It is not only in the field of moral behaviour that liberalism has, or ought to have, its limits.... Quite the most fascinating programme on television at the moment is Channel 4's Child Genius, in which a collection of fanatically bright pre-teens solves mathematical puzzles and answers abstruse general knowledge questions in pursuit of a Mensa trophy.
However, most papers attack the problem by developing data pre-treatment methods which normally require abstruse mathematical knowledge, deterring engineers from applying the methods in practice.
In other words, you can increase your social status by possessing prestigious and abstruse forms of knowledge.
These letters are performances, as they were always intended to be, and there is not much separating the style of those to his wife or intimates from those to his agent or publisher... What emerges from this self-portrait is not the intellectual giant he was often thought to be – his knowledge was extensive and abstruse, but unsystematic and frequently cranky.
Instead, we see that more abstruse collective structures, such as internal knowledge, culture, or identity - that may not be quantifiable - are nevertheless significant factors in centre success.
It will inevitably be said that Malouf's novel "subverts" or "undermines" the "Iliad," but his impressive knowledge of the epic's more abstruse themes and features and their subtle redeployment belie such a rote notion; "Ransom" disavows the flip free association often seen in the modern reshaping of Greek myth.
That is, by the last third of the 18th century natural philosophy has an authoritative claim to knowledge even if it is founded on very uncommon, "abstruse" principles.
I obviously hope that I can turn abstruse stories – that talk about stuff that is beyond most people's direct experience or knowledge of the world – into riveting resonant broadcasts and articles.
He believed that useful knowledge and education come only from practical experience: as long as scholars buried themselves in books and in abstruse discourse, shunning physical activity and despising soldiery, China would continue to be weak.
