The generic account shows that under a set of reasonable assumptions, the retrenchments belong to the class of neat, default retrenchments.
The view that computation is information processing in this sense is similar to a generic semantic account of computation.
One challenge is to find the best route in Google Maps, one is to tweet something (from a generic Twitter account tied to the game), one is to look up artists on Last.fm, etc.
Yet he adopted as his own the project of finding a unitary account of pleasure that would fit the teleological metaphysics and intellectualist value theory he inherited from Plato — and also Plato's strategy of giving a generic formal account that allows for specific variation.
In the present work, the critical conditions for the onset of inter-layer sliding are investigated by defining the limit domain for wire slipping (the domain of "admissible values" for the axial force of a generic wire, accounting also for the contribution due to bending of the strand).
That includes prolific (and real) Twitter users such as Tim O'Reilly himself, but also other accounts related to the publishing and event company, such as O'Reilly Radar's Brady Forrest (@brady), authors like Sean Power (@seanpower) and generic accounts including @w2e (for the Web 2.0 Expo) and @gov2events.
But as soon as the new look kicks in, users will be able to register with a generic e-mail account and join a group associated with one of 500 cities and towns, whether or not they live there.
In order to resolve these inconsistencies, we added for each of them a generic transport reaction accounting for A. baylyi's ability to utilize these compounds (see Table 2).
The cognitive significance ascribed to a generic name, on this account (corresponding to its character), is the same as that ascribed by metalinguistic descriptivists (on their account, corresponding to its intension).
Craver (2007) argues that such a generic notion fails to account for the relevance of different causal interactions for different mechanistic decompositions; what counts as a part of a mechanism can only be defined relative to some prior decision about what one takes the mechanism to be doing.
