Learning by ear at first, Tatum was taught formally at the Toledo School of Music – there was no jazz pianist to touch him for speed, precision and ideas from the 1930s to the 50s.
But no sensible person arrives at Bard expecting feats of orchestral precision; the idea is to deliver, with limited rehearsal time, good-enough readings of offbeat repertory.
He suggested it would look better designed as one piece that "evoked a sense of high precision" – an idea Jobs often returned to with Apple's chief design officer Jonathan Ive.
Sous-vide technology has taken hold in modern restaurant kitchens because it is based on a simple and fundamental idea: precision cooking of foods at carefully selected temperatures for precise lengths of time.
Most, if not all, of these accounts of validity can be thought of as variant ways of giving formal precision to the idea that necessity is truth in every possible world or conceivable state of affairs.
Literary precision includes the idea of effect, pace, register, intensity and much else.
To add some precision to this idea, Kitcher distinguishes three schemes of values: a broad scheme, a cognitive scheme and a probative scheme.
While the distinction between equal treatment and treatment as equals is difficult to make out with precision, the main idea is fairly clear: treatment as equals requires that persons are not treated equally, but rather treated in accordance with what rights they possess, what legitimate claims they put forward, and, in general, with what they deserve.
These disciplines articulate with mathematical precision the basic idea that practical rationality is a matter of consistency in action: people act rationally to the extent they do what is likely to bring about the best state of affairs, given both their preferences over the outcomes that may be brought about through their agency and their beliefs about the probability of those outcomes.
There is a misjudged air of precision in the idea of a renewed and extended war that closes at 18 months because that "benchmark" was settled in advance.
