In the unrestricted form just mentioned, however, this principle has been found to lead to inconsistencies and hence cannot be accepted as it stands.
This "localist" theory, as it has been called, has been debated since the beginning of the 19th century and probably cannot be accepted as it stands, but the fact that it can be proposed and argued shows the dominant position that spatial relations hold in the conceptualization and verbalization of relations in other realms of thought.
This belief is not obviously confused, but the examples of heat and water seem to show that it cannot be accepted as it stands.
The entire file on the paper can be made available to the sister journal, so that in some cases the paper can simply be accepted as it stands in a sister journal; in others, authors may need to revise the paper to meet criticisms other than those bearing on the disputed point of general interest.
The four biggest political groups in parliament have said they "cannot accept it as it stands because it is not in the interests of Europe's citizens".
He could accept it as it stood, or seek an opinion on the finding at the High Court.
"We cannot accept the bill as it stands," he said.
If we accept the document as it stands, we will commit suicide -- and I will be committing suicide".
If American pressure gets Mr Rugova to accept the plan as it stands, he could be risking more than his political life.The rest of the Hill plan allows for Kosovo's police force to be run by local authorities, and to reflect the ethnic composition of the local population, which is over 90% ethnic-Albanian.
But it's hard to accept the policy as it stands as the effect of a new pupil premium within a schools budget that is keeping pace with inflation will be to recycle existing money from one school to another and create lots of winners and losers.
So we should perhaps accept that (EDX) as it stands does not really constitute a satisfactory definition of a species of existential dependence, conceived as an objective metaphysical relation between entities, because it is insufficiently perspicuous.
