Finally, there is no absolute limit to the use of descriptiveterminology in the case.
If I have failed to understand Lord Avebury, perhaps his somewhat indeterminate terminology may plead my excuse.
But in a subject like economics obscurity and an awkward terminology are not marks of scientific merit.
In fact, however, the distinction is formal, and, though convenient in the terminology of elementary logic, cannot be strictly maintained.
Facts have accumulated enormously since the time of Darwin, a more thorough knowledge has brought about distinctions, and divisions at a rapidly increasing rate, with which terminology has not kept pace.
Different readers may associate different ideas with the same terms, and unfortunately this is the case with much of the terminology of the science of heredity and variability.
The poetic terminology of selection by nature has already brought about many difficulties that should be avoided in the future.
Putting this in the terminology of to-day, and limiting it to the occurrence of only [295] one differential unit in the parents, we may give it in the following manner.
In this terminology the character of the species is dominant in the hybrid while that of the variety is recessive.
Our terminology is an awkward one; it practically assumes, as it so often does in other cases, a conventional understanding, not exactly corresponding to the simple meaning of the words.
He lived in an unscientific age, before our present exact terminology was coined.
His terminology and symbolism were as old as mythology, and were the warp and woof of the nature philosophies and the alchemy of his day.
They rejected theological language and terminologyroot and branch.
Polycarp, who seems to have written about that time,[550:3] still uses the terminology employed by the apostles.
In the Peshito version of the New Testament, executed probably in the former half of the second century, [421:3] the same terminology prevails.
What folly, then, to dream of mapping out our minds in however general terms, of providing for the endless mysteries of the future a terminology and an idiom!
From a consideration of the terminology both of the Greeks and Romans, it appears that they sometimes employed general for specific terms, and vice versâ.
This description is suffered to remain because it accounts for the terminology employed throughout.
But, after all, the terminology of colours which has been introduced in mineralogy, is open to many objections.
The mother of the curly-headed pianist, the illiterate wife of a baker, first wore out my patience and then enlisted my interest by a torrent of musical terminology which she apparently had picked up from talks with her boy's piano-teacher.
This was in accordance with the grammatical terminology of those days "I know," I replied in my wretched English, "but what is the difference between these two tenses?
So here's letting the cat out of the bag: The policy of the Citizen has long been to devote its columns mainly to the exploitation of what is known in newspaper terminology as "the local story.
Another important result of our study of the terminology of relationship is that it helps us to understand the proper place of psychological explanation in sociology.
I will give only one instance to illustrate how a belief in the dependence of the terminology of relationship on forms of marriage might act as a stimulus to research.
From that I was led to refer the general features of the classificatory system to the dependence of this system upon the social unit of the clan as opposed to the family which I believe to be the basis of our own terminology of relationship.
The nature of these changes and their relation to the general cultures of the peoples who use the different forms of terminology show that the transitions are to be associated with a progressive change which has taken place in Oceania.
These features show, either that the terminology has arisen in some other way, or that there has been some additional social factor in operation which has greatly modified a nomenclature derived from the cross-cousin marriage.
The second feature of Melanesian terminology which I have mentioned helps us to understand how the common nomenclature has come about.
The Oceanic terminology of relationship has two features which enable us to study the exact nature of this process in more detail than is possible with our own system.
This mode of distribution of the peoples whose terminology of relationship bears evidence of the cross-cousin marriage suggests that other intermediate links may yet be found.
The result of the complete survey has been to justify my use of the classificatory system as the means whereby to demonstrate the dependence of the terminology of relationship upon social conditions.
We could therefore add to the terminology this idea of a minute localization and call it a Centre Asthenia.
One objection to this is that the weakness is by this terminology lacking in localization.
Fortunately, this Latinized terminology has been largely adopted and incorporated into the English technical language of botany, thus securing precision.
Terminology supplies names of organs or parts, and terms to designate their differences.
The name of Coleridge was spoken with profound reverence, his books were studied industriously, and the terminology of transcendentalism was as familiar as commonplace in the circles of divines and men of letters.
These categories, as they were called, after the terminology of Aristotle, were supposed to exhaust the forms of conception.
Each process may arise out of either of two distinct operations; but the terminology is based on the processes, not on the operations to which they belong, and the latter are not always clearly understood.
For agreement with the terminology of fractional numbers (S 62) we shall describe such a quantity as a mixed quantity.
To fall back upon the terminology of music, these may be glimmerings of light-symphonies.
There is no physical relation between music, poetry, and light, but it is easy to lean upon the established terminology for purposes of discussion.
In order to simplify the discussion of lighting the home the terminology of electric-lighting will be used.
His Latin, without enslaving itself to Ciceronian types, and with a free infusion of barbarous but most convenient words from the vast and ingenious terminology of the schoolmen, is singularly forcible and expressive.
Even in regard to her terminology we must make one important reservation; for Christianity laid all stress on the personality of God and man, of which Hellenism had thought but little.
They are developments only in the sense that they represent the apostolic teaching worked out into formulas by the aid of a terminology which was supplied by Greek dialectics.
Over such a process the terminology of Roman law can have exercised little influence; at most, a few Latin law terms in a transmuted shape have made their way into metaphysical language.
