On even more speculative ground, a recent iPad Air intro video offered a quick glimpse of the Pencil stylus by Fifty-Three, the creators of the well-regarded Paper iPad app.
research away from the study of rare liminal moments of mortal danger that occur in the lives of healthy people toward sick people in hospitals who die on the operating table and come back, Moody moved near-death research from the science of heightened experience within everyday life to shakier, speculative ground — the afterlife.
The only way to bring speculative and practical reason "into that relation of equality in which reason in general can be used purposively" is to affirm the postulates on the grounds that pure practical reason has primacy over speculative reason.
The second, political and speculative, although grounded in historical truth, relates the interaction between Ho and a pair of operatives in the United States Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the C.I.A).
Heightened political, staff retention and commercial real estate refinancing risks make us cautious on earnings and sentiment near-term, but we have reduced our risk rating to high from speculative on the grounds that the UK economic outlook has stabilised significantly in recent months.
One way to do this was to maintain health by nurturing life (yang sheng), an area of common ground for speculative thinkers and practitioners of traditional medical arts.
The early 19th Century was a golden age for popular science, much of it baloney, but the enthusiasm for speculative theories prepared the ground for the real revolution of Darwinism.
The passages of Goethe's Italian diary that ruthlessly replace self-indulgent emotionalism with solid objects and presences are close kin to Kant's trashing of the old speculative metaphysics, a clearing of ground for new, firmer structures.
But then Kundera is clever; in these short pieces which cover much the same ground as the speculative or didactic interludes in the novels, he is at least as often thought-provoking as just plain provoking.
For Rickels, the link between technology and mourning isn't merely Freudian and speculative, but also solidly historically grounded.
During the 1998 financial crisis it denied hedge-fund losses, and later justified this apparent economy with the truth on the grounds that the speculative vehicle with which it indeed lost lots was not, strictly speaking, a hedge fund.
