"Blue Notes" has on its mind Scott DeVeaux's 1997 book, "The Birth of Bebop," which argues for an understanding of that music as a slow, organic, social and aesthetic development rather than a bolt of transgression, and John Gennari's 2006 study "Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and its Critics".
Basil Smith, in the book The Philosophy of Neo-Noir, draws a comparison with John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding which argues that conscious memories constitute our identities, a theme which Nolan explores in the film.
Eliminativism stands in opposition to reductive materialism, which argues that a mental state is well defined, and that further research will result in a more detailed, but not different understanding.
I grew up with a 'modern' understanding of tradition which argued for the unshackling of society from the fetters of traditionalism to make way for progress.
Abu Qatada is appealing against the new Memorandum of Understanding which the UK argues proves he will get a fair trial.
He has argued that the Congress that approved the 14th Amendment shared this understanding, which was also reflected in its passage of a law allowing Americans to shed their U.S. or foreign citizenship.
Lonergan argued that the act of understanding, or insight, is pivotal for the apprehension of reality, and that it implies in the long run that the universe is itself due to the fiat of an "unrestricted act of understanding," which is God.
Silman's focus is on positional understanding, without which, he argues, it is impossible for the tournament player to make significant progress.
A religious studies professor at the University of Tennessee, Baker concentrates not on the Klan's institutional dynamics but on its embrace of militant Protestantism, which she argues shaped Klansmen's understanding of their world and the threats it faced.
Highsmith was raised in the Southern Calvinist tradition (she grew up "Texas tough," in Fort Worth) which, Schenkar argues, gives her work the strong moral underpinnings that are crucial to understanding it.
In 2011, Henry Kissinger published the book "On China," in which he argued that understanding the twenty-five-hundred-year-old game, known in Chinese as wei qi, is essential to understanding Chinese thinking and military strategy.
