Abstract principle

The use the triplet relationship from the outset of teaching in a range of contexts will enable abstract principles to emerge as unifying explanations in these contexts. The use of multiple contexts has been advocated, as has the use of meso-level representations in legitimating the learning of relevant concepts that are situated within such contexts, by Meijer et al. (2008). 

The abstract principle of measurement is multiplication of a continuous function by a comb function... 

In short, Dumas s chemical philosophy aimed at general abstract principles, which were identified with chemical atoms and chemical forces and it taught the history of chemistry as a guide to the progress of philosophical truth. 

In the Morse Case (7), one of the claims had been worded so that it claimed the effect—the principle of nature by which the inventor s apparatus operated—rather than the process or machinery necessary to produce the desired effect. The court ruling in this instance can be said to be no more than a ruling that the abstract principle discovered is not of itself the patentable part of invention. It is the concrete embodiment or the manner of application, either as a process or in a machine— the how to use to the benefit of mankind—which is patentable. 

Boerhaave states that some adepts claim to have seen the spirit sealed up in the sulphur of metals and fossils and that the same spirits when freed are exceedingly active, able to insinuate into any other body and of great efficacy against diseases, which was a common opinion in alchemy. Boerhaave referred to the general opinion that sulphur, or rather philosophical sulphur, was an abstract principle, an inherent constitutive element within matter. In the forming of metals, mercury was said to consist of matter, and sulphur of form. In a refined form sulphur was generally symbolised by the sun, hence the mentioning of spiritus rector as the son of the sun. Boerhaave does not discuss the alchemical notions any further. He did not deny the tmth of the matter, but since he felt that he had not mastered the subject he left it to the adepts. ... 

Reconstructive memory— Type of memory thought to store experiences by abstract principles, which are then used to reconstruct memories during recall. 

The basics of Software Testing must be understood before the more abstract principles of statistical inference are tackled. 

It comes] from the same source, and [represents] as precious a remains from the debris of the most ancient and excellent Philosophy, taught by the first Patriarchs of the world to their descendants, then corrupted and almost entirely obscured by the course of time. .. The diagram of Fo-Hi s system was as it were a universal symbol, invented by some extraordinary genius of Antiquity, like Mercury Trismegistus, to represent visually the most abstract principles of all the sciences. ... 

The Muslim alchemists adhered essentially to the Aristotelian philosophy, although they modified it in certain ways. In particular, the sulphur-mercury theory appears basically as a derivative of the theory of the Four Elements. The apposition of the two opposed, or contrary, elements, fire and w ater, now assumed a new guise. Fire became Sulphur, and Water became Mercury, These names must not be identified with the material substances, sulphur (brimstone) and mercury (quicksilver). They denoted abstract principles, composed of hot and dry (sulphur) and cold and moist (mercury) natures. In alchemical writings they were often called sophic (or philosopher s) sulphur and sophic mercury, or our ... 

Admittedly metaphysical analysis led to the same results but it gave only abstract principles, while now these same abstract principles, put into practice, are illuminated by example and fortified by success. 

In its present stage of evolution, chemistry compromises between the abstract principle and the naive pictorial hypothesis. 

The foimdations of this particular moral panic should be imderstood in terms of different levels of generality. At the lowest level, there were those peculiar to the Mods and Rockers phenomenon at the highest, abstract principles which can be applied to the sociology of moral panics as a whole or (even more generally) to a theory of the societal reactions to deviance. 

Ohlsson s bet which says that Imowledge consists of abstract principles. 

In short, there is a scarcity of ideas about how abstract principles are constracted. The classical notions of induction and deduction have some psychological reality, but neither is tenable as the main source of new principles. The hypothesis that principles arise in the resolution of cognitive conflicts has not yet been formulated precisely within the information processing framework. 

A scientific theory is the exposition of the abstract principles of a science. A science is (a body of) knowledge that has been systematised and brought under general principles. It is these general principles tliat are valuable, because they provide expert guidance to those involved in tlie specification process. We need a specification theory because these general principles (or laws, or rules) allow us to ... 

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