For it may be that a speaker's grasp of the meaning of the constants consists in her mastery of these rules: her disposition to accept inferences conforming to the rules as "primitively compelling" (Peacocke 1987, Hodes 2004).
Such rule-learning, he claims, allows what he calls an interpretation of the rules in particular cases, where an increasingly refined judgment comes from an increasingly refined mastery of the rules in question.
She lends Lady Susan a sense of lightly borne self-mastery that matches her mastery of the rules of the social game that she's compelled to play.
Unlike the presidency, which periodically comes under the control of outsiders, Congress rewards sheer longevity, mastery of obscure rules and inoffensiveness to colleagues.
Yet recent research has found that true experts have something at least as valuable as a mastery of the rules: gut instinct, an instantaneous grasp of the type of problem they're up against.
JOHN S. KOPPEL Bethesda, Md. To the Editor: I found myself nodding in agreement at Noam Scheiber's statement that "Congress rewards sheer longevity, mastery of obscure rules and inoffensiveness to colleagues".
'Teachers' Who Sell Insurance agents who want to sell policies on base at Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego, must first pass a written test on their mastery of military rules.
Indeed, it assumes that judges, with their specialized training and their mastery of the rules of evidence, are much better equipped than jurors to put aside emotion and ignore evidence that might bias a decision.
PAGE C1 Science Times BRAIN CALISTHENICS FOR ABSTRACT IDEAS Recent research on how we learn has found that true experts have something at least as valuable as a mastery of the rules: gut instinct, an instant grasp of the type of problem they're up against.
Confucianism mandated strict adherence to a social contract in which: a) the clan, not the individual, is the basic building block of society and b) upward mobility is tantamount to mastery of "the rules".
At that point, the Republican mastery of Senate rules even when they're in the minority combined with European financial muscle could threaten even Boeing, which is no slouch itself in power politics in the U.S. and internationally.
