Implication - Implication This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix the link, so that it points to the appropriate page. In logic, an implication is a kind of conditional. See conditional. In pragmatics (linguistics), implication has a different meaning. In medical diagnosis and in forensics or scientific investigation of a condition, a hypothetical cause is implicated when a reason for the condition can be found, given that cause..
Implication (pragmatics) - Implication (pragmatics) In pragmatics (linguistics), implication is the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one sentence suggests the truth of the other, but--distinguishing implication from entailment--does not require it. For example, the sentence Mary had a baby and got married strongly suggests that Mary had the baby before the wedding, but the sentence would still be strictly true even if Mary had her baby after she got married. Further, if we add the qualification -- not necessarily in that order to the original sentence, then the implication is cancelled even though the meaning of the original sentence is not altered. This can be contrasted with cases of entailment. For example, The president was assassinated. does not just suggest that The president is dead. is.
Karl Pearson - the Biometric and Galton laboratories. He remained with the department until his retirement in 1933, and continued to work until his death in 1936. Pearson married Maria Sharpe in 1890, and between them they had 2 daughters and a son. The son, Egon Sharpe Pearson, succeeded him as head of the Applied Statistics Department at University College. Aside from his professional life, Pearson was active as a prominent freethinker and socialist. He gave lectures on such issues as "the woman's question" (this was the era of the suffragette movement in the UK) and upon Karl Marx. His commitment to socialism and its ideals led him to refuse an OBE (Order of the British Empire) when it was offered in 1920, and also a Knighthood in 1935. Pearson's views on eugenics, however,.
Knaster-Tarski theorem - lattice. Since complete lattices cannot be empty, the theorem in particular guarantees the existence of at least one fixed point of f, and even the existence of a least (or greatest) fixed point. In many practical cases, this is the most important implication of the theorem. For example, in mathematical logic least fixed points of functions on sets of formulas are used to compute the semantics of a logic program. Sometimes a more specialized version of the theorem is used, where L is assumed to be the lattice of all subsets of a certain set ordered by subset inclusion. This reflects the fact that in many applications only such lattices are considered. One then usually is looking for the smallest set that has the property of being a fixed point of.
Konkordiaplatz - down from the surrounding mountains. The Aletsch Glacier originates from Konkordiaplatz. The snow and ice of Konkordiaplatz is about 800-900 m deep. The name might be a subtle joke; it is equivalent to the name of the Paris Place de la Concorde, the implication being that the Swiss idea of a city square is covered with snow and at high altitude. Some glaciologists use "konkordiaplatz" to mean any place where two or more glaciers meet. The Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram has one of these..
Jean Racine - and his brother, Thomas Corneille. Tragedians often competed with alternative versions of the same plot: for example, Leclerc produced an Iphigénie in the same year as Racine (1674), and Pradon's Phèdre (1677). The success of Pradon's work (the result of the activities of a claque) was one of the events which caused Racine to renounce his work as a dramatist at that time. However, the major incident which seems to have contributed to Racine's departure from public life was his implication in a court scandal of 1679. He got married at about this time, and his religious beliefs and devotion to the Jansenist sect were revived. When at last he returned to the theatre, it was at the request of Madame de Maintenon, mistress of King Louis XIV, with the moral.
Jewish principles of faith - have been edited out. In general, Orthodox Jews view the Written and Oral Torah as the same as Moses taught, for all practical purposes. Due to advances in scientific biblical scholarship, and archeological and linguistic research, most non-Orthodox Jews reject this principle. Instead, they may accept that the core of the Oral and Written Torah comes from Moses, but maintain that the written Torah that we have today has been edited together from several documents. Conservative Jews tend to believe that much of the Oral law is divinely inspired, while Reform and Reconstructionist Jews tend to view all of the Oral law as an entirely human creation. Traditionally, the Reform movement held that Jews were obliged to obey the ethical but not the ritual commandments of Scripture, although today many Reform.
John Robbins - applied to Americans. The term "plant-based diet" can mean something different when discussing trends in a population. For example, when one says that people in rural China eat a plant-based diet, the implication is that they eat rice and vegetables most of the times and not all the time. Robbins says that plant-based diets are good for the environment, human health, and animal welfare..
Vitalism - theory of disease, which began to gain momentum in the 16th century, challenged the role of vitalism in western medicine. Attention was also drawn to the role of the various organs of the human anatomy, as opposed to vital forces, in the maintenance of life. Experiments in the early 19th century continued to erode support for vitalism in the western scientific community. As an implication of vitalism, organic compounds were thought to be only produced by living organisms, as a byproduct of the presence of the vital forces. However, as chemical techniques advanced, it was found that many of these compounds, such as urea, could be produced using the same types of chemical processes that produced inorganic compounds. Further chemical and anatomical discoveries pushed aside the "vital force" explanation, as more.
Imp - would be more likely to be mischievous than seriously threatening, and to be a lesser being rather than a greater one - an attendant on an important supernatural being. The attendants of the devil are sometimes described as imps, but this is an unusually malign usage of the term. The term carries an implication of liveliness and small stature. They are usually, but not invariably, assigned male gender. Imps are the least evil of all the Hellspawn, in common mythology and superstition. They are described as dark, shadowy creatures - while mischievous and somewhat destructive; they do not go to the extremes of, for example, gremlins or poltergeists. Imps are shape-shifters - preferring a shadow-form similar to, either, a weasel or a spider; they slink or skitter about, running from one.
Infinity - down when dealing with infinite sets. One example of this is Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel. An intriguing question is whether actual infinity exists in our physical universe: Are there infinitely many stars? Does the universe have infinite volume? Does space "go on forever"? This is an important open question of cosmology. Note that the question of being infinite is logically separate from the question of having boundaries. The two-dimensional surface of the Earth, for example, is finite, yet has no boundaries. By walking/sailing/driving straight long enough, you'll return to the exact spot you started from. The universe, at least in principle, might operate on a similar principle; if you fly your space ship straight ahead long enough, perhaps you would eventually revisit your starting point. Modern views Modern discussion.
Intuitionistic logic - for using intuitionistic logic. Indeed, if one goes for automated reasoning like in logical programming, then one obviously is not interested in mere statements of existence. A computer program is assumed to compute an answer, not to state that there is one. Thus, in applications, one usually looks for a witness for a given existence assertion. In addition, one may have moral concerns about a proof system which has a proof for ∃x P(x), but which fails to prove P(b) for any concrete b it considers. In order to formalize intuitionistic logic in a mathematically precise way, both a model theory (i.e., semantics) and an appropriate proof theory are needed. The syntax of formulae of intuitionistic logic is similar to propositional logic or first-order logic. The obvious difference is that many.
Intellectual history of time - inspired by our wonderment about the workings of our technology, as well as the new ways of interacting with our environment and eachother that technology has invoked. Some examples of this are: information theory, cybernetics, network theory, and emergence. These ideas contribute to our understanding of physics, and open up new areas of mathematical dialogue. It is important to develop a thorough understanding of how the treatment of time in physics has evolved, in order to become sensitive to the contemporary influences which direct the progress of physics today. For, as Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "No stream is large and copious of itself, but is fed and guided by so many tributary currents. So it is with all intellectual greatness: it is simply a matter of pointing the way suggested by.
Hana yori Dango - characters are normal humans, and most of the main cast are high-school students in the 10th to 12th grades (ages 16 to 18). References Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen has been cited by fans as a possible inspiration because of the similar central story of two headstrong people in love separated by class differences and clashing personalities. The series' title, Hana yori Dango (literally "Boys before Blossoms"), is a word-play of a Japanese saying, "Food before Blossoms", with the implication being that boys and romance are a necessity for living akin to eating..
Harassment - varies by jurisdiction, it is difficult to provide any exact definition that is accepted everywhere. In some cultures, for instance, simply stating a political opinion can be seen as unwarranted and a deliberate attempt to intimidate - in a totalitarian society any such statement could be interpreted as an attempt to involve someone in rebel activity or implicate them in same, with the implication that if they refuse, they are putting their own life in danger. More usually, some label such as "anti-social" or related to treason is used to label such behaviour - it being treated as an offense against the state not the person. This resembles the use of psychiatry to imprison dissidents which is common in many countries. Another example is that under some versions of Islamic Law.
Voodoo programming - using a programming device, system or language which you don't fully understand, the implication being that the end result shouldn't actually work, or you won't know why it works if it does work. It can also apply to doing something which you know shouldn't work, but actually does work, such as recompiling some code which refuses to compile the first time. The definition from FOLDOC via the Jargon File version 2.4.2 (used by permission) reads: [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] The use by guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly understand. The implication is that the technique may not work, and if it doesn't, one will never know why. Almost synonymous with black magic, except that black magic typically isn't documented.
History of Pakistan - differences with Zia over Afghan policy resulted in tensions between them. On May 29, 1988, President Zia dismissed the Junejo government and called for November elections. In June, Zia proclaimed the supremacy in Pakistan of Shari'a (Islamic law), by which all civil law had to conform to traditional Muslim edicts. On August 17, a plane carrying President Zia, American Ambassador Arnold Raphel, U.S. Brig. General Herbert Wassom, and 28 Pakistani military officers crashed on a return flight from a military equipment trial near Bahawalpur, killing all of its occupants. In accordance with the constitution, Chairman of the Senate Ghulam Ishaq Khan became Acting President and announced that elections scheduled for November 1988 would take place. After winning 93 of the 205 National Assembly seats contested, the PPP, under the leadership of.
History of Freemasonry - Royal near Chester. Initially it was no more than a rude hut in which the masons worked and possibly took their midday meal. At other sites they may also have slept in the Lodge. By 1352 there were elaborate rules governing the behaviour of the mason connected with the lodge at York Minster. These regulations are described as the "ancient customs of the masons" (consuetudines antiquae quibus cementarii). The Master and Deputy Master were required to swear an oath that the ancient customs would be adhered to. Fifty years later all masons were required to swear the same oath. We are not aware of anything esoteric about these customs; they mainly concerned rates of pay, hours of work, holidays etc. However, given the medieval obsession with mysticism it is unlikely that.
History of East Germany - socialism and restated the country's commitment to unification under communist leadership. However, the SED leadership, although successful in establishing socialism in East Germany, had limited success in winning popular support for the repressive social system. In spite of the epithet "the other German miracle," the democratic politics and higher material progress of West Germany continued to attract East German citizens. Ulbricht feared that hopes for a democratic government or a reunification with West Germany would cause unrest among East German citizens, who since 1961 appeared to have come to terms with social and living conditions. In the late 1960s, Ulbricht made the Council of State the main governmental organ. The twenty-four-member, multiparty council, headed by Ulbricht and dominated by its fifteen SED representatives, generated a new era of political conservatism. Foreign.
Hong Kong Basic Law - capitalist system and its way of life for a period of 50 years after 1997. A number of freedoms and rights of the Hong Kong residents are also protected under the Basic Law. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 General principles enshrined under the Basic Law 2 Controversial issues in relation to the Basic Law 3 External Link General principles enshrined under the Basic Law The HKSAR has a high degree of autonomy and enjoys executive, legislative and independent judicial power, including that of final adjudication (Article 2). An implication is that the former judicial recourse by appealing to the English Privy Council would no longer be available. Instead, the Court of Final Appeal was established within the HKSAR to take up the role. The executive authorities and legislature of the HKSAR.
