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What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??
Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).
The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.
And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.
Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.
In a sense, Einstein's theory is simpler than Newton's, and there is a corresponding sense in which Copernicus' theory is simpler than Ptolemy's.
The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.
My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.
Finally we may note that the idea appears in educational theory where its influence is at present widespread.
The point is that an ethical critic, with an assist from Freud, can seize on this theory to argue that tragedy provides us with a harmless outlet for our hostile urges.
In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.
But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
that theory was and is sound.

theory and said
To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.
Indeed, naive set theory might be said to be based on this notion.
Albert Einstein, in 1922, said regarding contemporary theories of superconductivity that “ with our far-reaching ignorance of the quantum mechanics of composite systems we are very far from being able to compose a theory out of these vague ideas ”
In number theory, a branch of mathematics, two integers a and b are said to be coprime ( also spelled co-prime ) or relatively prime if the only positive integer that evenly divides both of them is 1.
Martin Jay said that the first generation of critical theory is best understood as not promoting a specific philosophical agenda or a specific ideology, but as " a gadfly of other systems ".
In formal language theory, a context-free grammar is said to be in Chomsky normal form if all of its production rules are of the form:
The relevant theoretical concepts may purportedly be part of the structure of the human mind ( as in Kant's theory of transcendental idealism ), or they may be said to exist independently of the mind ( as in Plato's theory of Forms ).
In 1498, Annio published his antiquarian miscellany titled Antiquitatum variarum ( in 17 volumes ) where he put together a fantastic theory in which both the Hebrew and Etruscan languages were said to originate from a single source, the " Aramaic " spoken by Noah and his descendants, founders of Etruscan Viterbo.
He said in that paper that Feynman diagrams were not just a computational tool, but a physical theory.
For his part, Hayek dedicated a collection of papers, Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, to Popper and, in 1982, said that " ever since his Logik der Forschung first came out in 1934, I have been a complete adherent to his general theory of methodology.
Because the diffeomorphism invariance of the theory does not allow any particular space-time background to be singled out as the " true " space-time background, general relativity is said to be background independent.
The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.
This has been said to be due to the fact that researchers in the past, such as Lamarck, viewed vertebrates as a " standard ": in Lamarck's theory of evolution, he believed that characteristics acquired through the evolutionary process involved not only survival, but also progression toward a " higher form ", to which humans and vertebrates were closer than invertebrates were.
Judith Anderson said his work was based on statistically flawed evidence, John Archer and others said that Rushton failed to understand and misapplied the theory of kin selection, Judith Economos said he was speculative and failed to define the concept of altruistic behavior in a way that it can become manifest and failed to show any plausible mechanism by which members of a species can detect the " altruism gene " in other members of the species, and Steven Gangestad criticized the theory for not being compelling in terms of its attractiveness as an explanatory model, C. R.
Hallpike said Rushton's theory failed to take into account that many other traits, ranging from age, sex, social and political group membership, are observably more important in predicting altruistic behavior between non-kin than genetic similarity, and John Hartung criticized him for failing to conduct an adequate control group study and for ignoring contradictory evidence.
Wilson ( one of the two co-founders of the r / K selection theory which Rushton uses ) was quoted as having said about him:
It is said that lexicography is the practical lexicology, it is practically oriented though it has its own theory, while the pure lexicology is mainly theoretical.
Such could be said of morality and the basic theory applied to other seemingly ineffective positive actions.

theory and assume
Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.
A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.
John Miles Foley held, specifically with reference to the Beowulf debate, that while comparative work was both necessary and valid, it must be conducted with a view to the particularities of a given tradition ; Foley argued with a view to developments of oral traditional theory that do not assume, or depend upon, finally unverifiable assumptions about composition, and that discard the oral / literate dichotomy focused on composition in favor of a more fluid continuum of traditionality and textuality.
The general approach to deriving a quantum gravity theory that is valid at even the highest energy scales is to assume that such a theory will be simple and elegant and, accordingly, to study symmetries and other clues offered by current theories that might suggest ways to combine them into a comprehensive, unified theory.
Many of the accepted notions of a unified theory of physics since the 1970s, including string theory, superstring theory, M-theory, loop quantum gravity, all assume, and to some degree depend upon, the existence of the graviton.
Although models used in rational choice theory are diverse, all assume individuals choose the best action according to unchanging and stable preference functions and constraints facing them.
Hungarian intellectuals especially were not interested in the theory and preferred to assume connections with Turkic tribes, an attitude characterized by Ruhlen ( 1987 ) as due to " the wild unfettered Romanticism of the epoch ".
We don't assume that the simpler theory is correct and the more complex one false.
In order to acknowledge such functional categories, one has to assume that the constellation is a primitive of the theory and that it exists separately from the words that appear.
While the proof that is a Noetherian ring uses the order structure of, typical proofs in ring theory in general do not assume such additional structure on the ring.
Dependency grammars, in contrast, since the basic architecture of dependency places a major limitation on the amount of structure that the theory can assume, produce simple, relatively flat structures for noun phrases.
Some models of human behavior in the social sciences assume that humans can be reasonably approximated or described as " rational " entities ( see for example rational choice theory ).
The discovery of a theory of ratios that does not assume commensurability is probably due to Eudoxus.
In fact, both theory and computer simulations assume a thermodynamic separation principle: the separation process is determined by the equilibrium distribution ( partitioning ) of solute macromolecules between two phases --- a dilute bulk solution phase located at the interstitial space and confined solution phases within the pores of column packing material.
As described in Working in Groups by Engleberg and Wynn, team role theory is when " members assume roles that are compatible with their personal characteristics and skills.
Whilst trait-based personality theory assume that high-level competencies like initiative, creativity, and leadership can be assessed using “ internally consistent ” measures ( see psychometrics ), the McClelland measures recognize that such competencies are difficult and demanding activities which will neither be developed nor displayed unless people are undertaking activities they care about ( i. e. are strongly motivated to undertake ).
Later on, after Lenin's death, in the 1920s, the theory did assume importance in the internal debates within the Communist Party and was a bone of contention within the opposition to Joseph Stalin.
If we assume that there is in fact no experimentally detectable difference in these " exchange macrostates " available, then using the entropy which results from assuming the particles are indistinguishable will yield a consistent theory.
In more technical terms, let us assume that we have a theory described
Aleph-ω is the first uncountable cardinal number that can be demonstrated within Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory not to be equal to the cardinality of the set of all real numbers ; for any positive integer n we can consistently assume that, and moreover it is possible to assume is as large as we like.

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