When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

Pfanzagl's axiomatization was endorsed by Oskar Morgenstern: " Von Neumann and I have anticipated " the question whether probabilities " might, perhaps more typically, be subjective and have stated specifically that in the latter case axioms could be found from which could derive the desired numerical utility together with a number for the probabilities ( cf.

A key distinction between analysis of algorithms and computational complexity theory is that the former is devoted to analyzing the amount of resources needed by a particular algorithm to solve a problem, whereas the latter asks a more general question about all possible algorithms that could be used to solve the same problem.

The retaliation, which was intended to encourage a Lebanese government crackdown on Palestinian militants, instead polarized Lebanese society on the Palestinian question, deepening the divide between pro-and anti-Palestinian factions, with the Muslims leading the former grouping and Maronites primarily constituting the latter.

Some of these fragments have even been thought to date as early as the 2nd century ( i. e., Papyrus 90, Papyrus 98, Papyrus 104, and famously Rylands Library Papyrus P52, though the early date of the latter has recently been called into question ).

Answering the former question set first is called particularism, whereas answering the latter set first is called methodism.

" The answer to the latter question involves the issue of locality, i. e., whether for a change to occur in something the agent of change has to be in physical contact ( at least via some intermediary such as a field force ) with the thing that changes.

The latter question has positive answer whenever G has one of the following conditions:

The latter often requires revisiting and refining the preparative procedures and that is linked to the question which phases are stable at what composition and what stoichiometry.

Similarly, all states that recognise the PRC either recognise the PRC as the legitimate representative of Taiwan or acknowledge the PRC's views on the matter — the latter is the position adopted by the United States, which prefers to leave that question ambiguous.

An answer to the question, What is phenomenology ?, from a student of both Husserl and Heidegger and one of the most important phenomenologists of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected.

His letters to Lord John Russell on the latter question ( 1846 ) had a powerful influence in determining the action of the government.

The latter is reluctant in case she agrees to his proposal, but Nightingale believes the young man in question — angered by the ill offices she had done him since — would show Tom her letters, the knowledge of which he could use to break off the affair.

In the latter, " Quark " includes a number of anecdotes, both from Ferengi history and his own past, to illustrate the rules in question.

Agreement on these points being impossible and agreement on the canal question possible, the latter was put in the foreground.

On what is perhaps the vital problem of modern education, the question of ancient versus modern languages, he pronounced that the latter “ are indispensable accomplishments, but they do not form a high mental training “ – an opinion entitled to peculiar respect as coming from a president of the Modern Language Association.

At the latter of these two conferences, when Doellinger was seventy-six years of age, he delivered a series of marvellous addresses in German and English, in which he discussed the state of theology on the continent, the reunion question, and the religious condition of the various countries of Europe in which the Roman Catholic Church held sway.

A painting which might be a real Wilkie or only a copy ( the question is only resolved in the latter half of the book ) plays a role in the novel Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher.

( which concerns the question of bounding the size of a group if there are fixed bounds both on the order of all of its elements and the number of elements needed to generate it ) and for Burnside's lemma ( a formula relating the number of orbits of a permutation group acting on a set with the number of fixed points of each of its elements ) though the latter had been discovered earlier and independently by Frobenius and Cauchy.

In the latter half of the 20th century, the category of " world religion " fell into serious question, especially for drawing parallels between vastly different cultures, and thereby creating an arbitrary separation between the religious and the secular.

The da Carpi woodcut is often cited in studies of the complex question of early image copyright, as it bears ( in its first state ) a Latin inscription beneath the image claiming " copyright "- style privileges from both the Venetian Republic and the Papacy ( covering the Papal States ) and threatening excommunication for anyone breaching the latter.

Both Diana Ingram and her brother had missed their £ 64, 000 questions ( the latter had used his 50: 50 lifeline on his question ).

The latter returns true when the particular instance the message was sent to is an instance of a descendant of the class in question.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

We used the latter equipped with a carborundum disk about

He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

He had two productive periods, one in the late 1860's, the other in the decade from 1910 to 1920 ( half of the dated poems are from the latter period, and these alone total about one-tenth of all Hardy's poems ).

If the latter knows nothing about the absent sitter except his name ( given by the experimenter ), he cannot possibly give any clues, conscious or unconscious, far less ask leading questions.

" None of these attempts were acceptable to the defenders of Nicene orthodoxy: writing about the latter councils, Saint Jerome remarked that the world " awoke with a groan to find itself Arian.

Wacho's death in about 540 brought his son Walthari to the throne, but as the latter was still a minor the kingdom was governed in his stead by Alboin's father, Audoin, of the Gausian clan.

Written in 1991, this latter opus of about 2000 pages further developed the homotopical ideas begun in Pursuing Stacks.

Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

The latter in particular has spread widely, and there are now over a hundred Camphill communities and other anthroposophical homes for children and adults in need of special care in about 22 countries around the world.

This is easiest to describe in terms of lines of latitude and longitude-the spines lie on the intersections between five of the former, symmetric about an equator, and eight of the latter, spaced uniformly.

While the latter measures above sea level, the former have both an elevation of about.

He also wants to instruct the reader by spiritual example, and to entertain, and to the latter end he adds stories about many of the places and people about which he wrote.

The two latter reefs are much closer to Lord Howe Island, New South Wales ( about 150 km ) than to the southernmost island of the rest of the territory, Cato Island.

A mid-1980s debate about apologetic methodology between Ronald Enroth and J. Gordon Melton, led the latter to place more emphasis in his publications on differentiating the Christian countercult from the secular anti-cult.

The official languages are Finnish and Swedish, the latter being the native language of about five per cent of the Finnish population.

When, in 1974, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal, the latter complained about being paired with an " ideologue ".

Since the latter half of the 1990s considerable controversy has grown in Dutch society, about the TBS-system.

If readers and viewers have a priori views on the current state of affairs and are uncertain about the quality of the information about it being provided by media outlets, then the latter have an incentive to slant stories towards their customers ' prior beliefs, in order to build and keep a reputation for high-quality journalism.