Scenarios can for example be used to understand the impact of the future on urban water pipe systems.
Software viruses, for example, can be understood as memes, and as memes evolve in complexity, so does human cognition: "The mind is the effect, not the cause".
The snap judgments that doctors make, for example, can be understood as "anchoring errors"; the first symptoms anchor the doctor's mind on an incorrect diagnosis.
Classical Rome's vast bread doles, for example, can be understood as an attempt to cool the mobs organized by the Gracchus and others.
A line, for example, can be understood as composed of an infinite number of points, each of which stands in relation to the others; moreover, these points are densely ordered, for there are an infinite number of points between any two points.
Type two diabetes mellitus, for example, can be understood in terms of altered insulin release by the pancreatic beta cell and impaired action via its receptor and signalling cascade (proximate causation); or as a mismatch between evolved biology and the evolutionarily novel nutritional and energetic environments in which most humans now live (ultimate causation).
English-as-a-second-language courses often involve much more instruction in English -- perhaps upward of three hours a day -- with special lessons in mathematics and other courses using props, for example, that can be understood by children regardless of their understanding of English.
For example, genomics can be understood by noticing that the technology shares attributes with both genetic manipulation and traditional breeding.
For example, institutions can be understood as a web of people, ideas and practical/potential power in our contemporary society [ 55].
Thus, the concern for your relative in Velleman's example can be understood to be present but swamped by other, more powerful desires to avoid him.
