Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

Galileo, however, felt that the descriptive content of the technical disciplines warranted philosophical interest, particularly because mathematical analysis of astronomical observations — notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus concerning the relative motions of the Sun, Earth, Moon, and planets — indicated that philosophers ' statements about the nature of the universe could be shown to be in error.

Although Heraclitus argued for eternal change, his quasi-contemporary Parmenides made the radical suggestion that all change is an illusion, that the true underlying reality is eternally unchanging and of a single nature.

The radical environmental movement aspires to what scholar Christopher Manes calls " a new kind of environmental activism: iconoclastic, uncompromising, discontented with traditional conservation policy, at time illegal ..." Radical environmentalism presupposes a need to reconsider Western ideas of religion and philosophy ( including capitalism, patriarchy and globalization ) sometimes through " resacralising " and reconnecting with nature.

Activists of a less radical nature began taking over the march committees in different cities, and they dropped " Gay Liberation " and " Gay Freedom " from the names, replacing them with " Gay Pride ".

Such reluctance among many outer islands was sharpened by the radical, non-aristocratic, and sometimes Islamic nature of the Java-centric Republican leadership.

The radical environmental movement aspires to what scholar Christopher Manes calls " a new kind of environmental activism: iconoclastic, uncompromising, discontented with traditional conservation policy, at time illegal ..." Radical environmentalism presupposes a need to reconsider Western ideas of religion and philosophy ( including capitalism, patriarchy and globalization ) sometimes through " resacralising " and reconnecting with nature.

On the other hand, the consequences of LQG are radical, because they change in depth our understanding of the nature of space and time and provide a tentative but detailed physical and mathematical picture of quantum spacetime.

By the mid-1960s, this atavistic, psychopathic view of Mau Mau was being challenged by memoirs of former members and leaders that portrayed Mau Mau as an essential, if radical, component of African nationalism in Kenya, and by academic studies that analysed the movement as a modern and nationalist response to the unfairness and oppression of colonial domination ( though such studies downplayed the specifically Kikuyu nature of the movement ).

Typically, their message is of a radical nature, asking that we live consciously, inspect our motives, transcend our egoic passions, overcome our intellectual blindness, live peacefully with our fellow humans, and, finally, realize the deepest core of human nature, the Spirit.

It was Protagoras who claimed that " man is the measure of all things, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not ," which Plato takes to indicate a radical perspectivalism, where some things seem to be one way for one person ( and so actually are that way ) and to be another way to another person ( and so actually are that way ); consequently, one cannot in any way look to nature for guidance regarding how to live one's life.

Thus, while land reform may be radical in nature, such as through large-scale transfers of land from one group to another, it can also be less dramatic, such as regulatory reforms aimed at improving land administration.

Hegelianism attempts to squeeze all life into the categories of logic: Aristotelianism deals with " things in general " and ignores the radical distinction between nature and spirit.

It is hard to recapture the radical and exciting nature of early neo-classical painting for contemporary audiences ; it now strikes even those writers favourably inclined to it as " insipid " and " almost entirely uninteresting to us "— some of Kenneth Clark's comments on Anton Raphael Mengs ' ambitious Parnassus at the Villa Albani, by the artist who his friend Winckelmann described as " the greatest artist of his own, and perhaps of later times ".

In his analysis, " Rebels and Radicals ; Icaria 1600-2000 ", historian Anthony J. Papalas ( East Carolina University ) examines modern Icaria in the light of such 20th-century questions as poverty, emigration to America, the nature of the Axis occupation, the rise of Communism, the Civil War and the rightwing reaction to radical post-war movements.

Nagel's rationalism and tendency to present our human nature as a composite, structured around our capacity to reason, explains why he thinks therapeutic or deflationary accounts of philosophy are simply complacent and radical skepticism is, strictly speaking, irrefutable.

At the same time it influenced them to move beyond simple demands and take a more radical position on the nature of government.

The nature of the affair furthered the radical cause, whose proponents painted Hutchinson's action as a bold and devious attempt to further the executive prerogative.

However, his main goal, " has been to reestablish just intonation as a viable part of our musical tradition " ( Bermel 1995 ) and " ultimately, what Johnston has done, more than any other composer with roots in the great American musical experiments of the ' 50's and ' 60's, is to translate those radical approaches to the nature of music into a music that is immediately apprehensible " ( Swed1995, quoted in Bush 1997 ).

The basic premise is a radical non-dualism, in which every and any dichotomist way of seeing things is denied: so phenomena are neither existent, nor non-existent, but are marked by emptiness ( śūnyatā ), an absence of any essential, unchanging nature.

For example, Holmes drew upon his bad man theory in developing what for the time was a radical understanding of the nature of contractual obligations.

After 1966, Lin's few personal political initiatives were efforts to moderate the radical nature of the Cultural Revolution.

His career appears to have been so brief in part because the radical nature of his work aroused the hostility of the art world in Edo.

Although the very act of codification was a radical innovation, given the precedent-based design of the Roman legal system, the jurists were generally conservative, and constantly looked to past Roman practice and theory for guidance.

* Orientation to revolutionary breakthroughs in a connected approach: DARPA historically has focused not on incremental but radical innovation.

This software showed a radical innovation: it used propositional logic (" Zeroth order logic ") to execute expert systems, reasoning on a knowledge base written with everyday language rules, producing explanations and detecting logic contradictions between the facts.

So in another break with tradition, he treated not only stability, but also radical innovation, as possible aims of a prince in a political community.

Home's premiership was short and not conspicuous for radical innovation.

The result this time was an extraordinary masterpiece about which one can say, I think, that it is the most radical innovation in comic cinema since the Marx Brothers: I am referring, of course, to Les Vacances de M. Hulot ".

* the use of corpora as a basis for language description, a radical innovation which was introduced by the COBUILD project in the 1980s and is now standard practice in lexicography

Sinan decided to make a radical architectural innovation to mask the huge north-south buttresses needed to support these central piers.

The innovation of a reduced skull and large hinged cheek pieces is such a radical departure from previous forms of helmet that it is highly probable that the armet resulted from the invention of a single armourer or soldier and not as the result of evolution from earlier forms.

Designed with a swept-back aerodynamic front end, a radical innovation unheard of at the time but commonplace today, it was felt that Borzacchini had a good chance to capture the prestigious American event.

In practice, the theory would involve radical developments in politics at the center, as well as social innovation in localities.

The side door on the pavement side was a sliding door, and in this respect another radical innovation in contemporary terms.

They take on real-world problems and research for local companies ; and work with faculty on radical innovation projects for large, established firms.

In the 1930s Chrysler's innovation with aerodynamics made them launch Chrysler Airflow in 1934, which was quite revolutionary and radical.

The company acts through a combination of practical programmes, early stage investment, research and policy, and the formation of partnerships to foster innovation and deliver radical new ideas.

His point was that the Founding Fathers were anti-slavery and the notion that slavery was good was a radical innovation that violated American ideals.

This was " based in part on Madvig and Krüger ," but, besides making accessible to American students the works of these continental grammarians, it presented original matter, including a " radical innovation in the classification of conditional sentences ," notably the " distinction between particular and general suppositions.

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Congo were broken during the most radical Congolese-Marxist period, 1965-77.