Put into a brief idiot's guide - which, one assumes, would be as 'pataphysically valid as any other guide - 'pataphysics is, in Jarry's words, "the science of imaginary solutions" and "the law governing exceptions".
In 1875, however, the Danish linguist Karl Verner explained the apparent exceptions to Grimm's law; his formulation of the principle governing those exceptions is known as Verner's law.
At issue for regulators, and investors, is the complicated set of rules that govern the exceptions to the usual payments from the government for specific cases.
The prize runs by its own rules, which are really just a set of guidelines – more like a surrealist parlour game where inclusions are governed by exceptions.
Building on the fact that the rules governing conversation are exception-ridden, Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher have developed techniques for formalizing discourse phenomena based on nonmonotonic logic; see Asher & Lascarides 1994, Asher & Lascarides 1997.
Consequently, the governing standard requires an exception "where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment for the preservation of the life or health of the mother," for this court has made clear that a state may promote but not endanger a woman's health when it regulates the methods of abortion: Thornburgh v.
But there was the feeling that the leadership of the U.S.O.C. as well as the various sports governing bodies, with rare exceptions, was not really committed to this.
Governing bodies are, with the exception of streamlined, strategically driven operations such as British Cycling, archaic.
For the following four decades the SED controlled all of East Germany's major institutions (with the exception of churches), governing through repressive means.
Taken together, the results suggest that in human and mouse hepatocytes PPARα has an equally important role in governing lipid metabolism with the exception of lipoprotein metabolism and to a lesser extent peroxisomal metabolism.
An exception to the length-of-marriage rule There's one more exception to the rules governing survivor benefits.
