He goes on to define error as self-contradiction of definition (" an absurdity, or senselesse Speech ") or conclusions that do not follow the definitions on which they are supposed to be based.

These definitions are archaic, their relevance having dissipated with the development of the English legal system over the centuries, but they do explain the origin of the term as used today.

The difference between the two definitions is that under the former, finite sets are also considered to be countable, while under the latter definition, they are not considered to be countable.

Another example is a strong operationalist viewpoint, which contends that reliance on operational definitions, as purported by the DSM, necessitates that intuitive concepts such as depression be replaced by specific measurable concepts before they are scientifically meaningful.

One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.

Different programs can have different definitions of the same class, including only what they need.

Moore contends that even if such arguments are correct, they do not provide definitions for the term ' good.

While some enthusiasts of certain types of jazz have argued for narrower definitions which exclude many other types of music also commonly known as " jazz ," jazz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play.

These definitions also entail different approaches and understandings of language, and they inform different and often incompatible schools of linguistic theory.

There are competing definitions of open educational resources, but they describe at least resources that are accessible for no charge to students and educators, and typically under a public copyright licence that permits the resource to be shared and adapted.

When ' millimetres of mercury ' or ' inches of mercury ' are quoted today, these units are not based on a physical column of mercury: they have been given precise definitions that can be expressed in terms of SI units.

" In effect, such definitions were not explanations of what these " medicine people " were to their own communities, but instead reported on the consensus of socially and psychologically remote observers when they tried to categorize these individuals.

Both the Imperial and U. S. definitions of the nautical mile were based on the Clarke ( 1866 ) Spheroid: they were different approximations to the length of one minute of arc along a great circle of a sphere having the same surface area as the Clarke Spheroid.

All these definitions are equivalent, as they agree on which specific functions f can be computed by an oracle machine with oracle A.

Philosophers offer definitions and explanations in solution to problems ; they argue for those solutions ; and then other philosophers provide counter arguments, expecting to eventually come up with better solutions.

And therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly styled irreformable, since they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, promised to him in blessed Peter, and therefore they need no approval of others, nor do they allow an appeal to any other judgment.

Indeed, postmodernists question the tight definitions and categories of academic disciplines, which they regard simply as the remnants of modernity ( Rosenau 1992, 6 – 7 ).

Wittgenstein argues that definitions emerge from what he termed " forms of life ", roughly the culture and society in which they are used.

Its definitions and decrees were confirmed by a papal bull (" Benedictus Deus ") dated 26 January 1564 ; and, though they were received with certain limitations by France and Spain, the famous Creed of Pius IV, or Tridentine Creed, became an authoritative expression of the Catholic faith.

When the terms formal parameter and actual parameter are used, they generally correspond with the definitions used in computer science.

Modesto and Anderson reviewed the many previous definitions, and proposed a modified definition which they intended to retain most traditional content of the group while keeping it stable and monophyletic.

they disagree on material facts, but rather because they disagree on the definitions of a word ( or several words ) essential to formulating the claim at issue.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

It is commonly called " Wicca ", a term that came to be adopted in the early 1960s, although in the late 1970s and 1980s certain Pagan Witches began to instead use that term purely in reference to specific traditions of the Pagan Craft, and in the contemporary pagan community both definitions are now employed, causing some confusion.

However, due to the temperature-dependence of the specific heat, a large number of different definitions of the calorie came into being.

Say himself never used many of the later short definitions of Say's law and thus Say's law actually developed due to the work of many of his contemporaries and those who came after him.

The different definitions came from the practice of quoting gravimetric results as mass fractions of the analyte, often expressed as a percentage.

These agreements grew out of the POS-PHY interface definitions PL-3 and PL-4 which themselves came from the ATM Forum's Utopia definitions which had included:

I began with the study of grammar, and whatever vajra topics I came across, such as the Conqueror ’ s scriptures and the treatises which clarify their intention, texts on conventional definitions and instructions on the true nature.

As is the case with the calorie, several different definitions of the Btu exist, which are based on different water temperatures and therefore vary by up to 0. 5 %:

" Except for the removal of homosexuality from the DSM-III onwards, this definition provided a general standard that has guided specific definitions of paraphilias in subsequent DSM editions, up to DSM-IV-TR.

" The structure of a dissertation consists in an introduction that elucidates the basic definitions involved in the question as set, followed by an argument or thesis, a counter-argument or antithesis, and a resolving argument or synthesis that is not a compromise between the former but the production of a new argument, ending with a conclusion that does not sum up the points but opens onto a new problem.

The sequence of definitions used in setting up dynamics in the Principia is recognisable in many textbooks today.

It is defined as “ the ability to stand up for what is right in difficult situations .” As opposed to less sophisticated definitions that simply categorize bravery as fearlessness or acting when an observer would be afraid.

The first three lines are read and a fake fourth line must be made up by the other players which acts like the fake definitions.

The definitions are made using MAD declaration statements and assembly language mnemonics included following the declaration up to the END pseudo-instruction that implement the operation.

Such definitions are used as a follow up to a theoretical definition, in which the specific concept is defined as a measurable occurrence.

* a differential equation of motion, usually identified as some physical law and applying definitions of physical quantities, is used to set up an equation for the problem,

Author Douglas Adams, while travelling with British comedy producer John Lloyd, suggested they play a game he had learned at school in which players were challenged to make up plausible word definitions for place names taken from road maps.

The movement, which still continues, played an important role in the opening up of definitions of what art can be.

The British set up the Political Warfare Executive to produce and distribute ' black ' and ' white ' propaganda ( see Categories of psychological warfare section for definitions ).

As a result, many aviation authorities set up definitions of lightweight, slow-flying aeroplanes that could be subject to minimum regulations.

While most women of child-bearing age ( up to 85 %) report having experienced physical symptoms related to normal ovulatory function, such as bloating or breast tenderness, medical definitions of PMS are limited to a consistent pattern of emotional and physical symptoms occurring only during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle that are of " sufficient severity to interfere with some aspects of life ".

The surface is just the region in the plane, with the unit normals pointing up ( in the positive z direction ) to match the " positive orientation " definitions for both theorems.

One common argument found in the philosophical literature is that in the case of Heraclitus ' river one is tripped up by two different definitions of " the same ".

This group encompasses all now-living reptiles as well as birds, and as such is comparable to Goodrich's classification, the difference being that better resolution of the early amniote tree has split up most of the Goodrich's " Protosauria ", though definitions of Sauropsida essentially identical to Huxley's ( i. e. including the mammal-like reptiles ) are also forwarded.

Again speaking in rough terms, the Hodge and Tate conjectures are types of invariant theory ( the spaces that are morally the algebraic cycles are picked out by invariance under a group, if one sets up the correct definitions ).

The tiny increase of the mean solar day itself due to the slowing down of the Earth's rotation, by about 2 ms per day per century, which currently accumulates up to about 1 second every year, is not taken into account in traditional definitions of the equation of time, as it is imperceptible at the accuracy level of sundials.

# Code template generator: To speed up the process of writing a WMI provider including all COM / DCOM interfaces and related definitions, the WMI team developed the WMI ATL Wizard to generate the code template implementing a provider.

However, the second maxim also opens the question of broader definitions of harm, up to and including harm to the society.

In its purest form, an interface ( like in Java ) must include only method definitions and constant values that make up part of the static interface of a type.

Many definitions of South Jersey include the southern portion of Ocean County, up to Long Beach Island.