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" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.
Between 2003 and 2006, monitors with 16: 9 and mostly 16: 10 ( 8: 5 ) aspect ratios became commonly available, first in laptops and later also in standalone monitors.
The first and highest aspect of God is described by Plato as the One, the source, or the Monad.
An important aspect of the second law of electrolysis is electroplating which together with the first law of electrolysis, has a significant number of applications in the industry, as when used to protect metals to avoid corrosion.
In the first ' be ' is part of the progressive aspect, used with "- ing " on the verb, and in the second it is part of the passive, as indicated by the perfect participle of a transitive verb.
Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.
Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its generally recognized aspects do not correspond very closely to the traditional notion of perfective vs. imperfective aspectual distinction originally devised to classify aspect in most Classical and Slavic languages ( those languages for which the concept of aspect was first proposed in describing non-tense handling of verbal " viewpoint ").
In the first case, Agin discussed falsified results in the development of organic transistors: ' As far as understanding junk science is concerned, the important aspect is that both Bell Laboratories and the international physics community were fooled until someone noticed that noise records published by Jan Hendrik Schön in several papers were identical-which means physically impossible.
In terms of its long lasting impact on the video game industry, perhaps the most intriguing aspect is Wyn Holloway's claim that Lucasfilm had their frequent partner Sony lined up to manufacture their version of the system, this being contemporaneous with Sony's development of the SNES-CD for Nintendo, which ultimately led to the first PlayStation.
The beginning of the 20th century marked the first time a movement in the arts was described as " avant-garde "— a term previously used in military and political contexts, which remained to describe movements which identify themselves as attempting to overthrow some aspect of tradition or the status quo.
For the first several decades of television broadcasting, sets displayed images with a 4: 3 aspect ratio in which the width is 1. 33 times the height — similar to most theatrical films prior to 1960.
A recursive pun is one in which the second aspect of a pun relies on the understanding of an element in the first.
This aspect was later influenced by the rhythms of foreigners, first by foxtrot in the 1940s and then bolero the 1950s.
The first is that of the network television ( unsyndicated ) versions in the original aspect ratio of 4: 3 that were downscaled for the DVD releases.
To those unfamiliar with this aspect of a TARDIS, stepping inside the ship for the first time usually results in a reaction of shocked disbelief as they see the interior dimensions (" It's bigger on the inside!
The inferior zone of the river, as far up as the first fall, the Porteira, has but little broken water and is low and swampy ; but above the long series of cataracts and rapids the character and aspect of the valley completely change, and the climate is much better.
It is in the domain of media and communications technology that a counter-intuitive aspect of our relationships with our tools first began to gain popular recognition.
The redefinition is thus the first aspect, the transposition the second aspect.
It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.
It was the first time in USPO history that the design was actually spread over two stamps ( one which featured White, the other his Gemini capsule, the two connected by a tether ), which was considered befitting the " twins " aspect of the Gemini mission.
An interesting aspect of Hecks is that the sides of the board have no predefined color: the black and white players do not have to declare in advance which pair of sides they attempt to connect, and the first player who completes a path across the board wins.

first and paradox
Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".
Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay written in 1848, included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang theory by 80 years, as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers ' paradox.
The first paradox ( the Liar ) is probably the most famous, and is similar to the famous paradox of Epimenides the Cretan.
The second cornerstone of the Fermi paradox is a rejoinder to the argument by scale: given intelligent life's ability to overcome scarcity, and its tendency to colonize new habitats, it seems likely that at least some civilizations would be technologically advanced, seek out new resources in space and then colonize first their own star system and subsequently the surrounding star systems.
It is said that when Wittgenstein first heard this paradox one evening ( which Moore had earlier stated in a lecture ), he rushed round to Moore's lodgings, got him out of bed and insisted that Moore repeat the entire lecture to him.
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī could have been the first logician to identify the liar paradox as self-referential.
The multi-sentence version of the liar paradox generalizes to any circular sequence of such statements ( wherein the last statement asserts the truth / falsity of the first statement ), provided there are an odd number of statements asserting the falsity of their successor ; the following is a three-sentence version, with each statement asserting the falsity of its successor:
Roughly speaking, in proving the first incompleteness theorem, Gödel used a slightly modified version of the liar paradox, replacing " this sentence is false " with " this sentence is not provable ", called the " Gödel sentence G ".
George Boolos has since sketched an alternative proof of the first incompleteness theorem that uses Berry's paradox rather than the liar paradox to construct a true but unprovable formula.
Classical measure theory makes deep usage of the axiom of choice, which is fundamental to, first, distinction between measurable and non-measurable sets, the existence of the latter being behind such famous results as the Banach Tarski paradox, and secondly the hierarchies of notions of measure captured by notions such as Borel algebras, which are an important source of intuitions in set theory.
According to Harrison, the first to conceive of anything like the paradox was Thomas Digges, who was also the first to expound the Copernican system in English and may have been the first to postulate an infinite universe with infinitely many stars.
The paradox is commonly attributed to the German amateur astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, who described it in 1823, but Harrison shows convincingly that Olbers was far from the first to pose the problem, nor was his thinking about it particularly valuable.
Harrison argues that the first to set out a satisfactory resolution of the paradox was Lord Kelvin, in a little known 1901 paper, and that Edgar Allan Poe's essay Eureka ( 1848 ) curiously anticipated some qualitative aspects of Kelvin's argument:
However, the Big Bang theory introduces a new paradox: it states that the sky was much brighter in the past, especially at the end of the recombination era, when it first became transparent.
Peirce begins with the observation that " Berkeley's metaphysical theories have at first sight an air of paradox and levity very unbecoming to a bishop ".
However, he was also the first to notice some of the apparently exotic consequences of entanglement, and used them to formulate the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in the hope of showing that quantum mechanics had unacceptable implications.
Epicurus is generally credited with first expounding the problem of evil, and it is sometimes called " the Epicurean paradox " or " the riddle of Epicurus ":

first and argument
The first argument is thus an ideal experiment in which we use the method of difference.
Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.
Hence, such an appellate court will not consider an appellant's argument if it is based on a theory that is raised for the first time in the appeal.
The first function is assumed, if the expression in the argument contains more characters or, than characters, and the second function is assumed in the opposite case.
Max Deutschbein is noted as the first person to present the argument in academic form.
whereas if X is a complex Banach space, then the polarization identity is given by ( assuming that scalar product is linear in first argument ):
The first part of Einstein's argument was to determine how far a Brownian particle travels in a given time interval.
: A further argument is that relativistic difficulties about establishing which measurement occurred first also undermine the idea that one observer is causing what the other is measuring.
Searle's argument first appeared in his paper " Minds, Brains, and Programs ", published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 1980.
Searle's argument first appeared in his paper " Minds, Brains, and Programs ", published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 1980.
It is traditionally known as an argument from universal causation, an argument from first cause, the causal argument or the argument from existence.
Aristotle's famous argument was contrary to the atomist's depiction of a non-eternal cosmos which, he argued, would require an efficient first cause, a notion that Aristotle took to demonstrate a critical flaw in their reasoning.
By simply denying that an efficient first cause is problematic, being easily explained as the creative action of an omnipotent God, medieval theologians re-purposed and enhanced Aristotle's argument, as if the intention had been to prove God's existence.
( It may require occasional maintenance, but that is beyond the scope of the first cause argument.
" This form of the argument is far more difficult to separate from a purely first cause argument than is the example of the house's maintenance above, because here the First Cause is insufficient without the candle's or vessel's continued existence.
Caesar seems to be one of the first authors to distinguish the two groups, and he has a political motive for doing so ( it is an argument in favour of the Rhine border ).
That is, while an evaluation of the first function might be represented as, evaluation of the curried function would be represented as, applying each argument in turn to a single-argument function returned by the previous invocation.
Given the definition of above, we might fix ( or ' bind ') the first argument, producing a function of type.
Partial application makes it easy to define these functions, for example by creating a function that represents the addition operator with 1 bound as its first argument.
" Tertullian argument that second marriage " consists essentially in fornication " is seen to extend to the first and lawful marriage.
The reason this is called " disjunctive syllogism " is that, first, it is a syllogism, a three-step argument, and second, it contains a logical disjunction, which simply means an " or " statement.

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