In Europe during the 15th to 17th centuries, many treatises on dance were written in the form of descriptions often accompanied by illustrations.
These hypotheses often take the form of descriptions of mechanisms, where mechanisms are understood as systems of causally interacting entities that produce certain regularities (Wimsatt 1974; Machamer, Darden and Craver 2000; Glennan 2005; Bechtel 2006; Craver 2007).
Darden and Maull did not offer a general account of interfield theories, but Bechtel presciently suggested that such theories often take the form of descriptions of mechanisms (Bechtel 1988: 101 102).
Files put on the network are associated with a "key", usually some form of description of the content that is encoded for security reasons.
Although this form of description would require some development and adaptation, it would provide an insight into the aspirations of the proposed designs, something rarely "felt" in the master plans, policies and manifestos written in a mixture of academese and legalese.
(The form of description — whether mental or physical — is thus irrelevant to the fact that a particular causal relation obtains).
A form of description very common in biology, but less extensively analyzed by philosophers, has it that the genes contain a program, in a sense analogous to that in computer science (Jacob 1982, Moss 1992, Sterelny 2001, Marcus 2004).
My memories seemed to have passed into a realm of obscurity, beyond any form of description I wanted to share.
If (i) FUEs are fundamental units of evolution, whereas all other levels of organization of the genetic material including genomes are derived, and (ii) a tree is a necessary form of description of the evolution of any FUE, then, the adequate representation of evolution of life as a whole is the full compendium of FUE-specific trees that can be conveniently denoted the Forest of Life (FOL).
These characterizations of pragmatism in terms of anti-foundationalism (PMN), of anti-representationalism (ORT), of anti-essentialism (TP) are explicitly parasitic on constructive efforts in epistemology and metaphysics, and are intended to high-light the various ways that these efforts remain under the spell of a Platonic faith in ideal concepts and mandatory forms of descriptions.
Furthermore, although there may be no bedrock language of uncontaminated observation to which they can retreat, they have available to them forms of description that presuppose only shared commonsense ideas about objects in the vicinity.
