He refined the positivism originally set forth by Auguste Comte, promoting what could be considered as a form of epistemological realism, as well as the use of the hypothetico-deductive model in social science.

Aquinas placed more emphasis on reason and argumentation, and was one of the first to use the new translation of Aristotle's metaphysical and epistemological writing.

But Fleming focuses particularly on Gaiman's use of The Watcher as a witness that provides an epistemological grounding to the text-a grounding that, citing Brian McHale, Fleming argues is absent in traditional postmodern writing.

It focuses primarily on the metaphysical and epistemological problems of Aristotelean reasoning and its use in everyday language, covering E-Prime and how it addresses many of the semantic ( and resulting perceptual ) " spooks " that common language lets in.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

As a result, although we still make use of this distinction, there is much confusion as to the meaning of the basic terms employed.

The distinction between broadcast and collision domains comes about because simple Ethernet and similar systems use a shared transmission system.

A distinction is sometimes drawn between syntactic garbage, those objects the program cannot possibly reach, and semantic garbage, those objects the program will in fact never again use.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

" It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that " given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s.

It has the distinction of being the first programmable ROM cartridge – based video game console, and the first console to use a microprocessor.

The most obvious distinction between the two groups was the Churches of Christ rejecting the use of musical instruments in worship.

No legal distinction currently exists in the United States between medical and recreational use, sale, or purchase.

Some realistic references to ARPA in fiction are in Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X ( DARPA consults on a technical threat ), in episodes of television program The West Wing ( the ARPA-DARPA distinction ), the television program Numb3rs ( DARPA research into creating the first self-aware computer ), and in the motion picture Executive Decision ( use of a one-of-a-kind experimental prototype in an emergency ).

In America, the distinction between traditional emeralds and the new vanadium kind is often reflected in the use of terms such as ' Colombian Emerald.

" One year later, the earliest recorded use in reference to a theological distinction was by Sir Thomas More, who spoke of " Tyndale his evangelical brother Barns ".

He proposed the reduction of the alphabet to 22 letters ( by eliminating the accented letters and most of their sounds ), the change of the plural to-i, the use of a positional accusative instead of the ending-n, the removal of the distinction between adjectives and adverbs, the reduction of the number of participles from six to two, and the replacement of the table of correlatives with more Latinate words or phrases.

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).

However, this distinction is becoming blurred with the increasing use of power tools in even small gardens.

Sometimes, English has a lexical distinction where other languages may use the distinction in grammatical aspect.

Avicenna's contributions include the distinction of mediastinitis from pleurisy and careful descriptions of skin troubles, sexually transmitted diseases, and nervous ailments, as well the use of ice to treat fevers, and the separation of medicine from pharmacology, which was important to the development of the pharmaceutical sciences.

Other medical innovations first introduced by Muslim physicians include the discovery of the immune system, the use of animal testing, and the combination of medicine with other sciences ( including agriculture, botany, chemistry, and pharmacology ), the first drugstores in Baghdad ( 754 ), the distinction between medicine and pharmacy by the 12th century, and the discovery of at least 2, 000 medicinal and chemical substances.

The complicated terminology distinguishing between ` the song, the name of the song, and what the name of the song is called ' entails the use – mention distinction.

Based on the Man ' yōgana system, Old Japanese can be reconstructed as having 88 distinct syllables ; texts written with Man ' yōgana use two different kanji for each of the syllables now pronounced ( the Kojiki has 88, but all later texts have 87, the distinction between mo < sub > 1 </ sub > and mo < sub > 2 </ sub > apparently being lost immediately following its composition ).

Sheldon influenced this award through her use of a masculine pseudonym, James Tiptree, Jr., demonstrating that there is no distinction in works of science fiction when written by either gender.

Moreover, the pact erased the legal distinction between war and peace since the signatories, having renounced the use of war began to wage wars without declaring them as evidenced by the U. S. intervention in Central America, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet Union invasions of Poland.

In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

The word " armour " was introduced into use in the Middle Ages as a borrowing from the French.

The Greek mathematician Menaechmus solved problems and proved theorems by using a method that had a strong resemblance to the use of coordinates and it has sometimes been maintained that he had introduced analytic geometry.

As early as 1966, resolutions were introduced to the United Nations charging that the U. S. was violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which regulated the use of chemical and biological weapons.

He introduced a more modern use for medicinal leech, stating that leech could be used for cleaning the tissues after surgical operations.

), and introduced it for use on desktop PCs as well.

The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.

One significant difference of modern naval battles as opposed to earlier forms of combat is the use of marines, which introduced amphibious warfare.

* Lenses for the Canon EF mount, introduced with the company's EOS family of film SLRs in 1987 and used to this day on Canon full-frame and APS-H EOS DSLRs, can function fully on the company's APS-C DSLRs that use the EF-S mount ( although their angle of view will be different on the smaller APS-C sensor ).

The Romans made use of fired bricks, and the Roman legions, which operated mobile kilns, introduced bricks to many parts of the empire.

The notation was introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac and is also known as Dirac notation, though the notation has precursors in Grassmann's use of the notation for his inner products nearly 100 years previously.

To complement this, a permanent live news ticker had earlier been introduced in 2006: this had only previously been in use sporadically.

* ARC-Advanced Resource Connector open source grid middleware introduced by NorduGrid, use BerkeleyDB in several services.

Pope Pius XII introduced optional use of a new translation of the Psalms from the Hebrew to a more classical Latin.

Early in the year 1928 a second Measure ( known as the Prayer Book Measure 1928 ) was introduced in the Church Assembly, proposing to authorise the use of the Deposited Book of the previous year with certain amendments thereto which were set out in a Schedule to Measure.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance “ between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.

Scheme introduced the sole use of lexically scoped variables to Lisp ; an inspiration from ALGOL 68 which was widely recognized as a good idea.

* Para-Lift Flaps – these were the large Fowler flaps Cessna introduced on the 170B in 1952, replacing the narrow chord plain flaps then in use.

One form of this widespread language is used in Daniel and Ezra, but the use of the name " Chaldee " to describe it, first introduced by Jerome, is incorrect and a misnomer.

However, it continued to use native x86 execution and ordinary microcode only, like Centaur's Winchip, unlike competitors Intel and AMD which introduced the method of dynamic translation to micro-operations with Pentium Pro and K5.

Postmodernism introduced an ironic use of the orders as a cultural reference, divorced from the strict rules of composition.

The word cola may have been introduced into mainstream culture by the major producer Coca-Cola, as it saw its trademark slipping into common use, like other genericized trademarks.