Stepping back from the moral cognitivist/noncognitivist debate to the more general moral realist/anti-realist debate, can we detect a pattern in the dialectic indicating that burden of proof exercises of this kind generally favor one side over the other?
The psychology of Zumba is a heady cocktail of social proof, exercise-induced endorphins and self-induced blindness.
The carefully crafted spectacle of the presidential election with its nail-biting primaries, mud-slinging debates, caucuses, super-delegates, popular votes and electoral colleges has become a fool-proof exercise in how to persuade a gullible citizenry into believing that their votes matter.
"The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits," Bushnell replied, "but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
This program is proof that exercise and fitness in the right environment have a remarkable impact on the quality of life of those struggling with chronic injury & illness.
The formulations and proofs of other results, which are similar and whose proofs use standard techniques, we leave to the reader as some exercises.
But he and Matt Rodell, a Ph.D. candidate under his supervision, threw themselves into investigating whether Grace would work, a so-called "proof of concept" exercise that turned out to show that Grace data was reliable and could support groundwater studies.
If some of the services in Fig. 4 are in place the actual data and processes content is rather small as this was a proof of concept exercise.
In interviews, lead author Seth Shipman suggests that it's a proof of concept exercise meant to model a future in which cells record a kind of living record of their own existences.
As a proof of concept exercise, and also with an intent to provide a flexible coordination facility for the Harness system, Sun's JavaSpace interface was implemented as a Harness plug-in.
He calls the proof "an instructive exercise in elementary point-set topology"; it involves viewing sets of positional values as Stone spaces and noticing that their real representations are given by continuous functions.
