This is, however, only of limited value, because the very acceptance of every entity will, to an extent we do not know, also be dependent upon the fact that its functioning is integrated into the broader smart use scheme.
They thus contend for the acceptance of particular unobservable entities and for the approximate truth of particular claims about those entities.
It is a controversial matter whether Quine was right to demand such rigorous criteria of identity as a condition for acceptance of a class of entities.
In contrast success, captured by fame, celebrity, popularity, impact or visibility, is a collective measure, representing a community's reaction to and acceptance of an individual entity's performance [6, 7].
The possible verification errors are the false rejection of the identical biometric entity and the false acceptance of the different biometric entity.
As Blackman and others point out, there's the added wrinkle that the very text of the foreign emoluments clause leaves it up to Congress, not the courts, to "consent" to a federal official's acceptance of gifts by foreign entities.
As all eyes turned to me in eager anticipation of agreement on definition, I felt a huge desire to save my credibility or, more importantly, that of my host, by confirming that "secular democracy" somehow precludes the acceptance of God as an entity.
However, the acceptance of a new disease entity is usually cautious.
Since Carnap clearly allows a philosopher who has not accepted (for pragmatic reasons) some kind of entity to attribute acceptance of that kind to another philosopher, Carnap's view would appear to be closest to the metalinguistic version of Quine's quantifier account.
With the general acceptance of black holes as real entities the astrophysics community has turned its attention to studying their behavior and properties.
