Dress, hairstyle, sexual activity (more OR less).
Dewey often writes as though at each stage of development of the method of logic (of science) the next stage is more or less already specified; for example, at any stage of indeterminacy, Dewey writes as if the relevant hypothesis or hypotheses to test at the next stage are more or less already determined.
However, the vast majority of card solitaires, reflecting the most usual understanding of the word, denote an activity whereby the player starts with a shuffled pack and attempts, by following a more-or-less complicated series of maneuvers specified by the rules, to get all the cards arranged in numerical order, often also separated into their component suits.
If you have a little more or less barley than specified, these recipes will still work and be filling and delicious.
Consequently, between 1933 and 1936 before collective bargaining actually began all the key elements of the modern workplace regime fell more or less into place: specified, uniform rights for workers (beginning with seniority and pay equity); a formal procedure to adjudicate grievances arising from those rights; and a structure of shop-floor representation to implement the grievance procedure.
That is, one might specify the material cause of a statue more or less proximately, by specifying the character of the matter more or less precisely.
Perhaps a fair compromise is to use an "intervention ladder" that defines broad categories of intervention as more or less intrusive, then specifies broad categories of circumstance that require especially robust consent in some cases and only minimal consent in others (Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2007, 41 3)?
I'm of an age to call someone roughly other like Giggs "pop", but he more or less inhabits some highly specified area that flickers in and around hip-hop and gangsta rap and the knotty domestic deviation, grime, that added certain ragged home truths and electronically quarried sonic grit to grabby, waggish hip-hop alertness.
For example, in comparing English and German we find that where the surface structures of English and German contrast, English is less specified, leaving more to context [6], thus, ".German speakers are forced to make certain semantic distinctions which can regularly be left unspecified in English" [6], p. 28).
