Writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin talked about a "web of ambiguity" where identities swoop from tree to tree as circumstances, situations, backgrounds, change - like so many starlings finding a roost on a summer's evening.
That is to say that thought experiments satisfy the two requirements of fictionality: to make-believe that certain circumstances, situations, conditions, etc., hold, and to not constrain the made-belief world by actual events (see Davies, 2007, p. 31-33).
All of these circumstances, situations and personality traits impact my relationship with each of my children and, in turn, affect the way that I interact with them.
In these circumstances, situations requiring a mediator may arise and be resolved without their presence, despite the service being available: " Mediators exist, you know!
The word "fact", particularly when it is understood in the functorial sense, belongs to a family of related terms: "circumstance", "situation (Sachlage)", "state of affairs (Sachverhalt)".
Even under the best of circumstances, the situation in Iraq is likely to be chaotic for years to come.
"After the revolution, I found that the soul of the Yemeni people was broken because of war, the circumstances, the situation inside the country," said Sobay.
Though craving company, he's still self-aware enough to avoid a fellow Scot in similar circumstances, a situation we've all been in on our travels.
A Sherwin Belkin, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that while rent-stabilization and rent-control regulations both provide for succession rights under certain circumstances, the situation described by the letter writer does not involve such succession rights.
Compared with all these circumstances, the situation today is much more promising in terms of American political support for the Afghan project.
