How much foundational cruelty does a proudly "liberal" civilisation such as ours require in forming itself?
In the way of Chao's (1955) seminal paper on Chinese logical relations, this paper focuses on how two foundational ontological notions find expression in the Chinese language.
(I shall return to the issue of how a foundational monist like Moore can account for organic unities in section 2.1).
In this review, we discuss how the foundational principles of chemical process systems engineering inform the progressive development of more physiologically-based systems biology models.
It also illustrates how the foundational ideas of knowledge representation, reasoning, information access, and decision-making can be applied to facilitate the planning of more accurate and thus more effective radiation treatments.
The question is, how much foundational training is required before such a sprint practice is possible, and exactly what kind of training is most effective when it comes to alternate forms of practice.
There are other rules, of course, but with very little imagination one can see how a foundational adoption of even just these two principles would drastically reshape the mindset of a traditional organization.
Yet by the program's end, after Mr. Ferguson has introduced you to derivatives and all those other arcane financial instruments and practices, it becomes clear just how distorted that foundational idea — borrow money, pay it back — has become.
Professional biologists already understand how evolution is foundational to biological explanation and so do not always make it explicit.
Using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods, he and his colleagues examine how children develop foundational number-processing abilities, such as the ability to judge which of two numbers is larger or to estimate numbers' position on a number line; why these basic cognitive processes sometimes go awry; and how to help children with serious deficits in numerical processing.
