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Compromises have been reached on most other vital issues and the treaties are expected to be ready for signature by mid-February.For Britain, deeply interested in the possibility of joining with the common market in a wider free trade area, the treaty is encouragingly pragmatic: it is a good deal more flexible and practical than its rather scholastic parent, the Spaak report.

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To translate Tiantai's rather technical scholastic terminology and its typically Buddhist soteriological orientation into something approaching traditional philosophical categories, we can start by identifying a few hashtag themes that are characteristic of Tiantai thinking.

Rather than reject scholastic school philosophy outright, as Thomasius had done, he modernized and systematised it (and philosophy as a whole).

Like many of his contemporaries, James devotes serious attention to determining the status of theology as a science and to specifying its object, or rather, as the scholastics say, its subject.

A virtual community unto itself, the hospital campus was designed to resemble a scholastic institution rather than an asylum.

Erasmus concluded that in interpreting the sacred text, a critical-minded grammarian could be a better exegete than a conventional theologian who specialized in resolving scholastic questions rather than in teasing out the meaning of a biblical text.

In particular, the contents of the paper bring to an end a recent scholastic and rather fruitless debate as to how the drag and buoyancy constituents have to be singled out from the total force acting on a particle of a uniform fluidized bed at steady conditions.

Rather than seeking monetary compensation from Scholastic, the co-op decided to try to influence the design and persuade the company to carve out a more ample light court from its property-line wall.

What arrives at our faculty of thinking from the senses is not ideas such as we form them in our thought, as the scholastic empiricists held, but rather only various particular motions emitted by external objects.

That is, a pedagogic approach, which is planned, strategic, scholastic, and experimental, or rather, practice-based in which an individual is 'fully aware of the available resources and can be reflexive all the way through until a secondary habitus is constructed' (2014, p. 1533).

There is a striking contrast between the oligopoly of those sheep traders who profit from enclosures in England and the Utopians' belief that they are the cultivators (agricolae) of their land rather than proprietors (domini); it echoes the scholastic distinction between usus, simple use, and dominium, the right of disposal which underlies European ideas of property.

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