And the result of this "independence of mind" is that "interests" bind us together, not ideas.
China has risen far enough and the world has changed substantially enough that a complex web of interests bind the two countries together, not as friends but not necessarily as enemies.
Rorty's position is not that these conceptual contrasts never have application, but that such application is always context and interest bound and that there is, as in the case of the related notion of truth, nothing to be said about them in general.
In a SELEX experiment, a pool of randomized RNA oligos is incubated with the RBP of interest, bound RNA is reverse transcribed, amplified by PCR and transcribed in vitro, and the process is repeated three or more times, with each selection increasing the proportion of high-affinity binding sites in the pool.
Mr. Kozyrev said that while an alliance of interests binds Russia and China, "it is very important that Russia refrain from the temptation to play the so-called China card" -- meaning to feign the formation of a military alliance to create leverage and to produce anxiety for the West.
The two interests are bound to be in conflict.
But, inevitably, the president's interests are bound to collide with others in his party.
While Europe and the United States face grave, though distinctive, economic crises, the other common interests that bound them are fading.
Institutional and economic interests are bound to be hurt when a behemoth like the Pentagon re-orients itself to deal with a world that is much less predictable, but no less dangerous, than that of the cold war.
Developments that are crucial to the peaceful cohabitation of great powers whose actions and interests are bound to conflict from time to time (or more often) as they go about their global role.
