Some of the examples he provides are 'There is a past,' 'There are physical objects,' and 'I am not being fooled by a clever deception.' He appears to think that these propositions have a property we may call "elusiveness," where p is elusive for me if and only if p's falsity would not change my experiences.
Even so, the ultimate elusiveness of language can cause machine-translation specialists to feel a touch of Weltschmerz.For example, although the NTT DoCoMo phone-call translator is fast and easy to use, it struggles even though it, too, uses a neural network with anything more demanding than pleasantries.
Indeed, the few genuine similarities between WikiLeaks and the Taliban its elusiveness and its wide base of support argue against ill-judged attacks that merely broaden that support.
Capturing Mr bin Laden might have some effect, since his "charisma, presumed survival and elusiveness enhance the organisation's iconic drawing power".
But the main reason people want the black card is that it is so difficult to get.That elusiveness is unusual in South Korea, where credit cards are issued promiscuously.
These held sway for a century until, in 1984, Sir Alec Jeffreys of Leicester University stumbled on an even more powerful personal barcode: DNA.In this section Spirit level Trap or treat An elusive illusion Invasion of the living dead ReprintsEmbedded in this short history is all the elusiveness of human identity; each new advance reveals the flaws in earlier systems.
Despite its elusiveness, the metal's unique characteristics, including a high melting point of 3,186°C, endear it to manufacturers of things like jet engines.
What that would be now, in the face of Bertelsmann's straitened finances, the elusiveness of internet revenues and changes in publishing and advertising, is uncertain.His avowed belief was to put social responsibility before the amassing of great wealth.
His military response in Afghanistan was not the sort of poorly directed lashing out that Bill Clinton had used in 1998 after al-Qaeda destroyed two American embassies in east Africa: it was a resolute, measured effort, which was reassuringly sober about the likely length of the campaign against Osama bin Laden and the elusiveness of anything worth the name of victory.
Coalition government has left him even less visible, and less understood, than he might have been: Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, has become the second face of the coalition, alongside David Cameron, the prime minister.Mr Osborne's elusiveness would matter less, were the gap between his public profile and his influence smaller.
If anyone needed a reminder of the elusiveness of border security, Norm Coleman, a Republican senator from Minnesota, has just revealed that enough radioactive material to make two dirty bombs had been smuggled into America.
