Such pragmatism, which encourages "decentralized initiative within the framework of centralized political authority," helps to explain phenomena that otherwise seem contradictory.
Emerson's "epistemology of moods" is an attempt to construct a framework for encompassing what might otherwise seem contradictory outlooks, viewpoints, or doctrines.
Enacting measures such as quarantine or a travel ban on everyone, when evidence says otherwise, sends contradictory messages to an already scared population.
An often-overlooked aspect of weight-of-evidence evaluation is the importance of noting when causative explanations have been accommodated to account for results already in hand and when post hoc additions or modifications to hypotheses have been constructed to explain what might otherwise be contradictory findings.
The five in "Kismet" all work serially, but the show is otherwise more playfully contradictory than thematically unified.
Otherwise, Washington's current contradictory approach ensures that Lieberman's claim of another generation without peace will not only prove prophetic, but optimistic.
Importantly, this approach explicitly considered an often-overlooked aspect of weight-of-evidence evaluation by also addressing when causal explanations have been devised to account for results already in hand or when post hoc additions or modifications to hypotheses are constructed to explain what might otherwise be considered as contradictory findings.
Furthermore these arguments, to be consistent, need to be formulated in a way which does not pre-suppose the existence of entities like "mental states", "logical arguments", and "ideas", otherwise they are self-contradictory.
Although such abstract or overarching theory does not usually provide specific rules that can be applied to particular situations, it does supply a 'language from which to construct particular descriptions and themes', 19 and can reveal assumptions and world-views that would otherwise remain underarticulated or internally contradictory.
