And if we are, why is there so much anti-American sentiment among the populations directly exposed to all this benign indispensability?
We have labelled this factor Indispensability, although it perhaps also has components of control, power and technical expertise.
Despite this limitation, indispensability under a defined laboratory condition can be a useful starting point for identifying biological processes that are likely to be crucial for the survival of an organism under natural conditions.
This book highlights the indispensability of minerals, the vulnerability of humans and issues faced by governments around the world regarding the management of natural resources.
We may still be very far from unity, but here at least is a recognition of the indispensability of this unjustly derogated value.
This is consistent with the indispensability of the methanogenic branch when M. acetivorans grows on acetate and methanol [ 30, 43].
His reasons for this restriction, however, have little to do with the indispensability argument and so supporters of this argument need not side with Quine on this issue.
Platonists who defend the indispensability argument insist that this is not possible to do (Quine 1960; Colyvan 2001a); even some nominalists concur (Azzouni 2011).
This is further underlined by the indispensability of huntingtin as revealed by the early embryonic lethality at day 7.5 of the complete knock-out of the huntingtin gene in mouse (Duyao et al, 1995; Nasir et al, 1995; White et al, 1997; Zeitlin et al, 1995).
