“ That account is put forward to answer an extremely perplexing question in the history of philosophy: Why did Berkeley embrace idealism, i. e., why did he hold that esse est percipi, that to be is to be perceived?

The inquiry was largely unnecessary, all the essential facts being well known, but the mission was a device of Gladstone's to avoid an immediate decision on a perplexing question.

But the question of how it is that these systems are subjects of experience is perplexing.

In those cases, the parties disagree vigorously if any existing legal rule even applies to the facts of the case, or the appellant may be deliberately trying to attack an established rule in the hope that the appellate court will overturn a prior decision and establish a new rule, or the question has been ruled upon by multiple intermediate appellate courts and is so perplexing that all the lower courts disagree with each other.

Instead the question of why Karin turns away from Andreas seems intentionally perplexing.

As Gordon Deppe mentions in his liner notes for Collectible Spoons, this collection of songs " is a bit rough around the edges, but there are things on it that still very interesting and perplexing.

As cases with little or no corroborative evidence were generally excluded from consideration during Ruppelt's tenure with Blue Book, the remaining unknowns arguably constitute some of the best-known, best studied, yet still perplexing UFO reports of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Premature labour, and how to prevent it, remains a perplexing problem for doctors.

" Early Europeans who first wrote about these Indians found matrilineal social organization to be unfamiliar and perplexing.

There are three perplexing features of Gray Jay breeding and social behaviour that pose interesting challenges to a central concept of evolutionary biology, namely that an organism should exhibit behaviour that maximizes the production of surviving offspring.

Again, as perplexing as this position might seem to a traditional social scientist, such a proposition is consistent with ethnomethodology's understanding of " member's methods ", and has philosophical standing when looked at in terms of certain lines of philosophical thought regarding the philosophy of science ( Polyani: 1974 ; Kuhn: 1996 ; Feyerabend: 1975 / 2010 ), and the study of the actual practices of scientific procedure ( Lynch: 1993 ).

Tomb KV60 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings is one of the more perplexing tombs of the Theban Necropolis, due to the uncertainty over the identity of one female mummy found there ( KV60A ), thought by some, such as the noted Egyptologist Elizabeth Thomas, to be that of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Hatshepsut.

Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least up until the discovery in 1896 of some poems by his rival Bacchylides, when comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of the poet himself.

Like most perplexing things when made clear, it is astonishing how easily it is done.

However, this culture can become puzzling and perplexing when the extremism about property rights begins to mimic the feudal property of a free market.

However, as this was after the Battle of Trafalgar ( 21 October 1805 ), when the need for naval ships was decreasing in the Napoleonic Wars, and in such a remote location, the proposal seemed perplexing.

More perplexing is the fact that, according to all her closest friends, she entirely stopped writing poetry when the Revolution triumphed in 1959.

But Becker was mystified when the water of the flooded shaft was tested and it contained no quicksilver: " The absence of mercury from these waters was not a little perplexing ," he wrote.

Their writings indicate that the proposed problem was perplexing to them and was commonly discussed by others of their time as well.

Young reported that Schiaparelli's canal discovery of 1877 had been confirmed in 1881, though new canals had appeared where there hadn't been any before, prompting " very important and perplexing " questions as to their origin.

The events of the wedding day are most perplexing to Lord Robert as it seemed to him that his bride, Miss Hatty Doran of San Francisco, was full of enthusiasm about their impending marriage.

In a doodler's style, they feature everymen beset by modern complexity, goofballs perplexing their spouses, cats, and very often a fat dog.

Cowdrey writes, " he ( Gregory ) was surprisingly flexible, feeling his way and therefore perplexing both rigorous collaborators ... and cautious and steady-minded ones ... His zeal, moral force, and religious conviction, however, ensured that he should retain to a remarkable degree the loyalty and service of a wide variety of men and women.

It was natural that Carossa should attempt, as his literary idol Goethe had done in Werther, to write his way out of his most perplexing problems.

It was, therefore, sufficient that the leading rabbis domiciled in Moorish countries should devote much attention to furnishing a clew to the labyrinth of the Talmud, intricate and perplexing as the latter had become by the addition of the copious post-Talmudic literature of law and custom.

Lorimier's willingness to place German Reformed settlers west of Cape Girardeau is somewhat perplexing given his earlier role in placing a group of Shawnee settlers in that same location.

Cattle stealing and killing, again serious during the spring of 1891, placed the land grant company officers in a perplexing position.

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They embrace monism in order to escape the enigma of brain-mind interaction with its perplexing problems.

They are often used in the punch line of a joke, where they typically give a humorous meaning to a rather perplexing story.

While the situation remained perplexing, De Vecchi moved the deposed sultan to Mogadishu.

Some say that the perplexing effect caused by a postmodern Trabi that can overtake modern cars as described above is worth all the effort.

RCA chairman David Sarnoff later charged that the NPA's order had come " out of a situation artificially created by one company to solve its own perplexing problems " because CBS had been unsuccessful in its color venture.

Its existence in either ancient or modern rhythm is purely chimerical, and the insisting on so perplexing a nonentity as a foot of two short syllables, affords, perhaps, the best evidence of the gross irrationality and subservience to authority which characterise our Prosody.

Finding the right text for this movement proved long and perplexing.

Citing this evidence, British antiquarian Charles Hardwick has argued that the house kobold and similar creatures, such as the Scottish bogie, French goblin, and English Puck, all descend from the Greek kobaloi, creatures " whose sole delite consists in perplexing the human race, and evoking those harmless terrors that constantly hover round the minds of the timid.

A fore-arc setting for most ophiolites also solves the otherwise perplexing problem of how oceanic lithosphere can be emplaced on top of continental crust.

He favoured the startling and perplexing works of the high modernist avant-garde.

Ukraine found itself at the crossroads of Asia and Europe and this is reflected within the music in a perplexing mix of exotic melismatic singing with chordal harmony which does not always easily fit the rules of traditional Western European harmony.

He could often organise majorities in the House of Commons for seemingly perplexing, unpopular and absurd policies of the government.

Where the space of the paintings appears flat and perplexing, a balance is found in multiple entry points and equal attention to every detail whether it is the king's action, a servant's gesture or the ruby red of a bowl of pomegranates.

The program also includes a monthly " Conspiracy Day ," which usually occurs within a few days of the full moon due to the superstitions surrounding that event, where callers from across the country expose what they consider the " hidden forces " behind " perplexing and painful present events.

Most perplexing of the entire list is the name of the queen of the Yeh-ma-t ' ai community, Pi-mi-hu, Middle Chinese.

In a poll conducted by IGN, it was voted as the 13th best Pokémon, where the staff commented that after " solving a perplexing puzzle of rock-pushing and surfing across strong currents ", " adding Articuno to your Pokedex was like earning a badge of honor for completing it.