That assumption is now widely shared, despite the general propensity to describe Kim Jong Il as seeking — rather than already having — a nuclear arsenal.
The other limitation was related to the general propensity of Iranian students towards text-based materials which may affect the way they interact with the task-based materials.
The latter could involve a general and a specific form of individual propensity, but with the general form unobserved, both will be combined to some extent in the BLUP, and so it is through the general propensity that the BLUP would predict withdrawal.
On this general propensity are founded other specific ones, which follow the diversity of intelligibles" (Quodl. VII, q. 7, p. 93, 453 55).
This may be a general psycho-physiologically based propensity characteristic of the human perceptual system [25] [26], and may perhaps be related to the general tendency in human perception of time to perceive dynamic events in general as taking longer than static events [27].
The intellect was described as a general (innate) propensity made up of a series of more specific (equally innate) propensities, the number of which was a function of the number of different things the intellect is able to know: "The intellective power is a general propensity with respect to all intelligibles, that is, with respect to the actual conforming to all intelligibles.
This policy will sometimes lead us not to do the act with the best individual outcome, but given our general propensity to error its consequences will be better in the long run than trying to assess acts one by one; however well-meaning, the latter attempt will be counterproductive.
Note that to account for possible differences in the availability of time or general propensity to have an active life, we also have a control for whether an individual reports having gone to a sport, social or other kind of club, and in both samples, we find a strong, positive association between voluntary work and engagement in this other type of social activity.
Entropy is a convenient term for designation of general propensity of the real systems to move to more probable state, to chaos.
Shame can be important both as cause, trigger and sequel of a suicidal act, but this does not always reflect a general propensity for the individual to react with shame.
Some of the STAI trait subscale items assess general propensity to negative affect, others are related to cognitive style, and others to physiological arousal.
