Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nevertheless be sure that our world of seeming things in space and time must conform to rigid laws, such as the law of causation. For our active understanding, in thinking our world, is bound by its own nature, in order to preserve as it were our very sanity (or, as Kant would say, the Unity of our self-consciousness), to regard all observed facts as conforming to laws. Yet these laws of Nature, which science studies, are the very creation of our own understanding acting upon the data of our senses. Such laws are not the laws of an unknowable...
...specially noteworthy characteristics are, in addition to its general interest in outer nature: (1) Its belief that the whole order of nature is subject to rigid laws of a mechanical type; (2) Its faith in the power of the human reason to know absolute truth; and (3) Its fondness of mathematical methods in Philosophy...
...umpires and referees in football contests shall be of the requisite age and character to insure a rigid enforcement of the rules of the game. For any misconduct which under the now existing rules would disqualify a player from further participation in a particular contest, the opposing team shall receive points, the number thereof to be determined hereafter by the Football Conference committee...