Racial skeptics like Appiah and Zack adopt normative racial eliminativism, which recommends discarding the concept of race entirely, according to the following argument.
Richard Wiley, telecommunications lobbyist extraordinaire and chief of the FCC's advisory committee on HDTV, advised solemnly: "I believe that it is not wise for broadcasters who seek a second channel to discard the concept of HDTV altogether, as you seem to counsel".
Likewise, we need not discard the concept of mutation as a mass-action force: there are realistic scenarios in which a mass-action pressure of mutation is the properly conceived cause of some effect, such as the loss of a gene [ 61], or the mutational cost of excess DNA in Lynch's theory for increased genome sizes in species with small populations [ 40].
Discarding the popular concept of miasma direct infection by bad air he postulated that sepsis might be caused by a pollen-like dust.
They have practically discarded the old rhythm-section concept (piano, bass and drums) for something more dynamic, more expansive: turntables, digital samplers, electronic percussion, effects pads, computer programs that enable sonic manipulation of acoustic instruments, while maintaining the avant-garde tradition of incorporating ancient instruments -- tablas, koras, ouds, water drums.
The fundamental character of the new geometry resides in the way it can be thought of as capturing the simplest properties of the straight line two distinct points define a unique line, two distinct lines meet in at most one point while discarding the metrical concepts of distance and angle.
Scotland also produced one of the major figures in urban planning in sociologist Patrick Geddes (1854 1932), who developed the concept of conurbation, and discarded the idea of "sweeping clearances" to remove existing housing and the imposition of the gridiron plan, in favour of "conservative surgery": retaining the best buildings in an area and removing the worst.
She thinks we can concede this without discarding the more exalted concepts of inspiration, the "inner voice," and so on.
As mentioned above, among the V concepts identified by SW, we will consider only the specific ones, discarding the (V_{mathrm {gen}}) generic concepts.
