Kant argued against all three forms of materialism, subjective idealism ( which he contrasts with his " transcendental idealism ") and dualism.

All parts of the hilt are covered with golden plates, which are engraved with sharp or rounded styli and decorated with niello, or black metallic inlay that contrasts against the golden background.

In the view of M. K. Lawson, the intensity of Edmund's struggle against the Danes in 1016 is only matched by Alfred the Great's in 871, and contrasts with Æthelred's failure.

It effectively contrasts a traditional teenage romance story against realistically drawn details of everyday life as a colonist on the moon.

This contrasts with ELF which uses fully position independent code and a global offset table, which trades off execution time against memory usage in favor of the latter

Energy flow is directional, which contrasts against the cyclic flows of material through the food web systems.

The creamy-colored forehead contrasts against a black band across the eyes and lores and bristles under the chin, which form a black beard that give the species its English name.

These doors were not finished until 1469 ; their reliance on a few figures placed in simple, orderly compositions against a flat ground, contrasts sharply with the elaborate pictorial effects of Lorenzo Ghiberti's more famous Baptistery doors.

A match race in sailing involves two boats racing, and contrasts with fleet racing ( at least 3 boats, often many, all racing against each other ) and team racing ( two teams of 2, 3, or 4 boats per team ).

The poem describes the annual awakening of the vegetable and animal world through the " benign post-Lucretian " goddess, which contrasts with the tragic isolation of the silent " I " of the poet / speaker against the desolate background of a ruined city, a vision that prompts Andrea Cuccchiarelli to note the resemblance of the poem's construction to the cruelty of a dream.

She contrasts that against the process used for " entire-wheat flour ", where the grain was washed, then the three coarse outer layers of bran were removed, after which the grain was ground, supposedly keeping the aleurone layer, but discarding the rough cellulose of the outer bran layers.

Film scholar David Bordwell outlined the academic definition of " art film " in a 1979 article entitled The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice, which contrasts art films against the mainstream films of classical Hollywood cinema.

The stark contrasts of the depression-era South, against his New York City upbringing, instilled in him a passion for expressing the struggles of inequality, which is apparent in the films he directed.

This article contrasts American bar review courses against the 18-month cram schools used in Japan, Germany, Korea, and Taiwan, and argues that the short length of American bar review is due to the superior pedagogical methods of American law schools and the American tradition of relatively easy access to the legal profession ( in comparison to most countries ).</ ref > For bar review, most students in the United States attend a private bar exam review course which is provided by a third-party company and not their law school.

Since fluorescent penetrant inspection is performed in a darkened environment, and the excited dyes emit brilliant yellow-green light that contrasts strongly against the dark background, this material is more sensitive to defects.

In this novel, Philippe Sollers rises against contemporary nihilism – literature which he sees as locked into misfortune and melancholy – to which he contrasts promises of life and happiness.

The bright orange star Kappa Crucis contrasts strongly against its predominantly blue, hot companions.

The following example problem contrasts some of the unique properties of transduction against induction.

" " Acoustic instruments and unamplified, ' pure '- tone singing can now not be heard except as contrasts to more recent kinds of sounds, just as live performances are inevitably ' checked ' against memories of recordings ," and " live performances have to try to approximate the sounds which inhabit this consciousness.

Indeed his record against the Boks is amongst the best of all All Black players and contrasts with his predecessor and successor who have both struggled.

Between the 1960s and the 1980s Taiwan's culture was commonly described in contrasts between Taiwan ( Free China ) and China ( Communist China ), often drawing from the official tropes of Taiwan as a bastion of traditional Chinese culture, which had preserved “ true ” Chinese values and culture against the “ false ” Chinese culture of post Communist China.

The Whitney Smith design uses the high-visibility color orange as its background ( it is the international rescue color, it contrasts the best against snow, and to avoid any confusion, is unlike almost any national flag on Earth ).

The story covers many day to day events, and contrasts the brutality of war against the sometimes futile efforts of the nurses to provide medical aid and comfort.

Residing in Bucharest, Kiselyov took particular care of the city: he acted against the plague and cholera epidemics of 1829 and 1831, instituted a " city beautifying commission " comprising physicians and architects, paved many central streets with cobblestone ( instead of wooden planks ), drained the swamps formed around the Dâmboviţa and built public fountains, settled the previously-fluctuating borders of the city ( it now measured ca. 19 km in perimeter and was guarded by patrols and barriers ), carved out Calea Dorobanţilor and Şoseaua Kiseleff ( major north-south routes ), mapped the city and counted its population, gave Bucharest a garrison for the newly-created Wallachian Army and improved its fire fighting service ; the changing city was described as unusually cosmopolitan and home to extreme contrasts by French visitor Marc Girardin.

This deeply contrasts with the modern, media-encouraged image of hackers who crack secure systems in order to steal information or complete an act of cyber-vandalism.

Changes in role assignment can also result from modern preferences for contrasts in vocal timbre between two major characters, e. g. Fiordiligi and Dorabella in Così fan tutte.

This contrasts with the cylindrical profile of modern nuclear submarines, which are more hydrodynamic underwater ( where they spend the majority of their time ) but less stable on the surface.

In principle the term " Westphalia " contrasts with the much less used term " Eastphalia ", which is very roughly the area of modern Saxony-Anhalt.

Heidegger contrasts this openness to the " will to power " of the modern human subject, which is one way of forgetting this originary openness.

As evidenced by the contemporary chronicles, the ruling princes of Galich ( modern Halych ) and Kiev called themselves " People of Rus '" ( with the exact Cyrillic spelling of the adjective from of Rus varying among sources ), which contrasts sharply with the lack of ethnic self-appellation for the area until the mid-19th century.

Its modern use in science fiction literature contrasts " Earth " ( the planet ) with outer space or hypothetical other planets with sapient life.

In modern Hebrew this contrasts with the term Yisraeli, a citizen of the modern State of Israel, regardless of religion or ethnicity ( English " Israeli ").

Frogmore Plantation, an working cotton plantation with gins, slave row and 18 dependencies, contrasts a working plantation of the early 19th century with a modern cotton plantation and their slaves through an evolution from the wilderness to a thriving 1850s cotton plantation, then beyond.

Jaynes ' last book, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science gathers various threads of modern thinking about Bayesian probability and statistical inference, develops the notion of probability theory as extended logic, and contrasts the advantages of Bayesian techniques with the results of other approaches.

The sign-and-magnitude representation of integers in the MIX architecture distinguishes between “− 0 ” and “+ 0 .” This contrasts with modern computers, whose two's-complement representation of integer quantities includes a single representation for zero, but whose range for a given number of bits includes one more negative integer than the number of representable positive integers.

This contrasts with the chorus of a typical modern pop song, which often consists of more than one line repeated, for example the chorus to Cher's " Believe ":

The term " classical " refers not only to the chronology of these models but also contrasts with the more recent psychometric theories, generally referred to collectively as item response theory, which sometimes bear the appellation " modern " as in " modern latent trait theory ".

In his " L ' Art du Violon " he points out the chief distinction between the old and the modern style of violin playing to be the absence of the dramatic element in the former, and its predominance in the latter, thus enabling the executive art to follow the progress marked out by the composer, and to bring out the powerful contrasts and enlarged ideas of the modern musical compositions.

: The continuity of history rejects violent contrasts between successive periods, and modern research shows the Middle Ages less dark and less static, the Renaissance less bright and less sudden, than was once supposed.

This contrasts to the depiction of pubic hair in art, which is rarely portrayed in works created in the Middle Ages, increasingly common in Renaissance art, and quite frequent in modern times.

Caesar's description contrasts with other information on the early Germanic tribes and is not given much weight by modern scholars.

For instance, McLuhan contrasts the considerable alarm and revulsion that the growing quantity of books aroused in the latter seventeenth century with the modern concern for the " end of the book.

The modern ticket office at Radlett station, dating from the 1970s, contrasts with the ornate shelter above the cycle storage area.

The importance of the families of Gondwanan origin, both in the number of species and their abundance in different plant communities contrasts with the low representation in indigenous communities of more modern groups such as the Compositae, Gramineae, Labiatae and Melastomataceae.

This restricted distribution strongly contrasts with modern mammalian faunas whose large herbivores ' ranges " typical ... span much of a continent.