" Whereas Aristotle states that one or other of two contradictory propositions must be false, the Kantian law states that a particular kind of proposition is in itself necessarily false.

Whereas the " higher " law Aristotle suggested one could appeal to was emphatically natural, in contradistinction to being the result of divine positive legislation, the Stoic natural law was indifferent to the divine or natural source of the law: the Stoics asserted the existence of a rational and purposeful order to the universe ( a divine or eternal law ), and the means by which a rational being lived in accordance with this order was the natural law, which spelled out action that accorded with virtue.

Whereas Plato idealized geometry, Aristotle emphasized nature and related disciplines and therefore much of his thinking concerns living beings and their properties.

Whereas Plato had sought to explain things with his theory of Forms, Aristotle preferred to start from the facts given by experience.

Whereas the truth of a descriptive statement is purportedly based on its correspondence to reality, some philosophers, beginning with Aristotle, assert that the ( prescriptive ) truth of a prescriptive statement is based on its correspondence to right desire.

Whereas Plato condemned doxa ( beliefs and opinions ) as a starting point for achieving Truth, Aristotle uses the term endoxa ( commonly held beliefs accepted by the wise / by elder rhetors and / or by the public in general ) to acknowledge the beliefs of the city.

Whereas classical political philosophy is primarily defined by a concern for Hellenic and Enlightenment thought, political scientists are also marked by a great concern for " modernity " and the contemporary nation state, along with the study of classical thought, and as such share a greater deal of terminology with sociologists ( e. g. structure and agency ).

Whereas traditional RDBMS or SQL-DBMS products focused on the efficient management of data drawn from a limited set of data-types ( defined by the relevant language standards ), an object-relational DBMS allows software developers to integrate their own types and the methods that apply to them into the DBMS.

Whereas American culture posits the notion of the " melting-pot " and cultural diversity, the expression " French culture " tends to refer implicitly to a specific geographical entity ( as, say, " metropolitan France ", generally excluding its overseas departments ) or to a specific historico-sociological group defined by ethnicity, language, religion and geography.

Whereas German writers like Fichte had defined the nation by objective criteria such as a race or an ethnic group " sharing common characteristics " ( language, etc.

Whereas the aristocracy defined themselves as an élite ruling class charged with maintaining the social order in France, Sieyès saw the third estate as the primary mechanism of public service.

Whereas Russian SDs defined class membership in terms of ownership of the means of production, Chernov and other SR theorists defined class membership in terms of extraction of surplus value from labour.

Whereas ice cream in the US is defined by the Federal Code both by its ingredients which includes milk fat ( also known as butterfat ) of 10 % or more, gelato in the US covers a wide range of products including frozen desserts eaten like ice cream ; products that are identical to ice cream with the exception of their butterfat contents ; and premium ice cream containing butterfat far exceeding the minimums set forth in Italy.

Whereas Radcliffe would allude to the imagined horrors under the genre of terror-gothic, Lewis defined himself by disclosing the details of the gruesome scenes, earning him the title of horror-gothic novelist.

Whereas this term is often used for any unifacially flaked tool that defies classification, most lithic analysts maintain that the only true scrapers are defined on the base of use-wear, and are usually worked at their distal ends — i. e., " end scrapers.

Whereas the wavelet transform is based on wavelets of the form g ( ax + b ), the p-type chirplet transform is based on chirplets of the form g (( ax + b )/( cx + 1 )), where a is the scale, b is the translation, and c is the chirpiness ( chirp-rate, as defined by the degree of perspective, or projection ).

Whereas glycemic index is defined for each type of food, glycemic load can be calculated for any size serving of a food, an entire meal, or an entire day's meals.

Whereas the latter were defined as fellow-citizens who had to be integrated as quickly and as fully as possible, the Moluccans were considered to be temporary residents who had to be repatriated to Indonesia.

Whereas the mandatory responsibilities accepted by His Britannic Majesty in respect of ' Iraq will automatically terminate upon the admission of ' Iraq to the League of Nations ; and Whereas His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of ' Iraq consider that the relations which will subsist between them as independent sovereigns should be defined by the conclusion of a Treaty of Alliance and Amity:

Whereas metric threads are usually defined by their pitch, that is, how much distance per thread, inch-based standards usually use the reverse logic, that is, how many threads occur per a given distance.

Whereas the first two steps can be scientifically exactly defined, the upper parts belong to the domain of psychology and philosophy.

Whereas this term is often used for any unifacially flaked stone tool that defies classification, most lithic analysts maintain that the only true scrapers are defined on the base of use-wear, and usually are those that were worked on the distal ends of blades -- i. e., " end scrapers " or grattoirs.

Whereas earlier the Council of Ministers had been described as the " executive organ of the People's Chamber ," the 1972 statute defined the council as the " government.

Whereas higher order Fréchet derivatives are naturally defined as multilinear functions by iteration, using the isomorphisms L < sup > n </ sup >( X, Y ) = L ( X, L < sup > n − 1 </ sup >( X, Y )), higher order Gâteaux derivative cannot be defined in this way.

Whereas the URR is formally defined as the urea reduction " ratio ", in practice it is informally multiplied by 100 % as shown in the formula above, and expressed as a percent.

Whereas the sea state in the storm has a frequency spectrum with more or less always the same shape ( i. e. a well defined peak with dominant frequencies within plus or minus 7 % of the peak ), the swell spectra are more and more narrow, sometimes as 2 % or less, as waves disperse further and further away.

Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice, the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law.

Whereas stories at this time in Coronation Street were largely about family affairs, Brookside concentrated on social affairs such as industrial action, unemployment and the black market.

Whereas his references to Judah are of a general kind, Ephraim or Samaria being sometimes mentioned in the same connection or more frequently alone, the situation implied throughout and the whole tone of the addresses agree with what we know of the Northern Kingdom at the time, and his references to places and events in that kingdom are so numerous and minute as to lead to the conclusion that he not only prophesied there, but that he was a native of that part of the country.

Whereas the other two components of Poynting vector ( here x-component only ), and their time averaged values are in general found to be finite.

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

Whereas the incoming administration or Congress would have both the time, and a fresh electoral mandate, to examine and address the problems that the nation faced.

Whereas engineers were used to thinking of air flowing smoothly around the body of the aircraft, at high speeds it simply did not have time to " get out of the way ", and instead started to flow as if it were rigid pipes of flow, a concept Busemann referred to as " streampipes ", as opposed to streamlines, and jokingly suggested that engineers had to consider themselves " pipefitters ".

Whereas the first two paradoxes presented divide space, this paradox starts by dividing time — and not into segments, but into points.

Whereas most Protestants do not believe in Purgatory, John's idea would be difficult to say the least had it stood the test of time.

The language of this work is the East Slavic version of Church Slavonic language with many additional irregular east-slavisms ( like other east-Slavic codices of the time ). Whereas the Laurention ( Muscovite ) text traces the Kievan legacy through to the Muscovite princes, the Hypation text traces the Kievan legacy through the rulers of the Halych principality. The Hypatian codex was re-discovered in Kiev in the 1620s and copy was made for Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozhsky.

Whereas conventional processors mostly only allow programs that specify instructions to be executed one after another, a VLIW processor allows programs that can explicitly specify instructions to be executed at the same time ( i. e. in parallel ).

Whereas most martial arts award promotions through time and practice, sumo ranks can be gained and lost every two months in the official tournaments.

Whereas the existing schemes tended to favour capital-intensive projects, this aimed for the first time at increasing employment in depressed areas.

Whereas the State of Qi was a major power of its era, the State of Lu played only a minor role in the politics of its time.

Whereas the Engineer EOD training period although shorter in total is spread over a number of years and interspersed with operational experience, RE personnel may be posted to core trades such as carpentry or bridge building within their time as engineers.

Whereas before, this " Free Time " critically challenged with time spent securing food, shelter and companionship.

Whereas previous efforts would be recorded in short time spans between tours.

Whereas most games of the time would list those responsible on the cassette inlay cards or even on the front of the box ( one notable example, Football Manager, even going as far as to feature a picture of author Kevin Toms on the front of the box ), no Ultimate title ever mentioned any names at all, and the authorship of some of them remains unclear.

Whereas most of the information given in the previous books is useful in such a way that it could still be applicable today, this book is primarily concerned with the specific details about other strategies that existed at the time.

Whereas a passive matrix display uses a simple conductive grid to deliver current to the liquid crystals in the target area, an active-matrix display uses a grid of transistors and capacitors with the ability to hold a charge for a limited period of time.

Whereas the Gelsenkirchen of that time – not including today's north-end communities, such as Buer – was put in the Amt of Wattenscheid in the Bochum district, in the governmental region of Arnsberg, Buer, which was an Amt in its own right, was along with nearby Horst joined to Recklinghausen district in the governmental region of Münster.

Whereas LCD displays are capable of between 2 and 16 ms response time offering a refresh rate of 60 to 480 Hz, an OLED can theoretically have less than 0. 01 ms response time, enabling up to 100, 000 Hz refresh rate ..

Whereas I / O on 704 was a programmed function of the central processor-data words were transferred to or from the I / O register, one at a time, using a " copy " instruction-the 709 came with the IBM-766 Data Synchronizer, which provided two independently " programmed " I / O channels.

It also contains a repetition of the contents of the first portion-but this time spoken to the second person plural, ( Whereas the first portion is directed to the individual Jew, this time it is directed to the whole community, all the Jews ).