Stevens saw operationism as a sure method of increasing rigor in psychological experiments and discourse, asserting that "to experience is, for the purpose of science, to react discriminately", since these reactions are what science can measure and record publically (quoted in Feest 2005, 136).
Modern theoretical discourses assert that leadership is a process involving leaders and followers acting within a fluid context so that people construct leader or follower identities moment-to-moment.
Hence it seems one must either adopt an extreme mereological essentialism, according to which no difference of parts is possible for an individual, or reject the interpretation of de re modal discourse as asserting identity across possible worlds.
This is what Geach has called The Frege Point: "A thought may have just the same content whether you assent to its truth or not; a proposition may occur in discourse now asserted, now unasserted, and yet be recognizably the same proposition" (Geach 1965, 449).
This last assumption has inspired strong public discourses that assert that women have started emigrating en masse, with female mobility perceived as particularly problematic for maintaining family life (Panţîru, Black, and Sabates-Wheeler, 2007; Hofmann and Buckley, 2013).
The camel has also been appropriated as a symbol of Sahrawi cultural identity both by refugees and in Polisario discourse and practice, which asserts the Sahrawi's nomadic cultural heritage as a key element of a national identity legitimating claims to nationhood and traditional territories for the Sahrawi people.
For Roland, engaging in New Zealand's democracy is a way to join the national discourse, and to assert your identity as a Kiwi, no matter how newfound that identity might be.
Although the lay respondents reflected on teachings related to this discourse, and they asserted their Tibetan identity and community autonomy by religious practice especially regarding local gods, any links to the environment were less self-consciously made.
This effectively dodges acknowledging what Pierre-André Pierre-André Taguieff, asserts is "a discourse of historianassertshe presisent" that has "become a literary genre".
One sees here the close similarity with Russell's Theory of Descriptions, where a negative existential like 'Pegasus does not exist' is not a statement about a non-existent Pegasus, but simply asserts that the universe of discourse (now playing the logical function of Bradley's 'Reality') does not contain any individuals that possess all features ascribed to Pegasus in books of mythology.
