So, for instance, talk of possibility and necessity can be thought of not as talk about some objective modality in nature, but as talk of what phenomena fit in the models of the accepted theory (van Fraassen 1980, 201 202).
This meant that a wide range of patient categories were then excluded from our research protocol, preventing, for instance, any possibility of identifying iteratively categories of patients for which processes of 'decision-making' might raise distinctive issues.
That's not to say that optimism doesn't have its place: In turning around a demoralized sales force, for instance, conjuring a sense of possibility can be a very powerful tool.
However this is also of clinical importance, offering for instance the possibility of an anti-CD20 therapy such as Rituximab in addition to standard treatment protocols.
The need for substantive empirical assumptions arises in settings where there are instances of arithmetical possibilities that are marked out by Simpson's Reversals in urn models and in possible and actual empirical settings.
For instance, higher possibility of heart failure is due to loss of contractility of heart muscle cells [3].
For instance, the possibility of patients deciding on the value of the research in context and iteratively with researchers was pre-empted.
It would seem to rule out, for instance, the possibility of gratitude to an omnipotent god, who, in virtue of his omnipotence, would sacrifice little or nothing in acting beneficently.
The week before last, for instance, the possibility of her appearance either enhanced or sucked the air out of two parties, depending on your point of view.
There is, for instance, the possibility of a commercialized dream Tenzing in the American style.
America's security umbrella allows European countries to feel safe from, for instance, the possibility of future Russian aggression while spending little on defence.
