The view suggested here, however, is not positivism, but its inverse, which should be much less controversial: different likelihoods implies different theories.
Tackling 'the problem of pleasure maximum', in the early 1910s, Neurath argued that cardinal measures for comparative utility, or pleasure values, could not be determined for the same individual, much less for different individuals (Neurath 1912/1973).
The "cheap-energy mind," as Wendell Berry called it, is the mind that asks, "Why bother?" because it is helpless to imagine — much less attempt — a different sort of life, one less divided, less reliant.
"One of the difficulties of being a Christian within the law is that you're administering a system which doesn't claim to be Christian and the standards which law expects of people are often much less and rather different from the standards that Christians expect of themselves," he says in an interview for a religious education website.
Usually, when genes have been favored by selection, neighboring genes show much less variation among different individuals.
But I do think that once self-driving technology hits a certain tipping point, it will cause us — or at least a sizable cohort of us — to re-evaluate a lot of the fundamentals of modern society which are so essential that we rarely even think about them any more, much less question how different the world would be if they were upended.
In this study, we found that although health workers were satisfied with their jobs in general, they were much less satisfied with different elements of their work environment.
The average time interval between different micro-states is much less than that of different macro-states.
It may be that this mentalizing process is different in people with autism, who may perform this type of thinking much less, or in a different way (Lai et al., 2014).
