His objective was, essentially, to repair those aspects of orthodox astronomy responsible for its deficiencies in achieving these ends.

Despite this, Lewis argued, those who accept evolutionary naturalism still act as if objective moral truths exist, lead Lewis to reject it as impractical.

In all forms of thought coercion the immediate objective is to force other people to act as if their basic choice rules were identical to those of the coercing party.

Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

Some commentators have noted that the objective of intellectual property legislators and those who support its implementation appears to be " absolute protection.

" Emic " ( as in " phonemics ") refers to the subjective understanding and account of meaning in the sounds of languages, while " etic " ( as in phonetics ") refers to the objective study of those sounds.

The main objective of FinTRACA is to deny the use of the Afghan financial system to those who obtained funds as the result of illegal activity, and to those who would use it to support terrorist activities.

Social actions may have easily identifiable and objective means, but much more subjective ends and the understanding of those ends by a scientist is subject to yet another layer of subjective understanding ( that of the scientist ).

Source separation problems in digital signal processing are those in which several signals have been mixed together and the objective is to find out what the original signals were.

Galileo maintained strongly that mathematics provided a kind of necessary certainty that could be compared to God's: " With regard to those few mathematical propositions which the human intellect does understand, I believe its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.

Tolerance or toleration a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own ; freedom from bigotry.

Most legislatures prefer to base liability on either intention or recklessness and, faced with the need to establish recklessness as the default mens rea for guilt, those practising in most legal systems rely heavily on objective tests to establish the minimum requirement of foresight for recklessness.

* The setting up of emergency groups in each département coordinated by the senior local representatives of the government at département level ( préfets ), with the objective of examining individual payments to those most in need ( 1998 ).

While most of those who experience anger explain its arousal as a result of " what has happened to them ," psychologists point out that an angry person can very well be mistaken because anger causes a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability.

In places where these colonizers faced high mortality rates ( e. g., due to the presence of tropical diseases ), they could not settle permanently, and they were thus more likely to establish extractive institutions, which persisted after independence ; in places where they could settle permanently ( e. g. those with temperate climates ), they established institutions with this objective in mind and modeled them after those in their European homelands.

Its goal is to provide all scholars using the methodology of objective hermeneutics with a means for steady and continual exchange and a platform spanning those disciplines in which the methodology is now being used.

Its primary mission was to test the performance of those functions and parts necessary for carrying out subsequent lunar and planetary missions ; a secondary objective was to study the nature of particles and fields in interplanetary space.

The objective of the National Security Strategy is to create a stable situation for the world, including those countries struggling with insurgencies.

Warshaw used those days to design the structure of the game and segmented the concept into four ideas: world, objective, path to achieve the objective, and obstacles.

* OBEs induced with drugs are sometimes considered to be hallucinations ( i. e., purely subjective ), even by those who believe the phenomenon to be objective in general.

In regards to this last point, Writing Culture became a focal point for looking at how ethnographers could describe different cultures and societies without denying the subjectivity of those individuals and groups being studied while simultaneously doing so without laying claiming to absolute knowledge and objective authority.

John Locke in his Essays on the Law of Nature argued that the widespread fact of human conscience allowed a philosopher to infer the necessary existence of objective moral laws that occasionally might contradict those of the state.

As one objective of asymmetric warfare is to cause attacks to appear initially as accidents, or blame slow responses on apparently incompetent governments, there is some concern that spreading a virulent organism among animals would be an effective way to attack humans, damage economies, and discredit governments who are lax on biosecurity.

This meant that the attacks on Israel decreased and the political objective of Unit 101 was accomplished.

Although Westmoreland's appraisal of the military situation was correct, he made himself look foolish by continuously maintaining his belief that Khe Sanh was the real objective of the communists and that 155 attacks by 84, 000 troops was a diversion ( a position he maintained until at least 12 February ).

The major objective of this plan was to lead the Germans to believe that the invasion of northwestern Europe would come later than was actually planned, and to threaten attacks at other locations than the true objective, including the Pas de Calais, the Balkans, southern France, Norway, and Soviet attacks in Bulgaria and northern Norway.

They encouraged Spanish merchant ships to take advantage of the political disruption and considered making direct attacks on Portuguese vessels returning from Guinea, with the objective of seizing the monopoly.

" The expedition objective of ending the frontier war was, however, not realized, as British and Indian attacks continued in the following years.

I think it is a very spiteful act, possibly to intimidate me away from investigating Mr Green, and I feel it has put my family at risk .” The Conservative Party stated that it had " played no part whatsoever in the publication of this story ", and that “ as the officer leading the inquiry into the allegations involving Damian Green, Assistant Commissioner Quick should display objective professionalism and not make baseless, political attacks.

No clear single objective was established before the start of the offensives and once the operations were underway, the targets of the attacks were constantly changing according to the battlefield ( tactical ) situation.

In Lang Son the Chinese launched 17 counter attacks to regain one objective.

Another objective was to dissuade the Haganah, and particularly its operational arm the Palmach, from undertaking further attacks against British troops and officials.

Robert Pape, has argued that at least terrorists utilizing suicide attacks — a particularly effective form of terrorist attack — are driven not by Islamism but by " a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland.

In April attacks by the SDS leaders, together with field officers of the Second Military Command of former JNA, were conducted in eastern part of the country with the objective to take strategically relevant positions and carry out a communication and information blockade.

The prospect of a Franco-German war breaking out with the Italians siding with the latter and using the Balearics to make naval and air attacks on French troop convoys was considered to be highly undesirable by French decision-makers and a major objective of French foreign policy in the late 1930s was to remove the Italians from the Balearics.

Upon reaching the fortifications, most of the Rangers learned for the first time that the main objective of the assault, the artillery battery, had been moved out of position, possibly as a result of air attacks during the buildup to the invasion.

The player's objective is to defeat all of the enemies in the level using various attacks within a time limit.

The objective is to either attempt to defeat ShadeMan. EXE with each player ’ s game before the other or to attack MegaMan. EXE or Django via special attacks through ShadeMan and reduce their opponent's HP to zero.

" During his single-handed attacks on these four enemy fox-holes, Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung was subjected to almost continuous and point-blank Light Machine Gun fire from a bunker on the North tip of the objective.

The objective of the game was to destroy all enemy forces present in the map while defending planet Corneria ( located in the lower left corner of the map ), preventing its damage level from reaching 100 % due to enemy attacks.

Its objective is to establish rules and measures to use against attacks over the Internet.

Its mission of containing the enemy in the St. Nazaire and Lorient pockets was carried out by daily reconnaissance patrols, limited objective attacks, and the maintenance of harassing and interdictory fires on enemy installations.

While they nearly captured the objective, in the end their attacks on the monastery and the town failed.