We assume that not every truth about a certain matter X that is metaphysically necessary, in the sense of being true in every (accessible) possible world, is essential to X. Along with most participants in the debate, we also take it that that which is conceptually necessary is metaphysically necessary, but not necessarily vice versa.
I've been told by the top brass that if the press asks about a certain matter, not to admit anything.
Focus groups afford depth and insight into a research question and are particularly useful for providing rich, detailed data about people's perceptions on a certain matter (39).
Here we might hope to appeal to Nelson Goodman's classic account of "absolute aboutness," which implies that logical truths are not absolutely about anything (1961, 256), or to David Lewis's (1988) account of what it is for a proposition to be about a certain subject matter, which implies that logical truths are about every subject matter indifferently.
In a short article published the next year 19566), Feyerabend expanded on his critique, arguing that consideration of G.E.Moore's famous "paradox of analysis" showed that "philosophy cannot be analytic and scientific, i.e., interesting, progressive, about a certain subject matter, informative at the same time" ("A Note on the Paradox of Analysis", p. 95).
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"What Koreans or Seoulites think about a certain product matters globally now," said Mr. Villinger, who also heads Seoul's Foreign Investment Advisory Council.
The mother of a six-year-old boy perplexed answering his intensive questions about certain matters at the Bronx Zoo, was heartened as she stood beside an old gentleman there who was lecturing to a small boy about the same age as her son.
From the Employee Bulletin, Dept. of State, Division of Departmental Personnel (special edition May 1952), "The following include awards made to Departmental employees since the… The mother of a six-year-old boy perplexed answering his intensive questions about certain matters at the Bronx Zoo, was heartened as she stood beside an….
The New Yorker, September 23 , 1950 P. 27The mother of a six-year-old boy perplexed answering his intensive questions about certain matters at the Bronx Zoo, was heartened as she stood beside an old gentleman there who was lecturing to a small boy about the same age as her son.
Plato, while certainly disagreeing with him about certain matters, admired him enormously.
