From a philosophical point of view, what makes the brain special in comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure that generates the mind.

Although this field remains largely confined to science fiction, the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life makes the question of alien language a credible topic for scientific and philosophical speculation.

There will be an attack on institutionalized religion for the responsibility that it had in the past on negative developments, for its irrationality which makes it a counterpoint of philosophical and scientific progress.

Specifically, they claim that Sartre makes metaphysical arguments despite his claiming that his philosophical views ignore metaphysics.

Experimental philosophy is a form of philosophical inquiry that makes at least partial use of empirical research — especially opinion polling — in order to address persistent philosophical questions.

Yet this art angers Guildenstern to the point where he strikes the Player because this theater makes it seem as if there are definite answers to all of Guildenstern's philosophical question.

Another criticism of the book, made by the philosopher Mary Midgley in her book Evolution as a Religion, is that it discusses philosophical and moral questions that go beyond the biological arguments that Dawkins makes.

The logical and structural nature of mathematics itself makes this study both broad and unique among its philosophical counterparts.

Major themes include: self-reference in memes, language, art and logic ; discussions of philosophical issues important in cognitive science / AI ; analogies and what makes something similar to something else ( specifically what makes, for example, an uppercase letter ' A ' recognisable as such ); and lengthy discussions of the work of Robert Axelrod on the prisoner's dilemma and the idea of superrationality.

Abt Vogler, however, makes reservations in his praise, condemning his philosophical principles as too much in sympathy with those of Fux, which had already been expressed by P. Vallotti.

To know this he suggested makes a " vital part in a philosophical theory.

Logical analysis is the method of clarification of philosophical problems ; it makes an extensive use of symbolic logic and distinguishes the Vienna Circle empiricism from earlier versions.

Roger Zelazny ( or possibly one of his doppelgängers ) makes a cameo in his own novel as " Roger " — a cadaverous, grinning, pipe-smoking guard in Amber's dungeon who is presently writing a " philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity.

The transformation, or " becoming ," provides them with a limited form of genius which makes them very inventive, but does not provide any philosophical or ethical insight.

There will be an attack on institutionalized religion for the responsibility that it had in the past on negative developments, for its irrationality which makes it a counterpoint of philosophical and scientific progress.

Short-distance divergences in condensed matter physics do not present a philosophical problem, since the field theory is only an effective, smoothed-out representation of the behavior of matter anyway ; there are no infinities since the cutoff is actually always finite, and it makes perfect sense that the bare quantities are cutoff-dependent.

He makes a philosophical pronouncement, then says " Gotcha!

His work, which attempts a synthesis of the seemingly divergent strands of Indian and Chinese Buddhist doctrine, makes use of the essence-function ( 體用, or che-yong ) framework, which was popular in native East Asian philosophical schools.

Marx builds off of four contributions Hegel makes to our philosophical understanding.

* Challenger makes a guest appearance in the 3rd Plateau of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's post-structuralist philosophical text A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, in which he gives a lecture.

Streator soon makes the connection and begins a quest to rid every library and home of the culling song, which at first seems to be a philosophical journey to do what is ultimately right.

This question avoids the difficult philosophical problem of pre-defining the verb " to think " and focuses instead on the performance capacities that being able to think makes possible, and how a causal system can generate them.

It is possible to find out in which categories most of her correct statements fall, and where she makes most of her `` hits ''.

By encouraging clarity on the active subject that " does " or wants or believes something, and disallowing passive constructions about the state of affairs ( a common use of " to be "), E-Prime makes it more difficult to hide assumptions in statements about The Other or equivalent constructions such as " they " or " most people " or " the public " or " the taxpayer ".

' It makes exceptions for cases of statements of truth, and subjects of public debate and religious doctrine.

The Apostles ' Creed makes no explicit statements about the divinity of the Son and the Holy Spirit, but, in the view of many who use it, the doctrine is implicit in it.

Ruby has been described as a multi-paradigm programming language: it allows procedural programming ( defining functions / variables outside classes makes them part of the root, ' self ' Object ), with object orientation ( everything is an object ) or functional programming ( it has anonymous functions, closures, and continuations ; statements all have values, and functions return the last evaluation ).

Defamation — also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander ( for transitory statements ), and libel ( for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words )— is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation a negative or inferior image.

Mill's view was widely criticized, because it makes statements like " 2 + 2 = 4 " come out as uncertain, contingent truths, which we can only learn by observing instances of two pairs coming together and forming a quartet.

Ramsey is portrayed to be conservative, and he always makes politically incorrect statements supporting the use of force to quickly end problems ( but the way he puts it is always funny instead of malicious ).

The next day, Chief Inspector Hubbard questions the Wendices and Margot makes several conflicting statements.

Since the parsing algorithm makes intelligent use of layout ( indentation ), there is rarely a need for bracketing statements and no statement terminators are required.

Nietzsche in the same passage ( Part I, section 5 ) makes some of his most controversial pronouncements, wondering for instance if "... the conqueror and master race, the Aryan, is not succumbing physiologically ," to a " dark, black-haired aboriginal " race of pre-Aryans It is a matter of scholarly debate whether or not Nietzsche intended such statements to be understood literally or figuratively and similarly there may be doubts about whether or not Theognis advocated eugenics or social selection when making such statements as this:

Leviticus makes similar statements about menstruation ( 15: 19 – 24 ) and childbirth ( Leviticus 12 ).

This means that any statements the person makes, with regard to their field of expertise, will have the burden of proof in their favor.

In 1912 Émile Durkheim, building on Feuerbach, considered religion " a projection of the social values of society ," " a means of making symbolic statements about society ," " a symbolic language that makes statements about the social order "; in short, " religion is society worshiping itself ".

Like other definitions of theories, including Popper's, Kitcher makes it clear that a theory must include statements that have observational consequences.

Participation in the program makes no requirements of the invitees to make statements, form opinions or maintain any further relationship with JINSA, yet many trip alums have participated more than once, and 50 past participants co-authored a statement on violence in the Palestinian-controlled territories that appeared in the New York Times in October 2000.

His statements appears as " My decision to put my family in first hand makes it impossible to keep on touring and commit to the band full time.

This conjunction of statements in the Catechism makes it clear that the Catholic Church sees the dogma " outside of the Church there is no salvation " as the basis for the missionary activity of the Church, because those who are innocently outside the Church but are also seeking to follow the will of God are thus the proper object of the Church's missionary activity-so as to bring them explicitly the saving truths of the Christian Faith which they are seeking, and by which God desires to effect their salvation through the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Following this, the candidate makes a public profession of faith before the congregation, thereby " confirming " the statements made by his or her parents during baptism.

Others are statements whose ambiguous nature makes them potentially appealing to different audiences who may interpret them in particular ways and circulate them.

He is happy being a lieutenant with the homicide department, and often makes statements about his lack of ambition.

In season 6 episode The Big Cheese, the third-to-last of the series, Rockford gets a degree of revenge when Chapman inadvertently makes incriminating statements about his tax evasion in front of an undercover IRS agent that is with Rockford.

The database also contains information on the emotional content of situations, in such statements as " Spending time with friends causes happiness " and " Getting into a car wreck makes one angry ".