But O'Leary isn't utterly incompetent with the meaning of these terms: he implicitly understands both names as rigid designators, and he has some substantive understanding of the object each name picks out.
"There should be a substantive understanding of the Indian scenario.
But he can't make wise judgments unless he comes to substantive understanding of policy issues on his own.
But disciplines that have substantive understanding of particular issues have not been buttressed by the quantitative training needed to look at outcomes in a structured way.
"But beyond that, our substantive understanding of the role of particulate pollution, of the extent of the problems caused by acid rain, mercury and greenhouse gases, has all grown in the last 19 months".
Under this substantive understanding, rules serve a higher purpose than the mere orderly regulation of human conduct; laws must also enhance liberty, security and equality and strive to attain a perfect balance between law and justice.
When very small effect sizes are reported as statistically significant, models can include coefficients that contribute little to the substantive understanding of research questions.
Rawls never discusses the non-identity-problem and for most of his discussions he assumes that the number of future people is constant.[36] However, his principle of just savings can be understood to provide us with a particularly sensible (and, certainly, the most prominent) substantive understanding of intergenerational sufficientarianism.
Secondly, oral epidemiology has primarily become a discipline of technique rather than substantive understanding.
In particular, the use of lepidopteran cell culture and brush border membrane vesicle preparations to dissect the complex interactions between toxin and midgut receptors have generated a substantive understanding of the mechanisms of pore formation and defined the processes that lead to disruption of larval gut integrity [ 3- 5].
