Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

Whether it was Sidney next challenged Oxford to a duel or the other way around, Oxford did not take it further, and the Queen personally took Sidney to task for not recognizing the difference between his status and Oxford's.

Whether a particular piece of art is a false document, or is using false documentary techniques in a central way, is arguable.

Whether food is prepared with precision in a fine dining restaurant, picked from a dumpster, plucked, devoured, or even consumed by a wild animal, meaning can always be extracted from the way a certain food has been prepared and the context in which it is served.

* Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law,

Under the section entitled " Whether the hen or the egg came first ", the discussion is introduced in such a way suggesting that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

It is thus now possible again to reason about sets in a non-axiomatic fashion without running afoul of Russell's paradox, namely by reasoning about the elements of V. Whether it is appropriate to think of sets in this way is a point of contention among the rival points of view on the philosophy of mathematics.

Whether he actually died in this way remains a mystery and is much debated.

Whether there was also an order not to teach those ideas in any way has been a matter for controversy.

Whether or not his brothers ( all dignified members of the British foreign service ) actually considered young William the " black sheep of the family " for having become an actor, Karloff himself apparently worried they did feel that way.

Whether in Augustan Rome or modern Europe, democracy all too easily gave way to totalitarianism, technology was as readily used for battle as for comfort, and immense wealth lay alongside abysmal poverty.

Lowry's lengthy reply, dated 2 January 1946, was a passionate defense of the book in which he sensed he had created a work of lasting greatness: " Whether it sells or not seems to me either way a risk.

Whether a system is open or closed dictates the way candidates run their campaigns.

" Whether or not these raucous Liverpool teens ever make it big or not, it sounds like they'll have fun along the way.

Whether all have become public I do not know, but I seriously suggest to the Government that the best way of clearing our honour in this matter is officially to publish the whole of the engagements relating to the matter, which we entered into during the war.

However, Morrison's wife later recalled, " Whether he thought of it that way or not, I think having Emily with him was a final and great comfort to Norman ... he was a powerful symbol of the children we were killing with our bombs and napalm -- who didn't have parents to hold them in their arms.

" Whether it goes one round or three rounds or 10 rounds, it will be a fight and a fight all the way.

Whether the contestants in the five weeks prior to Stempel's choreographed October 17 appearance unwittingly received the answers in " practice sessions " the way Richard Jackman described, or were openly coached the same way Stempel was, is unclear.

) However, Williamson's work may point to a quite general way to modify traditional evidentialism to make it better able to meet the challenges it faces: Whether or not one goes so far as to accept that E = K, broadening one's view of what comprises our evidence may provide a way to address many of the objections to evidentialism, especially to those disinclined to swallow skeptical consequences of a view.

Whether " Big Ed " died from his plunge over the Falls, or drowned on the way to the Falls is uncertain.

Whether or not she was just in complete denial or she really truly believed that there was a way to sleep with Mussolini and not be held accountable, I don't know.

Whether, and in what way, the distinctions between the attributes and the metaphysical essence, and among the attributes themselves have an ontological basis in the Divine nature itself was subject, which divided Nominalists and Realists, Thomists and Scotists, in the age of Scholasticism ( cf.

Whether a congregation supports the " sponsoring church " custom is one way to distinguish between the " non-institutional " and " mainstream " congregations.

Whether or not a concealment of such an asset should also be considered for prosecution as fraud and / or perjury would then be at the discretion of the judge and / or U. S. Trustee.

Whether or not a certain cycloaddition would proceed depends on the electronic orbitals of the participating species, as only orbitals with the same sign of wave function will overlap and interact constructively to form new bonds.

Whether it applies to humorous use or references to oneself is open to interpretation, since this would not be a fallacious attack against a debate opponent.

Whether the information Fuchs passed relating to the hydrogen bomb would have been useful is still somewhat in debate.

Whether the relationship included any genital component was not a matter for public discourse, but women could form strong and exclusive bonds with each other and still be considered virtuous, innocent, and chaste ; a similar relationship with a man would have destroyed a woman's reputation.

Whether the interest in these limited resources would diminish with the advent of virtual reality, where they could be easily substituted, is yet unclear.

Whether Buckland would not have applied this same denigration of Memex equally to the WWW as it flourished in its early years is unclear.

Whether the adoption of the classical Alexander for the future Alexander I of Scotland ( either for Pope Alexander II or for Alexander the Great ) and the biblical David for the future David I of Scotland represented a recognition that William of Normandy would not be easily removed, or was due to the repetition of Anglo-Saxon Royal name — another Edmund had preceded Edgar — is not known.

Whether Ptolemy would have had Pytheas ' real latitudes at that time is a much debated issue.

Whether this was intended as a drug reference was unclear, but the line would enter rock music when the song was a hit for the Byrds later in the year.

Whether the domestic courts of the Member States would be consistent in applying those letters is speculative.

Whether these poems are meant to be autobiographical is not known, although elements of other parts of Sappho's life do make appearances in her work, and it would be compatible with her style to have these intimate encounters expressed poetically, as well.

* Whether " the average person, applying contemporary community standards ", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,

Whether the perception is fair or not, it would later plague Barker's acceptance and reputation.

Whether objects heavier than the Planck mass ( about the weight of a large bacterium ) have a de Broglie wavelength is theoretically unclear and experimentally unreachable ; above the Planck mass a particle's Compton wavelength would be smaller than the Planck length and its own Schwarzschild radius, a scale at which current theories of physics may break down or need to be replaced by more general ones.

Whether it would produce this effect, or would be an idle threat, depended not so much on Gregory as on Henry's subjects, and, above all, on the German princes.

Whether or not capitalists are disenfranchised would depend upon the particular circumstances of a nation.

Whether the Gigantomachy was interpreted in ancient times as a kind of indirect " revenge of the Titans " upon the Olympians — as the Giants ' reign would have been in some fashion a restoration of the age of the Titans — is not attested in any of the few literary references.

Whether or not the story is apocryphal, it would only demonstrate the mathematical equivalence of a rotating earth to rotating spheres, as was well known to Khayyam's immediate predecessors, e. g. al-Biruni, and says nothing about heliocentrism, as a spinning earth can be made entirely consistent with geocentric models.

Whether Burns would have recognised the same principles at work in the Soviet State at its most repressive is moot.

Whether temporarily dented or not by the Credit crunch, the trend would seem likely to continue upwards, with global figures echoing American leadership.

Whether real or imagined, one party would demand satisfaction from the offender.

Whether hundreds of millions died or " merely " a few major cities were destroyed, Kahn argued, life would in fact go on, as it had for instance after the " Black Death " of the 14th century in Europe, or in Japan after a limited nuclear attack in 1945, contrary to the conventional, prevailing doomsday scenarios.

Whether a clock would actually receive continued care and maintenance for such a long time is debatable.