Nobody doubts their commitment, their analysis of rugby, their specialist skills and technical expertise.
From this vantage point, it might be argued that Russell's "logical atomism" can be understood as first and foremost a commitment to analysis as a method coupled with a rejection of idealistic monism, rather than a pretense to have discovered the genuine metaphysical "atoms" making up the world of facts, or even the belief that such a discovery is possible (cf. Linsky 2003).
We hypothesized that by using Oct4 as a marker gene for self-renewal, pluripotency, and early lineage commitment, this analysis would lead to the identification of 1) Genes that are central to stem cell identity; 2) Octargetgenesenes; and 3) Genes that modulate Oct4 function.
Ultimately, he says, it is the commitment to systematic analysis and systematic investment that distinguishes Bridgewater from other hedge funds.
The most extensive sections of his book concentrate, naturally, on Iraq and Afghanistan (which he still sees as "winnable" with a long-term commitment), but his analysis leads him as well to smaller movements in such places as Chechnya, Thailand, Indonesia and the Horn of Africa.
One Victorian appraisal of George Eliot claimed that she "might have accomplished the writing out of a Shakespearian drama into a novel," because she shared Shakespeare's commitment to "psychological analysis," to "tracing, stage by stage, the growth in the human mind of evil or of good".
According to Anderson (2006), analytic auto-ethnography is characterized by '(1) Complete member researcher, (2) Analytic reflexivity, (3) Narrative visibility of the researcher's self, (4) Dialogue with informants beyond the self, (5) Commitment to theoretical analysis' (p. 378).
First, IPA has a commitment to an analysis which moves beyond the descriptive to the interpretative, but an interpretative grounded in the close reading of the participant's account.
