In Bernanke's words: "The view was that failure was essentially certain in either case".
It is a defensible position that van Fraassen's case against metaphysics depends essentially on certain theses that, although they are not themselves metaphysical theses, are nevertheless open to many of the criticisms he brings against metaphysical theses.
However this is eventually going to be explained, it seems certain that what essentially enabled Philoponus to operate both as a critic of Aristotelianism and as a constructive thinker in his own right was somehow tied up with new understanding of what one ought to do when one is reading and interpreting the philosophical texts of Plato or Aristotle.
Habitat filters are essentially features that may slow, or limit, species use of certain habitats.
"If we think of the spontaneous smile of a little child as essentially truthful, we can be equally certain that, at times, the smile of the adult is a kind of mask," he remarks.
In recent years, some thinkers have rejected the view that discrimination is an essentially comparative concept that looks to how certain persons are treated relative to others.
To say that meaning/content is essentially (ME/CE or MD/CD) normative is to say that meaning/content is essentially such that certain norms are valid, or in force, whenever something has meaning/content.
Make certain that each ring is evenly spaced, looking essentially like the illustration to the right.
Obviously, the model here is the male body, but he was certain that women must have some equivalent experience, not visible but essentially identical.
And essentially that was that.
