I always marvel when someone who knows their singing abilities are nonexistent marches up on stage and sings their favorite song (horrifically), just because they feel like singing.
What Locke must be committed to, then, is not the mind's ability to resurrect nonexistent ideas but its power to produce new ideas that are similar in certain respects to ideas it has had before.
In many countries where public health infrastructure is rudimentary, deteriorating, or nonexistent, efforts to improve the ability to conduct electronic disease surveillance include more robust data collection methods and enhanced analysis capability (6, 7 ).
The lack of persistence in returns does not imply that differential ability across managers is nonexistent or unrewarded or that gathering information about performance is socially wasteful.
That might seem like a lot of intellectual firepower for parsing the distinctions between fairies and mermaids, but the ability to think about nonexistent things isn't just handy for playing parlor games on Halloween.
Normative and doctrinal analyses of the phenomenon are virtually nonexistent, in part because the current ability to measure and report concentration is so limited.
The government's lack of access to money frozen in foreign accounts has made the projected trade surplus nearly nonexistent, raising concerns over the government's ability to cover the costs of this year's budget.
Before the 2001 attacks the ability to do this was almost nonexistent.
Successfully tackling a major subject of art history on a virtually nonexistent budget would seem to be beyond human ability, though apparently not to the Royal Academy curators' endeavor.
The effects are weak to nonexistent for those who merely have a passable ability, infrequently used, in a second language).Why bilinguals seem to do better in quite a few differently designed studies does, however, need more research.
