Despite this, Kripke's understanding provides a useful lens through which to approach his conclusion – that there is actually no way of fixing meaning unless there is, between those who speak, a shared sense of common purpose that grows out of a) the basic preoccupations of what it is to be a human being and b) the various social enterprises that make up our every day commitments.
It is sad, though, to think that the preoccupations of this book, however much they may intersect our own preoccupations of the moment, might eclipse her greater poetic talents, evident here, and so beautifully fulfilled in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Paradoxically, multicentricity is the central theoretical preoccupation of this book its point of departure as well as its framing concept.
One of the principal preoccupations of social scientists at this time was the recording of "vanishing" indigenous cultures.
Understand the basics of this.
This means that certain preoccupations of plant disease modellers are similar to those of modellers of diseases in human, livestock and wild animal populations.
Polls such as this are imperfect indicators of the intellectual preoccupations of the age, of course.
This section samples several emerging directions that signal the new preoccupations of feminist philosophers of religion.
