Indeed the word Vorstellung has an important but shifting philosophical pedigree in German idealism: for Kant, it is the basis of concepts and intuitions (Anschauungen); for Hegel, it is the preliminary form of the concept before it is specified and developed as idea, associated with feelings and hence its proper sphere of expression is art.
Still, the Tea Party Debt Commission says that its proposals, which will be released in preliminary form on Tuesday, add up to $6 trillion in savings over 10 years — more than the reductions proposed by President Obama, or Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin who is the chairman of the House Budget Committee, or the report of a bipartisan commission last year.
At the Lark, writers are encouraged to submit plays in preliminary form or scenes they are unsure of.
The preliminary form exists in cultures in which the chieftain is regarded as divine.
The big local phone companies said previously that they would challenge the rules after the F.C.C. adopted them in preliminary form in February.
Though the idea is still in a very preliminary form, physicists are intrigued by the implication that reality may have started with just a single dimension: time.
TheWB.com, which appeared in preliminary form on Aug. 27, will play full episodes of vintage shows produced by the Warner Brothers studio, not all of which appeared on the WB network, including the Teflon sitcom "Friends" and the camp delight "O.C".
Haggling over reforms expected to focus on eradicating corruption, overturning the tax system and modernising Athens'dysfunctional public administration will take months – if, indeed, creditors accept them in preliminary form on Monday.
Sales of the tablets, which use a preliminary form of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, have been fueled by prices that are below RIM's cost for making the devices.
