His work provides a striking illustration of the heuristic usefulness of a manipulationist framework in specifying what it is to give such systems a causal interpretation.[1] Pearl characterizes the notion of an intervention by reference to a primitive notion of a causal mechanism.
Weyl characterizes the notion of a symmetric linear connection as follows: Definition A.1 (Affine Connection) Let \(T M_{p})\) denote the tangent space of \(M\) at \(p \in M\).
If so, what is at issue in the objection is not panpsychism so much as the possibility that the paradigms or exemplars in terms of which one characterizes the notion of the physical might turn out to be radically different from what we normally assume in a quite specific sense — they might turn out to be in some essential or ultimate respect mental.
For when it comes to characterizing the notion of perceptual experience in general, the disjunctive approach emphasizes the limits of our powers of discrimination, rather than appealing to a substantive condition that an event must meet to be an experience, and in addition ascribing to us cognitive powers to recognize the presence of this substantive condition.
It enables the logician to characterize the notion of logical truth irrespective of the supply of nonlogical constants that happen to be available to be substituted for variables, although this supply had to be used in the characterization that turned on the idea of logical form.
For example, it is far from obvious how to characterize the notion of an intervention so as to avoid the various counterexamples to standard statements of the manipulability theory such as the theory of Menzies and Price.
The archdiocese has referred calls about Father Pfleger to Bishop Joseph Perry, who characterized the notion of paying prostitutes as "somewhat out of the norm".
Hence, before moving on to refinements in characterizing the notion of rigidity, I rehearse here a famous application made by Saul Kripke, who coined the word 'rigid designator'.
