Hence, after showing that creationism is in some respects similar to some doctrines from the early 18th century, one author maintained that "if such an activity was describable as science then, there is a cause for describing it as science now" (Dolby 1987, 207).
It was composed of several kingdoms loosely describable as feudal.
The Incarnation implied that God had become man i.e., fully visible and, thus, describable in his human nature.
By ingenious geometric arguments, he showed that planetary orbits in the restricted three-body problem are too complicated to be describable by any explicit formula.
He first solved (1924 25) certain vexing difficulties in the theory of atomic spectra by the introduction of a new quantum number a quantity that was later called spin but that Pauli, in accordance with his philosophical rejection of visualizable models, called "a two-valuedness not describable classically".
Another Australian materialist, D.M. Armstrong, held, on the other hand, that colours are as a matter of fact properties of objects, such properties being of the sort describable in the theoretical terms of physics.
Abstract painting was unsatisfying, flat, barren, describable only in terms of itself.
Many creative people attain their goals by following special strategies that are not neatly describable.
In this view, primary qualities, such as shape, quantity, and motion, are genuine properties of things that are describable by mathematics, whereas secondary qualities, such as odour, taste, sound, and colour, exist only in human consciousness.
Quantitative change remains describable in terms of assimilation (or discrimination) of entities, but these processes will be substantial changes as far as the assimilated or dissimilated and segregated entities in the process are concerned (see esp.
