A significant advantage of this approach was that, unlike the position adopted by Burckhardt, it was unfalsifiable according to the knowledge and technology of the time as the absence of a known correlation between physical brain pathology and mental illness could not disprove his thesis.

Expanding upon his thesis in Hitler's War about the lack of a written Führer order for the Holocaust, Irving argued in the 1990s that the absence of such an order meant that there was no Holocaust.

This thesis — the eudaimon life is the pleasurable life — is not a tautology as “ eudaimonia is the good life ” would be: rather, it is the substantive and controversial claim that a life of pleasure and absence of pain is what eudaimonia consists in.

The Atlantean thesis has not generally been accepted by the Irish academic establishment, who have criticised Bob Quinn for his alleged lack of scholarly methodology and the absence of hard evidence to back his theories.

The De jure in conscientias ab homine non usurpando dated from 1702 ; it was written after Nicolaus Wil ( c ) kens had defended a thesis on religious freedom in the absence of consequences for public order, and defends freedom of conscience.

The latter was his thesis advisor when he obtained his doctorate in 1926 ; Herzfeld taught courses in theoretical physics and one in physical chemistry, and in Sommerfeld ’ s absence often took over his classes.

Noting the absence of any mention of Mavia in Zosimus ' work who was familiar with the writings of Sozomen and Socrates, Shahid concludes this omission is deliberate since it did not accord with the Zosimus ' thesis regarding the destructive effects of the Christianization and barbarization he associated with Constantine I's reforms.

) The meaning is clear and uncomplicated, the subject is drawn from personal experience, and there is an absence of poetic ornament, such as simile or metaphor.

A genetic study by Eizirik and coworkers in 2001 confirmed the absence of a clear geographical subspecies structure, although they found that major geographical barriers, such as the Amazon River, limited the exchange of genes between the different populations.

Author Peter Lehman would later observe that his absence was a part of the mystery of his persona: " Since it was never clear where he had come from, no one seemed to pay much mind to where he had gone ; he was just gone.

In the absence of complete or clear records of any triumphal ceremony, attempted reconstruction presumes a traditional, conservative framework in which details omitted from one account can be furnished from another.

In the absence of SRY and SOX9, no testes can develop and the path is clear for the development of ovaries.

" This tension and the absence of a clear " evil nature " ( distinct from evil actions ) offer Fett dramatic appeal.

In the absence of clear evidence supporting 1 set of criteria over the others, clinicians may use IASP, Bruehl ’ s, or Veldman ’ s clinical criteria for diagnosis.

* 1884: Parliamentarism has evolved since 1884 and entails that the cabinet must not have the parliament against it ( an absence of mistrust, but an express of support is not necessary ), and that the appointment by the King is a formality when there is a clear parliamentary majority.

Yet it is clear that it was the absence of her husband on military service in Cilicia which gave Tibullus the opportunity of seeing her, and he continued to do so when the husband returned.

The definition of " atypicality " was based upon the absence of extrapyramidal side effects, but there is now a clear understanding that atypical antipsychotics can still induce these effects ( though to a lesser degree than typical antipsychotics.

The exams must show complete and irreversible absence of brain function ( brain stem function in UK ), and may include two isoelectric ( flat-line ) EEGs 24 hours apart ( less in other countries where it is accepted that if the cause of the dysfunction is a clear physical trauma there is no need to wait that long to establish irreversibility ).

In the low-rain period of from April to November, due to the absence of industry and its high elevation the skies above Salar de Uyuni are very clear, and the air is dry ( relative humidity is about 30 %, rainfall is roughly per month ).

He wrote to his divisional commander requesting that he be moved to a new post and on 21 November he was ordered to vacate his command and stay on leave of absence until further notice, although his divisional commander made it clear that this was in no way a reflection on his efficiency.

Because it is difficult to determine exactly when a quorum was lost, points of order relating to the absence of a quorum are " generally not permitted to affect prior action ; but upon clear and convincing proof, such a point of order can be given effect retrospectively by a ruling of the presiding officer, subject to appeal.

Given the unrest and absence of a clear authority, the Métis National Committee declared a provisional government on December 8.

The first was to do with its points: back in the days of projective geometry it was clear that the absence of ' enough ' points on an algebraic variety was a barrier to having a good geometric theory ( in which it was somewhat like a compact manifold ).

MEG recordings from three PVS patients provide clear evidence for the absence, abnormality or reduction of evoked responses.

Clarity of language, relative type size and proximity to the claim being qualified, and an absence of contrary claims that could undercut effectiveness, will maximize the likelihood that the qualifications and disclosures are appropriately clear and prominent.

An argument in favor of the first meaning is also that no obvious other notion is available to designate these values ( the term power product is in use, but it does not make the absence of constants clear either ), while the notion term of a polynomial unambiguously coincides with the second meaning of monomial.

In the absence of a clear risk to the public health, the FDA finds no reason to regulate these particular fish.

In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Hyde, then serving as Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, cautioned against attacking Iraq in the absence of clear evidence of Iraqi complicity, telling CNN's Robert Novak that it " would be a big mistake.

However, when it became clear that Athens would dominate the Hellenic League in Sparta's absence, Sparta sent Pausanias back to command the League's military.

The title itself refers to the clear sky as seen from the surface of Mars, to the nearness of the Martian horizon because Mars is a much smaller planet, and to the abrupt absence / darkness of many overhead satellites that occurs at a key point in the story.

Some businesses in Vermont are concerned there is an absence of a clear plan to replace the electricity generated by the plant.

In the absence of the VFA team, there was no need for the " Same Olds " distinction and, by 1922, the other nicknames " Sash Wearers " and " Essendonians " that had been variously used from time to time were also abandoned.

The trait that is common to all invertebrates is the absence of a vertebral column: this creates a distinction between invertebrates and vertebrates.

A 1984 ruling said " the land over which a public right of way exists is known as a highway ; and although most highways have been made up into roads, and most easements of way exist over footpaths, the presence or absence of a made road has nothing to do with the distinction.

A distinction can also be made between disarmament as a process ( the process of eliminating weapons ), and disarmament as an end state ( the absence of weapons ).

The absence of an oxytone has been considered both an archaism and an innovation, while the quantity distinction by stress is a conservative feature shared with Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.

However, the absence of this distinction is also typical of parts of Southern Spain ( notably Seville ) and of the Canary Islands, and the predominant position of people from these areas in the conquest of and subsequent immigration to Latin America from Spain is largely the reason for the absence of this distinction in most Latin American dialects.

At non-research schools the latter distinction is of course less meaningful, making the absence of tenure the main difference.

The presence or absence of a guessing or pseudo-chance parameter is a major and sometimes controversial distinction.

The open / closed distinction is interpreted to indicate the absence or presence of lip rounding ( often transcribed as-w-or-u -).

Depending on the linguist, the distinction is variously thought to reflect either presence or absence of prefixes, an accentual or length distinction on the main vowel, or some sort of register distinction ( e. g. pharyngealization of the initial consonant in type-A syllables ).

In his " L ' Art du Violon " he points out the chief distinction between the old and the modern style of violin playing to be the absence of the dramatic element in the former, and its predominance in the latter, thus enabling the executive art to follow the progress marked out by the composer, and to bring out the powerful contrasts and enlarged ideas of the modern musical compositions.

In distinction to gastric adenocarcinoma or gastric / small bowel lymphoma, malignant lymphadenopathy ( swollen lymph nodes ) is uncommon (< 10 %) and thus imaging usually shows absence of lymph node enlargement.

In the absence of any such flaw, on the other hand, the utterance is to be assessed as " happy " or " felicitous ", rather than as " true ". Austin dropped this distinction in favour of a

The distinction between recklessness and criminal negligence lies in the presence or absence of foresight as to the prohibited consequences.

In many cases, the actual distinction is typically one of voice, length, aspiration, presence or absence of secondary articulation such as glottalization or velarization, differing length of nearby vowels, or some combination of such features.

During the Great Depression, the principal welfare program known as Home Relief — established as part of the New Deal — made no distinction as to the presence or absence of children in a needy household, but in 1935 a distinct program for such households with children was spun off from the main program.

According to Sullivan, the absence of this feature in some species assumed to be primitive led to the split in classification between domed and non-domed pachycephalosaurs ; however, discovery of more advanced and possibly juvenile pachycephalosaurs with flat skulls ( such as Dracorex hogwartsia ) show this distinction to be incorrect.

During neuromotor examination of newborns, it is noted that for a number of techniques the patterns of the startle reaction and the Moro reflex may significantly overlap, the notable distinction being the absence of arm abduction ( spreading ) during startle response.