Intentional realists, however, will not easily concede the epiphenomenalism of intentionality, since for them, a test of the reality of a property is that it can be causally efficacious.
In any event, although still lacking a test of the reality of the limits and scope of the new provisions, there are some suggestions that the government will maintain a filter for professionals and critics of the system.
Such tests can be used as the quantitative basis for specifying flexible packaging material between buyer and seller, but in doing so, all parties should be aware of the inexact fit of the test to the realities of functionality that a package must satisfy.
In this sense, the reality of atoms (and other theoretically postulated entities) is equally capable of empirical test as the reality of rocks and trees.
I. Bernard Cohen, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978, p. 106, where Newton remarks, "For if the possibility of hypotheses is to be the test of the truth and reality of things, I see not how certainty can be obtained in any science; since numerous hypotheses may be devised, which shall seem to overcome new difficulties".
Human rights lawyers are proving to be a major headache for the new administration of President Barack Obama by stepping up their court challenges on issues of prisoner abuse to test the reality of the president's pledge to create a "an unprecedented level of openness" in government.
The rigging of the VW emissions tests hid the reality of cars spewing 40 times the legal limit of nitrogen oxide, and pollution estimated to equal the UK's combined emissions for all power stations, vehicles, industry, and agriculture.
"One possibility could be to do some sort of nerve blocking so that that limb could not actually be used for a period of time, to let the patient test the reality of being physically disabled temporarily," he said, according to the Express.
There's only one problem with an attempt by Italian scientists to test the reality of Stendhal syndrome, the condition of being so overcome by beautiful works of art that you actually swoon, or at least go weak at the knees.
Detailed comparisons of genomic sequence have the potential, for example, to identify functional sequence outside of coding regions (promoters, terminators, replication origins, etc)., test the reality of hypothetical protein coding regions, make inferences about mutational rates and mechanisms, and detect selective signatures in gene sequences.
… From a political standpoint, the decision by the Republican Party to make it almost a litmus test to deny the reality of the climate crisis meant that Democrats could not put together a coalition of centrists from both parties, the way that Arthur Vandenberg enabled the adoption of a bipartisan strategic policy in support of the Marshall Plan, for example.
