This is because modeling or predicting climate change impact on predominantly subsistent farmers at global level is a very difficult task due to the lack of ordinary descriptions, lack or difficulty to get benchmark data, unique location, and the households' ability to integrate on-farm and off-farm activities, and lastly the farmers' susceptibility to a range of stressors (IPCC 2007b).
The scenario contained ordinary descriptions without professional terminology in order to facilitate students' motivation and to elicit their concepts of the clinical problems.
Ordinary description here is scant.
The ordinary description of the world, on this conception, leaves it largely open what reality in itself is like.
'Petrarch', on this view, may be a disguised ordinary description meaning the same as 'The famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance'.
If our ordinary description were true then this would mean that how reality appears to us is how it in fact is.
This distinction would not allow for the option that our ordinary description of reality is true, while the question how reality is in itself is left open by this.
Although it is unclear how these different approaches relate to each other, all of them have the potential for allowing for that our ordinary description of the world in terms of mid-size objects, mathematics, morality, and so on, is literally true, while at the same time these truths leave it open what the world, so to speak, deep down, really, and ultimately is like.
One difficulty with the formulation above is that ordinary physical descriptions, such as systems of differential equations, generally ascribe uncountably many states to physical systems, whereas ordinary computational descriptions, such as Turing machine tables, ascribe at most countably many states.
He proposes that ordinary language descriptions of causal relations have to be submitted to redescriptions in terms of the vocabularies of scientific theories that mark out natural kinds.
Kripke presented the argument as an argument that proper names like 'Nixon' are not synonymous with ordinary definite descriptions like 'the first US president from California', rather than an argument for singular propositions, the existence of which he never endorsed in print.
