For many of those who knew Mr. Froistad through the ether, his unbidden declaration is testimony to cyberspace's singular capacity to invoke trust among strangers.
Last year, in the Guardian, I wrote about the discovery of Exxon's secret climate documents, saying: "it seems crucial simply to say, for the record, the truth: this company had the singular capacity to change the course of world history for the better and instead it changed that course for the infinitely worse".
Mental properties are accorded an ineliminable and (given Anomalous Monism) irreducible explanatory role by virtue of their singular capacity to make intelligible the occurrence of other mental properties through the sui generis relation of rationalization.
These include the rapid exploration of its environment through flexible phenotypic shifts, unusual longevity, re-connection with its evolutionary path, and its singular capacity to elude the normal cellular checkpoints that constitute the regular orderliness of cellular life.
"[T]his company had the singular capacity to change the course of world history for the better and instead it changed that course for the infinitely worse," McKibben wrote.
It also has a singular capacity for irony and self-reflection that is both cultural habit and survival tactic.
Neil Postman, writing a couple of decades ago, warned of a growing tendency to view people as computers, and a corresponding devaluation of the "singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions".
Above all, someone through whom he could stoke his singular capacity for obsession.
Studies have indicated that East Africans do not possess a "running gene" that gives them a singular edge; all élite long-distance athletes have favorable biomechanics and a strong capacity to utilize oxygen.
Over the past decade NMR spectroscopy has proven to be singular in its capacity to provide detailed structural characterization of these dynamic entities (Eliezer, 2009).
They have an extraordinary capacity to survive.
