One example discussed by Hawthorne 2001 is the property of standing in relation R to something, where R is a perfectly natural relation a thing can stand in to itself and to things wholly distinct from it.
Instead, all directions are given in terms of where the speaker is standing in relation to the points of the compass.
What if the graph itself is unmoored, if you no longer know where you're standing in relation to it?' " William's slippage begins when, after a few drinks, he sleeps with a married woman he meets at a trade show dedicated to decks and porches — and accelerates after she moves to his neighborhood, and he punches his boss.
Among the people inside the ropes during Rock's first two rounds — a group that included his caddie, his two playing partners and their caddies, the volunteer scorer, the two honorary observers and the young man carrying the sign with the players' standing in relation to par — Rock was the only one not wearing any head covering.
By bringing scents of a Latin American culture more fitful, pop-savvy and suspicious of earthy machismo than that which it succeeds, Bolaño has been taken as a kind of reset button on our deplorably sporadic appetite for international writing, standing in relation to the generation of García Márquez, Vargas Llosa and Fuentes as, say, David Foster Wallace does to Mailer, Updike and Roth.
In addition to these properties that they share with the atoms that compose them, they have other properties such as colors, smells, tastes that they get by standing in relation to perceivers.
The theory proposes that if f and g are regularly presented in experience as standing in relation R, then the habit forms in the mind, that if we have an impression or idea of f then it is accompanied with the idea of g.
How is he standing in relation to his peers?
Maps throughout the museum show visitors where they are standing in relation to the original WTC buildings.
And so is where you're standing in relation to those core tenets, and how that's likely a different place than somebody else on your team.
