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Still, tradition has a short memory, so while the most influential version of the Cinderella story is probably the 1697 text by Charles Perrault, this new telling owes more to Disney's own 1950 animated adaptation.

According to an influential version of the primary creation myth, found in the Agganna-sutta, certain brahma deities whose abode was above the destruction begin as the waters that are left from the old cataclysm start to coagulate below them to savour the taste of the matter that constitutes these lower strata.

One influential version of the idea that the contents of perception are analogous to the contents of a newspaper story holds that the contents of an experience are given by the conditions under which it is accurate.

Perhaps the most influential version of this claim came in Thomas Kuhn's suggestion that, "what a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see" (1962/1970, 113), a suggestion with some foundation in "New Look " psychology (e.g. Briner, Postman, and Rodrigues 1951).

An influential version of this view suggests that, where cutting is practised, families must match the local norm to ensure good marriage prospects for their daughters.

Probably the most influential versions of the moral argument for belief in God can be traced to Kant (1788 [1956]), who famously argued that the theoretical arguments for God's existence were unsuccessful, but presented a rational argument for belief in God as a "postulate of practical reason".

In the most influential version of casuistry practiced today, as articulated by Albert Jonsen (1995), moral principles or generalizations provide this sense of direction.

As already noted, the most famous and perhaps most influential version of a moral argument for belief in God is found in Immanuel Kant (1788).

Strawson (1919 2006) introduced an influential version of compatibilism grounded in human psychology.

His account of Peter Brook's influential version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is, however, an entertainingly defensive justification for his unfavorable review.

The 20th century was very much the century of legal positivism: the two preeminent figures in the philosophy of law, the Austrian-born jurist Hans Kelsen (1881 1973) and the English legal theorist H.L.A. Hart (1907 92), both developed influential versions of a positivist theory of the nature of law.