In reviewing an incident so important in the history of the Transvaal as the appointment of the Potchefstroom assembly it is of interest to note the gist of the complaint among the Boers which led to this revolution in the government of the country as it had previously existed.

Arguably, had he not done this, the gist of what was said would not otherwise be known at all — whereas today there is a plethora of documentation — written records, archives and recording technology for historians to consult.

) About ' Aristocracy in art ' - art is not for all but only for the chosen few-but the only way to find those few is to bring art to everyone-then the artists have a sort of masonic signal by which they recognise each other in the crowd-he put it much better than that-but that is the gist .</ p >

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

The gist of the dialogue is that Modesty and Willie plan to unearth a treasure ( the one left buried at the end of the book A Taste for Death ) and anonymously donate it to the Salvation Army, and to take a break from adventuring.

The gist ... is explicit and intelligent: the lure of the city, of civilization, of style and order and bourgeois living is real, for elephants as for humans.

This is usually accounted for by source-monitoring error, where a person can recall specific facts, but cannot correctly identify the source of that knowledge because of apparent loss of the association between the episodic ( specific experience, or source ) and semantic ( concept-based, or gist ) accounts of the stored knowledge.

The gist of the following elementary proof is due to Paul Erd &# 337 ; s. The basic idea of the proof is to show that a certain central binomial coefficient needs to have a prime factor within the desired interval in order to be large enough.

The gist of the RG is this group property: as the scale μ varies, the theory presents a self-similar replica of itself, and any scale can be accessed similarly from any other scale, by group action, a formal conjugacy of couplings in the mathematical sense ( Schröder's equation ).

The story is written in a gist.

The gist is that al-Qaeda's efforts have been counterproductive and used as " subterfuge " by some Western countries to extend their regional ambitions.

As Lord Mustill famously held in R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Doody ( 1993 ): " Since the person affected usually cannot make worthwhile representations without knowing what factors may weigh against his interests fairness will very often require that he is informed of the gist of the case which he has to answer.

He or she must also be told what is at stake ; in other words, the gist of the case.

Instead, what is stored in semantic memory is the " gist " of experience, an abstract structure that applies to a wide variety of experiential objects and delineates categorical and functional relationships between such objects.

The gist of the signed memorandum was " This programme for eliminating the war-making industries in the Ruhr and in the Saar is looking forward to converting Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in its character.

The gist of the grant is recounted as follows:

The gist of Kant's position is that even though we cannot know whether there are final causes in nature, we are constrained by the peculiar nature of the human understanding to view organisms teleologically.

He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as Naughty Limericks or Mischievous Folk Ditties ( neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka ( часту ́ шка ), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song ) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage.

The accompanying haiku may have a direct or subtle relationship with the prose and encompass or hint at the gist of what is recorded in the prose sections.

That is why, the argument runs, the squares are so fearful of jazz and yet perversely fascinated by it.

`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.

My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

The argument against this last approach is comparable to that which rejects stories about hoop snakes, about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again, or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; ;

For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and Af must be even ( otherwise, starting in the interior of C, Af could not finally return to the interior ), and the center of rotation at T is the argument of the function, not a value.

Therefore, for any value of T the number of values of f{t} is equal to the ( finite ) number of tangent points corresponding to the argument T plus an odd number.

The Mathematical Appendix presents the rigorous argument, but is best read after Part 1, in order that the assumptions underlying the equations may be explicit.

There is nonetheless considerable argument against the clause, softened though it be, on the grounds that Federal aid is so necessary to the public schools.

The first argument is thus an ideal experiment in which we use the method of difference.

I come now to a third argument, which again is very simple.

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.

If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

Yet, if the argument is turned awry, there may be found a great deal in Bryan's view, after all.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

This is the only valid, and extenuating, argument that may be advanced in defense of the reprehensible attitude of the common wine waiter.

`` The trouble, '' explained Loy Henderson, then Deputy Undersecretary for Administration, `` is that when we get into an argument with him about this thing, it always turns out that Rooney knows more about our budget than we do ''.

The other argument can likewise be expressed as, the amplitude, or as or, where and is one of the Jacobian elliptic functions.

After 1871 Masurians who expressed sympathy for Poland were deemed " national traitors " by German nationalists ( this increased especially after 1918 ) According to Stefan Berger after 1871 the Masurians in the German Empire were seen in a view that while acknowledging their " objective " Polishness ( in terms of culture and language ) they felt " subjectively " German and thus should be tightly integrated into German nation-state ; to Berger this argument went directly against the German nationalist demands in Alsace where Alsatians were declared German despite their " subjective " choice.

This argument has been expressed by Daniel Dennett who argues that, " when philosophers claim that zombies are conceivable, they invariably underestimate the task of conception ( or imagination ), and end up imagining something that violates their own definition ".

" " This argument for the existence of God was advanced early in the 19th century by Reverend Paley " " The only apparent difference between the argument made by Paley and the argument for ID, as expressed by defense expert witnesses Behe and Minnich, is that ID's ' official position ' does not acknowledge that the designer is God.

In A Social History of Truth ( 1994 ), for example, Steven Shapin makes the largely sociological argument that, in 17th-century England, the mode of sociability known as civility became the primary discourse of truth ; for a statement to have the potential to be considered true, it had to be expressed according to the rules of civil society.

The reason is that the background knowledge which Good and others use can not be expressed in the form of a sample proposition-in particular, variants of the standard Bayesian approach often suppose ( as Good did in the argument quoted above ) that the total numbers of ravens, non-black objects and / or the total number of objects, are known quantities.

Lessig later expressed regret that he based his argument on precedent rather than attempting to demonstrate that the weakening of the public domain would cause harm to the economic health of the country.

Plantinga has expressed a modal logic version of the ontological argument in which he uses modal logic to develop, in a more rigorous and formal way, Norman Malcolm's and Charles Hartshorne's modal ontological arguments.

Mannheim's first major work published during this period was Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction 1935, in which he argues for a shift from liberal order of laissez-faire capitalism, " founded on the unregulated trade cycle, unextended democracy, free competition and ideas of competitive individualism " to planned democracy In Diagnosis of Our Time, Mannheim expands on this argument and expresses concern for the transition from liberal order to planned democracy, according to Longhurst, arguing "... the embryonic planned democratic society can develop along democratic or dictorial routes ... as expressed in the totalitarian societies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ".

One argument for this has been made in the form of anomalous monism expressed by Donald Davidson, where it is argued that mental events are identical to physical events, and there can be strict law-governed causal relationships.

Another argument for this has been expressed by John Searle, who is the advocate of a distinctive form of physicalism he calls biological naturalism.

Civil rights supporters dismissed Goldwater's individual liberty argument by noting that he expressed no opposition to segregation laws forcing business owners to operate on a segregated basis.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states that " many of the recent critical students of the document, Donation of Constantine locate its composition at Rome and attribute the forgery to an ecclesiastic, their chief argument being an intrinsic one: this false document was composed in favour of the popes and of the Roman Church, therefore Rome itself must have had the chief interest in a forgery executed for a purpose so clearly expressed ".

The debates between Bohr and Einstein essentially concluded in 1935, when Einstein finally expressed what is widely considered his best argument against the completeness of quantum mechanics.

Although the argument has been expressed in connection with owner-occupied dwellings, the logic applies equally to all durable consumer goods and services.

The multiplication of two complex numbers can be expressed most easily in polar coordinates – the magnitude or modulus of the product is the product of the two absolute values, or moduli, and the angle or argument of the product is the sum of the two angles, or arguments.

The same argument can be applied to the blackbody radiation expressed in terms of frequency in the limit of small frequency:

This is often misinterpreted as trickle-down economics ; Rawls ' argument is more accurately expressed as a system where wealth " diffuses up ".

" Willem deVries and Jay Garfield, both of whom were advisers on Wallace ’ s thesis, expressed regret that Wallace never published his argument.

Emin still had not expressed a firm intention to leave Equatoria, and 5 April, after a heated argument, Stanley determined to leave shortly, and the expedition departed Kavalli's for the coast on 10 April.

Differing views have been expressed as to whether the argument is so unpersuasive as to be " frivolous ".

" Jay's meaning would be better expressed by substituting " negative liberty " in place of " natural rights ", for the argument here is that the power or authority of a legitimate government derives in part from our accepting restrictions on negative liberty.