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Usage examples of phenomenon.

With what passionate academicism he devoted himself to assigning phenomena their rightful places in his subtle and intricate theology!

Thus, all the while that Galileo was inventing modern physics, teaching mathematics to princes, discovering new phenomena among the planets, publishing science books for the general public, and defending his bold theories against establishment enemies, he was also buying thread for Suor Luisa, choosing organ music for Mother Achillea, shipping gifts of food, and supplying his homegrown citrus fruits, wine, and rosemary leaves for the kitchen and apothecary at San Matteo.

She took no notice of the phenomenon, so accustomed to the ways of the grove was she, but Acorn hesitated.

Coral Lorenzen, author of The Great Flying Saucer Hoax and an international director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, immediately followed through on the startling rumors by putting in a call to Terry Clarke of KALG Radio in Alamogordo, nine miles east of Holloman.

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena accuses the Air Force of doing much more than issuing official disclaimers.

The almanac at that time was a kind of periodical as well as a guide to natural phenomena and the weather.

The basic premise of Amel is that the phenomena of religion are as much amenable to science as the phenomena of nature.

Whereas Ruskin throws out a multitude of aphoristic utterances about many different aspects of nature, which will provide us with further starting-points for our own observation and thought, Howard is concerned with a single sphere of phenomena, that of cloud formation.

It was not reached by an induction of facts, a study of phenomena, or any fair process of reasoning, but was arbitrarily created to rescue a dogma from otherwise inevitable rejection.

The fact that philosophers, modelers and neurobiologists are actually listening to one another, and that computer people have at last begun to show some respect for biological as well as artefactual brains, clearly makes their analyses an advance over the earlier ones, in which Al enthusiasts tended to run away with preconceived notions of what nerve cells did, and soon cut off all meaningful contact with the biological phenomena which the neurobiologists were studying.

LTP might not be a purely artefactual phenomenon, which occurs only in animals which have been reared in the highly restricted environment of a research laboratory?

But though these references may well explain why it was in fact in such and such a determined set of circumstances and in answer to such and such a precise question that these sciences were articulated, nevertheless, their intrinsic possibility, the simple fact that man, whether in isolation or as a group, and for the first time since human beings have existed and have lived together in societies, should have become the object of science - that cannot be considered or treated as a phenomenon of opinion: it is an event in the order of knowledge.

There seems to be some sort of asymptotic phenomenon that takes over when we enlarge.

Water and atmospherics will take precedence over everything, and they are global phenomena.

Its attendant phenomena grow colorless, more forced, and one by one they fade away: Equality, Democracy, Happiness, Instability, Commercialism, High Finance and its power of Money, Class War, Trade as an end in itself, Social Atomism, Parliamentarism, Liberalism, Communism, Materialism, Mass-Propaganda.