We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

In she has it in for George dominant stress will ordinarily be on in, where the notion of stored-up antipathy seems to center.

The notion of philosophy as Queen Bee may fit well with authoritarian modes of political ideology, but it has been noted that the price of such an imperial notion of philosophy is the frustration and flagellation of the social sciences.

The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.

In such a case, any attitude would be as fitting or unfitting as any other, which means that the notion of fitness has lost all point.

And Mityukh, apparently the intellectual leader of the crowd, replies that he has no notion.

( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.

John C. Cavadini has challenged this notion by attempting to take the Spanish Christology in its own Spanish / North African context in his important study, The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785 – 820.

So broad a notion has inevitably been elusive and controversial in the history of philosophy, beginning in western philosophy with attempts among the pre-Socratics to deploy it intelligibly.

The notion that the Third Reich developed a blitzkrieg strategy to achieve its total aims has been widely attacked.

The widely accepted notion that the security of the system should depend on the key alone has been explicitly formulated by Auguste Kerckhoffs ( in the 1880s ) and Claude Shannon ( in the 1940s ); the statements are known as Kerckhoffs ' principle and Shannon's Maxim respectively.

In light of this, and the practical difficulty of managing such long keys, modern cryptographic practice has discarded the notion of perfect secrecy as a requirement for encryption, and instead focuses on computational security, under which the computational requirements of breaking an encrypted text must be infeasible for an attacker.

The Whig-liberal tradition has led to the well-known notion of ( negative ) freedom as lack of specific coercion.

For example, it has been suggested that, in the early 20th century Shanghai, “ Western food, and in particular identifiably nourishing items like milk, became a symbol of a neo-traditional Chinese notion of family .”

It may be a cultural notion, but has very little weight in international discourse ; very few political observers really discuss Christendom, while the Muslim World tends to comprise of a civilization in itself.

" Christendom " has referred to the medieval and renaissance notion of the Christian world as a sociopolitical polity.

The Council of Chalcedon issued the ' Chalcedonian Definition ,' which repudiated the notion of a single nature in Christ, and defined that he has two natures in one person and hypostasis ; it also insisted on the completeness of his two natures: Godhead and manhood.

However, Judeo-Christian thought also makes an " innovation of the first importance ", Eliade says, because it embraces the notion of linear, historical time ; in Christianity, " time is no longer the circular Time of the Eternal Return ; it has become linear and irreversible Time ".

Kant's notion of critique has been associated with the disestablishment of false, unprovable, or dogmatic philosophical, social, and political beliefs, because Kant's critique of reason involved the critique of dogmatic theological and metaphysical ideas and was intertwined with the enhancement of ethical autonomy and the Enlightenment critique of superstition and irrational authority.

The notion of definability treated in this article has been chosen primarily for definiteness, not on the grounds that it's more useful or interesting than other notions.

This understanding has led to the notion that all the information needed for proteins to assume their native state was encoded in the primary structure of the protein, and hence in the DNA that codes for the protein, the so called " Anfinsen's thermodynamic hypothesis ".

" Even today, though these errors have been recognized for more than a century, the general notion that Lao Tzu was Christ's forerunner has lost none of its romantic appeal.

He has also written about and advocated the notion of memetics as a philosophically useful tool, most recently in his " Brains, Computers, and Minds ", a three part presentation through Harvard's MBB 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series.

Although modern historians have rejected this hypothesis, Czech historiography has supported the notion of mixed Piast-Přemyslid parentage for Vladivoj.

This discovery banished the fond notion of geographers that there existed a great southern continent, Terra Australis.

A new concept, popularized by John Fairbank was the notion of " change within tradition " which argued that although China did change in the pre-modern period but that this change existed within certain cultural traditions.

For example, if we form a complete notion of Moses, and superadd to that notion the claim that Moses existed, we are not adding anything to the notion of Moses.

The notion of a " prefect " in China has existed for thousands of years.

In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman first described the notion of a digital signature scheme, although they only conjectured that such schemes existed.

This challenged the popular notion that no coherent conservative tradition existed in the United States.

Although the notion of cultural pluralism has existed since the early 20th century, the recognition and promotion of multiculturalism did not come to prominence in America until the 1980s.

There were also attempts to bring the notion of including Herzegovina into Croatia to the attention of the authorities ( similar to the Banovina of Croatia that existed within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941 ), but this was far from anything that the movement leaders were proposing.

These comments were written by the leading communist intellectual Alfred Klahr ( under his pseudonym " Rudolf "), after being asked in 1936 by the communist leadership in exile in Prague if the theoretical notion of an independent Austrian nation separate from Germany existed.

Among the variants of the Jesus myth theory, the notion that Jesus never existed has little scholarly support, and although some modern scholars adhere to it, they remain a distinct minority ; virtually all scholars involved with historical Jesus research believe that his existence can be established.

There is little evidence that a modern notion of nation-type ethnicity, and the values associated with it, existed in medieval societies.

Today, with direct access to the Qieyun, this notion has been replaced by the view that the sound system in Qieyun represents ( or proposes ) a literate reading adopted by the literate class of the period throughout the country, not any live language that once existed.

The CueCat's critics said the device was ultimately of little use: wrote Jeff Salkowski of the Chicago Tribune, " You have to wonder about a business plan based on the notion that people want to interact with a soda can ," while Debbie Barham of the Evening Standard quipped that the CueCat " fails to solve a problem which never existed.

So influential was this notion that 300 years later Bancroft in his monumental Native Races began his discussion of circumcision by writing: " Whether the custom of circumcision, which has been the great prop of argument in favor of the Jewish origin of the Aztecs, really obtained among these people, has been doubted by numerous authors ," concluding that it probably existed in a " certain form among some tribes " ( p278 ).

Nevertheless, it existed alongside a nationalist notion of messiah, as one who will defend the Jews against foreign oppressors and rule the Jews justly, and by divine right.

The notion of dependencies between grammatical units has existed since the earliest recorded grammars, e. g. Pāṇini, and the dependency concept therefore arguably predates the constituency notion by many centuries.

This form is often identified with some notion of Early Christianity, which mostly existed during the first three centuries after the Christ's crucifixion.

Among the variants of the Jesus myth theory, the notion that Jesus never existed has little scholarly support, and virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that he existed.

The ' company ' remained at least as a social notion, if now very informal, and seems to have existed with other persons of high rank, such as imperial princes.

Local people maintain the notion of the hundred, sometimes colloquially referred to as Godhelmia, mainly because of the predominance of north / south routes of communication through the area that have existed since ancient times.