"Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers," first published in 1994, presented the Japanese notion of imperfect or humble beauty — you know the look, splintered driftwood against a winter sky, or a single flower past its prime.
I thought that using the term "brave" to describe a woman showing off her "imperfect" body perpetuated the notion that only women of a certain size should show skin.
In this paper, this idea is refined to cope with uncertain knowledge – in the form of measurements errors or imperfect models – by introducing the notion of "degree of possibility", which enables grading the candidate flux values as more or less possible.
68 We assume most clinicians intuitively understand the notion that tests are imperfect 69 and, because of the risk of both false positives (imperfect specificity) and false negatives (imperfect sensitivity), that they should be judicious in choosing and interpreting tests.
Notwithstanding the increasing focus on equity considerations, an underexplored element for QALY weighting relates to the notion of acceptability of imperfect health states.
The objects make clear that artists who embrace the anagama also accept the Japanese concept of "wabi-sabi," or the notion that beauty can be imperfect.
Like this site, it was very imperfect but held some good information (like affirming the notion that LGBT orientation is not a choice), and many local leaders didn't even know it existed.
LCA is based on the notion that the observed results of various imperfect tests for the same disease are influenced by a common, underlying latent (unobserved) variable, the true disease status [19].
It is between those who believe in the system, as imperfect as it is, because it is based on shared notions of fairness, cooperation, and empiricism, and those who believe the system is irrevocably skewed against them.
Obama's legacy as president is at stake, as is the notion that government can tackle a something as big as our imperfect health care system and help to fix it.
