Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

A single name worldwide would increase the possibility that advertising campaigns, brochures, and promotional materials could be used across countries and simplify product design and manufacturing.

Hoschander alternatively suggested Ishtar-udda-sha (" Ishtar is her light ") as the origin with the possibility of-udda-sha being connected with the similarly sounding Hebrew name Hadassah.

Another Celtic possibility is that the name meant " noisy "; cf.

The name of Hera, the queen of the gods, admits a variety of mutually exclusive etymologies ; one possibility is to connect it with hōra ( ὥρα ), season, and to interpret it as ripe for marriage.

Enodia's very name (" In-the-Road ") suggests that she watched over entrances, for it expresses both the possibility that she stood on the main road into a city, keeping an eye on all who entered, and in the road in front of private houses, protecting their inhabitants.

But Steinschneider will not admit the possibility of this conjecture, while Renan scarcely strengthens it by regarding " Andreas " as a possible northern corruption of " En Duran ," which, he says, may have been the Provençal surname of Anatoli, since Anatoli, in reality, was but the name of his great-grandfather.

Another possibility is that it is derived from a Brittonic patronym * Arto-rīg-ios ( the root of which, * arto-rīg-" bear-king " is to be found in the Old Irish personal name Art-ri ) via a Latinized form Artōrius.

One possible reading of her name as " Mãlin-tzin " can be translated as " Noble Prisoner / Captive "— or " Marina's Lord "— a reasonable possibility, given her noble birth and her initial relationship to the Cortés expedition.

The likeliest possibility is an alteration, by influence of Latin niger " black ", of the Tuareg name egerew < u > n-iger </ u > ewen, which is used along the middle reaches of the river around Timbuktu.

" Kaftor " is not of Hebrew or Semitic origin, which supports the possibility that this word is similar to the name they called themselves.

The name refers to the possibility of harnessing the power source of the sun, a stellar object.

There is, however, a possibility that Bonewits altered the name of the work to fit with his terminology.

Conflicting scholarly theories have been proposed about the etymology of the name Yggdrasill, the possibility that the tree is of another species than ash, the relation to tree lore and to Eurasian shamanic lore, the possible relation to the trees Mímameiðr and Læraðr, Hoddmímis holt, the sacred tree at Uppsala, and the fate of Yggdrasil during the events of Ragnarök.

A possibility is derivation from * Turīcon, from the Gaulish personal name Tūros.

There could be no greater demonstration of the essential fragility of the Republic ’ s institutions and proof that the regime was democratic in name only, since it did not even admit the possibility of the rotation in power characteristic of the elitist regimes of the nineteenth century.

Another possibility for the name could come from the traditional method of harvesting.

In the absence of archaeological evidence of discontinuity at Miletus the Achaean population whatever their name appears to have descended to archaic Ionia, which does not exclude the possibility of another colonizing and founding event from Athens.

Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, " hard, enduring ", which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλήναι " to endure "; Doig offers the further possibility that Virgil was aware of Strabo's remark that the native North African name for this mountain was Douris.

In Roman times, the name of the Utrecht fortress was simply Traiectum denoting its location at a possibility to cross the Rhine.

On 11 February 2008, national television reported that the motorcade of Gusmão had come under gunfire one hour after President José Ramos-Horta was shot in the stomach ; according to the Associated Press, the two incidents raised the possibility of a coup attempt ; they have also described as possible assassination attempts < ref name = " Rudd-Timor ">

The possibility that the name derives from the way the staff is held, the right hand grasping it one-quarter of the distance from the lower end is suggested in Encyclopædia Britannica.

Queen Elizabeth had certainly been worried about the possibility and sent messages to Anne warning her not to listen to papist counsellors and requesting the names of anyone who had tried to convert her ; Anne had replied that there was no need to name names because any such efforts had failed.

If the name of a person is not found in the list, we may safely conclude that that person was not present ; but if it is, we cannot conclude definitely without further inquiries, due to the possibility of homonyms ( for example, two people named John Smith ).

We simply can't tolerate further Russian weapons, including the possibility of long-range nuclear missiles, being located in Cuba.

Carlo Willmann points out that as, on its own terms, anthroposophical methodology offers no possibility of being falsified except through its own procedures of spiritual investigation, no intersubjective validation is possible by conventional scientific methods ; it thus cannot stand up to positivistic science's criticism.

It is a legitimate goal therefore for philosophers of being to try to find a principle or element – a " something " – accounting for the presence of the object over the other possibility, its non-presence.

However, Gilson concedes some doubt on the possibility of being wrong: " yet, this is taking a chance, for, after all, being itself might happen not to be existentially neutral.

A proposed rail link between Ouagadougou and Pô in Burkina Faso and Kumasi and Boankra in Ghana, has been discussed with Ghanaian officials, and feasibility studies are being undertaken to explore this possibility, which would provide rail access to the inland port of Bonakra.

There was an ever-present danger that some ill-considered military or other action by the Allies might alert the enemy to the possibility that their codes were being broken.

It is particularly acute for people who believe in the possibility of philosophical zombies, that is, people who think it is possible in principle to have an entity that is physically indistinguishable from a human being and behaves like a human being in every way but nevertheless lacks consciousness.

" The concept of cyberspace therefore refers not to the content being presented to the surfer, but rather to the possibility of surfing among different sites, with feedback loops between the user and the rest of the system creating the potential to always encounter something unknown or unexpected.

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".

* 2005 – Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.

Other than this distinction ( and the possibility that the universe will one day return to the state of being God ), pandeistic beliefs are deistic.

This is because the possibility of analysis is predicated on the possibility of breaking up the text being analysed into elemental component parts.

However, Davros had previously recruited one of the Spider Daleks as a sleeper agent for just such an eventuality, and even he was not certain in the end if he was being disintegrated or being teleported away to safety, leaving the possibility open for his return.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

Undergoing Baptism is not a prerequisite for receiving Communion, but if unbaptized people " regularly participate in Holy Communion, it is appropriate for pastors to talk with these people " about the possibility of them being baptized.

" EPR appeared to have contrived a means to establish the exact values of either the momentum or the position of B due to measurements made on particle A, without the slightest possibility of particle B being physically disturbed.

Various tests eliminated the possibility of the unknown element being thorium, radium, lead, bismuth, or thallium.

However there is the possibility of the results being affected by the limited surface area ( i. e. edge effects ) and by the presence of large electric field.

* In Chapter 7: 41-42, and again in 7: 52, John records some of the crowd of Pharisees dismissing the possibility of Jesus's being the Messiah, on the grounds that the Messiah must be a descendent of David and born in Bethlehem, stating that Jesus instead came out of Galilee ( as is stated in the Gospel of Mark ); John made no effort to refute or correct ( nor did he affirm ) this, and this has been advanced as implying that John rejected the synoptic tradition of Jesus's birth in Bethlehem.