At bottom, this is a pessimistic stance: if there is a prima facie structural resemblance between a mode of speech or thought and some ontological category, it is inferred, pessimistically, that the ontological category is an illusion, a matter of us projecting the structure of our language or thought into the world.
Many women have skewed self-perceptions, and a number of us project those insecurities onto a few isolated features.
For example, when we can't handle what is going on in our life, some of us project our accumulated fears and anxiety onto someone else, and that's what we see when we look at that person.
Unfortunately, when the going gets tough, too many of us project our own imbalances out onto our partner and end up lashing out by blaming and judging them or withdrawing our caring.
Instead, it resulted in the cancellation of major US projects such as the Superconducting Super Collider, the proposed particle accelerator near Waxahachie, Texas, that was abandoned in 1993.
42 percent of us are projected to be obese, placing a huge strain on our already compromised health care system.
But that, again, is the point: Clegg has a transparent quality, a nondescriptness, that allows each of us to project on to him our deepest aspirations.
It restrains all of us from projecting a 4% GDP pace next year.
What is happening on the inside of us inevitably projects itself onto our lives, more accurately, it creates our lives.
Some of us are projecting our views of evolution as obtained from the study of vertebrate phylogeny, which is tree-like, onto prokaryote evolution, which is not.
