Determining final causes involved a speculation that outstripped human understanding, while formal causes were dismissed as occult qualities, simple assertions that things worked without an intelligible explanation of how they did so.
While it is true that the quality of the assertions varies substantially, it is also true that these structured sets of assertions represent a major resource in constructing automated annotation systems.
Second, although "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" is in many ways a realist novel (it is set in the recognizable world, it is full of real and familiar human beings, there is no formal experimentation at all), its very historical distance — its self-enclosed quality — represents an assertion of pure fictionality.
Happily, Wood partially eases his anxiety by suggesting that for Mitchell the setting offers similar intellectual rewards to his more obviously postmodern and structurally playful books like Cloud Atlas: "Its very historical distance – its self-enclosed quality – represents an assertion of pure fictionality.
It is our assertion that quality metrics are an important ingredient in improving the robustness of large real-world biometric systems.
Writer and sex worker Charlotte Shane expressed her frustration with the limitations of jokey misandry in Matter, saying, "For me, the insistence that misandry is mostly only a joke undermined its most potentially subversive quality: women's unequivocal assertion of their own rage".
While it reflected and replaced the previously common but not universal format of history, physical, lab, and plan, neither provided a description of quality beyond the implicit assertion that organization is a primary requirement of quality.
The assertions about air quality, health care and Social Security have been the subjects of commercials and automated phone-call campaigns by the Democratic National Committee.
JM Eagle, which is now based in Los Angeles, says the assertions of poor quality, contained in a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by a former employee, are false and without merit.
This finding confirms previous assertions that the quality of cancer care in Armenia needs more attention and improvement [ 28].
