Individuals idea of ' Daksha ' and ' Mahana ' is relative to one's development of the concept of ' Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram.

The concept of function is defined as a special kind of binary relation.

To see how the principle works, a thinker engages in “ reflective isolation ”, the act of isolating a given concept in a kind of null-context and determining its intrinsic value.

Nur ad-Din was extremely pious and during his rule the concept of jihad came to be interpreted as a kind of counter-crusade against the kingdom, which was an impediment to Muslim unity, both political and spiritual.

The collectivist anarchists sought to collectivize ownership of the means of production while retaining payment proportional to the amount and kind of labor of each individual, but the anarcho-communists sought to extend the concept of collective ownership to the products of labor as well.

To form a concept, one mentally isolates a group of concretes ( of distinct perceptual units ), on the basis of observed similarities which distinguish them from all other known concretes ( similarity is ' the relationship between two or more existents which possess the same characteristic ( s ), but in different measure or degree '); then, by a process of omitting the particular measurements of these concretes, one integrates them into a single new mental unit: the concept, which subsumes all concretes of this kind ( a potentially unlimited number ).

* For the general treatment of the concept of a product, see product ( category theory ), which describes how to combine two objects of some kind to create an object, possibly of a different kind.

In a similar sense the Hindu concept of Moksha and the Buddhist concept of Nirvana may be thought of as a kind of utopia.

Its basic, and equally grandiose idea, was that, as the French Revolution of 1789 had enlarged the concept of individual liberty, another revolution would now be needed for national liberty ; and his vision went further because he hoped that in the no doubt distant future free nations might combine to form a loosely federal Europe with some kind of federal assembly to regulate their common interests.

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.

Chagall would later say that there was no art of any kind in his family's home and the concept was totally alien to him.

Richard Trachsler says that “ the concept of courtly literature is linked to the idea of the existence of courtly texts, texts produced and read by men and women sharing some kind of elaborate culture they all have in common .” He argues that many of the texts that scholars claim to be courtly also include “ uncourtly ” texts, and argues that there is no clear way to determine “ where courtliness ends and uncourtliness starts ” since readers would enjoy texts which were supposed to be entirely courtly without realizing they were also enjoying texts which were uncourtly.

::" An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into measurement of some kind.

Oldenberg ( 1894 ) surmised that the concept of Ṛta originally arose in the Indo-Aryan period from a consideration of the natural order of the world and of the occurrences taking place within it as doing so with a kind of causal necessity.

Noam Chomsky ’ s concept of innate language addresses the existence of universal grammar, which suggests a special kind of “ device ” all humans are born with whose sole purpose is language.

Halloween, though not the first film of its kind, was the first with a masked killing machine, and also the first film to introduce the concept of the killer being a seemingly indestructible evil force.

Especially in Japan, God's always has been a kind of flexible concept.

To discard any possible insinuations concerning any kind of concept behind it, Hensley's note on the sleeve declared the album to be " just a collection of our songs that we had a good time recording ".

Kember described it as a " kind of a concept album, it ’ s about our better and worse experiences with drugs ".

The Old Testament use of the word includes the concept that those showing favor do gracious deeds, or acts of grace, such as being kind to the poor and showing generosity.

Alongside this kind of work there is also the concept of the Community Play, pioneered by Ann Jellicoe.

The title " zeroth law of thermodynamics " began to appear in textbooks to refer to statements of this kind, though now stripped of their explicit reference to heat ; their implicit dependence on the notion of heat could not be removed because they rely on the concept of thermal equilibrium which in turn relies on the concept of transfer of heat by conduction or radiation, the presence or absence of which must be empirically recognizable in order to make the concept of thermal equilibrium empirically recognizable.

" According to Rand, " it is only the concept of ' Life ' that makes the concept of ' Value ' possible ," and, " the fact that a living entity is, determines what it ought to do .".

In contrast both, Marx's Labour Theory of Value and the ' Emergy ' concept are conceived as donor-type value.

* Value chain, a management concept first described by Michael Porter

In recent years, the traditional conception of CSR is being challenged by the more community-conscious Creating Shared Value concept ( CSV ), and several companies are refining their collaboration with stakeholders accordingly.

After the acquisition of the Irish business by Tesco, the brand was completely replaced by Tesco own-brands, including the similar in concept Tesco Value, using white rather than yellow packaging ).

Readers should realize that Market Value is not exact science, but an introduced concept from individuals and companies as a business tool.

* Regulatory Capital Value, an accounting concept developed by Ofwat, the UK water industry regulator

The term and concept were invented by Harvard professor Mark H. Moore, who published a book on the subject, Creating Public Value Strategic Management in Government, in 1995.

Notions of " surplus produce " have been used in economic thought and commerce for a long time ( notably by the Physiocrats ), but in Das Kapital, Theories of Surplus Value and the Grundrisse Marx gave the concept a central place in his interpretation of economic history.

While Marx used the concept of the law of value in his works Grundrisse, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Theories of Surplus Value and Das Kapital, he did not explicitly formalise its full meaning in a mathematical sense, and therefore how it should be exactly defined remains to some extent a controversial topic in Marxian economics.

In Q3 2006, IBM introduced the concept of Value Unit ( VU ) pricing.

The concept and theory of Kolmogorov Complexity is based on a crucial theorem first discovered by Ray Solomonoff, who published it in 1960, describing it in " A Preliminary Report on a General Theory of Inductive Inference " as part of his invention of algorithmic probability.

Mises had earlier applied the concept of marginal utility to the value of money in his Theory of Money and Credit ( 1912 ), in which he also proposed an explanation for " industrial fluctuations " based on the ideas of the old British Currency School and of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell.

The concept was introduced by Claude E. Shannon in his 1948 paper " A Mathematical Theory of Communication ".

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

It is widely accepted that Copernicus's De revolutionibus followed the outline and method set by Ptolemy in his Almagest and employed geometrical constructions that had been developed previously by the Maragheh school in his heliocentric model, and that Galileo's mathematical treatment of acceleration and his concept of impetus rejected earlier medieval analyses of motion, rejecting by name ; Averroes, Avempace, Jean Buridan, and John Philoponus ( see Theory of impetus ).

The discovery of the chemical elements and the concept of Atomic Theory began to systematize this science, and researchers developed a fundamental understanding of states of matter, ions, chemical bonds and chemical reactions.

Amy Devitt further expands on the concept of culture in her 2004 essay, " A Theory of Genre " by adding “ culture defines what situations and genres are likely or possible ” ( Devitt 24 ).

The concept of the mixed strategy Nash Equilibrium was introduced by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in their 1944 book The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.

For example, the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism draws no distinction between literary theory and literary criticism, and almost always uses the terms together to describe the same concept.

Brown and Gilman's V-T Theory has been very influential, perhaps in part because its binary system is a convenient, easy-to-grasp concept.

Recently, in the 9th International Conference " Developments in Economic Theory and Policy " held in Bilbao, by the Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque Country ( Spain ) and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy of the University of Cambridge ( United Kingdom ), the concept of Stockholm Syndrome was introduced in economics referring to governments that have been " kidnapped " by financial capital because of their need to refinance public debt.

His most famous concept, Storm and Stress Theory, normalized adolescents ’ tendency to act out with conflicting mood swings.

* Evidential reasoning approach, a concept in Decision Theory

However, perhaps the most common interpretation is aligned to Fisher's concept of inflationary expectations, described in his treatise ' The Theory of Interest ' ( 1930 ) which is based on the theoretical costs and benefits of holding currency.

Sir Halford Mackinder's Heartland concept showing the situation of the " pivot area " established in the Theory of the Heartland.

The concept of geopolitics initially gained attention through the work of Sir Halford Mackinder in England and his formulation of the Heartland Theory which was set out in his article entitled " The Geographical Pivot of History " in 1904.

Terror Management Theory is a psychological concept that hypothesizes that culture originates from an attempt to cope with the knowledge of our mortality.

The concept of the constraint in Theory of Constraints is analogous to but differs from the constraint that shows up in mathematical optimization.

The Drive Reduction Theory grows out of the concept that we have certain biological drives, such as hunger.

Prigogine's formal concept of self-organization was used also as a " complementary bridge " between General Systems Theory and Thermodynamics, conciliating the cloudiness of some important systems theory concepts with scientific rigour.

The concept was proposed by Edward Chamberlin in his 1933 Theory of Monopolistic Competition.

An application of the concept to sociology can be found in Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory, which was subsequently adapted by Bob Jessop in his studies of the capitalist state system.