In fact, Hacking 1975 describes the Wager as "the first well-understood contribution to decision theory" (viii).
I think it will be very, very interesting in the next few years to see if this is really a universal, decisive difference between the eukaryotes and the bacteria, or just an intriguing feature of the first few well understood systems.
Between its two sides there should be a happy marriage, and editor and business manager should march hand in hand, the first, be it well understood, just an inch or two in advance.
Endt told me that the need to sell players — just to keep the club going and to bring money in to help pay the salaries of players on the first team — is well understood but regretted.
As an illustration, we apply the method first to a well understood low-dimensional system, the Rosenzweig-MacArthur model.
The first one is a well-characterized high resistance permeability barrier, and the second, not so well understood, is a sensory function.
One of the challenges for me is to make sure, if we win the election in 2015, that the third sector is well understood throughout government.
Second, it is well understood that many of the bacteria that may be present in chronic wounds may not be active participants of the community of such bioburdens but may transient populations or environmental contaminants.
Why the kink is there in the first place is "not well understood".
However, the mechanism of how duplicated sequences are aggregated in the first place is not well understood.
Why settle for half-measures when such truly first-rate policies are well understood and ready to go?
