Certain school subjects were thought to have particular value as agents for exercising certain faculties.
The scientific and materialist component was phrenology: the belief that minds come equipped with certain "faculties" (twenty-seven of them, according to the founder of phrenology, Franz Josef Gall), such as veneration, acquisitiveness, secretiveness, hope, combativeness, linguistic perception, form conception, size conception, and so on.
Christian apologist and philosopher Alvin Plantinga, a supporter of intelligent design, has formalized and revised the improbability argument as the evolutionary argument against naturalism, which asserts that it is irrational to reject a supernatural, intelligent creator because the apparent probability of certain faculties evolving is so low.
"Intimidation at Columbia" conflates two different issues under the rubric of intimidation: charges that certain faculty members have behaved in an unprofessional manner toward students, and the ideas of those teaching Middle Eastern studies at Columbia.
Mr. Fletcher, who was fired by the festival in October and rehired in November, said that he and Mr. Zinman had disagreed about certain faculty cuts made in response to the recession last year.
On this week's podcast, Aviv joins Sasha Weiss, the literary editor of newyorker.com, to discuss how certain faculty members at Parks justified their decision to cheat, how high-stakes testing affects teachers and schools throughout the country, and how her background in writing about mental health connects to her interest in Parks's story.
According to former Dean Paul MacAvoy, the feeling among certain faculty members was that the corporate abuse problems of the 1980s had been largely resolved.
Reflective endorsement theorists Korsgaard gives Hume and Butler as examples substitute the question, "are the claims of our moral nature good for human life?" for the question, "are moral claims true?" They identify a certain faculty for approval or disapproval as giving force to moral claims, and then ask whether, on reflection, we can approve of that faculty of approval itself.
Burley now distinguishes a four-fold way in which something can be considered the first object of the intellect: by origin, by proportion, by intrinsic perfection, and by exclusion (primitate exclusionis) — the latter being the way a determinate object can be known by a certain faculty and by that faculty alone, excluding all others.
To the best of our knowledge, no previous research explored this difference, but the Digimeter (Vanhaelewyn & De Marez, 2016) indicated that Flemish media and technology consumers can be grouped into segments or media profiles.1 It can be hypothesized that students from a certain faculty rather belong to a certain media profile.
He enrolled in the medical faculty but when a student strike disrupted studies after the founding missionaries barred certain faculty members from teaching Darwin, Jurji's mother lent him money, and he took a boat to Egypt.
