If two different assignments of beliefs and desires would make equally good sense of an agent's dispositions, the more natural assignment is the correct one.
This chapter discusses the process models of lumped systems in their "canonical" form, where the equations and variables are classified and the "natural" set of design variables and "natural" assignment are selected.
Under the natural assignment of probabilities to members of F, we obtain such welcome results as P {1}) = 1/6, P even) = P {2} ∪ {4} ∪ {6}) = 3/6, P odd or less than 4) = P odd) + P(less than 4) − P odd ∩ less than 4) = 1/2 + 1/2 − 2/6 = 4/6, and so on.
Although recent decades have witnessed a rapid development of this research program in scope and sophistication, causal inference has proven to be a persistent dilemma due to the natural assignment of exposure level based on unmeasured attributes of individuals, which may lead to substantial confounding.
This brigade was composed of four battalions from the smaller states, and would have been a natural assignment for a regular officer had Prime Minister Robert Menzies not restricted commands to senior posts to Militia officers, few of whom had much experience of the Army outside their home states.
33 Our study population of medical novices provided an excellent group both for observing teamwork and the natural assignment as leader and follower, and for training in teamwork and the assignment of roles within a team.
Photographing critically endangered Virunga mountain gorillas in the early 1980s, at a time when their population had hit its lowest point, was Nick's first natural history assignment.
(Chinen) Renee Rosnes: Music of the Piano Masters (Tuesday through Oct. 16) Ms. Rosnes is not only a resourceful pianist but also a student of her instrument's role in jazz, which makes her a natural for this assignment.
(Chinen) Renee Rosnes: Music of the Piano Masters (Friday through Sunday) Ms. Rosnes is not only a resourceful pianist but also a student of her instrument's role in jazz, which makes her a natural for this assignment.
Another possible opportunity for making causal inferences is in natural experiments, where assignment to the treatment is not generated by a purely random mechanism but is exogenous to the system of interest.
