Williams' point is rather that the whole business of compiling balance-sheets of the utilitarian sort is incompatible with the phenomenon of agency as we know it: "the reason why utilitarianism cannot understand integrity is that it cannot coherently describe the relations between a man's projects and his actions" (UFA: 100).
These regimes of rules intend to coherently describe types of realizable patterns of social behaviour (e.g. acting as firm, or parties agreeing on a contract), and at the same time prescribe lawful realization of incidents of such types of behaviour (e.g. how (not) to behave as firm X or how (not) to establish contract Y).
"You can coherently describe a state of nothingness; it's easy to do," Holt told me over the phone.
Targeted Therapeutics in Melanoma coherently describes this journey of discovery, providing an insight for scientists and clinicians alike into the effort that the progress of recent years has taken.
More specifically, what ends up being possible are dynamics of coherence and, when groups of us are coherently aligned with each other, we can even experience the phenomenon of super-coherence described in blog posting number three, the one before last in this series.
And if the memory was described coherently, with sequence and cause understood, it was more likely to have been retained.
In his testimony at the trial, Weeks described being unable to coherently distinguish between simple tasks, such as driving and reversing in a car.
Porta's experiments with lenses and mirrors (such as the improved form of the camera obscura) fit more coherently into the perspective described above: these devices function as generators of marvels, with the objective of stirring spectators' imaginations (Dupré 2007; Thielemann 2009).
This assumption considers that the ensemble of neurons contained within a cortical area behaves coherently having a well defined phase average whose dynamics is described by the internal frequency [22].
We can foresee the adoption of information content methods like those described above to try to identify proactively specific genomic events that mark groups of patients with coherently predictable clinical outcome.
Running the Gibbs sampling algorithm, as, for instance, described in the "The proposed model" section, we obtain all model parameter estimates simultaneously, and we forecast the mortality trends and their uncertainty coherently.
