What counts, and can often be inferred despite prevarication, is the act-description under which the behavior chosen was attractive to the defendant in his or her actual deliberations (as distinct from rationalizing act-descriptions adopted to present that motivation in a better light).
But while nomological relations between events (relations involving laws) depend on the descriptions under which the events are given, relations of causality and identity obtain irrespective of descriptions — if the icing-up of the road did indeed cause the skid, then it did so no matter how the events at issue are described.
Even so, Scotus is enough of an Aristotelian about the functioning of our intellect on this side of heaven to insist that even though our brute acquaintance with those acts is independent of phantasms, the descriptions under which we know those acts must be capable of being captured in a phantasm.
In daylong testimony under heavy security, the police informant, Johannes C. Smit, offered a detailed description of the plan, under which 8,000 rebels would stage a coup and seize military bases.
An evolutionary model provides a description of the conditions under which social norms may spread.
"Context of use" means the description of actual conditions under which an interactive system is being evaluated.
Crosner says he is continuing to press CBSA for a death certificate, a copy of any autopsy report, a description of the circumstances under which Gahungu died, and whether they intend to repatriate his remains.
And in general, quoting Brazma: "gene expression data are meaningful only in the context of a detailed description of the conditions under which they where generated" [ 12].
Second, it includes a more elaborate specification of the type of knowledge required by the two processes, including a description of the conditions under which decision making requires central cognitive resources.
For a given experiment or observation, let 'c' represent a description of the relevant conditions under which it is performed, and let 'e' represent a description of the result, the evidential outcome of conditions c. Scientific hypotheses often require the mediation of background knowledge and auxiliary hypotheses to help them express claims about evidence.
