The controller (ActionServlet) will select an appropriate Action for each request based on the ActionMappings provided in the struts-config,xml file, create an instance of the Action (if necessary), and then call the execute method of the Action.
It is natural to call such objects "animal artifacts" even when the animal's behavior is wholly innate and not an instance of intelligent, purposive action.
The action required for the solution of Betty's problem, bending a metal wire into the form of a hook, was quite "unnatural", and apparently an instance of intelligent, goal-directed action.
Although deciding between theories of musical ontology is always to some extent a matter of finding a balance between the benefits of a theory and its cost in terms of our pre-theoretic intuitions, action theories have a particularly hard row to hoe since they imply that an instance of a work is some action performed by a composer, rather than a performance.
This is a compelling instance of the logic of collective action, an instance of such grave import that we pass laws to regulate the behavior of individuals to force them to pollute less.
Wolff thinks that each person has a duty to act on the basis of his own moral assessment of right and wrong and has the duty to reflect on what is right and wrong in each particular instance of action.
Wolff's challenge states in a rather general way the worry that there is something immoral about failing to critically reflect about what one ought to do in each instance of action.
This is an important constraint for Hume because it allows him to ask who has ever perceived an instance of a power or force in action.
The first hypothesis expresses a necessary condition for an action being an instance of institutional corruption and, indeed, for its being an instance of corruption at all.
However, the person acted for the sake of doing what he believed to be morally right; his action was an instance of noble cause corruption.
Summing up, the second hypothesis states a necessary condition for an action being an instance of institutional corruption and, indeed, for its being an instance of corruption at all.
