The very proposition was sacrilege.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The proposition that special operations by the CIA in Saudi Arabia affected the prices of Soviet oil was refuted by Marshall Goldman — one of the leading experts on the economy of the Soviet Union — in his latest book.

This was so novel a proposition at the time that it got picked up and published by Newsweek and also covered by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

This made investing in the Docklands a significantly more attractive proposition and was instrumental in starting a property boom in the area.

Because this geometrical interpretation of multiplication was limited to three dimensions, there was no direct way of interpreting the product of four or more numbers, and Euclid avoided such products, although they are implied, e. g., in the proof of book IX, proposition 20.

The particle nature is more easily discerned if an object has a large mass, and it was not until a bold proposition by Louis de Broglie in 1924 that the scientific community realised that electrons also exhibited wave – particle duality.

He resented the suggestion ( from a man in North Carolina ) that " the Light and Spirit of God ... was not in the Indians ", a proposition which Fox refuted.

Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary noted: " Marshal Stalin as a negotiator was the toughest proposition of all.

A standing army was an expensive proposition to a medieval ruler.

In the end, Akzo decided the process was not a viable commercial proposition, and shut down their research at the end of 1994.

The third step from political economy to economics was the introduction of marginalism and the proposition that economic actors made decisions based on margins.

This proposition was immediately rejected by the U. S. Shortly afterward, the same day, United States and British forces initiated military action against the Taliban, bombing Taliban forces and al-Qaeda terrorist training camps.

" Wittgenstein was insisting that a proposition and that which it describes must have the same ' logical form ', the same ' logical multiplicity ', Sraffa made a gesture, familiar to Neapolitans as meaning something like disgust or contempt, of brushing the underneath of his chin with an outward sweep of the finger-tips of one hand.

As a joke, he said, " It was said to be very hard on His Majesty's ministers to raise objections to this proposition.

In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".

This was the regress argument, whereby every proposition must rely on other propositions in order to maintain its validity ( see the five tropes of Agrippa the Sceptic ).

The resolution from the UN General Assembly called for a UN-supervised general election in Korea, but with the North rejecting this proposition, a general election for a Constitutional Assembly was held in the South only, in May 1948.

As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame ( STA-099 ) that had been created as a test article.

Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.

Schopenhauer used Jones's authority to relate the basic principle of his philosophy to what was, according to Jones, the most important underlying proposition of Vedânta.

::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

Another important element was the Afrikaner Broederbond, a quasi-secret society founded in 1918, and dedicated to the proposition that " the Afrikaner volk has been planted in this country by the Hand of God ..."

The IHR was founded by Willis Carto in 1979, with the intent of promoting the proposition that the Nazi Holocaust never happened — a view known as Holocaust denial.

While he accepts the conclusions of the Kalam school ( because of their consistency with Judaism ), he disagrees with their methods and points out many perceived flaws in their arguments: " Maimonides exposes the weakness of these propositions, which he regards as founded not on a basis of positive facts, but on mere fiction ... Maimonides criticizes especially the tenth proposition of the Mutakallimīn, according to which everything that is conceivable by imagination is admissible: e. g., that the terrestrial globe should become the all-encompassing sphere, or that this sphere should become the terrestrial globe.

Holding the final corporation entitled to sue on the claim, the Court cited the Seaboard, Novo Trading, and Roomberg cases for the proposition that `` transfers by operation of law or in conjunction with changes of corporate structure are not assignments prohibited by the statute ''.

In the end, he said: `` I'm not enchanted by the proposition, sir.

The proposition of the latter to prohibit, under penalty of excommunication, the study of philosophy and any of the sciences except medicine, by one under thirty years of age, met with the approval of Ben Adret.

High medieval sources mention the assassination of King Demetrius Zvonimir ( 1089 ), dying at the hands of his own people, who objected to a proposition by the Pope to go on a campaign to aid the Byzantines against the Seljuk Turks.

For objectivists, probability objectively measures the plausibility of propositions, i. e. the probability of a proposition corresponds to a reasonable belief everyone ( even a " robot ") sharing the same knowledge should share in accordance with the rules of Bayesian statistics, which can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency.

Single-roll ( proposition ) bets are resolved in one dice roll by the shooter.

Unlike the other proposition bets which are handled by the dealers or stickman, the field bet is placed directly by the player.

Corroborating evidence ( in " corroboration ") is evidence that tends to support a proposition that is already supported by some initial evidence, therefore confirming the proposition.

In the Meditations, Descartes phrases the conclusion of the argument as " that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.

So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.

He asserted that the sciences, humanities, and arts have a common goal: to give a purpose to understanding the details, to lend to all inquirers " a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws.

concluded that a certain equation considered by Diophantus had no solutions, and noted without elaboration that he had found " a truly marvelous proof of this proposition ," now referred to as Fermat's Last Theorem.

As in the diagram above, a true proposition can be believed by an individual ( purple region ) but still not fall within the " knowledge " category ( yellow region ).

However after the National Referendum that took place on the 5th of May in 2011, the proposition impulsed by the government of Mr. Correa won and now the Judiciary Council change its formation making a constitutional amendment.

For example, proposition I. 4, side-angle-side congruence of triangles, is proved by moving one of the two triangles so that one of its sides coincides with the other triangle's equal side, and then proving that the other sides coincide as well.

Euclid frequently used the method of proof by contradiction, and therefore the traditional presentation of Euclidean geometry assumes classical logic, in which every proposition is either true or false, i. e., for any proposition P, the proposition " P or not P " is automatically true.