Weber's best known work in economics concerned the preconditions for capitalist development, particularly the relations between religion and capitalism, which he explored in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism as well as in his other works on the sociology of religion.

If such an action had preconditions, such as the door must not be locked, it would have been represented by.

So a program that calculates the factorial of an input number would have preconditions that the number be an integer and that it be greater than or equal to zero.

Rather, " statements " constitute a network of rules establishing which expressions are discursively meaningful, and these rules are the preconditions for signifying propositions, utterances, or speech acts to have discursive meaning.

The Germans made it clear that if Spain entered the war, Franco would have to promise at a minimum, extraterritorial naval bases in Morocco and the Canary Islands to the Reich in exchange for which the Germans would reward Spain with various British and French colonies in Africa ; Franco rejected the German preconditions which he saw as interfering with Spanish sovereignty, and stayed neutral.

Haredi traditionalists who emerged in reaction to the Haskalah considered the fusion of religion and philosophy as difficult because classical philosophers start with no preconditions for which conclusions they must reach in their investigation, while classical religious believers have a set of religious principles of faith that they hold one must believe.

Traditionally, people prefer to allude to preconditions to explain actions that have a high probability of being unattainable, whereas goals tend to be described as a wide range of common actions.

The inclusion of these sections displays a stark difference between the Young Offenders Act and the YCJA as the former did not have such clear preconditions that had to be satisfied prior to the imposition of a custodial sentence and thus large numbers of youth were incarcerated under the Young Offenders Act.

In philosophy and AI ( especially, knowledge based systems ), the qualification problem is concerned with the impossibility of listing all the preconditions required for a real-world action to have its intended effect.

Only when reason and logic have behind them the movement of love and the proper moral preconditions can one achieve philosophical knowledge.

German citizenship was granted to persons who had lived in Germany for at least fifteen years and fulfilled a number of other preconditions ( they must work for their living, they should not have a criminal record and other preconditions ).

The transition function for a state, can be defined as follows, using the simplifying assumption that actions can always be executed but have no effect if their preconditions are not met:

On the other hand, he continued to refuse talks without preconditions and remained committed to Chinese reunification as an ultimate goal.

Eiffel's most important contribution to software engineering is design by contract ( DbC ), in which assertions, preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants are employed to help ensure program correctness without sacrificing efficiency.

In the presence of inheritance, the routines inherited by descendant classes ( subclasses ) do so with their preconditions in force.

In object-oriented programming, postconditions, along with preconditions and class invariants are components of the software construction method design by contract.

In the presence of inheritance, the routines inherited by descendant classes ( subclasses ) do so with their contracts, that is their preconditions and postconditions, in force.

Modern characters, on the other hand, stand in a wealth of more accidental circumstances, within which one could act this way or that, so that the conflict which is, though occasioned by external preconditions, still essentially grounded in the character.

That is, civilization is not created out of superior intelligence, but is the result of a chain of developments, each made possible by certain preconditions.

Hyder again appealed to the British for help, but their preconditions and proposed terms were unacceptable to him, and an attempt by Hyder to get them to go on the offensive scuttled the negotiations.

## The participants consider themselves bound solely by the results and preconditions of the deliberation.

* Grant ( money ), an award usually funded by a government, business, or foundation, often with not-for-profit preconditions

We can further extend these specifications by asserting various properties that either need to hold when a subprogram is called ( preconditions ) or that will hold once execution of the subprogram has completed ( postconditions ).

It often also specifies the functionality of those procedures and methods, either by comments or ( in some experimental languages ) by formal logical assertions and preconditions.

The statement that symptoms disappear with awareness of their unconscious preconditions has been confirmed by all subsequent research.

Rhodesia's white minority unilaterally declared the former colony's independence on 11 November 1965, after rejecting British preconditions for independence that involved racial equality and rule by the black majority.

Scene contents, as always, reflected trends in taste and the spirit of the times, but the red-figure style created better preconditions for presenting more elaborate scenes by exploiting the new arrangement possibilities.

In one of the first formal definitions of the relative deprivation, Walter Runciman noted that there are four preconditions of relative deprivation ( of object X by person A ):

The purpose of the Forest Law is to regulate reforestation, protection and use and to form the legal preconditions for the management of all ownership type forests upon equal sustainable forestry principles, ensuring a rational use of the forest resources, including non-timber forest products, by supplying with the industrial material, preservation of the biodiversity, increase of forest productivity, landscape stability and environment quality possibility to perform the ecological, economical and social functions without inflicting damage to other ecosystems.

Indeed, fluents at different situations are only related if they are preconditions and effects of actions ; if a fluent is not affected by an action, there is no way to deduce it did not change.

Other social groupings may try to prevent social opportunism, by imposing strict preconditions of participation to ward off opportunists, or with the aid of rules prohibiting opportunist behaviour.

The broad pro-government coalition, including FRUD candidates, again ran unopposed when the government refused to meet opposition preconditions for participation.

Fatah delegates resolved not to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks until preconditions were met.

Among the 14 preconditions, included the release of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, freezing all Israeli settlement construction, and lifting the Gaza blockade.

Signature and ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) are not preconditions for membership in the IAEA.

Calvin accepted without any preconditions on his tasks or duties.

Weber listed several preconditions for the emergence of the bureaucracy: The growth in space and population being administered, the growth in complexity of the administrative tasks being carried out and the existence of a monetary economy – these resulted in a need for a more efficient administrative system.

It could only be the final act of an already victorious war against Britain as otherwise the preconditions for success of a combined operation would not be met.

A very fundamental problem with software testing is that testing under all combinations of inputs and preconditions ( initial state ) is not feasible, even with a simple product.

Several preconditions must be satisfied before a Rb-Sr date can be considered as representing the time of emplacement or formation of a rock.

It prescribes that software designers should define formal, precise and verifiable interface specifications for software components, which extend the ordinary definition of abstract data types with preconditions, postconditions and invariants.

* When making calls to a supplier, a software module should not violate the supplier's preconditions.

* Ada, via GNAT pragmas for preconditions and postconditions.

Security problems can arise due to incorrect preconditions.

Often, preconditions are simply included in the documentation of the affected section of code.

In a digital multimeter the signal under test is converted to a voltage and an amplifier with electronically controlled gain preconditions the signal.

" This happens in the context of a new moon and at noon, both necessary preconditions for a full solar eclipse.

Metaphysics led Marshall to ethics, specifically a Sidgwickian version of utilitarianism ; ethics, in turn, led him to economics, because economics played an essential role in providing the preconditions for the improvement of the working class.