Even though there are also reports of distressing experiences and negative life-reviews, which share some similarities with the concept of Hell, the positive experiences of meeting or entering ' the Light ' is reported as an immensely intense feeling state of love, peace and joy beyond human comprehension.

In any of several studies that treat the use of signs-for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, and semiotics-the extension of a concept, idea, or sign consists of the things to which it applies, in contrast with its comprehension or intension, which consists very roughly of the ideas, properties, or corresponding signs that are implied or suggested by the concept in question.

In a competing theory, Hutton's comprehension of endless deep time as a crucial scientific concept was developed into uniformitarianism by Charles Lyell in his Principles of Geology ( 1830 – 33 ).

Speed reading courses and books take a variety of approaches to the concept of reading comprehension.

Also, his animals failed to show generalization of the concept of reference between the modalities of comprehension and production ; this generalization is one of many fundamental ones that are trivial for human language use.

Phonics-based beginning reading should also be supplemented with phonemic awareness lessons, writing opportunities, and lots of read-alouds ( literature read to children daily ) to stimulate motivation, vocabulary development, concept development, and comprehension skill development.

The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school as early as the beginning of understanding.

This and related discoveries led Hirsch to formulate the concept of cultural literacy — the idea that reading comprehension requires not just formal decoding skills but also wide-ranging cultural background knowledge.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.

Mrs. Reavey's work is written for the stage -- it is mentioned for an off-Broadway production in the fall -- and, in addition, employs an avant-garde structure that particularly needs to be seen if comprehension is to be encouraged.

Augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ) is an umbrella term that encompasses methods of communication for those with impairments or restrictions on the production or comprehension of spoken or written language.

In medicine, consciousness is assessed by observing a patient's arousal and responsiveness, and can be seen as a continuum of states ranging from full alertness and comprehension, through disorientation, delirium, loss of meaningful communication, and finally loss of movement in response to painful stimuli.

Although Christ was God incarnate, it is our spiritual, not physical comprehension of him which is important.

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.

While, in general, word comprehension is preserved, meaning interpretation dependent on syntax and phrase structure is substantially impaired.

Like monkeys or small children turned loose among treasured objects whose value is beyond their comprehension, they ran wild — either from perverse pleasure in destruction or simply because of their ignorance.

While the " historical " part of historical materialism does not cause a comprehension problem ( i. e., it means the present is explained by analysing the past ), the term materialism is more difficult.

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

The term may also refer to all such intensions collectively, although the term comprehension is technically more correct for this.

Another factor aiding comprehension is that Old Norse kennings tend to be highly conventional.

The Mutō-ryu ( swordless school ) expresses the comprehension of the originator Yamaoka Tesshu, that " There is no sword outside the mind ".

A Parameter is an important element to take into consideration for the evaluation or for the comprehension of an event, a project or any situation.

His home, the Q Continuum, is accessible to the Q and their guests, and the true nature of it is said to be beyond the comprehension of " lesser beings " such as humans so it is only shown to humans in ways they can understand.

Such research has been ongoing since the late 1970s, and includes the specific topics of: acoustic mimicry, behavioral mimicry ( inter-and intra-specific ), comprehension of novel sequences in an artificial language ( including non-finite state grammars as well as novel anomalous sequences ), memory, monitoring of self-behaviors ( including reporting on these, as well as avoiding or repeating them ), reporting on the presence and absence of objects, object categorization, discrimination and matching ( identity matching to sample, delayed matching to sample, arbitrary matching to sample, matching across echolocation and vision, reporting that no identity match exists, etc.

While the research in this area is ongoing, it is clear that too many hyperlinks can impair comprehension.

The absence of modern literary conventions, which are an aid to comprehension, was an early and persistent source of errors affecting transmission of the text.

The idea of communication directly from those who first discovered an idea as the best way of gaining understanding is Adler's argument for reading the Great Books ; that any book that does not represent original communication, is inferior, as a source, to the original, and, that any teacher, save those who discovered the subject he or she teaches, is inferior to the Great Books as a source of comprehension.

; RAT ( Release Audit Tool ): a comprehension and auditing for distributions and source code

This is supposed to show that love can be a source of comedy as easily as of tragedy and therefore show that the power that the love potion from the Love-in-idleness inherits is beyond the comprehension of the fairies and mortals.

Bioconductor is a free, open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data generated by wet lab experiments in molecular biology.

In university politics, which at that time wore mainly the form of theological controversy, he was a strong advocate of comprehension and toleration.

Motion, even more evidently than space, implicates the contradictory conception of continuity, and cannot, therefore, be a real predicate, though valid as an intelligible form and necessary to the comprehension of the objective semblance.

He discusses the methods of acquiring knowledge, concluding that practical knowledge, though teachable, cannot be truly mastered without experience ; that only informational knowledge can be gained by one whose understanding equals the author's ; that comprehension ( insight ) is best learned from who first achieved said understanding — an " original communication ".

To meet the recommendations of breadth and depth of literacy instruction set by the National Reading Panel ( 2000 ), many literacy programs incorporate four main components: guided reading, which focuses on comprehension skills though exposure to a wide range of literature experiences ; word study, which incorporates phonics, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary instruction ; self-selected reading, which provides children daily experiences in independent reading time ; and writing, which focuses on both the mechanics of composition and on communicating effectively for multiple purposes ( Foley & Stables, 2007 ).

For example, he found boys were " decidedly better " in arithmetical reasoning, while girls were " superior " at answering comprehension questions, though he concluded that gender plays no role in general intelligence.

As of 2003, most speakers of Haida are between 70 and 80 years of age, though they speak a " considerably simplified " form of Haida, and comprehension of the language is mostly limited to persons above the age of 50.

AAC interventions are highly individualized, taking into account specific abilities of language comprehension, social-relational characteristics, learning strengths and weaknesses, and developmental patterns for specific types of intellectual disabilities.

In addition to difficulty expressing oneself, sufferers of expressive aphasia are also noted to commonly have trouble with comprehension in certain linguistic areas.

The categories are knowledge or recall, comprehension application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

I beg farther to remark, if my theory and pretensions, as to the nature, cause, and extent of the phenomena of nervous sleep hypnotism have none of the fascinations of the transcendental to captivate the lovers of the marvellous, the credulous and enthusiastic, which the pretensions and alleged occult agency of the mesmerists have, still I hope my views will not be the less acceptable to honest and sober-minded men, because they are all level to our comprehension, and reconcilable with well-known physiological and psychological principles.

In addition, many students who are considered literate still have difficulty in comprehension which may be related to making reading instruction contingent on spoken language.

Notes are the " atoms " of much Western music: discretizations of musical phenomena that facilitate performance, comprehension, and analysis.

A related response is that good and evil are strictly beyond human comprehension.

Measures of working-memory capacity are strongly related to performance in other complex cognitive tasks such as reading comprehension, problem solving, and with any measures of the intelligence quotient.

In many secondary school texts, the dimensions of G are derived from force in order to assist student comprehension:

A schematic usually omits all details that are not relevant to the information the schematic is intended to convey, and may add unrealistic elements that aid comprehension.

The resulting report Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction was published in 2000 and provides a comprehensive review of what is known about best practices in reading instruction in the U. S. The panel reported that several reading skills are critical to becoming good readers: phonemic awareness, phonics for word identification, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension.

Children who readily understand spoken language and who are able to fluently and easily recognize printed words do not usually have difficulty with reading comprehension.

Two of the most important aspects of successful comprehension are activating prior knowledge and metacognition, which are two of the principles of learning identified in the National Research Council's report.

There are a number of structural and detail differences between the radio adaptation and the book, mostly to aid the comprehension of the story when split into six half-hour episodes ; this adaptation is a considered step away from the original " Shada " story structure.

Hospital systems and research organizations are adopting an electronic way of capturing informed consents to enable indexing, to improve comprehension, search and retrieval of consent data, thus enhancing the ability to honor to patient intent and identify willing research participants.

They are often strong in visual organization and perception, including reading and vocabulary, but their spoken language ( sometimes affected by hypernasality ) is generally poorer than their comprehension.

Nei / ne ?/ naa are extremely similar to the Canadian eh, being statement ending particles which solicit or assume agreement, confirmation, or comprehension on the part of the listener.

Due to the common left parietal and frontal lobe locations, apraxia is often accompanied by aphasia which can make diagnosis challenging as it is difficult to tell if the patient's motor impairments are due to apraxia or from the decreased language comprehension associated with aphasia.

For this, we are merely fools walking on the grounds of great potential with no comprehension of what is.

* The extraterrestrial entities in 2001: A Space Odyssey are exhibited as being beyond human comprehension, thus their civilization may be thought of as one that surpasses those which can be easily classified on the Kardashev scale.