I think we've just got to grow up over this debate and recognise what matters to the patient, what matters to the public is, 'Is there a good, free national health service, free to me at the point of use that's giving me the operation I need, the care I need, the support I need?'".
We recognise that matters are fluid, and any report of ours may be overtaken by events.
"As a novelist, I'm conscious that your pressure on the world to recognise you matters," says Lethem.
"That said, I recognise the subject matter, even if I'm having a lot of trouble relating to it".
They think they are able to recognise dark-matter collisions by measuring the minuscule flash of light generated in each collision, as well as the heat.
As for value, it's about making a case for it – recognising what matters to the client and demonstrating how your expertise will make a difference.
At the UN's founding conference in San Francisco in 1945, Truman, the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, sought to make clear what this commitment involved: "We all have to recognise, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please," he said.
Informants experienced that health care sometimes does not fulfil their promises and obligations and they believe that more resources should have been made available, but at the same time recognise the matter of limited resources as well.
Ms Lamont accused the first minister of only just recognising the matter of childcare, while she had known it to be an issue "all of my working life".
8. Recognise that leadership matters.
