"When Seb was born, I assumed a lifetime of exclusion, feeling sad and second rate; I dreaded the future".
One influential response to this objection to this part of Brentano's second thesis has been to grant a second-rate, i.e., a degraded and dependent, intentional status to sentences (see Haugeland 1981, Searle 1980, 1983, 1992, Fodor 1987).
You take the A, I'll gladly wait, For what you might call second-rate Is one train I would really love to catch.
This puzzle's theme is first-rate, I think".
"But you were really first-rate!" "I don't think this is about being 'first-rate,' Chancellor," the moderator said.
"Do you think the women in Ukraine are first-rate?" "I haven't seen many since I've been here".
His mind is first-rate; I have participated in a number of discussions with him, and his knowledge and analytic power are formidable.
Oliver Chris as the snooty Stanley, Daniel Rigby as a posturing actor with echoes of Olivier and Brando and Jemima Rooper as the besuited Rachel are all first-rate: I especially enjoyed Rooper's dismay at the prospect of exile to Australia and "a terrible outdoorsie life, sustained by lager, barbecues and opera".
For example, the change in the rate for a given agency could be very small, say 5%, but could result in the organization moving from the fifth highest rate (i.e., fifth worst performer) to the third highest rate.
(His own explanation is that he realized by then that "I was not going to be first rate, and I couldn't stand second-rate painting".
