain why anxious people are less likely to die due to accidents.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

Frank Tipler has argued that physics can explain immortality, though such arguments are not falsifiable and thus do not qualify, in Karl Popper's views, as science.

A number of theories have been proposed to explain the two figures, and there are occasional references to them in popular culture.

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

The most common myths are the creation myths, that tell a story to explain how the earth was formed.

These genetic factors are believed to, in part, explain the differing rates of alcohol dependence among racial groups.

The two Books of Samuel () are part of a series of historical books ( Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings ) that make up a theological history of the Israelites and affirm and explain God's law for Israel under the guidance of the prophets.

It is believed that BCS theory alone cannot explain this phenomenon and that other effects are at play.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

There are two main theories to explain this.

In addition, manufacturers are now obliged to provide conformity risk assessments and test reports – or explain why they are lacking.

There are several different theories which explain acid-base behavior.

These definitions are archaic, their relevance having dissipated with the development of the English legal system over the centuries, but they do explain the origin of the term as used today.

This helps explain why 80 % of mined diamonds ( equal to about 100 million carats or 20 tonnes annually ), unsuitable for use as gemstones and known as bort, are destined for industrial use.

Cosmologists are still unable to explain all cosmological phenomena exactly on the basis of known conventional forms of energy, such as those related to the accelerating expansion of the universe.

There are models that explain some of the observations explained by inflation.