Mr. Liu, branded a criminal by the Chinese leadership, committed a terrible sin in a country that may be a modern economic titan but still harbors primitive attitudes in regard to free expression.
For the inundation of New York, I went to Freud and primitive attitudes toward violent weather events, trying to make sense of that which seizes you and throws you against a new wall of experience.
On the other hand, the two notions need to be distinct –– if it is to be plausible that having a primitive normative attitude does not require concepts like those of rule or truth.
On Ginsborg's account, however, the (primitive) normative attitudes required for genuinely meaningful use of linguistic expressions do not determine semantic correctness conditions for these expressions –– that job is to be done by the speaker's basic dispositions to use them.
Fearful as some of us are about exhibiting a too-primitive and "demonizing" attitude — the kind of macho Us-versus-Them, Axis-of-Evil line of thinking that has made Bush and Company figures of easy derision — we have become increasingly tentative about assigning this stark designation.
"We haven't started the study because finding companies that could manufacture the drug and who are prepared to go through the regulatory hoops to get the licence is proving very difficult," said Nutt. "The whole field is so bedevilled by primitive old-fashioned attitudes.
Starting from an agent's wishes, which form the primitive, most fundamental motivational attitude, we define its goals as induced by those wishes that do not yet hold, i.e., are unfulfilled, but are within the agent's practical possibility to bring about, i.e., are implementable for the agent.
It is just a primitive fact about these attitudes (and many others) that they have this sort of incompatibility.
It isn't Tarzan who changes -- he remains an amiable, dim-witted hunk, with improbably Brylcreemed hair and a vocabulary that seldom gets beyond his all-purpose exhortation, "Ungawa!"-- but rather Jane and Jane's attitude toward her primitive lover.
(4) Scale, rotate, and translate the primitive cylinder to the correct size, attitude, and position (Figure 18).
