The idea of national responsibility thus has become a common feature of the nations of the non-Soviet world.

In this phase of change, no idea has social acceptance and so none has ontological status in the community.

Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.

But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

The idea of a Peace Corps has captured the imagination of a great many people.

This whole development is certain to be of interest to the readers, for the idea has so often been mentioned, somewhat wistfully.

The idea has received much attention in philosophy, in literature, and in a few works of general social criticism, such as The Sane Society.

The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.

Everybody has a different idea on the ethics and morals of driving away neighbors, when and if.

It is important to note that, while research supports the idea that altruistic acts bring about happiness, it has also been found to work in the opposite direction — that happier people are also kinder.

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

It has been characterized by Sergei Starostin as " an idea now completely discarded ".

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Poirot has dark hair, which he dyes later in life ( though many of his screen incarnations are portrayed as bald or balding ), and green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining " like a cat's " when he is struck by a clever idea.

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

Most significantly has been the idea of Preventive conservation.

One of the guiding principles of conservation has traditionally been the idea of reversibility, that is that all interventions with the object should be fully reversible, and the object should be able to be returned to the state in which it was prior to the conservators intervention.

The idea of merging Aarau with its neighboring suburbs has been recently discussed in the hope of arresting the slowly progressing losses.

But it is not known if any experiment based on this idea has been ever achieved.

In it Heschel forwards what would become a central idea in his theology: that the prophetic ( and, ultimately, Jewish ) view of God is best understood not as anthropomorphic ( that God takes human form ) but rather as anthropopathic — that God has human feelings.

* Brains in a vat philosophical argument against the idea that we could be in cyberspace and not know it by Hilary Putnam

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist.

Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".

One of the enduring influences the Star Wars saga has had in popular culture is the idea of the fictional Jedi values being interpreted as a modern philosophical path or religion, spawning various movements such as the controversial Jediism ( religious ) and the Jedi census phenomenon.

In early 12th-century al-Andalus, the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ), wrote discussions on materialism in his philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan ( Philosophus Autodidactus ), while vaguely foreshadowing the idea of a historical materialism.

Notwithstanding these facts, " Origen is not the originator of the idea of biblical canon, but he certainly gives the philosophical and literary-interpretative underpinnings for the whole notion.

Bret W. Davis writes, for example, " The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism.

Process theology rejects unlimited omnipotence on a philosophical basis, arguing that omnipotence as classically understood would be less than perfect, and is therefore incompatible with the idea of a perfect deity.

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

Platonic realism is a philosophical term usually used to refer to the idea of realism regarding the existence of universals or abstract objects after the Greek philosopher Plato ( c. 427 – c.

Process reliabilism has been used as an argument against philosophical skepticism, like the brain in a vat idea.

The philosophical idea of an immortal soul was a later invention, which, although influential, never had a breakthrough in the Greek world.

A variety of historical, philosophical, and scientific arguments have been put forth in favor of the idea that science and religion are in conflict.

The philosophical significance of such a method for Wittgenstein was that it alleviated a confusion, namely the idea that logical inferences are justified by rules.

The two major Chinese philosophical schools discussed below, Confucianism and Legalism, strongly influenced the idea of law in China.

Many philosophical theories of determinism frame themselves with the idea that reality follows a sort of predetermined path

Written in prose rather than blank verse, changes to the text include the rape of Lavinia being Tamora's idea instead of Aaron's ; the removal of Marcus ; Titus does not kill his son ; he does not have his hand amputated ; Chiron is much more subservient to Demetrius ; Aaron is more philosophical, trying to find meaning in his acts of evil rather than simply revelling in them ; Titus does not die at the end, nor does Tamora, although the play ends with Titus ordering the deaths of Tamora and Aaron.

This idea underpins his philosophical work, the Metaphysics, which also had a profound influence on Western thought.

Often the item misplaced in time is an object, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period in time so that it is incorrect to place it outside its proper temporal domain.

Aldiss and Wingrove wrote that Childhood's End rested on " a rather banal philosophical idea ," but that Clarke " expressed is simple but aspiring language that vaguely recalls the Psalms combined with a dramatized sense of loss undeniable effect.

The complexity of the game aims to represent reality to such a degree that a player's own political and philosophical outlook can be expressed in play ( the idea being that rival ideologies are essentially " tested " in the game before the winners can apply them in reality ).

Solipsism () is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist.

Eternalism is a philosophical approach to the ontological nature of time, which takes the view that all points in time are equally " real ", as opposed to the presentist idea that only the present is real.

The first, the philosophical, is the general idea of how a single thing is identified as being an individual thing, able to be identified as not being something else.

Since no idea and no literary or philosophical movement ever germinated on Persian or Arabian soil without leaving its impress on the Jews, the Persian Ghazali found an imitator in the person of Judah ha-Levi.