A metaphysical issue that crops up in multiverse schema that posit infinite identical copies of any given universe is that of the notion that there can be identical objects in different possible worlds.

And these sensations are the sole material of our knowledge ; but they are not given to us as a chaos but in definite groups and series, whence we come to know the relations of those reals, which, though themselves unknown, our sensations compel us to posit absolutely.

This wisdom can only be given by God, Bhagavan ( when He comes personally or as avatara ) to a qualified soul ( usually through a chain of bona-fide spiritual masters: parampara, in five vaisnava sampradayas, including that from Sankaracarya, Shiva as vaisnava as well ): demigod, human being etc., so believe the followers of the Dualist vedanta Philosophies, while the Nondual vedanta Philosophies ( e. g. Advaita, and especially mayavada ) posit that this knowledge is available to all upon enlightenment, and that even the " demigods " are but illusions.

In general humanities usage, " nomothetic " may be used in the sense of " able to lay down the law ", " having the capacity to posit lasting sense " ( from, from nomothetēs νομοθέτης " lawgiver ", from νόμος " law " and the root θη-" posit, place, lay down "), e. g., ' the nomothetic capability of the early mythmakers ' or ' the nomothetic skill of Adam, given the power to name things.

Though Wright clearly does not posit an answer to the question of struggles among economic classes — whether they be because of or in spite of natural selection — some argue it is relevant to Wright's treatment of evolution as resulting in greater and greater moral progress, and thus strangely ignored, given that Wright is the author of another book examining human morality ( The Moral Animal ).

Some analysts, such as Noam Chomsky, posit that a state of perpetual war is an aid to ( and is promoted by ) the powerful members of dominant political and economic classes, helping maintain their positions of economic and political superiority.

Eulji Mundeok ( Some Korean scholars posit that the Eulji 乙支 in his name is some form of Goguryeo rank or title ) was an educated man, skilled in both " mun " ( 문, 文 ) political and the " mu " ( 무, 武 ) military sciences.

A story will posit some new event or technology and explore its political dimensions ; this includes most techno-thrillers but also encompasses a large body of traditional science fiction.

Dimensional Accrual and Dissociation does not posit and advance a particular type of ideal person or society.

However, through one of his characters, Heinlein seems to posit near the end of his book that a true anarcho-capitalist society is inherently unattainable, and will eventually devolve into a traditional statist society.

They refer to philosophies which posit a future society in which private property is replaced by reciprocity and non-hierarchical society.

The relativists on the other hand can compare and contrast the rationality of various forms of society but are unable to take up a critical stance, because they can posit no standard of rationality outside the relative and variable content of the societies in question, which leads to absurd conclusions ( i. e., that Nazism is morally equivalent to democracy because the standards for both are relative ).

This principle is also rejected by most Reconstructionist Jews, but for a different reason ; most posit that God is not a being with a will ; thus they maintain that no will can be revealed.

Challenging Friedrich Nietzsche ’ s concept of eternal recurrence ( the idea that the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum ), the story ’ s thematic meditations posit the alternative ; that each person has only one life to live, and that which occurs in life occurs only once and never again — thus the “ lightness ” of being.

The standard equations provide for electric charges, but they posit no magnetic charges.

It has been speculated to be unexplained by standard physical models of gravitation, but recent mainstream physics publications tend rather to posit conventional explanations for the reported observations.

On the other hand, one might posit a poem which is composed by a literate scribe, who acquired literacy by way of learning Latin ( and absorbing Latinate culture and ways of thinking ), probably a monk and therefore profoundly Christian in outlook.

Through consciousness of the means of production and opposition of sexist ideologies, films made by women have the potential to posit an alternative to traditional Hollywood films.

Another approach is to accept special relativity, but to posit that mechanisms allowed by general relativity ( e. g., wormholes ) will allow traveling between two points without going through the intervening space.

Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements.

Historicism may be contrasted with reductionist theories, which suppose that all developments can be explained by fundamental principles ( such as in economic determinism ), or theories that posit historical changes as result of random chance.

16th century Alberico Gentili used historical examples to posit that positive law ( jus voluntarium ) was determined by general consent.

Certain theories posit that such an ordering alters the information state of the surrounding environment such that, for ever decreasing levels of entropy, there is a net local entropy deficit or " information moment " impressed upon the surrounding environment by the extant local information structures.

Some historians now believe that Kirov's assassination in 1934 was arranged by Stalin himself or at least that there is sufficient evidence to plausibly posit such a conclusion.

He was forced, by his extreme empiricism, to posit the existence of God in order to explain our experience of coherence, even though on an empirical understanding of raw sense data, such a conclusion did not follow.

This view is held especially by archaeologists who posit an original homeland of vast extent and immense time depth.

These arguments posit that the attacker was so enraged by their victim's advances as to cause temporary insanity, leaving them unable to stop themselves or tell right from wrong.

This led him to posit the theory that Chichén Itzá had been violently taken over by a Toltec military force under the leadership of Kukulcan.

Indeed, some novels go so far as to posit a love-affair between Matilda and Stephen, e. g. the Janna Mysteries by Felicity Pulman, set during the civil war between Stephen and Matilda.

A biological determinist would posit that such behaviours, and personality traits in general, are mediated primarily by biological factors, such as genetic makeup.

Some religions posit immanent deities, however, and do not have a tradition analogous to the supernatural ; some believe that everything anyone experiences occurs by the will ( occasionalism ), in the mind ( neoplatonism ), or as a part ( nondualism ) of a more fundamental divine reality ( platonism ).

Various traits that have been proposed to indicate past adaptation to aquatic conditions and the return to land, but generally the evidence provided for the AAH is equally well accounted for by land-based adaptations without needing to posit an aquatic phase of human development.

The novels Niobe and Pelops: Children of Tantalus, Niobe and Amphion: The Road to Thebes and Niobe and Chloris: Arrows of Artermis by Victoria Grossack and Alice Underwood, set in Greece's Bronze Age, posit another solution to the Niobids ' cause of death.

This view is supported by authors Clive James and Jung Chang, who posit that the campaign was, from the start, a ruse intended to expose rightists and counter-revolutionaries, and that Mao Zedong persecuted those whose views were different from the party's.

Geophysical studies in the early 21st century posit that large pieces of the lithosphere have been subducted into the mantle as deep as 2900 km to near the core-mantle boundary, while others " float " in the upper mantle, while some stick down into the mantle as far as 400 km but remain " attached " to the continental plate above, similar to the extent of the " tectosphere " proposed by Jordan in 1988.

There are a number of hypotheses as to why senescence occurs ; for example, some posit it is programmed by gene expression changes, others that it is the cumulative damage caused by biological processes.

It is possible to posit the existence of an oracle which computes a non-computable function, such as the answer to the halting problem or some equivalent.

But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.

Supporters of a connection posit that Thomas Jefferson, during his tour of Bordeaux in 1789, viewed Salat's architectural drawings ( which were on-file at the College ) at the École Spéciale d ' Architecture ( Bordeaux Architectural College ).

Therefore, the TAG differs from Thomistic and Evidentialist arguments, which posit the probable existence of God in order to avoid an infinite regress of causes or motions, to explain life on Earth, and so on.

Feminist thinking, on the other hand, may object to such models as patriarchal and posit against them emotionally-attuned, responsive, and consensual empathetic guidance, which is sometimes associated with matriarchies.

In 2012, D ' Souza released 2016: Obama's America, a documentary based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage, both of which posit that Barack Obama's attitude toward America derives from his father's anti-colonialism and from a psychological desire to fulfill his father's dream of diminishing the power of Western imperial states.

That which we are compelled to posit, which cannot be sublated, is that which is, and in the recognition of this lies the simple conception of being.

For example, Einstein's theory of general relativity has static solutions in which space containing a gravitational field is ( locally ) described by three-dimensional elliptic geometry, but the theory does not posit the existence of a fourth spatial dimension, or even suggest any way in which the existence of a higher-dimensional space could be detected.

Some theories posit that in far ancient times, humans had a third eye on their foreheads which provided them the ability to peer into spiritual realms.

We could posit a rule stating that creating the charge required an input of energy E < sub > 1 </ sub >= qV < sub > 1 </ sub > and destroying it released E < sub > 2 </ sub >= qV < sub > 2 </ sub >, which would seem natural since qV measures the extra energy stored in the electric field because of the existence of a charge at a certain point.

Hanslick suggests, “ Melody is the ‘ initial force ,’ the life-blood, the primitive cell of the musical organism, with which the drift and development of the composition are closely bound up .” He continues to state the both melody and harmony are “ achievement of man .” Rhythm and in particular duple meter, however, he believes is found in nature: “ It is the only musical element which nature possesses, the first we are conscious of, and that with which the mind of the infant and the savage becomes soonest familiar .” He continues to posit that music is a product of the mind, having no precursor in nature.

Waldo Vieira ( born 12 April 1932 ) is a Brazilian dentist and physician who first proposed the theories of projectiology and conscientiology, two closely related nascent sciences which posit that human consciousness is a non-physical phenomenon.

In contrast to modular mental structure, some theories posit domain-general processing, in which mental activity is distributed across the brain and cannot be decomposed, even abstractly, into independent units.

Mitroff and Silvers posit two reasons for these mistakes, which they classify as Type 3 ( inadvertent ) and Type 4 ( deliberate ) errors.

The organizations campaigning for trade justice posit this concept in opposition to free trade, the advocates of which often also claim pro-poor outcomes.

To establish its premises, dialectical monism may posit a Universal Dialectic, which is seen as the fundamental principle of existence.