The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately after the assassination itself, in May 1961; and thirty five years later, in 1996.
Referring back to §1, in order to make sense of language relativity we have to start with a pair of distinct objects, a and b, (distinct from the standpoint of the metalanguage), and hence a pair of objects we assume are already individuated.
In all of these cases, and more — from nail polish to flavorings in e-cigarettes — the chemical replacements can be just different enough that they are treated as distinct from a regulatory and market standpoint.
Lipid rafts: contentious only from simplistic standpoints.
From a traffic standpoint, from a fiscal standpoint, from an afterschool activity standpoint".
"We thought it was important from an artistic standpoint, from a corporate culture standpoint and potentially from a consumer standpoint".
It's very sad, from the competitive standpoint, from a financial standpoint ….
Not from an execution standpoint, nor from a toughness standpoint".
Probably not, either from a scientific standpoint or from a popular standpoint.
"From Ted's standpoint and from the party's standpoint, he has to solve this problem.
Those reasons were wrong both from a moral standpoint and from a practical standpoint.
