If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

This seems to pose a serious problem for the empirical account, though Hume brushes it aside as an exceptional case by stating that one may experience a novel idea that itself is derived from combinations of previous impressions.

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

Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove.

To some degree then Heraclitus seems to be in the mystic's position of urging people to follow God's plan without much of an idea what that may be.

Al-Nuwayri in his Nihaya reports that the Prophet is alleged to have said what he feared most for his community were the practices of the people of Lot ( although he seems to have expressed the same idea in regard to wine and female seduction ).

Ribbentrop first seems to have considered the idea of a pact with the Soviet Union after an unsuccessful visit to Warsaw in January 1939, when the Poles again refused Ribbentrop's demands about Danzig, the " extra-territorial " roads across the Polish Corridor and the Anti-Comintern Pact.

Certainly, Geoffrey seems to have made use of the list of Arthur's twelve battles against the Saxons found in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, along with the battle of Camlann from the Annales Cambriae and the idea that Arthur was still alive.

円 /" En " meant " circle " or " perfection "; 明 /" mei " meant " light "/" clarity ", and 流 /" ryū " meant " school "; the name seems to have been derived from the idea of holding the two swords up in the light so as to form a circle.

:[...] the idea of infinitely small or infinitesimal quantities seems to appeal naturally to our intuition.

The idea that robes were dyed with saffron seems unlikely to be true since it was and still is a very expensive commodity, and monks were poor.

However, Lord Henry's cynical outlook on life, and hedonistic nature seems to be in keeping with the idea of the devil's role, that of the temptation of the pure and innocent qualities which Dorian exemplifies at the beginning of the book.

Backwards time travel seems to be a more modern idea, but its origin is also somewhat ambiguous.

– The starting-point of the distance unit vika is the verb that in Old Scandinavian had the form víka ( Old Icelandic víkja ) ' to recede, turn to the side, give way, yield ', and the idea behind it seems to be that the tired rower moves aside for the rested rower on the thwart when he relieves him.

Estragon suggests that they hang themselves, but they abandon the idea when it seems that they might not both die: leaving one of them alone, an intolerable notion.

At the end of the second milemnium BC, when the Mycenean city-state collapsed, it seems that the Greek thought was gradually released from the idea that each man was a servant to the gods, and sought a " moral purpose ".

In many respects the tyet resembles an ankh, except that its arms point downward, and when used as such, seems to represent the idea of eternal life or resurrection.

It is true that Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the United States, and moreover seems to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had become a blunder — even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

After the mid-1050s, Edward seems to have withdrawn from affairs as he became increasingly dependent on the Godwins, and may have become reconciled to the idea that one of them would succeed him.

When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate ...

The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere ( meaning to tie, to join, to weave ) and certamen ( competition, fight ): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.

The idea that the stronger can reach more by leaving the weaker friends behind seems totally rejected.

That idea seems to match the continuous-discontinuous duality, since its dynamics could be the limit of its thermodynamics when transitions to continuous limits are postulated.

Finally he was forced to an open protest, which he caused to be inscribed on the journals, but the action of Capo d ' Istria in reading to the assembled Italian ministers, who were by no means reconciled to the large claims implied in the Austrian intervention, a declaration in which as the result of the intimate union established by solemn acts between all the European powers the Russian emperor offered to the allies the aid of his arms, should new revolutions threaten new dangers, an attempt to revive that idea of a universal union based on the Holy Alliance against which Britain had consistently protested. The objections of Britain were, however, not so much to an Austrian intervention in Naples as to the far-reaching principles by which it was sought to justify it.

Schleicher's idea was to threaten the merger of the left-leaning Nazis and the trade unions as way of forcing Hitler to support his government, but his plan failed.

It is probably fair to say that the idea of death is more profound in Irenaeus than the idea of sin is.

" This idea was profound and intriguing, as it was one of the first works during the Enlightenment.

Humphry Davy said of him that " Those who consider James Watt only as a great practical mechanic form a very erroneous idea of his character ; he was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist, and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius, the union of them for practical application ".

While easy to grasp in principle, this is the hardest idea to understand about general relativity, and its consequences are profound and not fully explored, even at the classical level.

Kathleen Lonsdale's 1928 structure of hexamethylbenzene established the hexagonal symmetry of benzene and showed a clear difference in bond length between the aliphatic C – C bonds and aromatic C – C bonds ; this finding led to the idea of resonance between chemical bonds, which had profound consequences for the development of chemistry.

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

The idea that we should put limits on growth because of some natural limit, is a profound error and one that, were it ever to prove influential, would have staggering social costs .” This statement is regarded as highly controversial by ecologists and other sustainability scientists.

While the pattern language idea has so far had limited impact in the building industry, it has had a profound influence on many workers in the information technology industry.

" Their gesture toward a literal border crossing, from the Caribbean to Canada, speaks to the increasingly profound engagement with the idea of her own and others ’ shifting locations, both literal and theoretical, evident in Brand's work.

The idea that natural selection affects bacteria has profound consequences, for example, it explains how bacteria develop antibiotic resistance.

Some of Sweelinck's innovations were of profound musical importance, including the fugue — he was the first to write an organ fugue which began simply, with one subject, successively adding texture and complexity until a final climax and resolution, an idea which was perfected at the end of the Baroque era by Bach.

Johan has always expressed a profound interest in active sports and the idea of transforming elements and ideas from the high fashion industry into sportswear.

The influence of this idea on Nozick's thinking is profound.

At the same time, the university sends teachers and students to study in the U. S. A., Russia, Japan, Australia, Singapore in order to promote the university's internationalisation and to form an international education pattern of cooperating closely and developing together with good quality overseas education resources. In the 21st century, the university keeps the important thoughts of the " Three Representatives " as its guide ; adheres to scientific development ; handles carefully the relations between quality and quantity, profit and brand, development and stability ; sticks to the idea of developing the university's undertakings by managing the school effectively and guaranteeing education quality ; persists in the thinking of strengthening the University by building our important branches of learninginto famous ones ; makes full use of the comprehensive advantage of engineering, administration, economics, law, liberal arts, science and fine arts ; keeps the market needs as its orientation ; does its utmost to cultivate comprehensive personnel who can combine applied science with humanities, knowledge study with technology application, sound basic knowledge with profound specialty.

The picturesque idea continues to have a profound influence on garden design and planting design.