Here, then, More fully accepts the precepts of the mechanical philosophy, but he refuses to accept that Cartesianism can account for all phenomena.
The former, the philosophical Pythagoreans (including Philolaus and Archytas), were the called mathematici, and while they recognized that the acusmatici were indeed Pythagoreans by virtue of accepting Pythagorean precepts, they claimed that they themselves were the true followers of Pythagoras.
This doesn't mean you have to accept these precepts straight away, the Buddha said this himself, but you must be willing to consider them.
And he wants it to accept the precept that, although "pluralism of opinions" is permitted, "pluralism of militias" is not.
In their response to this problem, the Sadducees, on the one hand, refused to accept any precept as binding unless it was based directly on the Torah i.e., the Written Law.
And does he secretly long for the life he glimpsed through her? "I certainly don't accept the precept that everything was horrible until 1968, and then Woodstock happened and it was all OK.
However, because working with drifting FADs is difficult, accepting this precept would preclude the scientific community from providing urgently needed information to organizations charged with management of fisheries that exploit drifting FADs.
To start with, it must be noted that long before the verification principle proper entered Circle's discourse in the late 1920s, the thought expressed by Mach's dictum that "where neither confirmation nor refutation is possible, science is not concerned" (1883 [1960, 587]) was accepted as a basic precept of critical reflection about science.
But Milosevic's refusal to accept the neoliberal precepts on which the global economy is being run seem to offer a more plausible explanation as to why Bill Clinton and his then cronies in Europe insisted he must go.
But Western medicine doctors in China often look down on colleagues who practice traditional Chinese medicine, scoffing that it lacks scientific grounding, even if its precepts have been accepted by billions of people for thousands of years.
Considering that reanalysis of published data are presented solely in the context of supporting strong evidence from field data, we suggest that, contrary to well-received, accepted, and commonly used scientific precepts, the relation between MeHg oral dose and body burden expressed as human MeHg exposure through fish consumption versus Hg levels in hair may vary among certain ethnic groups.
