According to these views, rational thought, which is representational and therefore object-directed, is subject to disturbing interferences from the feelings.
Questions concerning ceteris paribus clauses are closely related to questions concerning simplifications and idealizations, since one way to simplify is to suppose that the various disturbing causes or interferences are inactive and to explore the consequences of some small number of causal factors.
Although Mill does not often use the language of "ceteris paribus", his view that the principles or "laws" of economics hold in the absence of "interferences" or "disturbing causes" provides an account of how the principles of economics can be true ceteris paribus (Hausman 1992, ch. 8, 12).
In addition, because economists attempt to study economic phenomena as constituting a separate domain, influenced only by a small number of causal factors, the claims of economics are true only ceteris paribus — that is, they are true only if there are no interferences or disturbing causes.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
In a joint statement they said they have seen disturbing signs that there has been political interference with the process.
In these environments, disturbing background noises, such as wind and interference from other birds, is typically present and often distorts the recorded signal substantially.
By monitoring the received signal strength, each of the SUs can determine its adjacent SU transceivers and categorize the interference potential with the corresponding interference category (harmful, disturbing, annoying, permissible).
"If true, this is yet another disturbing allegation that the president may have engaged in some interference or obstruction of the investigation," Schiff said at a press briefing on Capitol Hill.
