Similarly, a form of modern Platonism is found in the predominant philosophy of mathematics, especially regarding the foundations of mathematics.

Full-blooded Platonism is a modern variation of Platonism, which is in reaction to the fact that different sets of mathematical entities can be proven to exist depending on the axioms and inference rules employed ( for instance, the law of the excluded middle, and the axiom of choice ).

* Brown, Alison M., ' Platonism in fifteenth century Florence and its contribution to early modern political thought ', Journal of Modern History 58 ( 1986 ), 383-413.

:* A modern concept similar to participation in classical Platonism ; see the Theory of Forms

* Egan, Gabriel ( 2005 ), Platonism and bathos in Shakespeare and other early modern drama accessed 13 November 2006.

Because of his early association with the Academy, Diogenes Laërtius placed Bion among the Academics, but there is nothing in his life or thought suggesting an affinity with Platonism and modern scholars regard him as a Cynic, albeit an atypical one with strong Hedonistic or Cyrenaic leanings.

Middle Platonism is the modern name given to a stage in the development of Plato's philosophy, lasting from about 90 BC, when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected the scepticism of the New Academy, until the development of Neoplatonism under Plotinus in the 3rd century.

Apart from historical Platonism originating from thinkers such as Plato himself, Numenius, Plotinus, Augustine and Proclus, we may wish to consider the theory of abstract objects in the modern sense.

The government pays a subsidy for revival of the classics, and this policy attracts experimenters who sometimes put Moliere's characters in modern dress and often achieve interesting results.

In modern usage, the term is sometimes used improperly as a catch-all classification of " other world religions " alongside major organized religions.

Their cross-sections are sometimes very close to that of modern low-drag airfoils.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

" The Pali term has sometimes been translated as " wisdom-being ," although in modern publications, and especially in tantric works, this is more commonly reserved for the term jñānasattva (" awareness-being "; Tib.

Jonah's passive character then is contrasted with the other main character: Yahweh ( sometimes explained as " I shall be what I shall be ", considered the Explicit Name and according to modern scholarly criticism a name of a local deity ).

On modern keyboards, the key is usually labeled Pause with Break below, sometimes separated by a line, or Pause on the top of the keycap and Break on the front.

Martin Luther taught that baptism was necessary for salvation, but modern Lutherans and other Protestants tend to teach that salvation is a gift that comes to an individual by God's grace, sometimes defined as " unmerited favor ", even apart from baptism.

Collectively these modern interpretations of Celtic music are sometimes referred to as Celtic fusion.

The candela is sometimes still called by the old name candle, such as in foot-candle and the modern definition of candlepower.

On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.

This description does not apply to some human languages, such as the Salishan languages, in which stops sometimes occur without vowels ( see Nuxálk ), and the modern conception of consonant does not require cooccurrence with vowels.

The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

In modern times, collectivism is sometimes thought to be synonymous with socialism or specifically Leninism for its emphasis on a hierarchical Vanguard party organization, though collectivism more accurately simply means " group oriented " or " group orientation ".

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

Although these works were not actually composed with a computer in the modern sense, it uses a rudimentary form of the random combinatorial techniques sometimes used in computer-generated composition.

In a number of modern states, circumcision is presumed to be legal, but under certain circumstances, more general laws, such as laws about assault or child custody, may sometimes be interpreted as applying to situations involving circumcision.

Christians embracing aspects of Judaism are sometimes criticized as Biblical Judaizers by Christians when they pressure Gentile Christians to observe Old Testament teachings rejected by many modern Christians.

A different dimension on which dictionaries ( usually just general-purpose ones ) are sometimes distinguished is whether they are prescriptive or descriptive, the latter being in theory largely based on linguistic corpus studies — this is the case of most modern dictionaries.

Today English speakers generally attempt something close to the modern Spanish pronunciation when saying Quixote ( Quijote ), as, although the traditional English spelling pronunciation pronouncing the name with the value of the letter x in modern English is still sometimes used, resulting in or.

However, Darwinism is also used neutrally within the scientific community to distinguish modern evolutionary theories, sometimes called " NeoDarwinism ", from those first proposed by Darwin.

Domnall mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Ailpein, anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin, and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I ); ( 812 – 13 April 862 ) was king of the Picts from 858 to 862.

Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

With ancient and modern history he rendered himself well acquainted and he also began to acquire some of the continental languages.

The Arrhenius definition of acid – base reactions is a development of the hydrogen theory of acids, devised by Svante Arrhenius, which was used to provide a modern definition of acids and bases that followed from his work with Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald in establishing the presence of ions in aqueous solution in 1884, and led to Arrhenius receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 for " recognition of the extraordinary services ... rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation ".

A characteristic application is to the protection of ships ' bottoms, but more modern methods of cathodic protection have rendered its use less common.

Another approach, used by modern hardware graphics adapters with accelerated geometry, can convert exactly all Bézier and conic curves ( or surfaces ) into NURBS, that can be rendered incrementally without first splitting the curve recursively to reach the necessary flatness condition.

In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

The advent of modern programming languages, notably C, for which compilers are available on virtually all computers, has rendered such an approach superfluous.

While Molotov cocktails may be a psychologically effective method of disabling armoured fighting vehicles by forcing the crew out or damaging external components, most modern tanks cannot be physically destroyed or rendered completely inoperable by Molotov cocktails ; only " disabled ".

The modern game lasts roughly two hours and is divided into periods called chukkas ( occasionally rendered as " chukkers ").

In some modern translations, Surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhānā, is rendered more broadly, variously, as, intoxicants, liquor and drugs, etc.

Although the Chinese invented gunpowder, and firearms had been in continual use in Chinese warfare since as far back as the Song Dynasty, the advent of modern weaponry resulting from the European Industrial Revolution had rendered China's traditionally trained and equipped army and navy obsolete.

A handful of Baird's ' Phonovision ' recordings survive and these were finally decoded and rendered into viewable images in the 1990s using modern digital signal-processing technology.

In contrast, modern versions of X generally have extensions such as MESA allowing local display of a local program's graphics to be optimized to bypass the network model and directly control the video card, for use of full-screen video, rendered 3D applications, and other such applications.

Documents with a modern DOCTYPE are rendered in standards compliance mode, which follows the W3C standards strictly.

It has been rendered obsolete by the Bootstrap Protocol ( BOOTP ) and the modern Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ( DHCP ), which both support a much greater feature set than RARP.

Rohirric bears a similar relationship to Westron, the Common Speech of Middle-earth, as that of Old English to modern English, and so Tolkien rendered Rohirric names and phrases into Old English ( English of the Anglo-Saxon period ), just as the Common Speech is translated into English.

In Greek mythology, the Phorcydes (, Phorcides ), occasionally rendered Phorcyades in modern texts, were the children of Phorcys and Ceto ( also called Krataiis or Trienos ).

The detonating cap, thus invented and adopted, brought about the invention of the modern cartridge case, and rendered possible the general adoption of the breech-loading principle for all varieties of rifles, shotguns and pistols.

The detonating cap thus invented and adopted, brought about the invention of the modern cartridge case, and rendered possible the general adoption of the breech-loading principle for all varieties of rifles, shotguns and pistols.

The question as to whether the story about the Egyptian treasury is derived from Greece, or whether the Greek story was an importation from Egypt, has been answered by modern scholars in both ways ; but Müller has rendered it very probable that the tradition took its rise among the Minyans, was transferred from them to Augeas, and was known in Greece long before the reign of Psammetichus, during which the intercourse between the two countries was opened.

The name of this temple, rendered in Greek as Aί γυ πτoς ( Ai-gy-ptos ) by the historian Manetho, is believed to be the etymological origin of the modern English name Egypt.

His name appears in Hebrew as דגון ( in modern transcription Dagon, Tiberian Hebrew Dāḡôn ), in Ugaritic as dgn ( probably vocalized as Dagnu ), and in Akkadian as Dagana, Daguna usually rendered in English translations as Dagan.

In a recent review, Irwin and Park reported that 56 of 95 modern studies found that it produces positive results but noted that many of the positive results were rendered dubious by issues such as data snooping, so that the evidence in support of technical analysis was inconclusive ; it is still considered by many academics to be pseudoscience.

The climax came with the publication of his Neueste Offenbarungen Gottes in Briefen und Erzählungen ( 1773 – 1775 ), purporting to be a " model version " of the New Testament, rendered, with due regard to enlightenment, into modern German.