The building blocks alone do not constitute a system any more than a pile of bricks constituting a functioning building [ 8].
Instead, Kant thought the principles of rationality taken together constitute rational agency, and rational agency so constituted itself functions as a value that justifies moral action.
Do young children who seek the conceptual kind of an artifact weigh the plausibility that a current function constitutes the function intended by the object designer?
The ultimate aim of most biological research is to gain an understanding of biological systems and how their constituting parts function together.
viciae 3841 was found to carry single genes coding for SecA (RL4298), SecB (RL0006), SecD (RL0680), SecE (RL1759), SecF (RL2055), SecG (RL2512) and SecY (RL1794), which suffice to constitute a functioning GEP machinery (Table 1).
The first step in linking gene to function is to define what constitutes a function, and this is not trivial.
In the function domain, the Pareto front is constituted by the function values of the solutions in the Pareto set.
Note that it is the general rule, not specific values, that constitutes the function.
constitutes a function analytic in the left and right semiplanes.
Run-off (R 1) constitutes the function of rainfall (P 1) of 1990 and landuse/land cover (LU1) of 1990 or R 1 = f (P 1, LU1).
Fundamentally, these things constitute the functions of our universities – the contributions that universities make to their stakeholders and to society at large, that justify their existence and the efforts of countless students, administrators, staff, and faculty.
