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jurisprudence

 [jo̳r″is-proo´dens]
the science of the law.
medical jurisprudence the science of the law as applied to the practice of medicine; see also forensic medicine.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

jur·is·pru·dence

(jūr'is-prū'dens),
The science of law, its principles and concepts.
[L. juris prudentia, knowledge of law]
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jurisprudence

The science of law. Medical jurisprudence is another term for FORENSIC MEDICINE.
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jur·is·pru·dence

(jūr'is-prū'dĕns)
Legal principles and concepts.
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turn, New Formalism restricts courts from inquiring into the subjective
Xi called the campaign a "thorough inspection, overhaul and cleanup" of undesirable work styles and practices such as formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance.
The textual formalism is verbalized as R : X [left and right arrow] Y.
To obtain such method we shall adapt Quantized State System, described in DEVS, for use in PLA formalism. Originally QSS method was created for solving ODE for continuous systems simulation.
While the history of aesthetics includes many formalists, some of a variety much less modest than the sort with whom Zangwill keeps company, I want to use as a baseline definition of formalism Zangwill's own.
In fact, at the beginning I hoped that the required notion of a computational state had already been made precise by the preexisting formalisms for computation theory, e.g.
His metrical formalism is applied here too, and it contributes to his argument that late Old English poetry is not a 'debased' variant of classical Old English poetry, but rather a slightly different form of verse.
In fact, museums are responsible for the rise of formalism in philosophy of art (at least in the Western context); and formalism is responsible for the origin of the modifier aesthetic that stresses the sensory aspects of experience, right from Alexander Baumgarten to Stolnitz through Lord Shaftesbuy, Francis Hutcheson, Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer: If Kant believed that by one's aesthetic attitude (disinterested perception) one would be in a position to make "correct" aesthetic evaluation, Schopenhauer and Stolintz replaced this correct aesthetic evaluation by focusing on the conditions for aesthetic experience.
It is commonly argued that the manifest success of Lorentz covariance and the spacetime formalism in Special Relativity (SR) is inconsistent with the anisotropy of the speed of light, and indeed the existence of absolute motion, that is, a detectable motion relative to an actual dynamical 3-space, despite the repeated experimental detection of such effects over, as we now understand, more than 120 years.
It is easier to teach or argue the merits of formalism because the results literally call attention to themselves and, when early film theorists were justifying the artistic aspects of this new medium, they built their case upon the formalist approach of filmmakers such as Russia's Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" (1925); its uniquely edited Odessa Steps sequence is one of the most famous scenes in cinema history.
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