“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.” RealValuesNumbersEqualEssentialsBehaviorConceptsDeterminationArgumentLogicFunctionOriginalsComplexesAppreciationInsightCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningLatterQuantityImaginaryIndispensableDomainMagnitudeOntologyAnalyticsDesignationComplex Numbers Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.” BookStatesLastsUniverseConsciousnessPrinciplesVirtueStageIntellectualConceptsFunctionWaveChainsIntroducingObserversMeasurementInner LifeRefrainPsychoParallelism Author:Asher Peres
“The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.” WorldIdeasProblemWisdomPoliticsWealthEconomyProduceConceptsLaborFunctionPropertySolveEmploymentLiberalismNonsenseOwnershipBlindnessAmplifyProperty Ownership Author:Louis O. Kelso
“(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests” WorldKindArtSocialInterestCommunityChurchEventsDemandArt IsConceptsConsequenceFunctionMeetingsRewardsAtheistDrivenBelieverContemporaryAlternativesLeapArt WorldLeap Of FaithInsidersContemporary Art Author:Sarah Thornton
“Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.” MenIdeasActionEarthHumanityFightingIndividualBeliefHalfPrinciplesAtheismInfluenceEffectsConceptsAspectFunctionRefusePositive AtheismDefiniteAllegianceServitudePerniciousTheismOmnipotentThoughts And ActionsPhilosophicAbsolutism Book:Mother Earth Bulletin Source: Mother Earth Bulletin
“The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.” InfluenceConceptsPerformancesFunctionCoreMeant To BeBribe Author:Peggy Noonan
“What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.” WayExerciseConceptsFunctionClaims Author:Simon Sinek
“There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back into the earth, which is where it comes from, which are related to the whole concept of I Am. So there's that one below-surface idea, and then there's these other practical and more pragmatic ideas about how the light functions and the geometry and mathematics behind the reverberation of light from the surface outward.” IdeasWholeLightEarthCertainBehindsProjectsConceptsFunctionMathematicsGlassesSurfacePracticalsRelatedSandGeometryPragmaticReverberation Author:Tavares Strachan
“Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.” ShouldSelfGrowsImaginationSelf EsteemConflictConceptsShadowFunctionEsteemDualitySelf Concept Book:Commentaries on Living Source: Commentaries on Living
“... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.” MatterScienceKnownSubjectsTheoryDevelopmentModelsConceptsFunctionCollectionsConsideringFormalExtensionsHypothesisSubject MatterAnalogiesSuggesting Author:Mary Hesse
“The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.” ThinkingTryingPersonsIdeasMatterRunningPurposeLostPowerfulInfluenceYouthConceptsMy FamilyFunctionNo Matter WhatOddImperfectDistractedDysfunction Author:Susan Minot
“Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.” PeopleFirstsChildrenIndividualSocialMemoriesLevelsAttentionDevelopmentHigherConceptsFunctionLogicalFormation Author:Lev S. Vygotsky