The current Constitution of Japan, established in 1947, only annulled the preceding laws which it contradicts ( article 98 ).

Sometimes theories are incorrect, meaning that an explicit set of observations contradicts some fundamental objection or application of the theory, but more often theories are corrected to conform to new observations, by restricting the class of phenomena the theory applies to or changing the assertions made.

But when interpreted as only observational, this test contradicts the philosophy of science principles of theory dependence of observations.

This contradicts optical satellite and climatological lightning data that show the South American thunderstorm center stronger than the Asian center., although observations made from North America indicate the dominant contribution comes from South America.

" Similarly, Tallis notes that a literal interpretation of the Lacanian mirror stage contradicts empirical observations about human identity and personality: " the stage theory would predict that congenitally blind indiv ­ iduals would lack selfhood and be unable to enter language, society or the world at large.

Line judges must defer to an umpire's decision, even when it contradicts their own observations.

" The amount of actual power and influence Gibbs had contradicts the observations made by historians of this period.

Diogenes relates that Sotion said he was a " hearer " of Xenophanes, which contradicts Heraclitus ' statement ( so says Diogenes ) that he had taught himself by questioning himself.

The accusation of having committed a fallacy might rest on either of two grounds: ( 1 ) the relativism on which the bogus defense rests is so simple and meritless that it straightforwardly contradicts the Law of Non-Contradiction ; or ( 2 ) the defense ( and thus the fallacy itself ) is an example of ad hoc reasoning.

Note this does not restrict dormant forms of life to these environments, so this argument only contradicts the widest interpretation of panspermia — that life is ongoing and is spread across many different environments throughout the Universe — and presupposes that any life needs those elements, which the proponents of alternative biochemistries do not consider certain.

Then is an open cover of S, but any finite subcollection of has the form of C discussed previously, and thus cannot be an open subcover of S. This contradicts the compactness of S. Hence, every accumulation point of S is in S, so S is closed.

Rameau's music, so graceful and attractive, completely contradicts the man's public image and what we know of his character as described ( or perhaps unfairly caricatured ) by Diderot in his satirical novel Le Neveu de Rameau.

Some apparently unrelated words share a common historical origin, however, so etymology is not an infallible test for polysemy, and dictionary writers also often defer to speakers ' intuitions to judge polysemy in cases where it contradicts etymology.

The suggestion that a set of ' Asian values ' operated throughout the Asian region, or even just in East Asia, contradicts what we know about the presence of long-standing religious ( Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, and Christian ) and other divisions in the region, and of the major social and cultural transformation that has been underway, especially in the last decade or so.

This fact also contradicts the theory that at the initial angle the construction would take too long because Sneferu's death was nearing, so the builders changed the angle to complete the construction in time.

There is nothing in Sister Princess RePure that contradicts the games, magazine stories or mini-novels: thus it can be considered canon, despite not actually being so.

However, in Turkic languages such as Azerbaijani, adjectives precede the nouns they modify, so the names would need to be reversed as “ Said Kurban ” to accurately convey the meaning “ joyful sacrifice ,” or “ fortunate sacrifice .” This idea contradicts the storyline in the novel, which is anything but happy.

The narrow claim transparently contradicts this assumption, and the broad one does so by implication, because while individual thrift is generally averred to be good for the economy, the paradox of thrift holds that collective thrift may be bad for the economy.

While Rhys ' suggestion is not implausible, his reference to Gwriad's father Gwrian contradicts the royal pedigree, which says that Gwriad's father was Elidir, so this may be a confusion of two different people named Gwriad.

If G were provable under the axioms and rules of inference of T, then T would have a theorem, G, which effectively contradicts itself, and thus the theory T would be inconsistent.

A second ghost-written book ( which on some finer points contradicts On Pocket Billiards ) was also published under his name.

This explanation contradicts the common assumption that for Vertov " life caught unawares " meant " life caught unaware of the camera.

), which contradicts the assumption that the algorithm was lossless.

) But that contradicts our initial assumption, p, that r < sub > 0 </ sub > was the smallest rational number.

This hypothesis contradicts the principle of mediocrity, which SETI takes as an assumption.

Otherwise, the differences of potential would give rise to forces and movement of some parts of the liquid at the surface, which contradicts the static model assumption.

But this contradicts the assumption that it was algebraic.

If is infinite, then the-extracted subsequence contradicts the assumption that is wqo.

However, this assumption contradicts the irreversibility of evolution of the macrosystems, the second law of thermodynamics and the experimental data received on concrete physical objects.

This directly contradicts the historical and still widespread assumption that behavior is the final result of stimulus inputs or cognitive plans.

Again, this contradicts a fundamental assumption of intelligent design that a designer is needed for every specifically complex object, producing a logical contradiction.

The idea of light quanta contradicts the wave theory of light that follows naturally from James Clerk Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic behavior and, more generally, the assumption of infinite divisibility of energy in physical systems.

But Wegener only took action after reading a paper in Autumn 1911 and seeing that a flooded land-bridge contradicts isostasy.

" And if he says something that contradicts what is found in the standard works ( I think that is why we call them " standard "— it is the standard measure of all that men teach ), you may know by that same token that it is false ; regardless of the position of the man who says it.

:” When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted ”

However Rousseau's proclamation of man's free will is undermined by his belief that man is " a being that always acts in accordance with certain and invariable principles ", and indeed contradicts the basic premise of the Discourse itself: that we can logically infer what actions man must have taken over the course of his development.

According to the present view of the situation, quantum mechanics flatly contradicts Einstein's philosophical postulate that any acceptable physical theory must fulfill " local realism ".

If they further reflect, they must also recognize that an act of mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit life which God the Creator, through specific laws, has built into it, frustrates His design which constitutes the norm of marriage, and contradicts the will of the Author of life.

This contradicts the Principle of bivalence: every sentence must be either true or false.

In addition to citing various human rights violations, the CDU also believes that Turkey's unwillingness to recognise Cyprus as an independent, sovereign state contradicts the EU policy that its members must recognise the existence of one another.

In " Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Dogma " Sa ' adya declares the rationality of the Jewish religion, with the caveat that reason must capitulate wherever it contradicts tradition.

" We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us ; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

* " The axiom of choice must be wrong because it implies the Banach-Tarski paradox, meaning that geometry contradicts common sense.

Since no proposition can be validly logically deduced from any it contradicts, according to Duhem, Newton must not have logically deduced his law of gravitation directly from Kepler's Laws.

As it contradicts the first point above, Primus contends that Hooper must now refer to indifferent things in the church and earlier meant indifferent things in general, in the abstract.