We are taught to control and fix outer circumstances in order to feel inner peace, but it's the other way around.
Only by fixing the circumstances of the vote well in advance -- including by going so far as to bribe public officials into casting their ballots for him -- was he able to emerge as the winner.
Under similar circumstances, fixed point theorems on posets have become very significant tools in solving some problems with partially ordered underlying spaces.
For example, when Smith looks at the third patch in figure 7 (in isolation), his experience might have the quale that Jones's experience has when she looks at the fourth patch in Figure 7, keeping the viewing circumstances fixed.
# Intention was estimated with the value of the measurement error of 'Basic premises: client's account and home circumstances' fixed at 0.05 to avoid a Heywood case.
However, even if quantum mechanics implies that some physical effects are themselves undetermined, it provides no reason to doubt a quantum version of the causal closure thesis, to the effect that the chances of those effects are fully fixed by prior physical circumstances.
For such sui generis causes, if they are to be genuinely efficacious, must presumably make an independent difference to the chances of physical effects, and this in itself would be inconsistent with the quantum causal closure claim that such chances are already fixed by prior physical circumstances.
In the majority of cases it is so fixed, and under these circumstances he did not think operative measures should be undertaken.
Though these unexpected circumstances are not fixed and precise, their significance to society is that the condition of ill health arising from disease or injury prevents one from pursuing one's normal routine of living and affects one's survival.
The PR pitch is that flat taxes are simply about multiplying your income, less a tax allowance that is the same for everyone regardless of circumstances, by a fixed and single percentage rate to calculate your tax bill.
