The extent to which males compete in contests over dominance may determine the extent to which male rank is surrogate for some aspect of quality or competitive ability as opposed to merely representing group tenure length [ 34].
However, it remains possible that the requirement for PKC merely represents a background PKC activity permissive for the induction of PTP (see discussion in Korogod et al., 2007).
While the response seen for copper may merely represent the fact that this metal is both essential and toxic for earthworms, it is currently the case more generally that a mechanistic basis for understanding such 'hormetic' responses is lacking.
Why settle for Batman, who merely represented the upper limit of human potential, when you could have Superman, who wasn't human at all?
For Washington it may merely represent the end of a beautiful friendship; for London, it will feel more like a broken heart.
The sentences 'all triangles are square,'allll squares are round,' and 'all triangles are round' are not real sentences, but artificial ones, because they are "expressions of artificial products that substitute for actual judgments, namely merely represented judgments" (Ibid).
For instance, if preferences merely represent choice behaviour or choice dispositions, as they do according to the "revealed preference theory" popular amongst economists (see Sen 1973), then Completeness is automatically satisfied, on the assumption that a choice must inevitably be made.
It is important to note here that these asset seizures would not merely represent justice for offenders but for victims as well.
If his call for a government of national unity merely represents a short-term tactic for confronting the military — rather than a strategic commitment to pluralism as a way of political life — the chances of resuscitating a transition that only days ago was on life support will be very slim indeed".
For example, his experience might merely represent that there exists something red and round present, where such representation can occur even if nothing red and round is present (for more on this objection see the entry on the problem of perception (section 3.1.2).
