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To solve these problems, General David Petraeus and others have placed great hope in a doctrine of counter-insurgency that tempers military action with nation-building and careful community work.

Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism uphold that the belief in a doctrine of sola scriptura would most likely lead to error since the truth of Scripture cannot be distinguished from the traditions out of which it arose.

Pythagoras is presented inaccurately by Ovid as a great natural philosopher, who discovered the secrets of the universe and who believed in a doctrine of the flux of four elements.

The first is articulated in Edwards' defense of theological determinism, in a doctrine of occasionalism, and in his insistence that physical objects are only collections of sensible "ideas" while finite minds are mere assemblages of "thoughts" or "perceptions".

Thus, the particular kinds of things that could be investigated in a special metaphysics are (i) the objects of outer sense, i.e., matter, and (ii) the objects of inner sense, i.e., thinking beings, which would thus result in a doctrine of body and a doctrine of soul.

I may be exaggerating things a tiny bit, but hundreds of similar conversations have shown me that too many Christians have a strong emotional investment in a doctrine of hell they're unable to articulate, much less defend against rival interpretations.

They all hold in common a doctrine of karma (karman; "act"), the law of cause and effect, which states that what one does in this present life will have its effect in the next life.

An opponent of the humoral theory, he drew upon the atomic theory of the 5th-century Greek philosopher Democritus in advocating a doctrine of strictum et laxum the attribution of disease to the contracted or relaxed condition of the solid particles that he believed make up the body.

September 7, 1524 Baden, Switzerland December 31 , 1583Basel, Switzerland Thomas Erastus, original name Thomas Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler (born Sept. 7, 1524, Baden, Switz. died Dec. 31, 1583, Basel) Swiss physician and religious controversialist whose name is preserved in Erastianism, a doctrine of church-state relationship that he himself never taught.

Grosseteste's originality lay not in presenting a doctrine of first form and first matter.

He also assigns Aristotelian ideas to Pythagoras, in particular a doctrine of immaterial attributes with similarities to the Aristotelian categories (I 1).