It is reported that although Puységur used the term ' clairvoyance ', he did not think of these phenomena as " paranormal ", since he accepted mesmerism as one of the natural sciences.

* a term " used by outsiders to denote a strand of activity which they think justifies their misconception of Islam as something rigid and immobile, a mere tribal affiliation.

") But, he said, " I think the term classical liberal is also equally applicable.

The term caught on ; Singer wrote that it was an awkward word but that he could not think of a better one.

James Hannam says that, while most historians do think something revolutionary happened at this time, that " the term ' scientific revolution ' is another one of those prejudicial historical labels that explain nothing.

He denied the term " farce " was derogatory, or even lacking in seriousness, and said " It is of nonsense all compact, and better nonsense, I think, our stage has not seen.

While the term " think tank " originated in the 1950s, such organizations date to the 19th century.

During the Second World War, think tanks were referred to as " brain boxes " after the slang term for the skull.

* Strategy, including: Funding sources ( individuals, corporations, foundations, donors / governments, endowments, sales / events ) and business model ( independent research, contract work, advocacy ); The balance between research, consultancy, and advocacy ; The source of their arguments: Ideology, values or interests ; applied, empirical or synthesis research ; or theoretical or academic research ( Stephen Yeo ); The manner in which the research agenda is developed — by senior members of the think tank or by individual researchers, or by the think tank of their funders ; Their influencing approaches and tactics ( many researchers but an interesting one comes from Abelson ) and the time horizon for their strategies: long term and short term mobilisation ; Their various audiences of the think tanks ( audiences as consumers and public-this merits another blog ; soon ) ( again, many authors, but Zufeng provides a good framework for China ); and Affiliation, which refers to the issue of independence ( or autonomy ) but also includes think tanks with formal and informal links to political parties, interest groups and other political players.

" Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves.

In his pamphlet Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America ( 1784 ), Franklin deplored the use of the term " savages " for native Americans: “ Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility ; they think the same of theirs ”.

Charles Horton Cooley ( 1902-1983 ) coined the term looking glass self, which means self-image based on how we think others see us.

The term derives from Greek " that which seems to one, opinion or belief " and that from ( dokeo ), " to think, to suppose, to imagine ".

It is more useful to think of this higher or lower term as it relates to the contexts position in a Harris matrix, which is a two-dimensional representation of a site's formation in space and time.

Others think that any kind of rationality along the lines of rational choice theory is a useless concept for understanding human behavior ; the term homo economicus ( economic man: the imaginary man being assumed in economic models who is logically consistent but amoral ) was coined largely in honor of this view.

" On the other hand, other authors have argued that other terms are more likely to be familiar to readers: for example, Krista Scott-Dixon noted " I prefer the term non-trans to other options such as cissexual / cisgendered ... as I think it both centers trans as the norm, and presently offers more clarity to the average person than the cis prefix.

It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.

Although the modern term " gun " is often used as a synonym for firearm, in specialist or military use it has a restricted sense referring only to an artillery piece with a relatively high muzzle velocity, such as a field gun, a tank gun, or a gun used in the delivery of naval gunfire ; or in sporting use for a shotgun.

The term glacis plate describes the sloped front-most section of the hull of a tank or other armored fighting vehicle.

In the period leading up to World War II, the British stopped using the term Medium for their tanks as the new philosophy of Cruiser tank and Infantry tank which defined tanks by the role came into use.

The concept and name of the Washington Consensus were first presented in 1989 by John Williamson, an economist from the Institute for International Economics, an international economic think tank based in Washington, D. C. Williamson used the term to summarize commonly shared themes among policy advice by Washington-based institutions at the time, such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and U. S. Treasury Department, which were believed to be necessary for the recovery of countries in Latin America from the economic and financial crises of the 1980s.

The term " Red Tory " has been revived in recent years by individuals such as the British philosopher and Director of the ResPublica think tank, Phillip Blond, to promote a radical communitarian traditionalist conservatism which inveighs against welfare state monopoly as well as market monopolies.

The term " oxygen tank " is commonly used by non-divers when referring to diving cylinders ; however, this is a misnomer.

Similar to the StarCraft etymology, the term is often altered according to the units involved, such as the Rhino tank rush of Red Alert 2, the Flash tank rush of Total Annihilation, the Samurai Ship rush of Total War: Shogun 2 and the Pitbull rush of Command & Conquer 3.

Instead of referring to an individual, the term can also be applied to an institution or think tank ( s ) whose opinions are held in great regard by the interested organization.

There were longer term plans to develop improved tanks to replace the Cromwell-this would deliver the interim Comet tank and, at the end of the war, the Centurion tank.

Virtually any translucent container could be called a PBR, however the term is more commonly used to define a closed system, as opposed to an open tank or pond.

* Panzerjäger — " tank hunter ( s )", anti-tank troops ; also used by extension for their self-propelled tank destroyers ( e. g., the Elefant ) until superseded by the Jagdpanzer (" hunting tank ") term.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

Abnormal and pathological anxiety or fear may itself be a medical condition falling under the blanket term " anxiety disorder ".

The second suggestion is " vine ", which is reached through * Ambilō, which may be related to the Greek term ámpelos, itself meaning " vine, liana ".

However, the Church declared that "' Extreme unction ' ... may also and more fittingly be called ' anointing of the sick '" ( emphasis added ), and has itself adopted the latter term, while not outlawing the former.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

More generally, one curve is a curvilinear asymptote of another ( as opposed to a linear asymptote ) if the distance between the two curves tends to zero as they tend to infinity, although usually the term asymptote by itself is reserved for linear asymptotes.

In particular, the term refers to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter Mongus, Patriarch of Alexandria, and remained " without king or bishop " until they were reconciled by Mark II ( 799-819 ).

The term " I am " has no meaning by itself ; it must have an action or relation appended to it.

The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball itself.

This singularity is sometimes called " the Big Bang ", but the term can also refer to the early hot, dense phase itself, which can be considered the " birth " of our Universe.

The better a plant can cope with these changing conditions, the more likely it is to be able to survive over both the short and long term as well as establish itself over a wider geographic range.

The term " Balkan " itself likely comes from Turkish, meaning " a chain of wooded mountains.

Since that time, the term Bolshevik has been regarded as obsolete, and relevant only to the pre-Revolutionary times, during the Russian Revolution itself and the Russian Civil War which followed.

Widespread interest in the region itself and the term itself was re-discovered by the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, splitting Central Europe in half.

The term " conspiracy theory " is itself the object of a type of conspiracy theory, which argues that those using the term are manipulating their audience to disregard the topic under discussion, either in a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth, or as dupes of more deliberate conspirators.

Some people automatically connect cross-dressing behavior to transgender identity or sexual, fetishist, and homosexual behavior, but the term cross-dressing itself does not imply any motives.

The word " conservative " itself is a term of abuse in France.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

The term " direct " means that the court itself cites the person in contempt by describing the behaviour observed on the record.

" Shag " itself ( when used in reference to American social dances ) is a very broad term used to denote a number of swing dances that originated during the early part of the 20th century.