If one is to defend a positive epistemic attitude regarding scientific theories, it is rational to do so not merely in connection with any theory (especially when one considers that, over the long history of the sciences up to the present, some theories were not or are not especially successful), but rather with respect to theories that would appear, prima facie, to merit such a defence, viz.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that Majors was merely arrested in connection with the 2015 hit-and-run.
But never in connection with evil.
But they did not reveal whether the arrest was linked specifically to the ricin investigation, saying merely that it was "in connection with the nationwide ongoing investigation into international terrorism".
"In addition, merely because a document filed in connection with the motions at issue here was sealed does not meant it will be sealed if it is offered at trial".
After initially boasting about her achievement on Facebook, Iraqi has now backtracked, claiming she was merely trying to promote sexual health in connection with World Aids Day.
It is all about making special connections, not merely in the ear and the brain, but with other people – something, as humans, we are hardwired to do.
SimCity is a traditional strategy game in that it is presented at a level of abstraction where individual people are nothing more than antlike dots; there is little emotional, as opposed to merely proprietary, connection.
Yet you distinguish this merely subjective connection from the objective connection between sides of the house, which is objective because the sides of the house necessarily belong together "in the object," because this connection holds for everyone universally, and because it is possible to be mistaken about it.
Some doubt the relevance of empirical considerations to the debate over internalism in ethics, arguing that since internalism claims a necessary or conceptual link between moral judgments and motivation, externalism is compatible with any merely contingent connection.
Since, in the case of the concept of cause, we are dealing with what Kant had earlier called a real ground, Kant holds that we need a synthetic rather than merely analytic connection between the two.
