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It did assert the logical possibility and the empirical plausibility of a unitary set of ex - planatory assumptions from which the empirical laws and (with the help of descriptions of “initial and boundary conditions”) even all the individual facts and events of the world could (in principle) be derived.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT FEIGL 1968
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However, closer study of the festival shows that its real theme was the ex - planatory commemoration of the lordship of Marduk, the tutelary god of Babylon, over the other Mesopo - tamian gods, together with the propitiation of Marduk who was believed to determine the fate of the state at this time for another year.
RITUAL IN RELIGION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968
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Statues of that City, which were demolished by the Latins when they took Constantinople, taken out of a MS. in the Bodleian Library; and an ex - planatory Index.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... John Nichols, Samuel Bentley 1812
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Permit us to lay down a few ex - planatory principles.
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I hope 1 am new, after this short ex - planatory chapter, at liberty to believe, that the reader is acquainted 'with the cause of Henry's arrival in Ireland, and why, without the smallest vice or blemish of mind on his part, he lost the. benefits, of all that fair fame, and unsullied repu - tation, whieh be once enjoyed in England -
the liberal critic or memoirs of henry percy conveying a correct estimate of the manners and ... thomas ashe 1812
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in india "jyotish" meaning astronomy is a science (yes it gives accurate information about solar and lunar eclipse and even planatory position) which claims that it predicts future but it requires your date of birth place of birth etc.
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a very curious Passage of Nicetas Choniat, relating to the Statues of that City, which were demolished by the Liatins when they took Constantinople, taken but of a MS. in the Bodleian Library; and an ex - planatory Index.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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