The combination of the term taiji and quan (" fist "), produces the martial art's name taijiquan or " taiji fist ", showing the close link and use of the taiji concept in the martial art.

Universal dialectic is an ontological idea which is closely related to the Taoist and Neo-Confucian concept of taiji or " supreme ultimate.

Accordingly, the term " universal dialectic " can be seen as part of an attempt to Westernize and / or modernize the concept of taiji in regard to the fundamental role and nature of complementary opposites in the ongoing self-organizing process of creation.

" Peng is also described more subtly as an energetic quality that should be present in every taiji movement as a part of the concept of " song " ( 鬆 ) -- or relaxation -- providing alertness, the strength to maintain structure when pressed, and absence of muscular tension in the body.

Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei writes Si fallor, sum (" If I am mistaken, I am ") ( book XI, 26 ), and also anticipates modern refutations of the concept.

The underlying concept can be traced back to 1864 in the published work of George Perkins Marsh (" Man and Nature ").

For the Greeks Autokratōr was not a military title, and was closer to the Latin dictator concept (" the one with unlimited power "), before it came to mean Emperor.

# The Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reiches (" Law concerning the reconstruction of the Reich ") ( January 30, 1934 ) abandoned the concept of a federal republic.

His concept of velayat-e-faqih (" guardianship of the jurist "), held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society – which Khomeini and his followers believed to be himself – should serve as head of state in order to protect or " guard " Islam and Sharia law from " innovation " and " anti-Islamic laws " passed " by sham parliaments.

It promotes the concept there is a shared intersection of values based on the Hebrew Bible (" Torah "), brought into our culture by the founding generations of Biblically oriented Protestants, that is fundamental to American history, cultural identity, and institutions.

The program involves a one-week team design exercise developing an early mission concept study, working with JPL's Advanced Projects Design Team (" Team X ") and other concurrent engineering teams.

Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur (" The Death of Arthur "), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.

A core concept to Confucianism is Ren (" benevolent love ", 仁 ), which focuses on duty, action and attitude in a relationship rather than love itself.

In Western culture, the contemporary concept of a police paid by the government was developed by French legal scholars and practitioners in the 17th and early 18th centuries, notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police (" Treatise on the Police "), first published in 1705.

The two Iowa cases of State v. Ellis and State v. Striggles are both used in classes on criminal law to illustrate the concept of reliance upon authority as it relates to the axiomatic ignorantia juris non excusat (" Ignorance of the law is no excuse ").

The term was coined by Jack Williamson in a science-fiction story (" Collision Orbit ") published during 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction, but the concept may pre-date this work.

It stems from the Rabbinic conception of monotheism that God exists by himself for himself, and is the uncreated Creator who is independent of any concept, force, or entity (" I am that I am ").

The computer concludes that nuclear warfare is " a strange game "; having discovered the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (" WINNER: NONE "), therefore " the only winning move is not to play.

: The only type of causality violation that the authors would find unacceptable is that embodied in the science-fiction concept of going backward in time and killing one's younger self (" changing the past ").

Since Otto III had intentions to renew the Empire based on a federal concept he called " Renovatio Imperii Romanorum ", and within that federal framework, Polish and Hungarian duchies were to be upgraded to eastern federati of the empire it was towards this end that the Emperor placed his Imperial crown on Bolesław I's brow and invested him with the titles frater et cooperator Imperii (" Brother and Partner of the Empire ") and populi Romani amicus et socius.

Such " relational " or " polyadic " (" many-place ") concepts and expressions have, for their extension, the set of all sequences of objects that satisfy the concept or expression in question.

The oldest, and still common, is the concept of " stemming ", pushing the front (" tips ") or rear (" tails ) of the skis sideways from the body so they form an angle to the direction of travel.

Following a 1959 Australian decision (" NRDC "), they believe that it is not possible to grasp the invention concept in a single rule.

The kuji (" nine characters ") is a concept originating from Taoism, where it was a string of nine words used in charms and incantations.

If one wanted to refer to what in post-classical times was called classical Latin one resorted to the concept of latinitas (" latinity ") or latine ( adverb ).

In the Gurū Graṅth Sāhib, the Sikh scripture, the concept of the supreme reality is dynamic.

Miguel Leon-Portilla interprets the name " Ometeotl " as " Lord of the Duality " and argues that Ometeotl was the supreme creator deity of the Aztecs, and that the Aztecs envisioned this deity as a mystical entity with a dual nature akin to the European concept of the trinity.

The concept of Mahadevi as the supreme goddess emerged in historical religious literature as a term to define the powerful and influential nature of female deities in India.

The concept of avatar within Hinduism is most often associated with Vishnu, the preserver or sustainer aspect of God within the Hindu Trinity or Trimurti or the one and only supreme God for followers of Vaishnavism.

The concept viewed the monarch ( king ) as the living god, the incarnation of the supreme god, often attributed to Shiva or Vishnu, on earth.

Because of his development of the concept of a " one god greatest among gods and men " that is abstract, universal, unchanging, immobile and always present, Xenophanes is often seen as one of the first monotheists, in the Western philosophy of religion, although the quotation that seems to point to Xenophanes's monotheism also refers to multiple " gods " who the supreme God is greater than.

" According to Hitchens, the concept of a god or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom, and free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization.

Translatio imperii, Latin for " transfer of rule ", is a concept invented in the Middle Ages for describing history as a linear succession of transfers of imperium, that is of supreme power concentrated with a series of single rulers ( emperors ).

However, " no satisfactory evidence has yet been adduced to show that, before Zoroaster, the concept of a supreme god existed among the Iranians, or that among them Mithra – or any other divinity – ever enjoyed a separate cult of his or her own outside either their ancient or their Zoroastrian pantheons.

Hinduism is based on the concept of one all-embracing supreme spirit known as Nirguna Brahman, that is, Brahman without form.

Austria established the world's first separate constitutional court, conceptualised by Hans Kelsen, in 1920 ( though it was suspended, along with the constitution that created it, from 1934 to 1945 ); before that, only the U. S., Norway, and Australia had adopted the concept of judicial review through their supreme courts.

* Constitutionalism — The modern political concept of constitutionalism establishes the law as supreme over the private will, by integrating nationalism, democracy, and limited government.

In modern Western societies, the concept of ' God ' typically entails a monotheistic, supreme, ultimate, and personal being, as found in the Christian and Hebrew traditions.

A state is said to be " sovereign ," if any of its ruling inhabitants are the supreme authority over it ; the concept is distinct from mere land-title or " ownership.

As a result, although the federal government is ( as discussed above ) recognized as sovereign and has supreme power over those matters within its control, the American constitutional system also recognizes the concept of " State sovereignty ," where certain matters are susceptible to government regulation, but only at the State and not the federal level.

According to Everett, the Pirahã have no concept of a supreme spirit or god and they lost interest in Jesus when they discovered that Everett had never seen him.

The word Kaharingan means life, and this belief system includes a concept of a supreme deity — although this may be the result of the need to conform to the idea of " One Supreme God " ( Ketuhanan yang Maha Esa ), which is the first principle of the Indonesian state ideology Pancasila.

Some prominent daimyo promoted the concept of fukko ( a return to the past ), while others promoted osei ( the Emperor's supreme authority ).

In the early 19th century, Britain's victory over Qing China in the First Opium War forced China to sign an unequal treaty, though the Qing court described this to the Chinese people as a simple act of generosity toward the Europeans, and maintained the concept of supreme tianxia.

# Of Death and Life – Starting prior to 2000 BCE, the concept of an ultimate supreme being takes root with the introduction of the Cult of El, as are some barbaric and mystic practices, like child sacrifice and temple prostitution.

Among the six systems of Hindu philosophy, early Samkhya and Mimamsa do not consider the concept of Ishvara, i. e., a supreme being, while later Samkhya, Yoga, Vaisheshika, Vedanta and Nyaya believe in the existence of an Ishvara.

These differing views are explicitly noted in a series of passes in the Brahma Sutras ( III. 2. 38-40 ), an important text in Vedanta, the major school of Hinduism, which endorses the concept of Ishvara i. e., a personal supreme God, as the source of fruits of karma, but note opposing views in order to refute them.

Aham is the concept of supreme reality as heart.