There would always be functional justifications for what often seem like purely visual features; in the case of the Pompidou Centre, it was apparently necessary to have the lifts, tanks, pipes and other services outside of the building to create the space for large, flexible rooms that could hold wide varieties of artworks.
And in both cases the owners have cited functional obsolescence as justification for doing nothing about the decay.
Cohen's point is that the weight of evidence that organisms are adapted to their environment would permit even a pre-Darwinian atheist to assert this functional explanation with justification.
A reliance on scientific, functional decomposition as the ultimate justification of judgments of health and disease requires a revisionist, rather than a conservative, account.
We confirmed the presence of NF90 in the RNP2 complex by supershift analysis (Figure 5); however, we did not observe comparable supershifts with the anti-RHA antibody, providing the initial justification for focusing functional analyses on NF90.
While these appear plausible, a little more biological justification of these functional forms could be usefully provided here (e.g., as is given in ref. [ 22]).
Some previous long-term synoptic air quality studies investigating nonlinearities and threshold effects between air quality and mortality have found no justification for nonlinear functional forms for air quality predictors [ 33].
Under the Macro structure of Descriptions, Explanations, Expositions and Justifications, the Micro functional structure can be undertaken in a principled manner by applying RST in ways which emphasize the communicative roles of the text structure.
However, it would be necessary to explore whether there is biological justification for altering the functional form of the relationship between exposure and effect in this way.
