Whether the avowing subject is to be credited with self-knowledge depends, he thinks, on how one understands "knowledge": in particular, on whether one takes knowledge to require justification.
In particular, inferences depend on whether a single pathway involving the SEBs is assumed to mediate the effect of the agent on cancer incidence.
Whether an action is right or wrong was to depend solely on the principle of action that lay behind it, and in particular on whether the agent could regard that principle as one that everyone ought to follow in all possible circumstances.
Humanity's future might one day depend on the initial conditions we create in particular, on whether we successfully design the system (e.g., the seed AI's goal architecture) in such a way as to make it "human-friendly," in the best possible interpretation of that term.
The commission's inquiries focussed in particular on whether the outside business activities of state legislators should be subject to tighter regulation.
In either case, everything appears to hinge on the American role in the post-cold-war world, and in particular on whether the United States can successfully persuade the international community to work in concert on a new security order.
Democrats suggested that they would focus in particular on whether Mr. Bush's tax cut, which they say was disproportionately tilted to the wealthy, had wrecked the government's fiscal health and limited its ability to deal with other issues.
Much will depend on how Japan's economy performs in the next year, and, in particular, on whether voters view the LDP's use of fiscal stimulus to boost the domestic economy as a success or a waste of public funds.
Might there yet be scope for a deal?Pressure from enemies, and friendsIf there is, that hope lies in the multilateral framework that the Bush administration has insisted on, and in particular on whether China takes an even more active and helpful part in the diplomacy.
Ironically, Mr Giuliani seems to have mined the same seam of public forgiveness that earlier saved his opponent's husband.In the end, Mr Giuliani's decision rests primarily on medical questions: and, in particular, on whether treatment would stop him campaigning effectively.
