In recent years, Paul and Patricia Churchland have advocated a radically contrasting position ( at least, in regards to certain hypotheses ); eliminativist materialism holds that some mental phenomena simply do not exist at all, and that talk of those mental phenomena reflects a totally spurious " folk psychology " and Introspection illusion.

The Apostle Paul, writing in the first century to Christians in the city of Corinth where the Isthmian Games were held, reflects this in his writings when he says, " Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?

Paul C. Bauschatz in 1976 suggested that the term reflects a pagan ritual which had a " great religious significance in the culture of the early Germanic people ".

It also included ten of the Pauline Epistles ( but not the Pastoral Epistles or the Epistle to the Hebrews, and, according to the Muratonian canon, included a Marcionite pseudo-Paul's epistle to the Alexandrians and an epistle to the Laodiceans ) In bringing together these texts, Marcion redacted what is perhaps the first New Testament canon on record, which he called the Gospel and the Apostolikon, which reflects his belief in the writings of Jesus and the apostle Paul respectively.

This reference is then used by Paul to build on the theology of resurrection, but reflects the common belief at the time that Jesus was buried after his death.

" This reflects St. Paul the Apostle's argument in Romans 2: 15, that the " work of the law written in Gentiles ' hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them.

The naming of the trophy after the mythical giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan reflects Michigan's history as a major lumber-producing state.

Additionally, Anglican theologian Paul F. M. Zahl has suggested Cartman's addiction to food in the episode, combined with his blind faith in the Weight Gain 4000 supplement and his insistence to " Stay true to your dreams ", reflects the idea that many people falsely cling to the notion of free will when they in fact lack any self-control whatsoever.

It was proposed by Beatrice Hahn, Paul Sharp, and colleagues that " epidemic emergence of HIV most likely reflects changes in population structure and behaviour in Africa during the 20th century and perhaps medical interventions that provided the opportunity for rapid human-to-human spread of the virus ".

Commentator Paul Kissling writes that the first part of the verse indicates that " the material universe is good, not evil ; impersonal, not personal " and that the second part reflects the orderly nature of the physical universe.

Scholars who support this theory believe that a famous letter from Pliny to Emperor Trajan concerning the delation of Christians reflects the situation faced by the addressees of this epistle.

One modern theory is that Israeli Hebrew's phonology reflects Yiddish elements, not Semitic languages | Semitic ones.

The Program reflects the Faculty's emphasis on integrating legal theory, legal skills, and community service while providing students with unique education and research opportunities.

Human development theory reflects both distinctions: it sees labour as the yield of individual capital in the same way that neoclassical macro-economics sees financial capital as the yield of the looser idea of human capital.

R. Much has forwarded the theory that the tribal name Vandal reflects worship of Aurvandil or " the Dioscuri ", probably involving a tradition that the Vandalic kings were descended from Aurvandil ( comparable to the case of many other Germanic tribal names ).

Realism, believing as it does in the objectivity of the laws of politics, must also believe in the possibility of developing a rational theory that reflects, however imperfectly and one-sidedly, these objective laws.

The exposition of the theory of proportions that appears in Book VII of The Elements reflects the earlier theory of ratios of commensurables.

Note that the use of natural numbers both in S and the existential quantification merely reflects the usual applications in computability and model theory.

Thus another distinguishing feature of honing theory is that the creative process reflects the natural tendency of a worldview to attempt to resolve dissonance and seek internal consistency amongst its components, whether they be ideas, attitudes, or bits of knowledge ; it mends itself as does a body when it has been injured.

This is not predicted by theories of creativity that emphasize chance processes or the accumulation of expertise, but it is predicted by honing theory, according to which personal style reflects the creator's uniquely structured worldview.

This articulation would suggest that we are just beginning to understand what might be required for a more robust theory of culture and culture change, one that brings coherence across many disciplines and reflects an integrating elegance.

Uneconomic growth, in human development theory, welfare economics ( the economics of social welfare ), and some forms of ecological economics, is economic growth that reflects or creates a decline in the quality of life.

The theory was coined to augment the discussion of overpopulation, which reflects issues of carrying capacity without taking into account per capita consumption, by which developing nations are evaluated to consume more than their land can support.

Economic theory asserts that in a free market economy the market price reflects interaction between supply and demand: the price is set so as to equate the quantity being supplied and that being demanded.

The theory behind this approach is that the GDP deflator reflects up to date expenditure patterns.

As a technology, grading both shapes and reflects many fundamental areas of educational theory and practice.

The requirement of computability reflects on and contrasts with the approach used in analytic number theory to prove the results.

The theory behind such a market is that the monetary value of a futures contract on an event reflects the probability that that event will actually occur, since a market's actors rationally bid a contract either up or down based on reliable information.

In particle physics, it reflects the changes in the underlying force laws ( codified in a quantum field theory ) as the energy scale at which physical processes occur varies, energy / momentum and resolution distance scales being effectively conjugate under the uncertainty principle ( cf.

An actual measurement reflects only one solution, representing a breakdown in the symmetry of the underlying theory.

In a theory known as the Harmony of the Spheres, Pythagoras proposed that the Sun, Moon and planets all emit their own unique hum ( orbital resonance ) based on their orbital revolution, and that the quality of life on Earth reflects the tenor of celestial sounds which are physically imperceptible to the human ear.

" Similarly, Maria Todorova notes that, although it minimized the Ottoman contribution and displayed " emotional or evaluative overtones ", such a perspective ran against the divisive interpretations of the Balkans, offering a working paradigm for a global history of the region: " Although Iorga's theory may be today 2009 no more than an exotic episode in the development of Balkan historiography, his formulation Byzance après Byzance is alive not only because it was a fortunate phrase but because it reflects more than its creator would intimate.

Costigan argues however, that this quote is taken out of context and reflects Nassau's opinion purely from the viewpoint of the theory of political economy.

This reflects the kernel of classical labour law theory, that an employment contract is one infused with “ inequality of bargaining power ”, and stands as a justification for mandating additional terms to what might otherwise be agreed under a system of total freedom of contract.

The anthropological concept of " culture " reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an opposition between " culture " and " nature ", according to which some human beings lived in a " state of nature ".

The oblate spheroid shape reflects, following Clairaut's theorem, the balance between containment by gravitational attraction and dispersal by centrifugal force.

The slope, in regression analysis, also reflects the relationship between variables.

Critics have explored the connection between the creation of Thomas ' mythological pasts into his works such as " The Orchards ", which Ann Elizabeth Mayer believes reflects the Welsh myths of the Mabinogion.

The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve ( AUC-ROC ) reflects the relationship between sensitivity and specificity for a given test.

Müller's work relies specifically on theoretical assumptions that are very similar to Haeckel's and reflects the German practice to maintain strong connections between empirical research and the philosophical framework of science.

However, it is not fully certain that the alternation between syllables necessarily reflects a difference in the vowels rather than the consonants – at the moment, the only undisputed fact is that they are different syllables.

A satirical song published in The Times newspaper of 1789 referring to the rumoured clandestine marriage between Prince Regent and Mrs. Fitzherbert also reflects this symbolic usage of the broomstick imagery: “ Their way to consummation was by hopping o ’ er a broom, sir ”, and there are plentiful other examples of ‘ broomstick ’ being using in other contemporary contexts but all with a similar implication of dubiousness or fakery.

* Structural unemployment — This reflects a mismatch between the skills and other attributes of the labour force and those demanded by employers.

Current labour law reflects the historic interrelation between the state and the Confederation of Mexican Workers, the labour confederation officially aligned with the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI ), which ruled Mexico under various names for more than seventy years.

The Mishnah reflects debates between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE by the group of rabbinic sages known as the Tannaim.

This definition reflects the spectrum between micro-and macro-evolution, whilst leaving a clear difference between the terms: because the geological record rarely has a resolution better than 10, 000 years, and humans rarely live longer than 100 years, " meso-evolution " is never observed.

The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs, usually between 20 and 50, although shorter and longer forms of limited overs cricket have been played.

There is a gradual change in the courses taught and books published to correspond to the change in period nomenclature, which in part reflects differences between social history and cultural history.

This reflects the difference between stylistic histories internal to an art form and the external chronological history beyond it.

Where the objective of the comparison is to look at differences in living standards between countries, using a measure of per capita income adjusted for differences in purchasing power parity more accurately reflects the differences in what people are actually able to buy with their money.

Viscoelastic behaviour reflects the combined viscous and elastic responses, under mechanical stress, of materials which are intermediate between liquids and solids in character.

Since light reflects from the grain boundaries ( boundaries between crystallites ), larger crystals tend to be transparent, while polycrystalline aggregates look like white powders.

For Huxley, the reconciliation of these cleansed perceptions with humanity reflects the age old debate between active and contemplative life, known as the way of Martha and the way of Mary.

What Humboldt terms the inner form of a language is just that mode of denoting the relations between the parts of a sentence which reflects the manner in which a particular body of men regards the world about them.

The resulting manifesto, united in the common aim of overturning the existing system, reflects a clear compromise between these strands.

This novel begins with the death of Big Brother and reflects an intermediate period between 1984 and a more optimistic future characterized with a decline in orthodoxy of the totalitarian system, struggles of the ensuing powers and the near destruction of the Oceania air force by Eurasia.

* Social justice ( sometimes " Social equality and economic justice ") reflects the general rejection of discrimination based on distinctions between class, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or culture.

This partly stems from perceived differences between pre-state tribes and contemporary tribes ; some reflects more general controversy over cultural evolution and colonialism.