Stein, who wishes to tie his definitions of temporal concepts to intrinsic geometric structure, holds that "in Einstein-Minkowski space-time an event's present is constituted by itself alone".
If one wishes to evade chronogeometric fatalism, as far as the special theory of relativity is concerned, then it seems there is no alternative to accepting Stein's relation R as representing a genuine relation of becoming and to considering that an event's present is constituted by itself alone.
Since myoclonus usually occurs early and is usually suppressed by sedatives, status myoclonus is less frequently observed in hypothermia-treated CA survivors and cannot constitute by itself a sign of poor outcome [ 27].
They are not, however, since events with large a tend to group together in runs with large r, while an event with small a is more likely to constitute by itself a run with r = 1 [ 8].
A more sustained challenge to Ringling Brothers has come instead from the many advocacy groups that push for an end to circus herds, arguing that forcing rare animals to traverse the country in tight cages by train constitutes cruelty by itself.
"The crime is constituted by the misconduct itself rather than the results that follow from it".
Particular form is itself constituted by a specific form (that is, the essence of the singular thing at issue) and by all of its metaphysical constituents.
Doing so (as in the passage first cited above) avoids the unintuitiveness that some (e.g., Feldman 1997a) see in interpretations of Sidgwick's views that make pleasure intrinsically valuable but itself constituted by its relation to desire.
The constitutive features of any narrative form the basis for Ricoeur to hold that personal identity, itself constituted by an idem-identity and an ipse-identity, always involves a narrative identity.
