When dealing with the actual relation of philosophy to the sociology of knowledge, or better the role of philosophy in assisting research on the social sources of ideas, one has to become necessarily selective.

Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....

* Even if the actual systems of philosophy which have appeared in the philosophical thought of a given culture are historically conditioned, there may be ways of thought exemplified by past systems which remain a feature of a people's mentality or cultural outlook.

Lovecraft's actual philosophy has been termed " cosmic indifferentism " and this is expressed in his fiction.

Mohism promotes a philosophy of impartial caring ; that is, a person should care equally for all other individuals, regardless of their actual relationship to him or her.

Hence, in the philosophy of mathematics, the abstraction of actual infinity involves the acceptance of infinite entities, such as the set of all natural numbers or an infinite sequence of rational numbers, as given objects.

President Bill Clinton was open about his support for much of Amitai Etzioni's philosophy, though whether this reflected on his actual policy program is debatable.

The actual philosophy would depend on operational circumstances such as pressure, temperature, type of flow ( gas, liquid, presences of water etc.

The philosophy of a disordered self, such as in schizophrenia, is described in terms of what the psychiatrist understands are actual events in terms of neuron excitation but are delusions nonetheless, and the schizo-affective or schizophrenic person also believes are actual events in terms of essential being.

In an action King's College philosophy professor David Kyle Johnson describes as " directed either toward accomplishing his own happiness or the unhappiness of others ", Cartman often feigns actual friendship with his classmates when needing a favor.

More a philosophy than an actual style of art, symbolism in painting influenced the contemporary Art Nouveau style and Les Nabis.

Bonaventure accepts the Platonic doctrine that ideas do not exist in rerum natura, but as ideals exemplified by the Divine Being, according to which actual things were formed ; and this conception has no slight influence upon his philosophy.

It is often part of the philosophy of a unitary state that, regardless of the actual status of any of its parts, its entire territory constitutes a single sovereign entity or nation-state, and that by virtue of this the central government exercises sovereignty over the whole territory as of right.

Post-20th-century philosophy of mathematics is mostly concerned with quasi-empirical methods especially as reflected in actual mathematical practice of working mathematicians.

First, he returned to Warsaw, from there going to study philosophy at the University of Berlin, but not for degree purposes ; he was not interested in degrees or the jobs they could offer, but only in the actual material that the university taught him.

Stevo falls in love with a young rich girl named Brandy ( Summer Phoenix ), who points out that his anarchic clothing and attitude are more of a fashion choice than an actual political philosophy.

* Nexus ( process philosophy ), a term coined by Alfred North Whitehead to show the network actual entity from universe

Though he had a vast influence on psychophysics, the actual disciples of his general philosophy were few.

The Greek elements were borrowed partly from Platonic philosophy, insofar as the divine powers were conceived as types or patterns of actual things (" archetypal ideas "), and partly from Stoic philosophy, insofar as those powers were regarded as the efficient causes that not only represent the types of things, but also produce and maintain them.

Sunderlal Bahuguna ( born 9 January 1927 ) is a noted Garhwali environmentalist, Chipko movement leader and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of Non-violence and Satyagraha. His actual family name is Bandyopadhyay a common family name for Bengali Brahmin.

Mohandas Gandhi, Confucius, Menno Simons and Baruch Spinoza are examples of figures in moral philosophy and political philosophy who focused first and foremost on the ethical choices made in the actual framing and encounter of moral interventions.

Therefore " eisode " would have become inappropriate, whereas " anode " meaning ' East electrode ' would have remained correct with respect to the unchanged direction of the actual phenomenon underlying the current, then unknown but, he thought, unambiguously defined by the magnetic reference.

You will see a multitude of tiny particles mingling in a multitude of ways ... their dancing is an actual indication of underlying movements of matter that are hidden from our sight ...

Therefore " exode " would have become inappropriate, whereas " cathode " meaning ' West electrode ' would have remained correct with respect to the unchanged direction of the actual phenomenon underlying the current, then unknown but, he thought, unambiguously defined by the magnetic reference.

Vincenzo, through his tuning research, found the underlying truth at the heart of the misunderstood myth of ' Pythagoras ' hammers ' ( the square of the numbers concerned yielded those musical intervals, not the actual numbers, as believed ), and through this and other discoveries that demonstrated the fallibility of traditional authorities, a radically empirical attitude developed, passed on to Galileo, which regarded " experience and demonstration " as the sine qua non of valid rational enquiry.

Since very few actual implementations of heat engines exactly match their underlying thermodynamic cycles, one could say that a thermodynamic cycle is an ideal case of a mechanical engine.

Kepler's efforts to explain the underlying reasons for such motions are no longer accepted ; nonetheless, the actual laws themselves are still considered an accurate description of the motion of any planet and any satellite.

Ordered phonological rules govern how underlying representation is transformed into the actual pronunciation ( the so-called surface form ).

Or understood as something more fundamental underlying an actual mass or density function.

An example of a phenotypic trait is hair color, there are underlying genes that control the hair color, which make up the genotype, but the actual hair color, the part we see, is the phenotype.

Ziklag is generally agreed to be a significant corruption of the location's actual name ; Haluza was identified as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Halusah ( slightly clearer in the underlying Hebrew script than in English ), meaning fortress ; Khirbet Zuheiliqah was identified by Conder and Kitchener as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Zahaliku.

Critics of this ethics-driven approach to language tend to accept that idioms reflect underlying conceptual metaphors, but that actual grammar, and the more basic cross-cultural concepts of scientific method and mathematical practice tend to minimize the impact of metaphors.

Lastly, it has also been suggested that an unpleasant treatment used in a deception study or the unpleasant implications of the outcome of a deception study may be the underlying reason that a study using deception is perceived as unethical in nature, rather than the actual deception itself ( Broder, 1998, p. 806 ; Christensen, 1988, p. 671 ).

For example, many modern soundcards or built-in sound chips don't have a " master volume " control ; for these devices, the user space library instead provides a software volume control using the " softvol " plugin, and ordinary application software need not care whether such a control is implemented by actual underlying hardware or software emulation of such underlying hardware.

* FreeKEYB, an international DOS keyboard and console driver with many usability enhancements utilized self-modifying code and dynamic dead code elimination to minimize its memory image based on its user configuration ( selected features, languages, layouts ) and actual runtime environment ( OS variant and version, loaded drivers, underlying hardware ), automatically resolving dependencies, dynamically relocating and recombining code sections on byte-level granularity and optimizing opstrings based on semantic information provided in the source code, relocation information generated by special tools during assembly and profile information obtained at load time.

A supervenient property is one which is actual ( for dependence on the reflective properties of a surface is not simply imagined ), but is secondary to some underlying reality.

* difficult to use for product positioning research because there is no procedure for converting perceptions about actual features to perceptions about a reduced set of underlying features

Although the term Plachutta is confined to the world of chess problems, not being used in a wider chess context, the underlying Plachutta pattern does occasionally ( though rarely ) appear in an actual game.

An actual measurement reflects only one solution, representing a breakdown in the symmetry of the underlying theory.

That means that when a database is used by a number of users on a network, the system normally relies on the underlying network software to deliver entire files to the user's desktop machine where the actual query work is carried out.

In object-oriented programming, transparency is facilitated through the use of interfaces that hide actual implementations done with different underlying classes.

It can occur unintentionally due to an underlying disease or can arise from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived overweight or obese state.

The actual underlying to BSZ and BVZ are based on the opening prices of index basket members.

Garfinkel states that the documentary method of interpretation consists of treating an actual appearance as the " document of ", " as pointing to ", as " standing on behalf of ", a presupposed underlying pattern.

Although modern cognitive researchers continue to debate the actual causes of forgetting ( e. g., competition vs. unlearning ), retroactive interference implies a general understanding that additional underlying processes play a role in memory.