Does the acceptance of a programme involve the literal belief in its truth by every single person in the scientific community?
I believe that what Broad is driving at here is that perceptual consciousness has a presentational nature, and it is this that makes it plausible to regard it as involving the literal presence of objects with various qualities, such as colours in the case of visual perception, sounds in auditory, etc. Broad's theory of perception employs an act-object analysis of sensations.
Beane and Brand are marvelously and vividly human, even though their approach to the game involves the almost literal dehumanization of the players, who are converted from flesh and blood into ciphers of pure probability.
The complicated plot, which makes more metaphorical than literal sense, involves the desperate struggle of Magnatronics and its equally ruthless and determined American competitor, which owns a worldwide network of pornographic Web sites called Demonlover, to control the cutting-edge technology of Tokyoanime, a Japanese company.
I think that what is usually called literal translation, which involves the replacement of terms in the object language with terms in the target language with little respect for differences of syntax, involves, for ancient Greek texts, absolute violence to our language in almost every case.
Whether in an attempt to win him back or to find some kind of closure she seems unsure, but it's a journey – both literal and metaphorical – that involves the laying of old ghosts to rest for both of them.
That 1990 case involved the kind of literal copying that the law clearly prohibits.
Discourse analysis involves looking beyond the literal meaning of language, understanding the context in which social interaction takes place and exploring what was said, when and why.
Whether the texts are narrative or expository, tests must assess different comprehension levels, which involve the abilities to: (a) identify literal information; (b) make inferences; (c) reorganize information and; (d) make critical judgments (Alderson, 2000).
While there is no literal bathing involved, the concept of experiencing all of your senses while strolling in the woods has significant wellness rewards.
