For 'Abd al-Latif, as for al-Farabi's Plato, philosophical research begins with an investigation of what constitutes the perfection of man as man, which does not consist of a healthy physique, a pleasant face, noble descent, a large group of friends and lovers; nor does it consist in riches, glory, or power, since none of this is able to make man fully and truly happy.
Our understanding of a text does not consist in a faithful adoption of the predominant or authorized readings of the time.
This is because a calendar year does not consist of a whole number of weeks.
Should our random graph ensemble produce a graph that does not consist of a single connected component, then we may apply Lemma 1 to each isolated component of the graph separately.
On the other hand, even the trial-and-error behaviour of an animal in a simple selective-learning situation does not consist of a completely blind and random sampling of the behaviour of which the learner is capable.
The judgment that a being is human and therefore must be treated respectfully does not consist of a value-neutral biological classification and an argument that establishes the moral status of beings so classified.
One approach is to give up on resolution recovery, and assume that the object does not consist of a collection of point sources, but of a collection of blobs, where the blob is designed to be similar to the PSF.
Yet it has been argued that molecular biology as the reducing theory does not consist of a small body of laws, so that a covering-law model of explanation and reduction is not applicable (Culp and Kitcher 1989, Kitcher 1984, Sarkar 1998).
In contrast to most other materials, the molecular structure of glass does not consist of a regular geometry of crystals, but of an irregular network of silicon and oxygen atoms with alkaline parts in between.
According to Croce, the work of art does not consist in a physical event or object but rather in a mental "intuition," which is grasped by the audience in the act of aesthetic understanding.
