"For mature adults in positions of ultimate responsibility to behave in that way is speech-defying.
Table 7 Effect of changing cutouts positions on ultimate load.
So, as the speculation intensifies, and as all the punditry focuses on what is right for Romney, or for the Republicans, it is worthwhile to remember that the issue priorities and positions of his ultimate choice should really matter to us, too.
Restate every claim and position for ultimate rhetorical effect.
The anti-essentialist position of rejecting an ultimate nature in phenomena enables a Mādhyamika, such as Śāntarakṣita in this case, to avoid the "extreme" of clinging to objects as permanent, or more precisely, as enduring for more than a moment.
Deep down we all still want to be mothered, and yet suddenly, as parents we are thrust into the position of being the ultimate protector: we are a combination bodyguard, singer of lullabies, solace and stuff provider, and full-time answerer of unanswerable questions.
Against that, many people hold that only individual human beings can be of ultimate value a position that might be described as "value-individualism" (Hartney 1991; Ellis 2005; Kukathas 1992, 112; Narveson 1991, 329, 335 45).
This conception of metaphysics as offering an account of the world or, as is more often said, of experience as a whole, accords more obviously with the position of those who see ultimate reality as immanent, or inherent in what is immediately known, than of those who take it to be transcendent, or beyond the limits of ordinary experience.
