Within AI, it is common to distinguish between a modest research program and a more ambitious one: this distinction was coined by John Searle in terms of a weak AI and strong AI.
I think there's a distinction -I'm ambitious for my work, but not ambitious for myself, or for attention.' Rachel recalls that when she was first asked to make a sculpture for the empty plinth three years ago, she thought, 'God, Trafalgar Square, it's ridiculous!
He said: "I love the old library because it is a structure of distinction, it's ambitious and uncompromising.
"With the rush of vehicles came a stampede of Marathon runners representing athletic clubs ambitious to secure for their organizations the distinction of having been the first athlete to cross the bridge").
While he has not yet outdone "The Shipping News" in claims for that distinction, Mr. Johnston has written an ambitious, stately, far-flung and sometimes sly account of back-stabbing polar exploration.
For the particularly ambitious, there is a Diplomat of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians (DABCSP) distinction.
Somehow he fails to draw the crucial distinction between a history of dessert, certainly an ambitious enough subject, and a history of individual desserts.
Mr. Brown writes, "We know now that Velázquez, contrary to his usual practice, made a preliminary study of a person of no special distinction to appear in one of his most ambitious paintings".
In the case of the spatiotemporal universe which empirical experience is ambitious to explore, most knowledge is (to employ Bertrand Russell's useful distinction) knowledge by description, not acquaintance.
Ignoring the distinction between these two tasks leaves reformers saddled with impossibly ambitious, undifferentiated, and impractical policy agendas.
