For example, the cause of a great famine in India may be identified by an Indian farmer as the drought, but the World Food Authority may identify the Indian government's failure to build up reserves as the cause, and the drought as a mere condition.
If a forest is destroyed by fire, the presence of oxygen would be cited as a mere condition of the forest's destruction.
4. In FE, he describes justice as a situational good: it does not involve 'activities or enjoyments resident in individuals, but would involve relations between individuals' (FE 286). 5. Ross notes that as a mere condition of the intellect knowledge is not better than pleasure.
In the mere-presence condition (MP), the two birds were separated by a transparent wall and only the naïve bird had access to sunflower seeds.
As Hart and Honore put it: "The contrast of cause with mere conditions is an inseparable feature of all causal thinking, and constitutes as much the meaning of causal expressions as the implicit reference to generalizations does".
In blind signal processing, neither a reference signal nor any prior information regarding the channel is provided, so the algorithms proposed in this field use separation criteria that are actually mere conditions imposed on the output streams.
By contrast, Feigl's reaction (1956) was to reduce the ambition of the criterion of significance to the mere provision of necessary conditions.
Further, once resilience of natural systems is eroded, the mere restoration of environmental conditions preceding the loss, if possible, might not suffice for recovering the system [9].
Moreover, we demonstrate that the mere restoration of environmental conditions preceding a loss, if possible, may be insufficient for ecosystem restoration, and is scarcely cost-effective.
