Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as " poetic painting " ( poesia ), or wanted to make a distinction between the " true " istoria, covering history including biblical and religious scenes, and the fabula, covering pagan myth, allegory, and scenes from fiction, which could not be regarded as true.

Several members of the Porsche board objected ; their official objection was because they wanted Porsche AG to maintain some separation from Volkswagen.

A third objection is that some beliefs arise from experience and not from other beliefs.

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.

Harsanyi argues that the objection overlooks the fact that “ people attach considerable utility to freedom from unduly burdensome moral obligations … most people will prefer a society with a more relaxed moral code, and will feel that such a society will achieve a higher level of average utility — even if adoption of such a moral code should lead to some losses in economic and cultural accomplishments ( so long as these losses remain within tolerable limits ).

Outside of the academic world, among natural speakers of North American English, as an interjection or adjective, bullshit conveys general displeasure, an objection to, or points to unfairness within, some state of affairs.

In objection to this new meaning, and to what some consider pejorative meanings of other synonyms such as " hallucinogen " and " psychotomimetic ", the term " entheogen " was proposed and is seeing increasing use.

The first part of the bill, the concept and establishment of a national mint, met with no real objection, and sailed through ; it was assumed the second and third part ( the Bank and an excise tax to finance it ) would likewise glide through, and in their own way they did: The House version of the bill, despite some heated objections, easily passed.

* Premise, a claim that is a reason for, or an objection against, some other claim as part of an argument

An objection, raised by David Deutsch ( among others ), is that since the solipsist has no control over the " universe " she is creating for herself, there must be some part of her mind, of which she is not conscious, that is doing the creating.

However, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights left the issue of conscientious objection inexplicit, as we see in this quote from War Resisters International: " Article 18 of the Covenant does put some limits on the right freedom of thought, conscience and religion, stating that manifestations must not infringe on public safety, order, health or morals.

If an audience is likely to feel that it is being crowded into a position, if there is any likelihood that the requirements of dramatic " efficiency " would lead to the blunt ignoring of a possible protest from at least some significant portion of the onlookers, the author must get this objection stated in the work itself.

He informed the French ambassador Colbert de Croissy that to his regret he had to terminate the English war effort and told the Dutch via the Spanish consul in London, the Marquess del Fresno, that, his main war aim, to install his noble nephew as stadtholder, having been attained, there was no longer any objection on his side to concluding a lasting peace between the two Protestant brother nations, if only some minor " indemnities " could be paid.

For some, this consensus was tied up with a concern for social welfare reform ( typified by the Beveridge Report ), as typified in the motto if we can build better, we can live better ; for others, such as John Betjeman it was a more conservative objection to the changing character of existing towns.

Another reply to this objection is to assume some modification of causal relations in the physical universe-Mills has responded by pointing out that mental events may be causally overdetermined.

Another reply to this objection is that there is a possibility that the interaction may involve dark energy, dark matter or some other currently undefined scientific process, however in this case dualism is replaced with physicalism, or the interaction point is left for study at a later time when these physical processes are understood.

Caiaphas holds trial over the objection of some of the other priests, who are expelled from the court.

In 1868, over the objection of her parents, Terry began a relationship with the progressive architect-designer and essayist Edward William Godwin, another man whose taste she admired, whom she had met some years before.

O ' Neill's private feuds with Bush's tax cut policies and his push to further investigate alleged al-Qaeda funding from some American-allied countries, as well as his objection to the invasion of Iraq in the name of the war on terror — that he considered as nothing but a simple excuse for a war decided long before by neoconservative elements of the first Bush Administration — led to him being fired in 2002 and replaced with John W. Snow.

Austin notes that some of the responses to the autonomy objection may be relevant, as an agent must choose whichever religion and morality they judge to be correct.

Besides adopting some terms, such as that of natural agents, from Say, Senior introduced the word abstinence which, though obviously not free from objection, is for some purposes useful to express the conduct of the capitalist which is remunerated by interest ; but in defining cost of production as the sum of labor and abstinence necessary to production he does not seem to see that an amount of labor and an amount of abstinence are disparate, and do not admit of reduction to a common quantitative standard.

In this case, however, he will forfeit any chance of promotion during his service ( this refusal is not to be mistaken for the conscientious objection to military service, which allows German conscripts to render a social alternative service ).

Fitzwilliam declined to meet Pitt with the Duke of Portland on 13 June as he was organising the Volunteers in the West Riding but his objection went deeper: " However frequently I have thought on the subject ... it never occurs to me without presenting itself in some new point of view, which generally tends to render decision more difficult ".

Another objection to reliabilism is called the new evil demon problem.

Polkinghorne regards the problem of evil as the most serious intellectual objection to the existence of God.

The objection that faith in a divine providence is inconsistent with the existence of evil in the world, because God can not be the author of evil and good at the same time, is refuted by the fact that evil has no existence in itself, but is only the natural result of the absence of actual good, and that, consequently, evil needs no creator.

Molinists have responded to this objection by noting that scripture contains examples of God's foreknowledge of evil acts.

To the objection that if an all-powerful God exists, there would be no evil in the world, his answer is that precisely because God is all-powerful, he is powerful enough to turn evil into good-even if we do not see how exactly he does this.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

But in such an important question, we would be satisfied if the judgment were that the principal objection to the identity of forces which produce electricity and magnetism were only a difficulty, and not a thing which is contrary to it.

The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

Khrushchev objected on the grounds that not all Presidium members had been notified, an objection which would have been quickly dismissed had Khrushchev not held firm control over the military.

He boycotted the award ceremony, sending instead American Indian Rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who appeared in full Apache dress, to state Brando's reasons, which were based on his objection to the depiction of American Indians by Hollywood and television.

As for the objection [...] that the distance between two distinct real numbers cannot be infinitely small, G. W. Leibniz argued that the theory of infinitesimals implies the introduction of ideal numbers which might be infinitely small or infinitely large compared with the real numbers but which were to possess the same properties as the latter.

One major evidential objection to the Oxfordian theory is Edward de Vere's 1604 death, after which a number of Shakespeare's plays are conventionally believed to have been written, according to 300 years of orthodox scholarship.

Their objection was not to OBE itself, but to the bundle of reforms, of which OBE was the most mentioned.

He then sets up a dialogue in which the disputant offers a series of ways of defining S, and he meets each with a suitable objection, so drawing the conclusion that in such a case there is no right definition of S.

The term, which derives ultimately from the Latin recusare ( to refuse or make an objection ), was first used to refer to those who remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church and did not attend Church of England services, with a 1593 statute determining the penalties against " Popish recusants ".

In December 2008, the FDA gave a " no objection " approval for GRAS status to Truvia ( developed by Cargill and The Coca-Cola Company ) and PureVia ( developed by PepsiCo and the Whole Earth Sweetener Company, a subsidiary of Merisant ), both of which use rebaudioside A derived from the Stevia plant.

One objection which would soon take on ever greater importance, was that critical thought must adopt the standpoint of the oppressed, to which Adorno replied that negative dialectics was concerned " with the dissolution of standpoint thinking itself.

Data East's largest objection in court was that their arcade game Karate Champ was the true originator of the competitive fighting game genre, which predated the original Street Fighter by three years.

Aquinas uses this principle to construct an objection to God's existence, an objection which he in turn answers and refutes generally ( cf.

A related objection is that the paradox only occurs because the judge tells the prisoner his sentence ( rather than keeping it secret ) — which suggests that the act of declaring the sentence is important.

In 2009 ( 70 years after his death ), a book was published containing extensive correspondence by Karel Čapek, in which the writer discusses the subjects of pacifism and his conscientious objection to military service with lawyer Jindřich Groag from Brno.

In the four months ' conclave which followed the death of Clement XIV Spain, France and Portugal at length dropped their objection to Braschi, who was after all one of the more moderate opponents of the anti-Jesuit policy of the previous Pope, and he was elected to the Holy See on 15 February 1775, taking the name of Pius VI.