...tific inten 63 Charles Dickens tion or invention, I was illustrating the theory of the Dual ity of the Brain; perhaps one part of my brain, being w... ...and, according to the custom in these cases, I say no more. These games of chess, played with live pieces, are played before small audiences, and are ...

...n expertise, sensor measurements, AI expert systems, neural network, quantum theory, economics predictions). One such theory, that permits the comb... ...e combination of paradoxist information, has been called Dezert-Smarandache Theory of Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning for Data Fusion (2002). ... ...e! Airline passengers, sporting spectators (and players), rally car drivers, chess Grand Masters, babies and the incontinent elderly are thought lik... ...en nothing is impossible Except the possibility of everything. Haiku: SET THEORY If the Superset containing ALL sets Cannot be said to include...

... the amount of direct evidence which can be urged in support of them. When a theory is running away with us, criticism does a friendly office in couns... ...termining his main thesis independently of remoter consequences. (3) Plato s theory of punishment is partly vindictive, partly corrective. In the Gorg... ...that education and training of which the Gorgias suggests the necessity. The theory of the many weak combining against the few strong in the formation... ...other point of view, may be thought to stand in the same relation to Plato s theory of morals which the Theaetetus bears to his theory of knowl- edge.... ...s that he cannot take the world by force two or three moves on the political chess board are all that he can fore see two or three weeks moves on the ... ...board are all that he can fore see two or three weeks moves on the political chessboard are all that he can foresee two or three weeks or months are g...

...ng with her cousin who takes care of her father. Perhaps you and I’ll play chess at night.” “At night you will go to bed, Crossjay.” “Not if I have Si... ...nd at her side. “There’s a regular girl!” said he in some disgust; for his theory was, that girls always have something the matter with them to spoil ... ...h upon the hu- man play, and mark men and women as pieces of a bad game of chess, each pursuing an interested course. His experience of a section of t... ...Christmastide, when all the servants, and the butler at head, grey old Mr. Chessington, sat in rows, toasting the young heir of the old Hall in the ol... ...hing stranger in mortal experience. The man was confounded. At the game of Chess it is the dishonour of our adversary when we are stale-mated: but in ...

...ay of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, ... ...e, on the Migrations of the Herring? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philoso phies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of A... ...ry Villains; while Councillors of State sit plotting, and playing their high chess game, whereof the pawns are Men. The Lover whispers his mistress th... ...on, symbolically, perhaps significantly enough, shadowing forth the same! Our theory begins to be that, in receiving as literally authentic what was bu... ...it takes scientific rank beside Cod ification, and Political Economy, and the Theory of the British Constitution; nay rather, from its prophetic height...

...t hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made ...

... touching insincerity of the man to his own heart; and that fine-spun airy theory of friendship, so devoid, as I complained, of any quality of flesh a... ...y to believe it, and had ended by setting it down as a contribution to the theory of life. So with the more icy parts of this philosophy of Thoreau’s.... ...wound still bled afresh, while he deceived himself with reasons. Thoreau’s theory, in short, was one thing and himself an- other: of the first, the re... ...ne would have feared to make too much of these departures, or to found any theory upon what was perhaps purely accidental. The appearance of Quatre Vi... ... sky full of birds. A room of green tapestry, showing a knight and lady at chess in a pavilion. Another green room, with shepherdesses in a trellised ... ... Mountains. The company hunted and went on pleasure-par- ties; they played chess, tables, and many other games. What we now call the history of the pe... ...nd Cooke. This was when Jehan Negre, the Lombard, came to Blois and played chess against all these chess-players, and won much money from my lord and ... ...ine both white and red.** Some- times he went by water in a barge, playing chess or tables with a friend in the pavilion, or watching other vessels as... ...th, he observed the laws of a game; and when he had no one to challenge at chess or rackets, he made verses in a wager against himself. From the very ...

... explain the miracle of his continued existence, I must fall back upon the theory of the philosopher, that in his case, as in all of the same kind, “t... ... their challenges in the sports of the body; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation. All sluggish and pacific pleasures are, to the same ... ...rdinary readiness and spirit. You can propound nothing but he has either a theory about it ready-made, or will have one in- stantly on the stocks, and... ...presence. “Let me see,” he will say. “Give me a moment. I should have some theory for that.” A blither spec- tacle than the vigour with which he sets ... ...re’s instinct”; and flying far beyond folly, have dared to resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in... ...THE ABOVE was written another novelist has entered repeatedly the lists of theory: one well worthy of mention, Mr. W. D. Howells; and none ever couche...

...n. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, us’d often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare ... ...o the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had form’d and publish’d a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at ... ...te and published a volume of Letters, chiefly address’d to me, defending his theory, and denying the verity of my experi ments, and of the positions ...