In the journal Science, researchers at the University of British Columbia described their study of how computer screen color affected participants' ability to solve either creative problems — for example, determining the word that best unifies the terms "shelf," "read" and "end" (answer: book) — or detail-oriented tasks like copy editing.
One natural interpretation of the passages quoted above and others in Kitcher (1989) is this: a social process of comparing alternative systemizations of beliefs and drawing out their deductive consequences occurs at the community level, with groups of people making arguments to one another about which overall deductive systemizations best unify the beliefs of the community as a whole.
This seems to be true, for example, of our own epistemic community, in which knowledge especially scientific knowledge is highly dispersed among a small group of experts and in which no single person's mind (and still less the typical member's mind) contains or operates in accordance with the systemization that best unifies the beliefs of the entire community.
In-the-moment sponteneity with an eye towards the past is perhaps what best unifies the many offshoots of Dickow's eleven-year career, which in its sheer length has made him one Portland's dance music veterans.
But, as Kitcher agrees, it is unrealistic to suppose that most people possess anything like the full systemization $S$ that best unifies all of the beliefs in their community.
Next fit, first fit, best fit, unified tabu search, genetic and memetic algorithms are some of the state-of-the-art methods successfully applied to this important problem.
There can always be alternative explanations, but the best laws unify available facts in the simplest ways, leave the fewest possible facts unaccounted for and do not require assumptions of unobserved phenomena.
It is important that we all get on the same page with how we got here, so we can do our best to unify and change where we are headed.
"My position has always been that I'm ready to serve in whatever capacity might best help unify our team, promote our conservative principles and, above all, pursue positive solutions on behalf of our constituents.
#WalkTogether In their memory, for this fantastic city & its wonderful people, which I am proud to call my temporary home #walktogether today to remember the 52 who died, the bravery of the emergency services, & London at its dignified, unified best.
