The GPs may not necessarily be conscious of making particular decisions and choices, but rather act from a rehearsed repertoire of methods and tools [ 16].
It was the argument that Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and so many others made to justify the particular acts they chose to endorse to protect us against Communism.
To those two familiar problems we can add one more: Can retributivists make sense of punishments that do not aim to inflict suffering, but that reflect the idea that a wrongdoer's particular acts make her unfit to retain certain rights going forward?
The first are those whose main verb, called 'performative verb,' makes explicit the particular act that the speaker is performing in producing the utterance.
As this makes clear, the attitudes expressed were towards classes of acts, and not particular acts.
It is not a matter of particular acts of cruelty or violence, specific forms of social pathology, or this or that person who has made a disastrous choice.
Semantic Twist Accounts hold that metaphor results from the interaction or interanimation of words and word meanings as they are brought together and act on each other in the settings provided by particular utterances made on particular concrete occasions.
"Lifting the anonymity of these functionaries may make them think twice from time to time when considering a particular act of cruelty," one anonymous Obama aide told CNN.
But remember, no particular act of corruption destroyed boxing either.
What made this particular class so special?
