Jacques Derrida argued that access to meaning and the ' real ' was always deferred, and sought to demonstrate via recourse to the linguistic realm that " There is nothing outside the text "; at the same time, Jean Baudrillard theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality ( and eventually the absence of reality itself ), particularly in the consumer world.

In fact, Bayesian inference can be used to show that when the long-run proportion of different outcomes are unknown but exchangeable ( meaning that the random process from which they are generated may be biased but is equally likely to be biased in any direction ) previous observations demonstrate the likely direction of the bias, such that the outcome which has occurred the most in the observed data is the most likely to occur again.

The Aspirant to a Grade received instruction on the metaphysical meaning of each of these Elements and had to pass a written examination and demonstrate certain skills to receive admission to that Grade.

The modal-logical treatment of provability helped demonstrate the " intensionality " of Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem, meaning that the theorem's correctness depends on the precise formulation of the provability predicate.

In the U. S., it is classified as category B in pregnancy, meaning that animal reproduction studies have failed to demonstrate a risk to the fetus, and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women.

However, the commentary of teachers in the Linji ( Rinzai in Japanese ) tradition tends to emphasize that this kōan dialog consists of a challenge the monk posed to Zhaozhou to demonstrate Buddha-nature without becoming entangled in doctrine ; and that this interpretation only has meaning to a meditator who contemplates the kōan.

" The following examples help demonstrate the meaning of this distinction:

This change was controversial because it applies retrospectively to immigrants who had entered Britain under the old rules, meaning the British Government had " moved the goalposts "-a degree is effectively now an essential requirement, regardless of the skills or economic contribution that an individual can demonstrate.

DHP1, meaning Diesel Hydraulic Prototype number 1, was a prototype Type 3 mainline diesel locomotive built in 1965 by Clayton to demonstrate their wares to British Railways.

DP2, meaning Diesel Prototype number 2, was a prototype Type 4 mainline diesel locomotive built in 1962 by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows to demonstrate its wares to British Railways.

GT3, meaning Gas Turbine number 3 ( following 18000 and 18100 as gas turbines 1 and 2 ), was a prototype mainline gas turbine locomotive built in 1961 by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows to demonstrate its wares to British Railways.

Codenamed " White Ghost ", the impostors are not required to demonstrate technical knowledge of Skyship One since it incorporates automated systems, meaning that the trip passes without incident as the airship visits such locations as New York, the Grand Canyon, then Rio de Janeiro and India.

* The word " perfection " has a special meaning in mathematics, where it gives a proper name to certain numbers that demonstrate uncommon properties.

As these examples amply demonstrate, supporting exegetical literature ( e. g. hadith, sabab-material ) are often decisive in fixing the legal meaning of a particular Qur ' anic verse / pericope.

By suggesting that such a sequence is universal ( meaning that “ all societies use rites to demarcate transitions ”), van Gennep made an important claim ( one that not many anthropologists make, as they generally tend to demonstrate cultural diversity while shying away from universality ).

The report quotes Brian Naranjo of the University of California, Los Angeles to the effect that spectrum measured in these sonofusion experiments is consistent with radioactive decay of the lab equipment and hence does not reliably demonstrate the presence of nuclear reactions.

Snorri then quotes many skaldic verses which demonstrate this.

Hoffer quotes extensively from leaders of the Nazi and communist parties in the early part of the 20th century, to demonstrate, among other things, that they were competing for adherents from the same pool of people predisposed to support mass movements.

Dover extensively quotes from the records of the trial to demonstrate, among other things, that while the Athenians attached no stigma to same sex relations per se, they did adhere to certain conventions ; in this case, that no citizen could be permitted to sell his sexual favors, which they regarded as the proper function of a slave, not a free man.

Only through studies by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt and Auguste Laurent on organic chemistry was it possible to demonstrate that Avogadro's law explained why the same quantities of molecules in a gas have the same volume.

Studio pottery — exemplified by the Grueby Faience Company, Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, Marblehead Pottery, Teco pottery, Overbeck and Rookwood pottery and Mary Chase Perry Stratton's Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, as well as the art tiles made by Ernest A. Batchelder in Pasadena, California, and idiosyncratic furniture of Charles Rohlfs all demonstrate the influence of Arts and Crafts.

William Harvey disproved the basis of the practice in 1628, and the introduction of scientific medicine, la méthode numérique, allowed Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis to demonstrate that phlebotomy was entirely ineffective in the treatment of pneumonia and various fevers in the 1830s.

In 1982, Charles Honorton presented a paper at the annual convention of the Parapsychological Association that summarized the results of the ganzfeld experiments up to that date, and concluded that they represented sufficient evidence to demonstrate the existence of psi.

* Alfred Charles Hobbs used the exhibition to demonstrate the inadequacy of several respected locks of the day.

When Charles Bradlaugh took the Chiltern Hundreds in 1884 in order to seek a vote of confidence from his constituents, Lord Randolph Churchill and the Conservative-supporting press were highly critical of the Gladstone government for allowing Bradlaugh a new opportunity to demonstrate his popularity with the electors of Northampton.

Charles Walcott at Cornell was able to demonstrate that while pigeons from one loft were confused by a magnetic anomaly in the Earth it had no effect on birds from another loft a mile away.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, most notably Charles R. Van Hise, used the syncline to demonstrate that small-scale deformational structures in isolated outcrops reflect larger regional structures and established top-facing to occur inside elaborately deformed strata.

However the truth was that Xorn was actually the thought deceased Husk who had been brainwashed by Mr. Sinister and assumed the identity of Xorn and used her husking abilities to enable herself to demonstrate many different powers, in order to infiltrate the X-Men and kill Magneto and Rogue's son, Charles.

* Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis publishes his book Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires et sur l ' action de l ' émétique et des vésicatoires dans la pneumonie in Paris, in which he analyzes case studies to demonstrate that bloodletting is largely ineffective as a treatment.

* 29 September – Louis Breguet and Charles Richet demonstrate their Gyroplane No. 1, the first rotary-wing aircraft to lift a person off the ground.

Charles Dickens was an outspoken and high profile early critic, and several of his novels, in particular Oliver Twist and Hard Times demonstrate his insight into the damage that institutions can do to human beings.

* Secondly, the Long Parliament and the Irish administration, and King Charles, made it clear that Irish Catholics who did not demonstrate their loyalty would be held responsible for the rebellion and killings of settlers, and would confiscate their lands under the Adventurers Act, agreed on 19 March 1642.

In the 1960s, paleontologist Charles B. Beck was able to demonstrate that the fossil wood known as Callixylon and the leaves known as Archaeopteris were actually part of the same plant.

While the phenomenon was in the beginning more interesting for a fellow of PhD student Aserinsky, William Charles Dement, both Aserinsky and their PhD adviser, Nathaniel Kleitman, went on to demonstrate that this " rapid-eye movement " was correlated with dreaming and a general increase in brain activity.

Charles de Gaulle was an enthusiastic pupil of Estienne's and was the only French tank advocate to demonstrate the potential of armoured forces to act as a counter to German developments in the field.

Modern soldiers demonstrate the use of steel-tipped Pike ( weapon ) | pikes by the Swiss against Charles I, Duke of Burgundy | Charles the Bold in one of the many reenactments used in Connections.

In 1821, students at the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris assembled to allow Charles Barbier de la Serre to demonstrate his system.

This is one of the oldest claims to the author ’ s purpose ( Walton ) and it states that Luke is writing to Rome in order to demonstrate that Christianity is not a political threat to Roman authority.

Board certification demonstrate a physician ’ s exceptional expertise in a particular specialty and / or sub-specialty of medical practice.

For full membership, the Puritan church insisted not only that its congregants lead godly lives and exhibit a clear understanding of the main tenets of their Christian faith, but they also must demonstrate that they had experienced true evidence of the workings of God ’ s grace in their souls.

To demonstrate the viability of the technology, Morgan tries to run a thin cable of ‘ hyperfilament ’ from an orbital factory down to ground level at Taprobane.

The men of Strood had sided with the king in his struggles against the archbishop, and to demonstrate their support, had cut off the tail of Becket ’ s horse as he passed through the town.

Both the peace agreement with France and Saxony's participation in the Congress of Rastatt in 1797 served to demonstrate Frederick Augustus ’ loyalty to the conventional constitutional principles of the Holy Roman Empire.

Much of the negative impact of estrogen that they found was related to the fact that most of the women in the Women ’ s Health Initiative study were far past the menopause and up to 79 years old .” Dr. Rubinow continues by explaining that “ there are now a large number of studies that demonstrate what has been called the timing hypothesis.

Familiar with bad housing in Baltimore and Washington, D. C., Rouse now had an opportunity to demonstrate what housing within a city ’ s borders could be like.

In SG Services, Inc. v. God ’ s Girls, Inc., the court denied trade dress protection for the plaintiff ’ s website because the plaintiff did not demonstrate that the website was non-functional or distinctive.

The IUCN demonstrate how biodiversity is fundamental to addressing some of the world ’ s greatest challenges: tackling global warming, achieving sustainable energy, improving human well-being and building a green economy.

By virtue of Swiss law, however, states claiming money in Switzerland have to demonstrate that they ’ ve started criminal investigations against offenders holding money in the country.

Costumed interpreters explain and demonstrate the life-style and activities of this time in Georgia ’ s history.

If the trial could demonstrate the misrule of British India by Hastings and the East India Company more widely, then Fox ’ s India Bill of 1784 – the point on which the Fox-North Coalition had been dismissed by the King – would be vindicated.

It has been a useful source for simulations, modeling, and even for deriving the arbitrary constants in cryptographic algorithms to demonstrate that the constants had not been selected for ( in B. Schneier ’ s words ) " nefarious purpose ( es ).

Freud questioned Charcot ’ s claim that heredity is the unique cause of hysteria, but he lauded his innovative clinical use of hypnosis to demonstrate how hysterical paralysis could result from psychological factors produced by non-organic traumas ( psychological factors that Charcot believed could be simulated through hypnosis ).

In 1992 an article by Ertel in The Skeptical Inquirer used the methods of his 1988 JSE article to demonstrate that the Mars effect is present in CSICOP ’ s own data and Ertel later contacted Kurtz asking about the way the Zelen test had been conducted.

The author ’ s Ecotopian concept does not reject high technology as long as it does not interfere with the social order and serves Ecotopian objectives, but members of his fictional society prefer to demonstrate a conscious selectivity of technology, so that not only human health and sanity might be preserved, but also social and ecological well being.

Genovese attempts to demonstrate mistreatment of things and thoughts Southern by America ’ s cultural elite, and he links this to a concerted culture war.

It has even been suggested that Mahdi ’ s own deputy was a secret supporter of Hasan, waiting to demonstrate his loyalty on the day that Hasan would ultimately take the castle.

To demonstrate, it ’ s useful to compare Lillooet Salish determiners with English determiners.

The above examples demonstrate that presuppositions are present, but the fact that the listener doesn ’ t necessarily have to be aware of them signifies that the presuppositions only matter to the speaker.

Lam, who continued to sympathize with the common man, exhibited a series of paintings at Havana University in 1955, to demonstrate his support for the students ’ protests against Batista's dictatorship.

Each year UNICEF releases its flagship report, The State of the World ’ s Children, which brings to light the plight of children, particularly in developing countries, and statistics that demonstrate progress, hope and challenges around the world.