Enlightenment values are, for them, not merely universal, since they derive from reason, but they are 'our' universals, rooted in Western culture.
Yet the compliment is not merely inverted, since even freakish mastery of such tricks does not account for those impalpable gifts — the tremor of presence on the page, the overflow of vitality — which rival the abundance, even gratuitousness, of nature itself.
However, at another level the dispute is not merely verbal, since what we are calling "institutions" would on such a view consist simply of sets of conventions, social norms or rules.
(Since the perturbations need to be genuinely random and not merely unpredictable, and since classical mechanics is deterministic, the same sort of argument could be run with indeterminism instead of irreversibility.
Right-handedness and left-handedness are not merely anthropic concepts since nature itself insists on handedness in twining plants and the shells of snails (2: 380).
In the case of erythroid differentiation, activation of PI3K/AKT is not merely an association, since blockade of this pathway inhibits differentiation [26], [27], [28].
This is not merely an annoyance, since it serves to make some kinds of insight unavailable when costs, complexity or time pressures make conventional medical research unavailable.
A movement is not merely a perpetuated crowd, since a crowd does not possess organizational and motivational mechanisms capable of sustaining membership through periods of inaction and waiting.
It is not merely the greatest invention since writing, as Lord Anthonyy) Giddens suggested; it is the most revolutionary event in the history of the human psyche since the first hunter-gatherers began to conceive of gods who had access to their most private thoughts and develop rituals to honour and appease them.
The shock was not merely that Bowie – long since presumed retired – was back, with an album, The Next Day, to follow in March; it was that one of the biggest stars in the history of rock music had managed to spend two years making a record without even a hint of rumour reaching the wider world.
