* Twin Earth thought experiment

* Twin Earth

When two quasars are so nearly in the same direction as seen from Earth that they appear to be a single quasar but may be separated by the use of telescopes, they are referred to as a " double quasar ", such as the Twin Quasar.

In his Twin Earth thought experiment, Hilary Putnam asks us to imagine a scenario in which there is a substance with all of the observable properties of water ( e. g., taste, color, boiling point ), but which is chemically different from water.

* Hilary Putnam's Twin Earth thought experiment in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind

Searle suggests that in the Twin Earth example, the second seems more plausible, since if Twin Earth doesn't have water, then all its water-based products will also be different.

Daniel Dennett, for example, calls Twin Earth and other experiments like it " intuition pumps ", which play on a strong but ultimately illusory intuition.

Indeed, Phil Hutchinson notes that a. if one looks at Putnam's own later criticisms of others ( for example his criticisms of Jaegwon Kim in his book The Threefold Cord ) one finds that implicitly he critiques his own earlier self ; and b. that the persuasive power of the Twin Earth thought experiment / intuition pump relies on our turning a blind eye to aspects of the experiment in order that it establish that which Putnam claims it to.

( 1996 ) The Twin Earth Chronicles: Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's " The Meaning of Meaning ".

* Twin Earth thought experiment

Louris returned and the sum of the collected demos from 1986-1989 were brought together to create Blue Earth, released on the Minneapolis label Twin Tone in 1989.

In 1991, Dave Ayers, the president of Twin Tone, was on a phone call with A & R representative George Drakoulias from Def American while Blue Earth played in the background.

* Twin Earth thought experiment

Under certain circumstances of confusion, this can lead to the alteration of a name's referent ( for one example of how this might happen, see Twin Earth thought experiment ).

A speaker whose environment changes may thus observe that the referents of his terms shift, as described in the Twin Earth and Swamp man thought experiments.

* The Good Earth ( Coyote / Twin / Tone LP 1986 )

Music videos were made for the songs " Twin Earth " and " Face Down ".

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Predominantly Indian settlements include Elbow Lake ; Naytahwaush which is the largest Indian community on the Reservation ; Pine Point ; Rice Lake ; Twin Lakes ; and White Earth which is the second largest Indian settlement on the Reservation.

Some reports claim up to 10, 000 citizens of the White Earth Reservation live in the Twin Cities Metro Area.

Large lakes include Bass Lake ; Big Rat Lake ; Lower Rice Lake ; Many Point Lake ; North Twin Lake-South Twin Lake ; Roy Lake ; Round Lake ; Snider Lake ; Strawberry Lake ; Tulaby Lake ; and White Earth Lake.

On the last night of shooting Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lynch was driving home and thought of the first third of Lost Highway all the way up to " the fist hitting Fred in the police station — to suddenly being in another place and not knowing how he got there or what is wrong.

The Lupemban is the name given by archaeologists to a central African culture which, though once thought to date between c. 30, 000 and 12, 000 BC, is now generally recognised to be far older ( dates of c. 300, 000 have been obtained from Twin Rivers, Zambia and Muguruk, Kenya, respectively ).

He is also thought to have participated in the dismantling of the Twin City Lines street railway during the early 1950s.

* Twin paradox, a thought experiment

Twin Oaks is detailed in Kat Kinkade's book, A Walden Two experiment: The first five years of Twin Oaks Community.

* Model 50 Twin Bonanza Two-engine utility aircraft ; despite its name was not a development of the Bonanza

Under new management it was revitalized and saw a partial return to its original domestic role with the reintroduction of several domestic scheduled routes, because of the addition of two Shorts Skyvan SC7 aircraft, and a second Twin Otter DHC-6 aircraft.

Although this featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists, including Ringo Starr, session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor / musician Miguel Ferrer ( Twin Peaks and Crossing Jordan ).

Then, as from 1975, a Havilland Twin Otter of 16 places was used on the Mauritius-Rodrigues route.

Minoru Yamasaki ( December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986 ) was an American architect, best known for his design of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, buildings 1 and 2.

The name " Twins " was derived from the popular name of the region, the Twin Cities.

Griffith was determined not to alienate fans in either city by naming the team after one city or the other, so his desire was to name the team the " Twin Cities Twins ", however MLB objected.

However, the team was allowed to keep its original " TC " ( for Twin Cities ) insignia for its caps.

The search for the first head coach had the team court then-Northwestern University head coach Ara Parseghian, who according to Minneapolis Star writer Jim Klobuchar — the Vikings ' first beat reporter for that newspaper — visited team management in the Twin Cities under the condition that his visit was to be kept secret from his current employer.

For example, Konami was forced to remove all references to cigarettes in the 2000 Game Boy Color game Metal Gear Solid ( although the previous NES version of Metal Gear and the subsequent GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes both included such references, as did Wii title MadWorld ), and maiming and blood were removed from the Nintendo 64 port of Cruis ' n USA.

The first such gravitational lens to be discovered was the double-imaged quasar Q0957 + 561 ( or Twin Quasar ) in 1979 A grouping of two or more quasars can result from a chance alignment, physical proximity, actual close physical interaction, or effects of gravity bending the light of a single quasar into two or more images.

Twin Peaks was a primetime soap opera that poked fun at the genre.

A federal technical building an fire safety investigation of the collapses of the Twin Towers was conducted by the United States Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ).

The report concludes that the fireproofing on the Twin Towers ' steel infrastructures was blown off by the initial impact of the planes and that, if this had not occurred, the towers would likely have remained standing.

David Duchovny had appeared as a cross-dressing DEA agent in Twin Peaks, and the Mulder character was seen as a parallel to the show's FBI Agent Dale Cooper.

Twin Peaks pilot episode was first broadcast on April 8, 1990 on ABC, which led to another seven episodes being produced and a second season, which aired until June 10, 1991.

*" The Black Cat " was adapted and performed with " The Cask of Amontillado " as Poe, Times Two: Twin tales of mystery, murder ... and mortar -- a double-bill of short, one-man plays written and performed by Greg Oliver Bodine.

Barker was a Professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota during the period when David Arneson, Gary Gygax and a handful of others were developing the first role-playing games in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Jesperson was the manager of Oar Folkjokeopus, a punk rock record store in Minneapolis, and had also founded Twin / Tone Records with a local recording engineer named Paul Stark.

Jesperson was convinced the song sounded like a hit, and pleaded to fellow Twin / Tone co-owners Stark and Hallman: " I will do anything to get this out.

Twin / Tone was not being paid reliably by distributors and the sales of Let It Be were not high enough to justify extra promotion.

The World Trade Center, built in the 1970s, was very plain and utilitarian in comparison ( the Twin Towers were often criticized as looking like two big boxes, despite their impressive height ).

Lewiston State Normal School, now Lewis-Clark State College, was established in 1893, as was another normal school or teacher education college, now defunct, in the south at Twin Falls.