In at least some of the cases of putative 'abstract objects', the key thought may just be that the items in question are either types or universals, rather than tokens or particulars, and are to be counted as abstract in some sense which is derivative from this.
And Donald Trump is the right one to do that!" The putative savager seemed pleased with that thought, as he did with Palin's entire presentation.
If the firing of the gun was purely reflexive, he lacked criminal capacity; if there was a thought process, it was "putative private defence" (self-defence) because he believed he was in danger – that an intruder was coming out of the toilet.
He had no second thoughts about working with the putative jazz avant-garde, or with hip-hop; he dived right in.
The attraction that simple subjectivism, contextualism, and non-cognitivism share is that if moral thoughts consist in attitudes or beliefs about standards one endorses, their putative non-contingent connection to motivation is unproblematic.
We have presented evidence for these putative processes, by showing that modifying processing biases decreases the frequency of intrusive thoughts, and reduces the depletion of attentional control by worry (Hirsch et al., 2009).
The problem for the eliminativist is how to explain these standardized regularities without appealing to putative facts about the test takers' mental lives i.e., to facts about their thoughts, desires, and reasoning abilities.
That this putative "fundamental principle" merits no mention on either occasion strongly suggests that its role in Nietzsche's thought has been greatly overstated.
Using sequence homology comparisons with IL-1β, putative IL-18 surface loops are identified and used as a starting point for design, including a loop region 1 thought to be equivalent with the Boraschi loop of IL-1β.
