The main motivation for this restriction on reliable processes is that it excludes certain kinds of reliable processes what Greco calls "strange and fleeting processes"—which notoriously cause problems for the view (such as processes where the reliability is due to some quirk in the subject's environment, rather than because of any cognitive trait possessed by the agent herself).
Certainly, there are signs, if at times fleeting, of such a process at work in India.
Recently, optical traps have started to integrate with laser scanning confocal microscopes [25], [26], [27], but the scan rate of the single laser beam is typically time consuming and too slow to image fleeting, real-time cellular processes.
There are obvious victims of this process – we get fleeting glimpses of pitiful, Abu Ghraib-like scenes and a line of prisoners shuffling round in a circle, their nationalistic dance reduced to a weak-limbed tatter – but ultimately, Shechter suggests, we all end up victims of the lie, and none more so than those, like the knight, who subscribe most selflessly to it.
"It provides a fleeting insight into the learning process, but it is not a theory of learning.
The findings of this study highlight the dynamic unstable nature of the policy process and the fleeting opportunity for change.
Cluster's formation and destruction processes are very fleeting, especially, when it is less than critical size (about 1 nm), and its crystalline structure is not formed yet.
The results of density functional calculations were used to gain some further insights into the structure and bonding situation of the fleeting intermediates of the electrochemical processes, radical cation [ 2].+, and radical anion [ 2].−.
"This is a precious but fleeting opportunity to restart the political process," Mr. Annan told reporters in Damascus.
The music is, as always, lucid and focussed but the departure from traditional fugal procedure sends a fleeting message to those who appreciate the subtleties of the musical processes".
