This makes clear that, as an externalist, Bratman will respond to some manipulation challenges by arguing that agents who are manipulated in ways that break the threads that bind their present mental lives to their own pasts have had their responsible agency violated, and so are not morally responsible for what they do.
Just don't "snap" (sharply shake) the clothes right before hanging them, as this can break the threads in them over time.
The Italian attacks again and again until he breaks the thread that binds Tonkov to his wheel and he is gone.
When they broke the thread attached to the electronic clock at the bottom of the course, the timer stopped at 2m 1.77s – the quickest of the day but still slow by Homburger's standards.
Indeed, it was not only necessary that the thread should be large, in order to increase the speed without breaking the thread, but the machinery itself must be made heavier to work the shuttle, thus excluding them from use in the family, and rendering them fit only for the heaviest kind of work, in factories, &c.
He said you can't go further than that without breaking the thread of return.
Now "clean" cultivation and the chemical spraying of hedgerows and weeds, including some of those that bees depend upon heavily for food, are eliminating the last sanctuaries of these pollinating insects and thereby breaking the threads that bind life to life.
We transform the 'country-country' data into 'country-thread-country' data, and then break the triad into two 'country-thread' dyads.
