In this paper, I focus this question on one desideratum widely invoked in the modelling literature: generality.
The restoration of the legibility of this erased text is one of the desiderata of our project.
If, on the other hand, one insists on speaking strictly, then (Lewis admits) one is forced to acknowledge that there are desiderata of moral values (such as the authoritative practical oomph that Mackie goes to such efforts to articulate) that these dispositions do not satisfy.
Globally, the three most important desiderata of our age — security, resilience and poverty reduction — are consistently being hollowed out by structural theft on a much larger scale, operating across corporations, governments, military establishments and civil services.
(Hempel's dismissal, in 1951, of this pragmatic indicator presupposes the desiderata of the formalist project).
So a precise probabilist cannot satisfy these reasonable desiderata of suspension of judgement.
Polyhierarchy and multiple inheritance are indisputable desiderata of terminology systems [ 60].
Over 40 years ago Richard Levins (Levins 1966) pointed out that model building is constrained by 'the conflicting desiderata of generality, realism, and precision'.
Others have developed an axiomatic approach based on natural desiderata for degrees of belief (e.g., Cox 1961).
To account for its remarkable circulation, I tug on a red thread binding music pedagogy of the German Reformation from Fulda to Faber: recurring emphasis on the ancient oratorical desideratum of brevitas.
If consumer advocacy seems like a strange modern lens to train on what used to be the great desideratum of millions of American families — getting accepted into, and graduating from, a good college, or indeed any college at all — it certainly speaks to the great leveling that the Internet has wrought in terms of consumption.
