All radios today are software defined, but their agility is not yet adequate; that will take five years or longer.
This seems to contradict Spinoza's claim that the finite mind can have adequate, that is, perfect knowledge of God's essence (2P47).
According to him, social scientists develop constructs, ideal types, of the meaning-contexts of life-world actors, and they test these types to determine if they are causally adequate, that is conforming to past experience, and meaning adequate, that is, consistent with whatever else is known about the actor.
His constructive empiricism holds that the aim of science is not to find true theories, but only theories that are empirically adequate: that is, theories whose claims about observable phenomena are all true.
The concept of provability in T, and thus the concept of T's consistency, is then said to be "intensionally adequate," that is fully expressive of the notion of consistency involved.
This is the thesis, defended by Bas van Fraassen in his 1980 book, The Scientific Image, that the aim of science (or at least "pure" science) is the construction of theories that are "empirically adequate" (that is, that yield a true or correct description of observables) and not, as scientific realists suppose, theories that aim to tell literally true stories about unobservables.
If you are going skiing then choose something that compliments that and is adequate to that particular activity.
"The only way we can make sure this continues is that supply is adequate, and that won't happen if these airports continue to be sold off".
A television-quality tape is adequate for that purpose.
There will be plenty for everyone and my style is adequate to that.
But there are also adequate sites that can be found, when countries cannot meet their energy needs in other ways".
