There is no scientifically precise definition of genius, and the question of whether the notion itself has any real meaning has long been a subject of debate.

Indeed, the question of what is meant by a " right " is itself controversial and the subject of continued philosophical debate.

However, the committee report prior to the debate on the house floor and the debate itself, discussed the rise of opiate use in the United States.

This split the American individualists into fierce debate, " with the natural rights proponents accusing the egoists of destroying libertarianism itself.

The ontologic commitment here is sufficiently obvious and sufficiently important that it is often a subject of debate in the field itself, quite independent of building automated reasoners.

" in which he dealt with the debate between Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin at the First International and afterwards he suggested that " Libertarian marxism rejects determinism and fatalism, giving the greator place to individual will, intuition, imagination, reflex speeds, and to the deep instincts of the masses, which are more far-seeing in hours of crisis than the reasonings of the ‘ elites ’; libertarian marxism thinks of the effects of surprise, provocation and boldness, refuses to be cluttered and paralysed by a heavy ‘ scientific ’ apparatus, doesn ’ t equivocate or bluff, and guards itself from adventurism as much as from fear of the unknown.

" Now Burma has to defend itself if it was bombarded at any international forum ," he said when winding up a debate at committee stage for the Foreign Ministry.

Findings such as these have led to debate about whether psychosis itself causes excitotoxic brain damage and whether potentially damaging changes to the brain are related to the length of psychotic episode.

Moreover, further debate about colonialism, which is linked to immigration, continued in France ; historian Benjamin Stora noted that colonialism is an important " memory " stake influencing how communities, and the nation, itself, represent themselves, because official state history has accepted French historic crimes and errors with great difficulty ; the historian Olivier LeCour Grandmaison also criticized the 23 February 2005 law.

Such ideas have also sparked a debate on whether trade itself should be codified as a human right.

On Monday, July 1, having tabled the draft of the declaration, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, with Benjamin Harrison of Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independence.

He was an early member and officer of the Kappa Alpha Society, which included a number of these individuals ( two future Ontario Supreme Court Justices and the future Chairman of the University itself ) and served as a location for the debate of political ideas.

The question of direct or " naïve " realism, as opposed to indirect or " representational " realism, arises in the philosophy of perception and of mind out of the debate over the nature of conscious experience ; the epistemological question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself or merely an internal perceptual copy of that world generated by neural processes in our brain.

There is no widely held consensus on how to measure social capital, which has become a debate in itself: why refer to this phenomenon as ' capital ' if there is no true way to measure it?

Although Steward and Barnett seemed to be suggesting that anthropology as such should restrict itself to purely academic affairs, people within and without the academy have continued to debate the ways non-anthropologists have used this principle in public policy concerning ethnic minorities or in international relations ( see this interview or this article on cultural relativism and human rights for examples of this debate ).

Citizens of the Culture refer to a normal human as " human-basic " and the vast majority opt for significant enhancements ; severed limbs grow back, sexual physiology can be voluntarily changed from male to female and back ( though the process itself takes time ), sexual stimulation and endurance are strongly heightened in both sexes ( something that is often subject of envious debate among other species ), pain can be switched off, toxins can be bypassed away from the digestive system, automatic functions such as breathing or heart rate can be switched to conscious control, and bones and muscles adapt quickly to changes in gravity without the need to exercise.

The Pharisaic commitment to scholarly debate as a value in and of itself, rather than merely a byproduct of sectarianism, emerged as a defining feature of Rabbinic Judaism.

The World Social Forum prefers to define itself as " an opened space – plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan – that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidarity, democratic and fair world .... a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism.

Taylor talked so well that he raised the standard of debate in Australia — and perhaps of cricket itself — in a way which was an example to all professional cricketers ... Border stopped Australia losing.

The description of the proceedings, where King Oswiu presides and rules but does not engage in the debate itself, which instead is conducted by ecclesiastics, parallels examples of other synods in other sources, such as one in the Vita Sancti Bonifati by Willibald ( where King Ine of Wessex performed the same function as Oswiu ).

The 48 votes in support of the cloture motion were 12 votes short of the 60-vote supermajority ( three-fifths ) needed to end debate and force a vote on the Amendment itself.

The 48 votes in support of the cloture motion were 12 votes short of the 60-vote supermajority ( three-fifths ) needed to end debate and force a vote on the Amendment itself.

In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.

There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

There was some debate at the time whether there should be more control characters rather than the lower case alphabet.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The term “ Arian ” bestowed by Athanasius upon his opponents in the Christological debate was polemical.

The emerging Baptist movement in 17th-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians.

Albertus was the first to comment on virtually all of the writings of Aristotle, thus making them accessible to wider academic debate.

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

But the design of the idealized free library was the subject of prolonged and heated debate.

However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars, even following the discovery that Mycenaean Linear B is an early form of Greek ; the earlier debate was summed up in 1984 by Hans G. Güterbock of the Oriental Institute.

Consequently, there was little public concern with the issues and debate had been confined largely to academic circles until, in November 2010, the announcement that Prince William was to marry.

Kabul University was a centre for political debate and activism during that time.

Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

The heated debate that resulted was settled by the Bundestag ( Germany's parliament ) only on 20 June 1991.

Whorf was a spiritual man throughout his lifetime although what religion he followed has been the subject of debate.

While the House Judiciary Committee hearings ended in a straight party-line vote, there was lively debate on the House floor.

The acceptance of modernist design into everyday life was the subject of publicity campaigns, well-attended public exhibitions like the Weissenhof Estate, films, and sometimes fierce public debate.