It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable.

I think religion serves a lot of different purposes in people's lives, and I can recognize the value of that, you know, the value of ceremony, the value of community, or even just having a forum to get together and talk about ideas, about morals – that's a cool concept.

For Gilbert Ryle ( 1949 ), a category ( in particular a " category mistake ") is an important semantic concept, but one having only loose affinities to an ontological category.

Scanlon advances the idea that human rights, which are commonly considered a " deontological " concept, can only be justified with reference to the consequences of having those rights.

Citizenship became an idealized, almost abstract, concept, and did not signify a submissive relation with a lord or count, but rather indicated the bond between a person and the state in the rather abstract sense of having rights and duties.

The progressive bands that were still around were still having major successes with concept albums.

In keeping with the concept of vacuous truth, when disjunction is defined as an operator or function of arbitrary arity, the empty disjunction ( OR-ing over an empty set of operands ) is often defined as having the result 0.

Some scenarios have extra rules encompassing the concept of exploration, which is done by having the hex tiles placed face down.

The concept of generalization has broad application in many related disciplines, sometimes having a specialized context-meaning.

Galen's concept of the stomach having four faculties was widely accepted up to modernity in the seventeenth century.

Technologically advanced but having no concept of fiction, they have mistaken broadcasts of Galaxy Quest for historical documentaries and modelled their society on the ethos presented in the episodes.

Daniel Dennett countered that for some things, such as money, baseball, or consciousness, one cannot have the thing without also having the concept of the thing.

: The knowledge base underlying the INTERNIST system is composed of two basic types of elements: disease entities and manifestations .... also contains a ... hierarchy of disease categories, organized primarily around the concept of organ systems, having at the top level such categories as " liver disease ," " kidney disease ," etc.

In keeping with the concept of vacuous truth, when conjunction is defined as an operator or function of arbitrary arity, the empty conjunction ( AND-ing over an empty set of operands ) is often defined as having the result 1.

Following the negative outcome of aether-drift experiments like the Michelson-Morley experiment, the concept of aether as a mechanical medium having a state of motion lost adherents.

When compared with the concept map ( which was developed by learning experts in the 1970s ) the structure of a mind map is a similar radial, but is simplified by having one central key word.

Satsuki takes this very hard, having reached the age where she fully understands the concept of death.

The DSM-5 will then be closer to the DSM-I and DSM-II than to their successors, which all were at least trying to separate the concept of " mental disorder " from cultural norms, and which made " harm " or " distress " a necessary condition for having a mental disorder.

It turns out that such inconsistencies arise from relativistic wavefunctions having a probabilistic interpretation in position space, as probability conservation is not a relativistically covariant concept.

The emphasis on the salvific nature of the Resurrection continued in Christian theology in the next centuries, e. g., in the 8th century Saint John of Damascus wrote that: "... When he had freed those who were bound from the beginning of time, Christ returned again from among the dead, having opened for us the way to resurrection " and Christian iconography of the ensuing years represented that concept.

Though the Round Table itself is not mentioned until Wace, the concept of Arthur having a marvellous court made up of many prominent warriors is much older.

Crate scooters preceded skateboards, and were borne of a similar concept, with the exception of having a wooden crate attached to the nose ( front of the board ), which formed rudimentary handlebars.

States can also be distinguished from the concept of a " nation ", which refers to a large geographical area, and the people therein who perceive themselves as having a common identity.

According to Anthony Giddens and others, the modern meaning of tradition can be seen as having evolved in the European discourse in the last two hundred years, during the Enlightenment period, as philosophers and thinkers counter posed the concept of modernity with the concept of tradition, in the context of progress.

The politics of North Korea take place within a nominally democratic multi-party system within the framework of the official state philosophy, Juche, a concept created by Hwang Chang-yŏp for and later attributed to Kim Il-sung.

Israel's definition of a nation state differs from other countries as its concept of a nation state is based on the Ethnoreligious group ( Judaism ) rather than solely on ethnicity, while the ancient mother language of the Jews, Hebrew, was revived as a unifying bond between them as a national and official language.

Several official design studies were done, but most were basically smaller versions of the existing Shuttle concept.

Dickson, then the Edison company's official photographer, was assigned to turn the concept into a reality.

First, in May, Apple used its own Apple Public Source License, which satisfies the Free Software Foundation's concept of a Free Software License and has attained official approval from the Open Source Initiative as an Open Source License.

The official father of the concept of electric propulsion is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, as he is the first to publish mention of the idea in 1911.

In Albania, where the concept of Epirus is never used in an official context, the counties of Gjirokastër, Vlorë, and Berat extend well beyond the northern and northeastern boundaries of classical Epirus.

Created and produced by the Parallax Corporation, and manufactured under official license, its packaging is an imaginary concept of how Soylent Green might have been sold.

Today, China proper is a controversial concept in China itself, since the current official paradigm does not contrast the core and the periphery of China.

In fact, Major League Baseball had no official record book at the time, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors.

The concept is based on the law of one price, where in the absence of transaction costs and official trade barriers, identical goods will have the same price in different markets when the prices are expressed in the same currency.

Heterogeneous Aerial Reconnaissance Team | HART program concept drawing from official Information Processing Technology Office | IPTO ( DARPA ) official website

The privilege of minting official coins developed into the concept of seigniorage.

For the first time, the concept of an official majority was abandoned.

The concept of national security became an official guiding principle of foreign policy in the United States when the National Security Act of 1947 was signed on July 26, 1947 by U. S. President Harry S. Truman.

Valmet even developed a prototype of an even longer, seven seat limousine as a concept car of an official state car.

The project obtained official approval from management, and eventually the RX-8 concept car ( design / engineering model ) was produced and shown in 2001, closer resembling the production version.

Yerkovich, however, indicates that he devised the concept after learning about asset forfeiture statutes that allow law enforcement agencies to confiscate the property of convicted drug dealers for official use.

In this effort, he was greatly aided by the powerful influences of his friend Wonhyo ( hangul: 원효대사, hanja: 元曉 ), who although not an official representative of the school, relied deeply on Hwaeom metaphysical principles to establish his concept of interpenetrated Buddhism ( 通佛教 ).

Stephenson proposed the concept in an article for the Daily Herald in 1935, and later lobbied Parliament for the creation of an official trail.

The official concept of the " Bonan ethnic group " still remains somewhat artificial for the Bonans themselves.

The official motto, or concept behind Tzu Chi Foundation is the ( 四大志業, 八大腳印 ), which means, " Four endeavors, eight footprints ".

More recently in 2007, the BBC reported that a " race row " had broken out in the wake of an official inquiry that identified institutional racism in British psychiatry, with psychiatrists, including from the IOP / Maudsley, arguing against the claim, while the heads of the Mental Health Act Commission accused them of misunderstanding the concept of institutional racism and dismissing the legitimate concerns of the Black community in Britain.