For Moore, intrinsic value depended on an indeterminable intuition of good and a concept of complex states of mind whose worth as a whole was not proportionate to the sum of its parts.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Gauss usually declined to present the intuition behind his often very elegant proofs — he preferred them to appear " out of thin air " and erased all traces of how he discovered them.

Spiritual Deists reject all divine revelation, religious dogma, and supernatural events and favor an ongoing personalized connection with the divine presence through intuition, communion with nature, meditation and contemplation.

It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

Carlo Ginzburg, on the other hand, regards Cohn's views as a polemic and believes that although Murray was too eager to accept all testimonies as accurate, and failed to critically differentiate those elements introduced by the interventions of judges, inquisitors and demonologists, she still had a " correct intuition " in identifying the remnants of a pre-Christian ' religion of Diana ', and in believing that witch-trial testimonies did at times represent actual or perceived experiences.

In other countries lanes have no markings at all and drivers follow them mostly by intuition rather than visual stimulus.

Syntax seeks to delineate exactly all and only those sentences which make up a given language, using native speaker intuition.

The end of the play brings all of these dichotomies and themes together, showing that though things may appear to contradict — Romanticism and Classicism, intuition and logic, thought and feeling — they can exist, paradoxically, in the same time and space.

The idea of God is a cumulative intuition given by all the various faculties of the mind, in its observation of harmony in nature and in man.

He succeeds in developing the beginnings of analysis in a natural manner, all the time preserving the contact with intuition much more closely than had been done before.

Brunelleschi, like all cathedral builders, had to rely on intuition and whatever he could learn from the large scale models he built.

Rawls is also keying on an intuition that a person does not morally deserve their inborn talents ; thus that one is not entitled to all the benefits they could possibly receive from them ; hence, at least one of the criteria which could provide an alternative to equality in assessing the justice of distributions is eliminated.

It is also considered the primary conductor of all energy sources within the universal context – physical energies such as sound and light, social energies such as psychological and emotional, and cognitive energies such as intellect and intuition.

From this simple intuition it is already clear that domains often do not have a greatest element, since this would mean that there is an element that contains the information of all other elements-a rather uninteresting situation.

In spite of all the problems and misunderstandings faced, Daniel strove to drive home his intuition: that European society and the Church were called to become much more concerned with the mission of Central Africa.

:: " I understand by the transcendental idealism of all appearances the doctrine that they are all together to be regarded as mere representations and not things in themselves, and accordingly that time and space are only sensible forms of our intuition, but not determinations given for themselves or conditions of objects as things in themselves.

" Richard Rorty has said that all claims to Realism can be reduced to intuition ( Consequences of Pragmatism, chs.

At first this did not matter too much, as Enriques's intuition was so good that essentially all the results he claimed were in fact correct, and using this more informal style of argument allowed him to produce spectacular results about algebraic surfaces.

With this bidirectional note layout, it seems that all intuition from linearly mapped instruments goes out the window.

" I understand by the transcendental idealism of all appearances the doctrine that they are all to be regarded as mere representations and not as things in themselves, and accordingly that space and time are only sensible forms of our intuition …" Kant argues for these several claims in the section of the Critique of Pure Reason entitled the Transcendental Aesthetic.

In a spectacular display of intuition, Bester escaped the ambush which killed all of his 200 supporters and Lyta.

Most people have a strong intuition that some animals, such as dogs, are conscious, while others, such as insects, are not ; but the sources of this intuition are not obvious.

" The results indicate even exceptional skills previously attributed to aberrant sources are variations of normal cerebral dynamics associated with intuition and may involve small but discrete changes in proximal energy.

Although Gregory's intuition about the empirical significance of the Müller-Lyer stimulus points in the right general direction ( i. e., an explanation based on past experience with the sources of such stimuli ), convex and concave corners contribute little if anything to the Müller-Lyer effect.

Rather, one who understands the relevant concepts involved in the proposition that two minus one is one has what one might call an " intuition " of the truth of the proposition.

When the historian encounters a situation in which he can perceive no visible cause and effect sequence, he should be alert to intuition and unconscious instinct as possible guides.

For we cannot in the least represent to ourselves the possibility of an understanding which should know its object, not discursively through categories, but intuitively in a non-sensible intuition ".

For example, someone who has had more experiences with children will tend to have a better instinct or intuition about what they should do in certain situations with them.

The intuition behind an absolute measure is that mere survival takes essentially the same amount of resources across the world and that everybody should be subject to the same standards if meaningful comparisons of policies and progress are to be made.

Such formal statements may be sometimes useful to guide the intuition, but should always be used with utmost care.

* It should preserve, and reveal the roots of, the intuition that contradiction ( or something contradiction-like ) is at the root of the absurdity.

The intuition behind this result is that given you want to own the asset at time T, there should be no difference in a perfect capital market between buying the asset today and holding it and buying the forward contract and taking delivery.

Nozick's definition is intended to preserve Goldman's intuition that Gettier cases should be ruled out by disacknowledging " accidentally " true justified beliefs, but without risking the potentially onerous consequences of building a causal requirement into the analysis.

So, if we originally decided that it is permissible or necessary to flip the switch, intuition may suggest that the answer should not have changed.

There a divine guidance came to the effect by way of intuition that a sincere, faithful, loyal and devoted brother could not tolerate, that the head of Muhammad's grandson, Husayn, buried in Al Qahera, Egypt, should be without a Maqsurah, thus how could he accept this gift for himself.

While a proof of T13 would require induction, the intuition underlying it should be clear.

The disadvantage of this concept is that it goes against the intuition that a parent peak should always be more significant than its child.

* The more you can do by intuition the smarter you are ; the computer should extend your unconscious.

The intuition behind ( 5 ) is that the gradient of should lie in the subspace spanned by the constraints ' gradients.

Wolf believes that the outsiders should blame the lucky and unlucky drivers equally despite their intuition that the two of them should not feel equally bad ( i. e., the unlucky driver that ran over a pedestrian should feel worse ).

If one begins to doubt one's intuition, one should try to imagine oneself in the moral dilemma related to the decision.

Formally, assuming our intuition from the finite dimensional case carries over into the infinite dimensional setting, the measure should then be equal to