A simile, a figurative comparative statement, is simply a comparison that manifestly requires and therefore routinely receives this kind of adjusted truth-conditional interpretation.
As the claimed benefits for Debrisoft® were all comparative statements, only evidence with comparators was evaluated.
Against such a position, an objectivist may ask why we should think objective goods are incommensurable: If X and Y are both objectively good, then why not say that the statement 'X is better than Y' (or a more restrictive comparative statement specifying respects or circumstances) is objectively true or false, even if this is difficult to know?
Rep. Paul's comparative statement -- implying that the markets were tougher regulators than the regulators -- fails on two bases.
As phenotypic descriptions are often comparative statements with respect to a reference model, either a model of normality, a control group, another organism or similar, we can exploit these descriptions to record phenes that characterize deviations from such a reference model.
At even higher spatial resolutions, resilience assessments at local levels face the challenge that existing secondary source data often are not available at the resolution needed to generate comparative statements for various households or areas within a municipality.
A five-point Likert-type scale was used to score the closed comparative statements.
Only by studying a variety of childhood adversities in the same sample can we make comparative statements about their impact in the short and longer term.
Furthermore, ferns are the sister group to seed plants (Pryer et al. 2001) and evolutionarily comparative statements about seed plant genomes would benefit from comparisons with a fern genome.
Second, the questionnaire was modified with close comparative statements with five-point Likert-type scale; this may be considered a bias as the public have limited place for their expression.
