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.

Modern European conservatives such as Edmund Burke have found the extreme idealism of either democracy may endanger broader liberties, and similarly reject " abstract reason " as a guide for political theory.

According to an extreme empiricist theory known as Phenomenalism, anticipated by the arguments of both Hume and George Berkeley, a physical object is a kind of construction out of our experiences.

The most extreme form of Gaia theory is that the entire Earth is a single unified organism ; in this view the Earth's biosphere is consciously manipulating the climate in order to make conditions more conducive to life.

An old, and largely discounted theory, granitization states that granite is formed in place by extreme metasomatism by fluids bringing in elements e. g. potassium and removing others e. g. calcium to transform the metamorphic rock into a granite.

This view which can be seen as a view of language going back to Kant and Descartes often understands language to be largely innate, for example as in Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar or American philosopher Jerry Fodor ’ s extreme innatist theory.

In its most extreme form, this theory claims that myths arose to explain rituals.

Determinism is frustrated by the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical predictions, by the extreme sensitivity to initial conditions that leads to mathematical chaos, by the limitations due to event horizons, and by the extreme mathematical difficulty of applying the theory.

Coupled with the Saharan pump theory, this Middle Eastern land-bridge is of extreme importance to the modern distribution of Old World flora and fauna, including the spread of humanity.

Extreme value theory is used to model the risk of extreme, rare events, such as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

Extreme value theory or extreme value analysis ( EVA ) is a branch of statistics dealing with the extreme deviations from the median of probability distributions.

In general this conforms to the first theorem in extreme value theory ( Fisher and Tippett, 1928 ; Gnedenko, 1943 ).

# Most common at this moment is the tail-fitting approach based on the second theorem in extreme value theory ( Pickands, 1975 ; Balkema and de Haan, 1974 ).

Applications of extreme value theory include predicting the probability distribution of:

The field of extreme value theory was pioneered by

A summary of historically important publications relating to extreme values theory can be found on the article List of publications in statistics.

Different degrees of emphasis on this method or theory lead to a range of rationalist standpoints, from the moderate position " that reason has precedence over other ways of acquiring knowledge " to the more extreme position that reason is " the unique path to knowledge ".

Except for the most extreme Taiwan independence supporters, most Taiwanese support the popular sovereignty theory and no longer see much conflict between this theory of sovereignty and the ROC position.

The field of extreme value theory was created to model rare events such as 100-year floods for the purposes of civil engineering.

Along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher, he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory.

* Birth trauma is a theory in Pre & Perinatal psychology and natural medicine that the baby experiences extreme pain during the birthing process and that this pain influences the child later in life.

He would offer no theory to account for her murder.

Canadian media scholar Harold Innis had the theory that people use different types of media to communicate and which one they choose to use will offer different possibilities for the shape and durability of society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).

According to Nicholas Kaldor, Hayek's theory of the time-structure of capital and of the business cycle initially " fascinated the academic world " and appeared to offer a less " facile and superficial " understanding of macroeconomics than the Cambridge school's.

According to modern portfolio theory, rational investors will seek to hold portfolios that are mean / variance efficient ( that is, portfolios offer the highest level of return per unit of risk, and the lowest level of risk per unit of return ).

Information theory and digital signal processing offer a major improvement of resolution and image clarity over previous analog methods.

" Legal positivism is the dominant theory, although there are a growing number of critics, who offer their own interpretations.

Thus in theory, if law enforcement officials decline to offer a Miranda warning to an individual in their custody, they may still interrogate that person and act upon the knowledge gained, but may not use that person's statements to incriminate him or her in a criminal trial.

During 1946, Friedman accepted an offer to teach economic theory at the University of Chicago ( a position opened by departure of his former professor Jacob Viner to Princeton University ).

The underlying theory states that there exists intelligences ( either outside of or inside the mind of the diviner ) that can offer accurate information within certain limits using a language of symbols.

There are a number of exam boards which offer the chance for pupils to be assessed on either music theory or practice.

Another approach is to enunciate a theory, or to offer a definition or analysis, which constitutes an attempt to solve a philosophical problem.

In practice, while few languages are considered typed from the point of view of type theory ( verifying or rejecting all operations ), most modern languages offer a degree of typing.

He concludes that game theory ( the mathematical study of strategy ) and experiments in psychology offer hope that self-interested people will make short-term sacrifices for the good of others, if society provides the right conditions.

approximately 250 cases of DID in children have been identified, though the data does not offer unequivocal support for either theory.

When the terms are used in a scientific context, holism and reductionism refer primarily to what sorts of models or theories offer valid explanations of the natural world ; the scientific method of falsifying hypotheses, checking empirical data against theory, is largely unchanged, but the approach guides which theories are considered.

The task given to these groups ( who were watched over by their own action research teams ) was to ascertain how much real demand t here was for support from the social services in their areas of choice, based on the theory that workers in social services usually failed to communicate what they had to offer or to make themselves available, thereby resulting in many deprived people failing to acquire the services that they so desperately needed.

The theory stresses the subject's longing for a completeness which the film may appear to offer through identification with an image, although Lacanian theory also indicates that identification with the image is never anything but an illusion and the subject is always split simply by virtue of coming into existence ( Aphanisis ).

Michael Omi and Howard Winant have argued in the their book Racial Formation in the United States: from the 1960s to the 1990s that ethnicity theory fails to grapple effectively with the meaning and material significance of race in the US and offer a theory of racial formation as an alternative view.

Very few mobiles or networks ever provided this feature, which could in theory offer 115200 bit / s to a user.

McLuhan does not offer a theory of communication.

As an epistemological theory, coherentism opposes foundationalism and infinitism and attempts to offer a solution to the regress argument.