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The strong feeling is certainly there ; ;
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
And it is certainly no slight to either of them to compare both their achievements and their impact.
Piepsam is not, certainly, religious in any conventional sense.
How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.
In the field of political values, it is certainly true that students are not radical, not rebels against their parents or their peers.
The human is deeper than a mass ideology, certainly deeper than the isolated individual ; ;
His may typify a certain kind of postwar New York experience, but his experience is certainly not typical of his `` generation's ''.
Prosperity for the whole nation is certainly preferred to a tax cut.
Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
Sir -- Your editorial, `` Housing Speedup '', is certainly not the answer to our slum problems.
This is one of the most constructive suggestions made in this critical field in years, and I certainly hope it sparks some action.
The outlook for entertainment electronics in 1961 is certainly far from clear at present, but recent surveys have shown a desire on the part of consumers to step up their buying plans for durable goods.
Torrid Adios ( Torrid-Adios Molly ) is not so masculine as most of the colts, but I like his type and he certainly is one of the best-gaited pacers on the grounds.
Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.
But if space and money are no problem and small children are not on hand every day, it is certainly more restful to have your pool and entertainment area removed from the immediate environs of the house.
If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.
The effect, needless to say, is almost terrifying, and though at times a bit obscure, the film is certainly a much-needed catharsis for the `` repressed '' movie-goer.
After all, social life in the group of the bees is by no means general, although it certainly is a striking feature.
It is certainly clear that the subspaces Af are invariant under T.

is and irrational
To raise the added objection that men require certainty on psychological grounds, answers to ultimate questions having an irrational rather than scientific basis, is in a real sense to undermine the objection itself.
For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.
Panic attacks usually come without warning and although the fear is generally irrational, the subjective perception of danger is very real.
Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.
The term is sometimes used to automatically dismiss claims that are deemed ridiculous, misconceived, paranoid, unfounded, outlandish or irrational.
Kenneth Minogue criticized Pratto's work, saying " It is characteristic of the conservative temperament to value established identities, to praise habit and to respect prejudice, not because it is irrational, but because such things anchor the darting impulses of human beings in solidities of custom which we do not often begin to value until we are already losing them.
*: The condition number computed with this norm is generally larger than the condition number computed with square-summable sequences, but it can be evaluated more easily ( and this is often the only measurable condition number, when the problem to solve involves a non-linear algebra, for example when approximating irrational and transcendental functions or numbers with numerical methods.
In this manner, an irrational number can give an infinite sequence of notes where each note is a digit in the decimal expression of that number.
To Clement, sin is involuntary, and thus irrational, removed only through the wisdom of the Logos.
It is never irrational, as it is founded on the knowledge of the truth of the Logos, but all knowledge proceeds from faith, as first principles are unprovable outside a systematic structure.
The main distinction of the egalitarian view is that decisions about managing family responsibilities are made by mutual submission and cooperation, not on the basis of tradition ( e. g., " man's work " or " woman's " work ), nor any other irrelevant or irrational basis.
Another example is given by the irrational numbers, which are not complete as a subspace of the real numbers but are homeomorphic to N < sup > N </ sup > ( see the sequence example in Examples above ).
Here variables are still supposed to be integral, but some coefficients may be irrational numbers, and the equality sign is replaced by upper and lower bounds.
It is irrational to fret over circumstances that do not exist, such as one's state in death in the absence of an afterlife.
" Some however consider unpredictable behaviour to be realistic in tragedy: " everywhere in Euripides a preoccupation with individual psychology and its irrational aspects is evident .... In his hands tragedy for the first time probed the inner recesses of the human soul and let passions spin the plot.
Reason alone is good, and the irrational is evil, and the irrational is intolerable to the rational.

is and dogmatism
There is no explanation of terms nor a qualification that most such revolts have been dealt with by force -- only a bald dogmatism that they must, because of some undefined compulsion, be so repelled.
It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.
Miss Hardwick speaks of his `` superb gift for intellectual friendship '', and it is certainly a joy to see the intellectual life lived so free from either academic aridity or passionate dogmatism.
What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race ... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.
Derrida states that deconstruction is not a critique in the Kantian sense. This is because Kant defines the term critique as the opposite of dogmatism.
For Derrida the concept of neutrality is suspect and dogmatism is therefore involved in everything to a certain degree.
As a possible reaction to skepticism, dogmatism is a set of beliefs or doctrines that are established as undoubtedly in truth .< ref >, " dogma " The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.
Falkland is notable not for his writings or political career, but his intellectual position, his isolation from his contemporaries seeking reformation in the inward and spiritual life of the church and state and not in its outward and material form, and as a leader of rationalism in an age dominated by intolerance and dogmatism.
Hence, the intellectually restrictive politics of dogmatism (“ My answer is right, and all others are wrong ”), scepticism (“ All answers are equally true or ; everyone has a right to his own truth ”), and eclecticism (“ Each meaning gives a partial view, so the more meanings the better ”) are inappropriate philosophic stances for managing a political term that has more than one meaning.
Today in China, " the 28 Bolsheviks " is synonymous with dogmatism.
The most outspoken of the women, Leah is prone to dogmatism and concerned with her own salvation.
Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.
James Montmarquet's theory of intellectual virtue is similar to Code's, but specifically defines additional intellectual virtues in order to defuse the potential dogmatism or fanaticism that is compatible with Code's desire for truth.
The Programme is named after the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, known as an opponent of dogmatism, who lived and worked in many places in Europe to expand his knowledge and gain new insights, and who left his fortune to the University of Basel in Switzerland.
# Realism is better than dogmatism
The question of the efficacy of art in the context of dogmatism and violence of a massive scale is central to the narrative.
He is viewed by some commentators in the alternative science community as a pseudoskeptic for his alleged dogmatism and scoffing attitude.
The dogmatism of Marxism is a form of fascism, i. e. a doctrine which originates in the degradation of the individual whose elimination is considered as legitimate, whereas capitalism substitutes economic entities such as money, profit or interest for the real needs of life.
In short, the Kālāma Sutta is opposed to blind faith, dogmatism and belief spawned from specious reasoning.

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