To measure progressivity, questions like this must be given a precise quantitative answer.
The mythic action is given a precise local context: we are in the uneasy aftermath of a war.
A plane taking off from Los Angeles, for instance, would be given a precise landing time in Seattle.
In the end, however, about eighty-five per cent of patients who suffer from lower-back pain cannot be given a precise diagnosis.
To this end, Fred will undergo out-of-body, near-death and ecstatic experiences, for each of which he will be given a precise neurological explanation.
Through the combination of theoretical reflection and institutional structure, these inquiries were given a precise development that they otherwise would not have attained.
Carnap's fundamental idea is that intensions, for whatever entities are being considered, can be given a precise mathematical embodiment as functions on states, while extensions are relative to a single state.
The finite flag-transitive linear spaces which have an insoluble automorphism group were given a precise description in [Francis Buekenhout, Anne Delandtsheer, Jean Doyen, Peter B. Kleidman, Martin W. Liebeck, Jan Saxl, Linear spaces with flag-transitive automorphism groups, Geom.
(Standard, which is to say textbook, quantum mechanics is a prime example!) And even theories which are properly understood and are internally consistent can be rejected, either by individual scientists or the community as a whole, because they are not "good physics", a term whose importance should not be underestimated even if it cannot be given a precise definition.
In retrospect, examining the possible explanations invoked in the beginning of this work, clearly argument (i) was given a precise allometric justification, whereas (ii) can be ruled out, since it would contradict the well-established allometric scaling of the specific BMR [3] which suggests that the rate of replication of cells decreases as the mass of the mammal increases.
