The government's theory is that providing defense-related information to an entity that published it for the world to see constituted aiding the enemy because the world includes adversaries, like Al Qaeda, who could read the documents online.
Nāgārjuna differentiates between the property we see as constituting an individual (such as roundness in the case of a circle, treeness in the case of a tree etc).
The assumptions and principles that we (along with Aristotle) see as constituting the philosophical foundations of their theories are, for the most part, implicit in the claims that they make.
It cannot be what we actually see that constitutes an artwork, he wrote in his famous article The Artworld (1964), any more than it is what we see which shows us that the man in front of us is not just a material body but a person.
Hitting a partner in the face is generally seen as constituting abuse, but many people don't understand the power of day-in-day-out bullying.
We see what constituted a man's 'goodness' in Ancient Rome".
You only have to look at the recent Oscar contenders such as There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Departed, The Hurt Locker or, more recently, The Bad Lieutenant to see what constitutes a "serious" film.
Given that single-sex bathrooms have never been seen as constituting sex discrimination, the tricky question is whether limiting them based on biological sex, rather than gender, does indeed discriminate on the basis of sex.
Nevertheless, the fact that there existed this range of possible explanations all assuming the existence of atoms can be seen as constituting evidence for atoms by those favouring inferences to the best explanation.
First, a philosopher who denied the existence of those things that had once been seen as constituting the subject-matter of metaphysics first causes or unchanging things would now be considered to be making thereby a metaphysical assertion.
