The aim of his arguments is to show that the distinction between individuals and properties is not one which exists independent of our conceptualizations.
In the late 1970s and the 1980s, stimulated by results from mathematical logic and by some ideas of Quine, Putnam abandoned his long-standing defence of metaphysical realism the view that the categories and structures of the external world are both causally and ontologically independent of the conceptualizations of the human mind.
Even if there was no foundation for mereological dependence, i.e. even if there were no partless particles, or no foundation of causal dependence, i.e. no first cause there would still remain an important sense in which things exist substantially, namely independent of human cognition and conceptualization.
This study contributes to the field by developing new scales in accordance with Seeman's conceptualization focusing on three independent variants of alienation specifically relevant in adolescent health research: the feelings of powerlessness, meaninglessness and social isolation.
And if descriptions being correct depends on "objective structure" in the world, is that compatible with the claim that all "numerical ascriptions are simply incomplete independent of or prior to… a legitimate conceptualization of [that] portion of reality"?
The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate alienation scales in accordance with Seeman's conceptualization of alienation focusing on three independent variants specifically relevant in adolescent health research: powerlessness, meaninglessness and social isolation.
That is in accordance with the original conceptualization of the EPA as an independent agency acting within the federal government as the sole exclusive custodian of the public's and planet's environmental health.
A fruitful conceptualization of mu waves in pediatric use that is independent of their frequency is that mu wave suppression is a representation of activity going on in the world, and is detectable in the frontal and parietal networks.
We controlled for established risk factors, which suggests that insulin resistance may confer risk for atherosclerosis independent of many associated confounders, but it is possible that our current conceptualization of cardiovascular risk does not capture all responsible factors.
Each question was rated as knowledge = 1, conceptualization = 2, application = 3, or analysis = 4 by each independent reviewer (N = 42).
