In other words, cultural (a preferable term to civilisational) aspects shape societies' worldviews, but culture is not an impermeable barrier to a wider model of order that can bring different regimes together.
As Lanchester writes, "Modernist Cuisine" developed out of Myhrvold's interest in new ways of preparing food, including the approach often known as "molecular gastronomy" (though Lanchester argues that "modernist cuisine" is a preferable term).
At one point, for example, Hershleder refers to LeClerc as a revisionist, then quickly corrects himself: "No, denier is the preferable term". There's a deeply informed understanding behind his remark.
Cosmogony and creation myth are used as synonyms, yet properly speaking, cosmogony is a preferable term because it refers to the origin of the world in a neutral fashion, whereas creation myth implies a creator and something created, an implication unsuited to a number of myths that, for example, speak of the origin of the world as a growth or emanation, rather than an act.
"Thoracic catch" may be a preferable term because it can be experienced on the right side of the chest too.
One is more preferable in terms of area whereas the other is superior in terms of power consumption.
The results showed that the BCR is preferable in terms of energy efficiency.
However, for hardware implementation, controllers with lower orders are preferable in terms of computing efforts and cost.
Calcium carbonate formation on crack mouth is preferable in terms of water tightness; however, this formation decreases the recovery of mechanical properties.
If the covariance structure is unknown, the optimal design based on a first-order auto-regressive structure with measurement error is preferable in terms of robustness against misspecification of the covariance structure.
