He used the pragmatic rule in his polemic against monism and the "block universe," which held that all of reality is of one piece (cemented, as it were, together); and he used this rule against internal relations (i.e., the notion that you cannot have one thing without having everything), against all finalities, staticisms, and completenesses.
"It seems to me that the Professor, for all the fine finality of his judgments, lacks the daring scope of Tounbee, the majesty of Namier, the incisive with of A. J. P. Taylor, the taste of Miss Wedgewood, the humanity of Trevelyan, or the charm and modesty of Dr. A. L. Rowse.
The environmental analysis is not a finality in itself: the various environmental components must be linked with all the impacts (actual or potential, direct or indirect) that human activities exert on the environment.
"Remove those men, and their ideas — which, after all, had no finality — would disappear".
''Remove those men, and their ideas — which, after all, had no finality — would disappear".
"Why is finality all of a sudden so sacred that you're depriving victims of a fraud from access to their assets?" he asked.
Still, there it was, in all its bleak finality, in a summary on Wikipedia: "David McKie (1935 – 26 August 2011) was a British journalist and historian".
Dad-dancing, forgetting lyrics and muddling his lyric sheets like a doddery rock champion, Daltrey sweeps all sense of finality, tribute or po-faced reverence from the evening and lifts it towards a tearless celebration, a lock-in at the last chance saloon.
It will have already decided the matter, with last summer's Windsor ruling, which the lower courts are all citing in their decisions — and may have created a finality that was not initially anticipated.
At a postgame news conference, Boeheim was asked if he considered the history involved, all that mushy sentiment, the finality of it all, the end of this Big East.
