Continue inserting piece "B" into piece "A".
In the philosophy of action we ask what the facts are in virtue of which a given piece of behavior is an intentional action; in questions about personal identity we ask what the facts are in virtue of which x and y are the same person; in ethics we ask what the facts are in virtue of which a given action is morally right or wrong.
"There was no intentional decision to exclude a piece of behavior," said Sarah Davies, senior vice president of analytics, research and product management at VantageScore Solutions, a joint venture of the three major credit reporting companies.
For example, when you give a child a piece of candy for good behavior or scold your spouse for forgetting to buy milk at the grocery store, you're training (or attempting to train) a behavior.
Start a behavior journal.
"The consequences in a complex system like a hospital for giving an incentive for one little piece of behavior are virtually impossible to foresee," said Dr. David U. Himmelstein, professor of public health at the City University of New York and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School, who has reviewed the literature on performance incentives.
That reality demands a technological solution, which sorts through billions of pieces of online behavior and sifts through thousands of timely topics—up to 5,000 such categories, to be exact to enable a business to craft a scalable marketing campaign in minutes.
It is of a piece with her behavior on the campaign trail, where she has demagogically been whipping up a climate of hatred toward Barack Obama.
By John Cassidy January 11 , 2017Trump's petulance in his first post-election press conference, as he berated reporters and sidestepped questions, was of a piece with his behavior during the campaign.
We can understand a piece of human behavior only when we have situated the agent's intentions within the two contexts of their role in the agent's history and their role within the history of their particular setting(s).
