THE idea subverts the old notion of a steady climb up the corporate ladder: Sometimes you have to go backwards in order to get ahead.
Although the satellite's transmissions were brief, they were also decisive and helped refute the notion of a "steady state" cosmology, previously proposed by Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, in which the universe was deemed constant and infinite, with a continuous creation of new matter.
Bondi came to his notion of the steady state primarily from his commitment to the philosophical components of Milne's work, most especially the methodology of rationalism plus hypothetico-deductivism; additionally, Bondi coupled to these Milnean notions some ideas taken directly from the philosophy of Karl Popper.
The male shortage after the war prompted the notion of "going steady" that was the go-to method for sexual relations until the 1960s and 1970s free love ideology came into play.
Over time, Callahan, who is forty-four, started to resemble a particular kind of seventies folk-and-country artist: a songwriter like Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson, who engaged in both pop and politics, and who helped create the notion of a steady-handed American song that was rooted in verse and chorus but was open to all sorts of subject matter.
WASHINGTON — R. A. Dickey chaperoned the Mets to a 3-1 victoverover the Washington Nationals on Thursday afternoon, solidifying the notion that his season of steady effectiveness was flowering into a full-blown renaissance.
We detail the general procedure to obtain truncated systems by identification, through equilibration, of fast and slow species, and relate the obtained reduced systems to the usual notions of quasi-steady-state and quasi-equilibrium.
Although the new condition provides critical parameter values in good agreement with the results of earlier methods, it reveals that the notion of parametric sensitivity in steady-state models considerably differs from the notion of parametric sensitivity in dynamical systems.
Thus, the Catholic philosopher Philip Quinn (1993) has adopted the old notion of creatio continuans to the case of steady-state cosmology.
