If he himself philosopher did not exist, he would not be there to ask questions about the nature of reality ... on the other hand, this fundamental fact, which we call existence, soon proves a rather barren topic for philosophic speculation ...

The reincorporation of Cuba as an active member had arisen regularly as a topic within the inter-American system ( e. g., it was intimated by the outgoing ambassador of Mexico in 1998 ) but most observers did not see it as a serious possibility while the Socialist government remained in power.

For instance, the democracy of ancient Athens did not allow women, foreigners, or slaves to vote, and the original United States Constitution left the topic of suffrage to the states ; usually only white male property owners were able to vote.

This created great debate among sociologists, biologists, and scientists of other disciplines, because Dawkins himself did not provide a sufficient explanation of how the replication of units of information in the brain controls human behaviour and ultimately culture, since the principal topic of the book was genetics.

Even on very specialized forums and lists off topic posting is not necessarily frowned upon, but a common netiquette convention is to mark a new off-topic posting or email by beginning it with " OT "-for example in a forum discussing the Linux operating system someone might post: " OT: Wow, did you feel that earthquake?

On February 13, 2008, Clemens appeared before a Congressional committee, along with Brian McNamee, and swore under oath that he did not take steroids ; that he did not discuss HGH with McNamee ; that he was not at a party at José Canseco's where steroids were the topic of conversation ; that he was only injected with B-12 and lidocaine ; and that he never told Pettitte that he had taken HGH.

Empirical research into the question has been associated mainly with the names of Benjamin Lee Whorf, who wrote on the topic in the 1930s, and his mentor Edward Sapir, who did not himself write extensively on the topic.

He also wished to select a uniquely American topic that would bring glory to the young nation, and his topic did just that, showing American democracy in action.

The pragmatist may go on, as David Hume did on the topic induction, that there is no satisfying alternative to granting this premise.

< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 125572 / collective-unconscious >.</ ref > In addition to the structure of the unconscious, Jung differed from Freud in that he did not believe that sexuality was at the base of all unconscious thoughts.

Jessup attempted to make a living writing on the topic, but his follow-up book did not sell well.

Although providing state-supported higher education for women in North Carolina had been an occasional topic of discussion among educators, the idea did not appear to be taken seriously until after the Civil War.

The topic did not receive serious attention again until a review by Josephine Lowndes Sevely and JW Bennett appeared in 1978.

who did his original work on this topic for his dissertation ( 1961, Cambridge ), argued for ' Research Programs ' as a means to support a basis for mathematics and considered thought experiments as appropriate to mathematical discovery.

Every program involving either Catholic or Protestant churches in which we participated was carefully scrutinized .... Every topic which had possible theological nuances or implications was vetoed, and only when the Rav pronounced it to be satisfactory did we proceed to the dialogue.

At some point in time, and unknown to Albert, Annie learned of his " other career ", but for many years she did not ask him about it, waiting for him to raise the topic.

In essence, early socialists contended that the emergence of competitive market societies did not create " liberty, equality and fraternity " for all citizens, requiring the intervention of politics and social reform to tackle social problems, injustices and grievances ( a topic on which Jean-Jacques Rousseau discourses at length in his classic work The Social Contract ).

The original article had summed up the situation in terms of the long-term rivalry between Whitehaven and nearby Workington: “ Legend has it that one town ’ s miners had jam on their sandwiches and the other did not, but no one agrees on which town it was or whether they did it because they were snobs or peasants .” A reader from Maryport, a few miles further up the Cumbria coast ( which, as occasionally mentioned in discussions on the topic, used to have a jam factory ) reported that he had understood the term originally referred to people from Whitehaven, and this was echoed in the comments on the Whitehaven News article, suggesting that a former distinction between the Whitehaven " jam eaters " and Workington " high siders " had gradually been lost in the trading of insults across the Rugby pitch.

Although Shermer went to Sunday school, he says that neither his biological nor stepparents or siblings were religious nor non-religious, as they did not hold much discussion on the topic, and did not attend church nor pray together.

The Latin style was heavily influenced by Cicero, and involved a strong emphasis on a broad education in all areas of humanistic study ( in the liberal arts, including philosophy ), as well as on the use of wit and humor, on appeal to the listener's emotions, and on digressions ( often used to explore general themes related to the specific topic of the speech ).

The topic discussed is the intense appeal of the superhero life.

Whether such self-anointing in hedgehogs and tenrecs is involved in defense, scent-camouflage, to appeal to the opposite sex, or a combination of these or other reasons is a debated topic.

It would have been very strange indeed for Paul to have omitted the fact that the apostles and elders of the Jerusalem church had not laid circumcision as a requirement upon the Gentiles considering the topic of the epistle after it became a controversy in Galatia.

The earliest known discussion of the topic arose soon after the French colonization of West Africa, when the Comité d ' Etudes commissioned a study on desséchement progressif to explore the prehistoric expansion of the Sahara Desert.

The triangulation is named after Boris Delaunay for his work on this topic from 1934.

Widespread notoriety came after 1912, when Peter Ouwens, the director of the Zoological Museum at Bogor, Java, published a paper on the topic after receiving a photo and a skin from the lieutenant, as well as two other specimens from a collector.

In 2007 Burma and Bangladesh resumed discussions about defining their maritime border after a 21 year period in which no talks were held on this topic.

Not surprisingly network economics became a hot topic after the diffusion of the Internet across academia.

Computer programming, offshore outsourcing, and Foreign Worker Visas became a controversial topic after the crash of the dot com bubble left many programmers without work or with lower wages.

This new-found Punic militarism alarmed many Romans, including Cato the Elder who, after a voyage to Carthage, ended all his speeches, no matter what the topic, by saying: " Carthago delenda est " – " Carthage must be destroyed ".

In March 2011, Adams wrote a blog post on the topic of men's rights after men's rights advocates responded in large numbers to his request for readers of his blog to choose his next topic.

Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.

Expected to make use of devices with which listeners could press a button to indicate whether they liked or disliked a particular piece of music, Adorno bristled with distaste and astonishment: “ I reflected that culture was simply the condition that precluded a mentality that tried to measure it .” Thus Adorno suggested using individual interviews to determine listener reactions and, only three months after meeting Lasarzfeld, completed a 160-page memorandum on the Project ’ s topic, “ Music in Radio .” Adorno was primarily interested in how the musical material was affected by its distribution through the medium of radio and thought it imperative to understand how music was affected by its becoming part of daily life.

The original goal was to maintain 1, 800 topic areas, but after five years of operation, this number was eventually reduced to 700.

He's not very enthusiastic at first, but after initially struggling with how to approach the topic in a fresh way, Green is inspired to adopt a Jewish identity (" Phil Greenberg ") and writes about his own first-hand experiences.

Diez, in his flagship work on the topic, Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen, first published in 1836 – 1843 and multiple times thereafter, after enumerating six Romance languages that he compared: Italian and Wallachian ( i. e. Romanian ) ( east ); Spanish and Portuguese ( southwest ); and Provençal and French ( northwest ), asserts that they had their origin in Latin, but nicht aus dem classischen Latein, " not from classical Latin ," rather aus der römischen Volkssprache oder Volksmundart, " from the Roman popular language or popular dialect ".

Donnie asks his science teacher Dr. Monnitoff ( Noah Wyle ) about time travel after Frank brings up the topic, and is given the book The Philosophy of Time Travel, written by Roberta Sparrow ( Patience Cleveland ), a former science teacher at the school who is now a seemingly senile old woman.

West Germany interpreted a 21 November 1989 diplomatic message on the topic, however, as meaning that only two weeks after the Wall's collapse the Soviet leadership already anticipated reunification.

No prospective research has been done on the topic, e. g., testing people before and after infection to ensure the proposed behavior arises only afterwards.

Their proposal was rejected and City Council offered the four departments war bonuses, with a promise to revisit the topic after the war.

At the end of each book, after the Cat in the Hat's teaching is done, there is a glossary on some of the words used, an index, and a list of suggested books, from other publishers, that cover the topic each book covered.

His political involvement at the time, as well as his other far right connections, were the frequent topic of criticism after World War II.

Shortly after, as related in his autobiography, Armstrong would take up a similar study on the topic of evolution of the species after a conflict with his sister-in-law.