Rather, it simply argues that a First Cause ( e. g. the Big Bang, God, or an unarticulated First Cause ) must exist.

" Rather, distribution should be based simply on whatever distribution results from non-coerced interactions or transactions ( that is, transactions not based upon force or fraud ).

Rather than modify the current practices of consuming material goods in different forms, utility fog would simply replace many physical objects.

" Rather than follow, the British hung back, continuing to fire at long range ; this prompted one French officer to write that the British " only engaged from far off and simply in order to be able to say that they had fought.

Rather than simply being flat discs, these lighting and observation windows may be curved to match the cross-section of the tunnel and further reduce turbulence around the window.

Rather, it simply means that the civilization prospered in their military, agriculture, trade, and manufacturing.

Rather, Foucault simply provides a few valuable maxims regarding the reading of history.

Rather than performing the calculation, one can simply look up the appropriate entry in the triangle.

" Rather than using cardboard to block certain areas of the film exposure, Dawn simply painted certain areas black to prevent any light from exposing the film.

Rather than simply the politics of the issue, historian William Freehling noted, " Most Southerners raged primarily because David Wilmot ’ s holier-than-thou stance was so insulting.

Rather, it simply demands that all other authorities are subordinate to, and are to be corrected by, the written word of God.

Rather than simply requisitioning agricultural surpluses in order to feed the urban population ( the hallmark of War Communism ), the NEP allowed peasants to sell their surplus yields on the open market.

Rather than simply endorsing the products, Earhart actively became involved in the promotions, especially in women's fashions.

Rather than repaint the entire tower, they simply painted over the two vertical lines of the " M " to create a " Y ".

Rather than move the city to the railroad as the citizens of Le Roy did, the citizens simply relocated to other parts of the township and county.

Rather, Cavendish states, she wrote simply to pass time and expects that her work may be read for the same purpose.

Rather, they increase the bulk hardness of the cast iron simply by virtue of their own very high hardness and their substantial volume fraction, such that the bulk hardness can be approximated by a rule of mixtures.

Rather, it seems to be inherent in them and they simply ' are ' the language.

A principle benefit of modeling is the ability to explicitly compare models: Rather than simply returning a value for each component, the modeler can compute confidence intervals on parameters, and also drop or add paths.

Rather than viewing populism in terms of specific social bases, economic programs, issues, or electorates — as discussions of right-wing populism have tended to do — this type of definition is in line with the approaches of scholars such as Ernesto Laclau, Pierre-Andre Taguieff, Yves Meny and Yves Surel, who have all sought to focus on populism per se, rather than treating it simply as an appendage of other ideologies.

Rather than simply glorify the phenomenon as the epitome of human progress, Drucker analyzed it and explained how it challenged the common thinking about how organizations should be run.

Rather than tearing up the title page of the symphony, he simply crumples it up.

Rather than responding to the hostile climate by simply presenting positive representations of African Americans, writers of the Harlem Renaissance attempted to expose the racist oppression in American society.

Rather than simply count all inbound links equally, the PageRank algorithm determines that some links may be more valuable than others, and therefore assigns them more weight than others.

Rather, neutral monism claims the universe consists of only one kind of stuff, in the form of neutral elements that are in themselves neither mental nor physical.

Rather, each Orthodox group claims to be a non-exclusive heir to the received tradition of Jewish theology, while still affirming a literal acceptance of Maimonides ' thirteen principles.

Rather than focus on the behavior of the manufacturer ( as in negligence ), strict liability claims focus on the product itself.

Rather, any claims about de Man's work should be understood in relation to the entire body of his scholarship.

Rather, he recommends a policy whereby pleasures are maximized “ in the long run .” In other words, Epicuric claims that some pleasures are not worth having because they lead to greater pains, and some pains are worthwhile when they lead to greater pleasures.

Rather controversially, Mintzberg claims that prestigious graduate management schools like Harvard Business School and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania are obsessed with numbers and that their overzealous attempts to make management a science are damaging the discipline of management.

Rather, Allen claims, Hitler's Nazi movement " seized power " in an act akin to democratic tactics.

Rather than a body of dogma, he emphasizes a direct experience of transcendence that he claims is accessible through the meditation techniques he teaches.

Hodges also claims that when CBS interviewed him, he thought the memos were handwritten, not typed, and following the September 8 broadcast, when Hodges had seen the documents and heard of claims of forgery by Killian's wife and son, he was " convinced they were not authentic " and told Rather and Mapes on September 10.

Rather, this form of moral nihilism claims that moral beliefs and assertions presuppose the existence of moral facts that do not exist.

Post claims that Great Grains is, " less processed ," than other cereals, by which they mean, " Rather than grinding our wheat into flour and then stamping it into uniform flakes, Great Grains Cranberry Almond Crunch carefully cracks the whole wheat berry.

Rather than a body of dogma, he emphasizes a direct experience of transcendence, which he claims is accessible through the four techniques of meditation which he teaches.

Rather than have one permanent host, Michaels elected to have a different guest host each week ( Albert Brooks was originally booked to be a permanent host, and claims it was his idea to have a different host each week ).

Rather than claiming to have every piece from the outset, the seeder claims to have no pieces.

Rather, Rivers Cuomo claims that it is more generally about the over-stimulated society addicted to the internet, gambling, drugs and relationships.

Rather than offering a simple publicity platform, a celebrity will often feature after a period of intense media scrutiny, such was the case when the model Naomi Campbell appeared after there were claims she had a substance abuse problem.

Rather than proving the existence of God, Kant was attempting to demonstrate that all moral thought requires the assumption that God exists.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

:“ Rather than glorifying — consciously or not — the rugged existence of the peasants, he placed them without any ‘ pose ’ in their habitual surroundings, thus becoming an objective chronicler of one of the many facets of contemporary life .”

Rather than denying the existence of the other religion's pantheon entirely, the proselytizer says instead that they are not gods worthy of worship but demons trying to deceive their followers.

Rather, that people had to face up to an unnecessary brutal conflict based on envy and contempt, and accept that we will never be born equal until The Many can be educated out of a false sense of inferiority and The Few can understand that biological superiority is not a state of existence but rather a state of responsibility.

Rather, its existence is merely propagated by an entity known only as SIE ( in this context THEY or THEM, not the polite form of YOU ), which has conspired with authorities to create the illusion of the city ’ s existence.

Rather than being an innovation, this move merely institutionalized a system which had been in existence since 1854.

Rather, reflecting his acceptance of the basic outlook of the logical positivists, he declared that it was not possible empirically to prove or disprove the existence of God and, therefore, the concept was meaningless.

Rather, they assume the existence of legal, social, cultural and economic power conditions, without which creation, distribution and circulation of the new wealth could not occur.

Rather, those who assert the existence of natural prescriptions say norms can suit a natural need on the part of the prescribed entity.

Rather, Judaism in that case would call upon its adherents to give even greater reverence than ever before to the one, sole God Who, in His boundless creative wisdom and eternal omnipotence, needed to bring into existence no more than one single, amorphous nucleus and one single law of " adaptation and heredity " in order to bring forth, from what seemed chaos but was in fact a very definite order, the infinite variety of species we know today, each with its unique characteristics that sets it apart from all other creatures.

Rather that God willed that light and all other things should come into existence through that first core creation, which is the only thing that God created.

Rather both Harsiese A and his son — whose existence is known from inscriptions on the latter's funerary objects at Coptos — are only attested as Ordinary Priests of Amun.