So popular was the craze for composition that formal and informal poetic competitions were common among the aristocracy; careers and even love affairs depended on one's skill at versification.
That tropes, in spite of their simplicity, can play the role of states of affairs, depends on the fact that universals combine two theoretical roles, only one of which is fulfilled by tropes.
But this is so only if one appeals to the very strong form of theological voluntarism on which all normative states of affairs depend on God's will.
What originally troubled me is that the decision to aggressively move forward on the Clemens-Brian McNamee affair depends on who wants to press the case.
He knows he can't simply do what he wants, however, and, as the young golfer departs and Marly takes up with the landscape designer, their affair depends on their both feeling a little defeated.
There is nothing in our intuitive notion of states of affairs that justifies the assumption that states of affairs depend for their unity on the existence of a language in which they are described.
But Mr Blair's use of Britain's military prowess to help it "punch above its weight" in world affairs depends largely on being able to tag along with someone else's army.Mr Blair's is not the first British government to pursue such an approach.
The choreography, however, proved a trite and dull affair, depending largely on the dancers intertwining each others' scarves.
