Neither politically, socially, intellectually, nor geographically[242] was there discontinuity or break or sudden change between the Merovingian and the Carolingian periods.
Comte laid great stress on the discontinuity found between the different kingdoms of nature, as well as within each single kingdom.
Motion of the lines of fluid; form; contraction; reversal and discontinuity of liquid veins.
Another effect of the separation of the loch into two compartments by the surface of discontinuityis to render possible the temperature-seiche.
The surface-current produced by the wind transfers a large quantity of warm water to the lee end of the loch, with the result that the surface of discontinuity is deeper at the lee than at the windward end.
Materials for the Study of Variation with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species.
Materials for the Study of Variation with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species, London, 1895, p.
These conditions cannot be consistent with sensible convection of the aether near the earth without involving discontinuity in its motion at some intermediate distance, so that we are thrown back on the previous theory.
Wherever the discontinuity between logical operations and their acts persists, all the difficulties with data have their correlative difficulties with hypotheses.
The objection that such a chapter on the conditions and genesis of the operations of knowing belongs to psychology, only shows how firmly fixed is the discontinuitywe are trying to escape.
A collateral line of inquiry relates to the degree of discontinuity which the variation manifests.
However, there is not merely discontinuity and diversity but also stability and agreement in the sphere of culture.
In this case, discontinuity was the result of cultural contact.
But it is important to note that discontinuity is a necessary feature of cultural progress.
This discontinuity of development receives strong additional illustration from a survey of special subdivisions of ancient culture.
In this respect, the discontinuity of indigenous evolution differs somewhat from that connected with cultural development due to diffusion.
As every glaciated valley which we can study in detail has been subjected to the action both of ice and of water, it is a simple deduction that the discontinuity is due to the differential action of the two.
He concludes that 'discontinuity of species results from discontinuity of variation.
This I at once attributed, and as it has since been proved correctly, to the loss of vis viva, and consequently of speed, by the discontinuity of the materials.
Bizarre though a house thus divided against itself may seem, the moral dissidence is merely an exaggeration of the moral discontinuity observable in the typical case of Mrs. Newnham.
Dirichlet's determination of the sum of the series at a point of discontinuity has been criticized by Schlafli (see Crelle's Journal, vol.
The deeper structure of the continental margin indicates a fundamental structural discontinuity at the base of the continental slope (category II provinces).
We must have a continuity in discontinuity, and a discontinuity in continuity; that is to say, we can only conceive the help of change at all by the help of flat contradiction in terms.
It is always, in fact, the mode of discontinuity once chosen that appears to us as the actually real one and that which fixes our attention, just because it rules our action.
Continuity and discontinuity will thus admit possibility of reconciliation, the one as an aspect of ascent towards the future, the other as an aspect of retrospection after the event.
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