"Apple may revise and offer up some new terms, but winning customers back will be hard given the course of action".
Core questions such as "will a given policy course of action produce the results that are sought, or will it produce other unintended consequences?" "what will it cost?" and "can it be funded within the parameters of necessary fiscal discipline?" must all be asked and answered.
This is the view that for one to freely choose to undertake a given course of action — say, to throw out the trash — one must have freely chosen the determinants that lead one to undertake that course of action, including one's antecedent desires and one's character (in this case, perhaps a desire for a filth-free home, among others).
When people have no idea of the consequences of a given course of action or inaction, they don't know which way to turn — or they turn both ways.
There were many things I learned from her that were invaluable, not the least of which is this: If I want someone to follow a given course of action, I need to somehow get him to think it's his brilliant idea.
Humans also have a complicated ethical system that is able to not only weigh the good against the bad, but is also able to make judgments about the degree of benefit of a given course of action.
But Chan freedom is not identified with the exercise of control or choice; neither is it rooted in rational determinations of whether a given course of action is good or will have good results.
Third, the sooner you can rule out a given course of action, the faster you will move toward your goal.
Hypotheses force individuals to articulate in advance why they believe a given course of action will succeed.
For example, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 404 bce) contains marvelous renditions of speeches in which the leaders of different states attempt to persuade their listeners to follow a given course of action.
Even the most upstanding of chief executives is sometimes tempted by policies whose legality is murky; he wants to ask advisers whether a given course of action would survive a court challenge.
