Baseball feels like life sometimes, and when, contrary to experience, all goes well out there... we feel an end-of-the-day sort of satisfaction that is deeper than any "We're Number One!" exultation.
If the only legitimate sense of numerical sameness were the "total" sense, then we would have to believe either that we don't persist or that, contrary to experience, we don't change (perhaps, because we are not what we think we are).
And this result, they point out, is contrary to experience, since, at the end of the measurement process, although we may be uncertain of the position of the pointer, the pointer itself is never in an indeterminate superposition of different positions.
Kant goes on to point out that if inertia were to entail an active force of resistance, then it would be possible that when one moving body hits another, the moving body has to apply part of its motion solely to overcome the inertia of the one at rest and might not have any motion left over, as it were, to set the body at rest into motion, which is contrary to experience (and Proposition 2).
Contrary to experience reported for some settings [ 30], in our study even designated professionals integrated into the daily team rounds were not sufficient to discern most adverse occurrences, perhaps because these personnel were not consistently aware of intra-operative occurrences, near-miss occurrences, or occurrences only observed by consulting services.
Contrary to some experiences, they understood my qualifications, that I was trying hard to find another job and that they couldn't really help me.
Marcus Engel, a motivational speaker in St . Louis Mo., who is blind and travels with a seeing-eye dog, said that contrary to the experiences of many disabled travelers, he had few complaints.
Contrary to previous experiences, gene-marked neutrophils continued to increase to up to 50% of the total neutrophils in peripheral blood indicating lone-term engraftment and the patients were able to clear almost all pre-existing infections.
Contrary to the experiences of younger people with severe heart disease, the physical and social decline associated with co-morbidities, progressive losses and social isolation become the more prominent issues with increasing age [ 24].
