One could adopt an instrumentalist attitude toward the theoretical entities posited by science, whilst continuing to believe that whatever entities the world actually does contain exist independently of our conceptions and perceptions of them.
Tuesday's verdict essentially posited that the balance in California has swung so far toward job protection for teachers that it violates students' constitutional right to a quality education.
Consequently many researchers have posited that each individual has a characteristic "set point" level of happiness, toward which he tends to gravitate over time.
Miles away, Mr. Freshwater's pastor, Don Matolyak, posited that the criticism of Mr. Freshwater was part of a larger trend toward bigotry against Christians.
In a famous article in 1989, Francis Fukuyama posited that we were witnessing "the end of history"; from that time forward, the theory went, mankind would drift inexorably away from totalitarianism toward individual freedom and democracy.
State support for culture — long posited as a taxpayer's right, like decent roads or health care — is showing distinct signs of erosion, with a move toward the American fund-raising model, which suggests that art is a luxury to be paid for by those to whom it matters.
Ignoring or unaware of a variety of facts many indigenous peoples enjoyed a much better standard of living than European peasants, for instance Hobbes and other scholars posited that everything that was good and civilized resulted from the slow development away from this "lowly" state and toward the "higher" state represented by the cultures of Europe.
Further, we feel that it is highly unlikely that in our setting the propensity adjustment made the bias worse (as posited by Carter et al. [ 1] and Sherlock [ 3]) because the propensity score adjustment decreased the estimated effect of HBOT toward 1 (no effect) and not in the other direction (1, 3).
45 In addition, the absence of relative improvements in perceived social support or satisfaction with the mother-daughter relationship, especially within the TEAM arm, after working toward a common goal over the 1-year intervention period are of interest, although it could be posited that high baseline levels may have reduced the ability to detect change.
Traditional accounts posit that attitudes toward redistribution are driven by economic self-interest or ideological principles.
Reproduction, he posited, could emancipate us from cultlike reverence toward art and make us keener, more politicized critics.
