Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy ( theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth and man ) and uses concepts such as yin and yang, the Five phases, the 10 Celestial stems, the 12 Earthly Branches, and shichen ( 時辰 a form of timekeeping used for religious purposes ).

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

The phrase ordinary language is often used in philosophy and logic to distinguish between ordinary, unsurprising uses of terms and their more specialized uses in theorizing, or jargon.

The so called ordinary language philosophy held that many philosophical problems arose due to confused and inappropriate uses of language that deviated from ordinary language.

* John Rawls: Revitalized the study of normative political philosophy in Anglo-American universities with his 1971 book A Theory of Justice, which uses a version of social contract theory to answer fundamental questions about justice and to criticise utilitarianism.

For much of the history of linguistics and the positivist philosophy of language, language was viewed primarily as a way of making factual assertions, and the other uses of language tended to be ignored.

The disposable head philosophy uses a print head which is supplied as a part of a replaceable ink cartridge.

The Classical-era authors do not describe the events leading to the Praetor title origination, but the writings of the late Republican statesman and attorney Cicero explored the philosophy and uses of the term praetor.

MIT professor of philosophy Judith Jarvis Thomson uses this definition extensively in her book The Realm of Rights.

Kim Deal uses the All Wave philosophy of recording.

Spurred by his background in the philosophy of language, Berlin argued for a nuanced and subtle understanding of our political terminology, where what was superficially understood as a single concept could mask a plurality of different uses and therefore meanings.

The essay uses various examples from history and philosophy, all of which suggest that the best way to create a non-hierarchical system of social relationships is to concentrate on the present and on releasing one's own mind from the controlling mechanisms that have been imposed on it.

Modern Islamic philosophy has, in response to challenges of secular science and concerns that secular society is unwilling or unable to limit its uses of " dangerous technology ", especially nuclear weapon or biotechnology, begun to look at the origins of science to determine what ethics or limits can or should be imposed, and what goals or visions are appropriate for science.

* Eclipse Phase ( role-playing game ), a tabletop game which uses the philosophy in its futuristic setting.

The American spiritual writer and philosopher Ken Wilber uses a concept called " Great Nest of Being " which is similar to the Great chain of being and which he claims to belong to a culture-independent " perennial philosophy " traceable across 3000 years of mystical and esoteric writings.

Butler uses the debate over the nature of the post-modernist critique to demonstrate how philosophy is implicated in power relationships and defends poststructuralist critique by arguing that the critique of the subject itself is the beginning of analysis, not the end, because the first task of enquiry is the questioning of accepted " universal " and " objective " norms.

The philosophy uses the following logic ( excerpts from Pensées, part III, § 233 ):

But while Shamela started and finished as a sustained subversion of a rival work, in Joseph Andrews Fielding merely uses the perceived depravation of popular literature as a springboard to conceive more fully his own philosophy of prose fiction.

In order to illustrate his philosophy, Kant uses four examples of what he considers immoral conduct throughout the Groundwork:

* Maxim ( philosophy ), a principle that an individual uses in making a decision

From a starting point that combines Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy to create a personal epic of 20th century life, the poem uses materials from history, politics, literature, art, music, economics, philosophy, mythology, ecology and the poet's personal experiences and ranges across European, American, African and Asian cultures.

Each of the different uses also is rooted in some argument about the nature of knowledge, known in philosophy as epistemology.

Although the term " Logos " is widely used in this Christian sense, in academic circles it often refers to the various ancient Greek uses, or to post-Christian uses within contemporary philosophy, Sufism, and the analytical psychology of Carl Jung.

Conversely, when a hardware device needs to respond to the OS, it uses the physical layer to speak to the logical layer.

The fifth and sixth versions of Gamma World take the game's tendency of mimicking other games to its logical end, adopting the rules systems of other games wholesale: The fifth edition of the game uses the Alternity rules, while the sixth edition uses the d20 Modern rules.

Despite similar appearance as a layered model, it uses a much less rigorous, loosely defined architecture that concerns itself only with the aspects of logical networking.

: This article uses forms of logical notation.

: This article uses forms of logical notation.

There has been considerable debate between the logical school, which uses mathematical language, and the epistemological school, which employs concepts such as knowledge, belief and memory, over which formulation is correct.

BERT or bit error rate test is a testing method for digital communication circuits that uses predetermined stress patterns consisting of a sequence of logical ones and zeros generated by a test pattern generator.

NOTE: a RID is the highest logical ( loopback ) IP address configured on a router, if no logical / loopback IP address is set then the Router uses the highest IP address configured on its active interfaces.

* Unstructured FrameMaker uses tagged paragraphs without any imposed logical structure, except that expressed by the author ’ s concept, topic organization, and the formatting supplied by paragraph tags.

The model views planning as a logical and technical process that uses the analysis of quantitative data to decide how to best invest resources in new and existing transportation infrastructure.

The book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today includes an essay in which Johnson uses Cartman's actions and behavior as examples when discussing the logical problem of moral evil, and another essay by College of Staten Island professor Mark D. White cited the season two ( 1998 ) episode " Chickenlover ", in which Cartman is temporarily granted law enforcement powers, in its discussion regarding the command theory of law and what obligates a citizen to obey the law.

Although this uses only two ( instead of three ) operands per instruction, correspondingly more instructions are then needed to effect various logical operations.

* Mathematical logic – Boolean logic and other ways of modeling logical queries ; the uses and limitations of formal proof methods

It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.

It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.

The NOR operator is also known as Peirce's arrow — Charles Sanders Peirce introduced the symbol ↓ for it, and demonstrated that the logical NOR is completely expressible: by combining uses of the logical NOR it is possible to express any logical operation on two variables.

Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy which uses the manipulation of the recipient's emotions, rather than valid logic, to win an argument.

First-order predicate logic uses rules of inference to deal with logical quantifiers.

If the opponent in a debate uses the term, it is meant as a shorthand way to accuse the proponent in the debate of having committed a logical fallacy.

Ti uses models to root out logical inconsistency.