Far from being genuinely mechanical, such calculations involve a distinctive kind of thought.
But the fixed-gear fad here also involves a distinctive nostalgia, Mr. Courvalin said, a yearning for an era of French "insouciance".
First, it involves a distinctive sensory experience.
First, it clearly involves a distinctive sensory experience.
It involves a "distinctive quality" (p. 55) which emerges, rather than merely being resultant, from the neural process (p. 14).
Friendship essentially involves a distinctive kind of concern for your friend, a concern which might reasonably be understood as a kind of love.
The "golden triangle" also involves a distinctive rationalist account of modal epistemology, according to which ideal apriori conceivability is a fail-safe guide to metaphysical possibility.
Again, whether love essentially involves a distinctive kind of evaluation, and if so how to make sense of that evaluation, is hotly disputed.
But if an informational relationship between gene and phenotype is supposed to involve a distinctive instruction-like mode of causation, then this cannot be information in Shannon's sense.
When a person believes that P, she endorses or accepts the proposition that P; when a person intends to F, she endorses or accepts the practition, 'I [am] to F.' Roughly a practition ascribes an action property F to an agent, but the ascription involves a distinctive type of predication that essentially carries some kind of imperative force.
