This type served certain religious needs and was first proposed for what was previously thought to be depictions of Apollo.

Simone de Beauvoir tries to base an ethics on Heidegger's and Sartre's writings ( The Ethics of Ambiguity ), where she highlights the need to grapple with ambiguity: " as long as philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it ... And the ethics which they have proposed to their disciples has always pursued thre same goal.

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

He later modified the philosophical thought of the School of Alexandria away from the Origenist principles such as the " entirely allegorical interpretation of the text " proposed by Origen.

She did not believe in the theory of symbiosis proposed by Simon Schwendener, the German mycologist as previously thought, rather she proposed a more independent process of reproduction.

A supplementary thought experiment with the same objective of determining the occurrence of absolute rotation also was proposed by Newton: the example of observing two identical spheres in rotation about their center of gravity and tied together by a string.

Descartes proposed that consciousness resides within an immaterial domain he called res cogitans ( the realm of thought ), in contrast to the domain of material things which he called res extensa ( the realm of extension ).

As a serious proposal, it was first suggested by mathematician John Von Neumann in the late 1940s when he proposed a kinematic self-reproducing automaton model as a thought experiment.

Gettier proposed two thought experiments, which have come to be known as " Gettier cases ," as counterexamples to the classical account of knowledge.

The legend holds that he thought the exercise proposed to him by the examiner to be of no interest, and, in exasperation, threw the rag used to clean the blackboard at the examiner's head.

They proposed – among others – that in a fully competitive economic environment ( as they thought was the case of ecosystems ) the most potent individuals would thrive and in turn society would prosper ( in analogy to the observed biodiversity and abundance of life on earth ).

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

Other theories have proposed an even more substantial input in the Early Bronze Age than was previously thought.

De Camp and Ley have claimed ( in their Lands Beyond ) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references ; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.

The response arrived on 21 February, but the proposed terms were so harsh that even Lenin briefly thought that the Soviet government had no choice but to fight.

Those that have no known relatives ( or for which family relationships are only tentatively proposed ) are called language isolates, which can be thought of as minimal language families.

The sweatshop owners were thought to have unfair bargaining power over their workers, and a minimum wage was proposed as a means to make them pay " fairly ".

File: Schrodinger. jpg | Erwin Schrödinger ( 1887-1961 ): formulated the Schrödinger equation in 1926 describing how the quantum state of a physical system changes with time, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, two years later proposed the thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat

At the time of the experiment, the atom was thought to be analogous to a plum pudding ( as proposed by J. J. Thomson ), with the negative charges ( the plums ) found throughout a positive sphere ( the pudding ).

It has been proposed, and is thought highly likely by scholars, that " Esdras B " – the canonical Ezra-Nehemiah – is Theodotion's version of this material, and " Esdras A " is the version which was previously in the Septuagint on its own.

To save the British from what he thought was a disastrous action, and to stop the war from a possible escalation, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson, proposed the creation of the first United Nations peacekeeping force to ensure access to the canal for all, and an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai.

Wernerians thought strata were deposits from shrinking seas, but James Hutton proposed a self-maintaining infinite cycle, anticipating uniformitarianism.

The idea of duality originated in a debate over the nature of light and matter that dates back to the 17th century, when competing theories of light were proposed by Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton: light was thought either to consist of waves ( Huygens ) or of particles ( Newton ).

Connections have been proposed between the wood Hoddmímis holt ( Old Norse " Hoard-Mímir's " holt ) and the tree Mímameiðr (" Mímir's tree "), generally thought to refer to the world tree Yggdrasil, and the spring Mímisbrunnr.

Young's experiment, performed in the early 1800s, played a vital part in the acceptance of the wave theory of light, vanquishing the corpuscular theory of light proposed by Isaac Newton, which had been the accepted model of light propagation in the 17th and 18th centuries.

According to the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed by Carlo Rovelli, observations such as those in the double-slit experiment result specifically from the interaction between the observer ( measuring device ) and the object being observed ( physically interacted with ), not any absolute property possessed by the object.

In fact, the Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment in 1925 was proposed specifically as a test to confirm the relativity theory, although it was also recognized that such tests, which merely measure absolute rotation, are also consistent with non-relativistic theories.

In the early 11th century, Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham ) wrote the Book of Optics ( Kitab al-manazir ) in which he explored reflection and refraction and proposed a new system for explaining vision and light based on observation and experiment.

A variant of the Schrödinger's Cat experiment, known as the quantum suicide machine, has been proposed by cosmologist Max Tegmark.

The experiment as described is a purely theoretical one, and the machine proposed is not known to have been constructed.

* An experiment involving a flu virus has been proposed.

The Creighton Mine in Sudbury, among the deepest in the world and accordingly low background radiation, was quickly identified as an ideal place for Chen's proposed experiment to be built.

In 1772 Maskelyne proposed to the Royal Society what was to become known as the Schiehallion experiment ( named after the mountain on which it was performed ), for the determination of the Earth ’ s density using a plumb line.

Eugene Wigner reformulated the " Schrödinger's cat " thought experiment as " Wigner's friend " and proposed that the consciousness of an observer is the demarcation line which precipitates collapse of the wave function, independent of any realist interpretation.

There are quantum mechanics references as well ; phenomena of non-locality, as in the EPR paradox, make appearances, and the concept of Schrödinger's Cat plays a part in helping Dirk determine Richard's mental state, Richard producing clear and rational arguments for why the experiment proposed in the theory cannot be carried out in reality.

An experiment based on flux quantization of a three-grain ring of YBa < sub > 2 </ sub > Cu < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 7 </ sub > ( YBCO ) was proposed to test the symmetry of the order parameter in the HTS.

The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin.

An experiment with rats fed a diet with 33 % sucrose has been proposed as a model for the development of metabolic syndrome.

Their consensus was that Bielek was nowhere near the ship at the proposed time of the experiment.

But an experiment in which murine corticogenesis went normally despite the malpositioned reelin secreting layer, and lack of evidence that reelin affects the growth cones and leading edges of neurons, caused some additional hypotheses to be proposed.

The experiment was proposed by Sir Joseph Banks, who recommended Bligh as commander, and was promoted through a prize offered by the Royal Society.

Laws differ from hypotheses and postulates, which are proposed during the scientific process before and during validation by experiment and observation.

Wigner's friend is a thought experiment proposed by the physicist Eugene Wigner ; it is an extension of the Schrödinger's cat experiment designed as a point of departure for discussing the Quantum mind / body problem.