It is not usefully explained as desiring to catch mice even though intentional stance descriptions and predictions of the trap's operation may be correct though trivial.
His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), with its strong abolitionist stance and detailed description of life in Nigeria, was so popular that in his lifetime it ran through nine English editions and one U.S. printing and was translated into Dutch, German, and Russian.
Yet he was already subverting the genre of the harem painting: the master of the house, far from being the lascivious cruel Turk of tradition, has a young fresh face, full of wonder; his new acquisition has something of a defiant stance, and the description places the painting firmly in the past, in Mamluk times.
10 In keeping with the epistemological stance of interpretive description methods, data collection and analysis were conducted through the lens of a physician (AA-R), with a focus on information that would be pertinent to other front-line physicians.
The Design Literacy (DeL) assessment tool contains design of a qualitative survey question, a coding scheme for assessing aspects of a designerly stance towards inquiry, and a description of how, we have validated the results through a large-scale survey administration in K-12 education.
The clinicians' descriptions of their stance and behaviour matched those observed by the researchers, and patients also drew similar conclusions about the clinicians' styles.
For his part, Clinton may be anxious to avoid the experience of 2008 when his attacks on Barack Obama, including his description of Obama's stance on the Iraq war as a "fairytale", appeared to backfire.
These ideas are also applied to a causal analysis of rational action: by adopting an explanatory stance, one can characterize action through descriptions that refer to causal connections between mental states and actions.
ImClone's executives and spokesmen have continued to maintain that the company's description of the F.D.A.'s stance was accurate.
Within a framework of generic qualitative research [ 25], our methodological approach can be broadly described as qualitative description [ 26], with a subtle realist stance [ 27].
