In the Yajurveda, two contrary sets of attributes for both malignant or terrific (Sanskrit: ) and benign or auspicious (Sanskrit: ) forms can be found, leading Chakravarti to conclude that "all the basic elements which created the complex Rudra-Śiva sect of later ages are to be found here".
He was a contrary old man, and set in his ways, and he had done the way he wanted, not the way I wanted.
Packed with good stories and tasty quotes, "The Hawk and the Dove" is a balanced and highly readable portrait of two contrary temperaments set against the background of the cold war.Nitze was focused, outgoing and assertive; Kennan ruminative, inward and unsure.
To the contrary, 70percentt set the interval between deciding to kill themselves and acting at less than an hour, including an astonishing 24percentt who pegged the interval at less than five minutes.
That was the first cue that Ina Drew would not be offering elegant, high-minded apologias — to the contrary, she set the stage for the testimony that would follow, all of it building the theme that she had been wronged, rather than gone wrong.
It was all built out of profits from the Model T. The unprecedented scale of that success, together with Ford's personal success in gaining absolute control of the firm and driving out subordinates with contrary opinions, set the stage for decline.
Let Y a denote a subject's outcome if treatment A were set, possibly contrary to fact, to a. Also, let Z a denote a subject's counterfactual value for Z if A were set to a.
We define Y am as the potential outcome Y if, possibly contrary to fact, A were set to a and M were set to m. Similarly we may define M a as the potential mediator M if, possibly contrary to fact, A were set to a.
Recalcitrant experience thus tells us only that some belief or assumption in the total set that implies a contrary experience is false, not which one, and thus any statement can be held true, no matter what experience brings, so long as we make enough adjustments to the rest of our beliefs and assumptions.
