George Dickie is widely regarded as having delivered the decisive blow in his essay "The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude" (Dickie 1964) by arguing that all purported examples of interested or distanced attention are really just examples of inattention.
He also contributed an essay to the "Decisive Decade" catalog.
A more decisive article was the 1932 essay, "Positivism and Realism", a classic piece which shaped some of the most characteristic philosophical work to emerge from the Positivist tradition (Schlick 1979b, 259 284).
That essay also marked a decisive turn in Cohen's philosophical orientation, and after two years in which he wrote on both Kant's pre-critical philosophy and the Critique of Pure Reason, he was appointed lecturer at the University of Marburg.
In this photo essay, 10 photographers post the "decisive moment" in their career images.
Though Danto has been the most influential and persistent critic of formalism, his criticisms are no more decisive than those advanced by Kendall Walton in his essay "Categories of Art".
Its editor, Robert Cowley, persuaded two dozen historians to write essays on how a slight turn of fate at a decisive moment could have changed the very annals of time.
Russell's book also represented a decisive break from the neo-Kantian approach to mathematics Russell had developed six years earlier in his Essay on the Foundations of Geometry.
A fine catalogue essay by the Met's curator of Dutch and Flemish painting, Walter Liedtke, recounts the decisive effects on Hals of a return visit to Antwerp, in 1616.
"The de facto division of Bolivia into two countries" continues, Mr. Dieterich said in a recent essay, "until one of the two antagonistic powers is in a condition to deliver the decisive blow, to liquidate the other".
