In addition to producing the controversial whale / hippo clade, these analyses debunked the idea that hippos and pigs are closely related.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

In no way did Sakharov consider himself a prophet or the like: " I am no volunteer priest of the idea, but simply a man with an unusual fate.

After killing a police officer and a civilian, Rector shot himself in the head, leading to what his lawyers said was a state where he could still talk but did not understand the idea of death.

Though she did not categorically confirm that she was approached to do the reboot, Morris is not opposed to the idea, provided that production would not interfere with her Glee duties.

Astronomers had expected to see the fireballs from the impacts, but did not have any idea in advance how visible the atmospheric effects of the impacts would be from Earth.

The idea of this system was developed in 1637 in writings by Descartes and independently by Pierre de Fermat, although Fermat also worked in three dimensions, and did not publish the discovery.

The idea that personality disorders did not involve emotional distress was discarded.

His idea was reported in Japanese scientific journals, but did not reach Europe or the Americas.

This was a highly controversial idea, as many Boston area sports fans consider Fenway Park to be sacred ground, and demolishing the old park would have caused a significant outcry ( as did the closure and later demolition of Tiger Stadium that same year after decades of grassroots efforts to try to save it ).

Elliott sees this as grounds to reject the idea that the epistle refers to official persecution, because the first worldwide persecution of Christians officially meted by Rome did not occur until the persecution initiated by Decius in AD 250.

Robert Graves popularised the triad of " Maiden " ( or " Virgin "), " Mother " and " Crone ", and while this idea did not rest on sound scholarship, his poetic inspiration has gained a tenacious hold.

Grammarians of the Greek and Latin languages also showed an interest in aspect, but the idea did not enter into the modern Western grammatical tradition until the 19th century via the study of Slavic grammar.

No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful.

Wells wrote in his book God the Invisible King that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world: " This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer.

But the English government opposed the idea: involved in the War of the Grand Alliance from 1689 to 1697 against France, it did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada.

The idea that Homer was responsible for just the two outstanding epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, did not win consensus until 350 BC.

Hildegard did not accept this idea, replying that it was a sin and that the man had been reconciled to the church at the time of his death.

De Camp and Ley have claimed ( in their Lands Beyond ) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references ; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.

When James Braid first described hypnotism, he did not use the term " suggestion " but referred instead to the act of focusing the conscious mind of the subject upon a single dominant idea.

But the idea did not catch on in large numbers until the language Volapük was created in 1879.

The idea that alternative mathematical systems might exist was very troubling to mathematicians of the 19th century and the developers of systems such as Boolean algebra made elaborate efforts to derive them from traditional arithmetic.

Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).

The idea that the collection of all ordinal numbers cannot logically exist seems paradoxical to many.

Related to the concepts of the sublime and the beautiful is the idea of the picturesque, introduced by William Gilpin, which was thought to exist between the two other extremes.

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

A tree does not cease to exist if nobody sees it because the world-mind is projecting the idea of the tree to all minds.

The name " Objectivism " derives from the idea that human knowledge and values are objective: they exist and are determined by the nature of reality, to be discovered by one's mind, and are not created by the thoughts one has.

The idea of light quanta began with Max Planck's published law of black-body radiation (" On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum ") by assuming that Hertzian oscillators could only exist at energies E proportional to the frequency f of the oscillator by E = hf, where h is Planck's constant.

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 ).

All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning ; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation ... We say that God Himself is a self-existing being ... Man does exist upon the same principles ... Bible does not say in the Hebrew that God created the spirit of man.

However the idea of immortality which appears in the syncretistic religions of Near East did not exist in the Eleusinian mysteries at the very beginning.

The idea of immortality didn't exist in the mysteries at the beginning, but the initiated believed that they would have a better fate in the underworld.

The basic idea is that when a quantum system interacts with a measuring apparatus, their respective wavefunctions become entangled, so that the original quantum system ceases to exist as an independent entity.

While simple forms of role-playing exist in traditional children's games of make believe, role-playing games add a level of sophistication and persistence to this basic idea with additions such as game facilitators and rules of interaction.

It was a novel meaning to the term ; representative democracy was not an idea mentioned by Machiavelli and did not exist in the classical republics.

Truth was not, however, necessarily unobtainable, but rather an idea which did not yet exist in a pure form.

The idea of substance was famously critiqued by David Hume, who held that since substance is not able to be perceived, it should not be assumed to exist.

Suppose a person states ; " I believe that trinini exist, but I have absolutely no idea of what trininis are.

It is a term he would later regret, because Jeet Kune Do implied specific parameters that styles connote ; whereas the idea of his martial art was to exist outside of parameters and limitations.

( Also, according to Aristotle, a completed infinity cannot exist even as an idea in the mind of a human.

The tradition of tracing Chinese political history from heroic early emperors to the Xia to succeeding dynasties comes from the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which only one legitimate dynasty can exist at any given time, and was promoted by the Confucian school in the Eastern Zhou period, later becoming the basic position of imperial historiography and ideology.

* The ' Everything ' mailing list ( and archives ), A " discussion of the idea that all possible universes exist ".

Ontological reductionism denies the idea of ontological emergence, and claims that emergence is an epistemological phenomenon that only exists through analysis or description of a system, and does not exist on a fundamental level.

While he had accepted responsibility " even for those crimes about which I did not know or about which I did not have the slightest idea " on the theory that he was the head of the " Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites ", he testified that the Bloc did not exist and its members had never met.