The variability with which institutions have addressed this issue, or how faculty have acted on these concerns, makes discourse about the human subjects concerns difficult for those involved in medical education as a profession.
It has frequently been claimed that the use of the passive in scientific discourse is a way of not mentioning the identity of the agent, and thus making the discourse more impersonal.
Politicians had been making a discourse out of what it means to be French for years.
"The Lincoln speech was part of a series, showing that you are capable of making extended discourse," said Harold Holzer, a vice president at the Metropolitan Museum or Art, whose book, "Lincoln at Cooper Union," inspired Mr. Gingrich to enlist both Cooper Union and Mr. Cuomo.
Counterpart theory was first introduced by Lewis in "Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic" (1968) as a way of making modal discourse extensional.
This is the handiwork of "promisomics" (Chadwick and Zwart [2013]), i.e. the co-constructive framing, monitoring and management of promises, counteracting fabulation and making promisory discourse more convincing, reliable and relevant.
That's a worthy and difficult question, and it hinges on choosing among conflicting societal preferences: supporting sustainable agricultural practices and family farms, protecting and restoring wilderness, maintaining historical and cultural values, and other difficult and highly subjective factors -- precisely the things that make public discourse, discussion, and debate important.
According to Seoane "a basic function of the passive in scientific discourse... is to defocus or suppress the agent in order to make the discourse impersonal" (2006, 201).
Leading a great country demands a deeper level of discourse, and it also demands a President able to use the mass media to make that discourse understandable to large numbers of people.
In short, a purely evolutionary ethics makes ethical discourse meaningless.
