Second, they are deeply pragmatic; they know that ideals alone will not produce the change they seek.
The young men who narrate these eight stories evince little in the way of ideals, let alone idealism.
Come to think of it, making people, with all their flaws, fully visible while leaving ideal types alone, is exactly what the caricaturist has always done for us.
The range of epistemically possible worlds outstrips the range of metaphysically possible worlds: there are some ways the world couldn't have been, but which cannot be ruled by ideal reasoning alone.
We obtain a notion of epistemic necessity of particular philosophical interest by focusing on a limiting case, namely that of a possible agent with no empirical evidence whatsoever.[1] A proposition P is epistemically necessary for such an agent just in case ideal reasoning alone, unaided by empirical evidence, is sufficient to rule out ~P.
Note that it is natural for a dualist to distinguish the space of metaphysically possible worlds from the space of epistemically possible worlds, i.e., from the space of (maximally specific) ways the world might be that cannot be ruled out on the basis of ideal reasoning alone, without empirical evidence (Soames 2005, 2011).
The provision of the nutrition care plan is designed to ensure that both groups receive best available nutrition care for the prevention of starvation-related muscle wasting and hence will allow the study to evaluate whether an anti-inflammatory dose of fish oil improves outcomes beyond those achieved through ideal nutrition alone.
Brew pubs are abundant and ideal for eating alone at the bar.
While everyone else imagined that they — Mr. and Miss Clean — were enjoying an ideal youth, he alone was unconsoled.
TV was happy to promote the Cleaver ideal because TV (alone among the arts) loved the burbs, and was eager to flatter what was, naturally, its ideal audience.
