Almost four years ago, when I got the idea for SLAP'D, Surviving Life After A Parent Dies, it was with the relatively clear cut hope of creating an organization that would help teens who had lost a parent.
In some situations the decision task may be relatively clear cut, objective diagnostic measures may be available for the assessment along with strong, evidence based guidelines for clinical management.
The ethical problems with the various small creatures we stuff into cages and tanks are relatively clear-cut.
And the government bureaucracies of nationalized industries helped mobilize and coordinate the resources necessary for the relatively clear-cut tasks associated with catch-up growth.
In truth, there is no reason why China's growth should not benefit Japan rather than harm it.The issue for the trailing geese that is, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines is also relatively clear-cut.
Some are relatively clear-cut: east versus west; imperial homeland versus infiltrating colonist; pacifism versus martial clangour (from the outset most of the action is contingent upon the war); rationalism versus faith (Hardy is a God-disdaining atheist, apparently visited by the ghost of a dead lover, while Ramanujan supposedly dreams his theories with the help of the Hindu goddess Namagiri).
As the situation in Syria developed from a relatively clear-cut case of an autocratic regime spying on its people to the multi-actor civil war the country finds itself in now, it became harder and harder to know that any individual blog post wasn't just going to help the wrong people.
This is also the case in "The French Window (Morning at Le Cannet)," in which the vivid landscape framed in a darkly shadowed door contrasts with the relatively pale hues of the interior and the relatively clear-cut figure of Marthe, toying with something at the table while Bonnard, reflected in a mirror, sketches her.
A relatively clear-cut account of the sort that Quine gives of observation sentences is simply not available.
This lack of clarity is partly because knowledge work involves more diverse and amorphous tasks than do production or clerical positions, where the relatively clear-cut, predictable activities make jobs easier to automate or streamline.
As a context moves into a phase of conflict, humanitarian organizations must decide whether or not a humanitarian crisis exists, but as a critical mass of red flags typically exists in a context of war, this analysis is relatively clear-cut.
