Perhaps a combination of behavioral, physiological and morphological similarities with evolutionary theory amounts to a stronger overall case[3].
Unfortunately, without this key premise, Graham's theory amounts to little more than speculation and circular reasoning.
For the constructive empiricist, the explanatory power of a theory amounts to nothing more than the theory's ability to provide certain bits of information in response to contextually defined queries.
Recall that the domain of the preference ordering in Savage's theory amounts to every function from the set of states to the set of outcomes (what Broome 1991a refers to as the Rectangular Field Assumption).
Second, the examples Nagel discusses suggest that he believed his model to be indirect an "explanation" of a theory in terms of derivation from a reducing theory amounts to using the reducing theory to explain the phenomena dealt with by the reduced theory.
Insofar as the empirical adequacy of a theory amounts to the embeddability of observable phenomena within substructures of the theory's models, the constructive empiricist's account of empirical adequacy rests heavily on the distinction between what is observable and what is not.
If we are dealing with our best theories of the world, precisely those items that are indispensable to these theories amount to what we ought to be committed to.
Perhaps, their theories amounted to saying "all forms of reference are allowed, except for paradoxical ones, which are not allowed".
At least in theory, the amount of money these candidates raise at this early moment in the process, before any votes are cast, pales in importance to what they will have raised by the end of the year -- and, more significant, how much is in the bank.
According to theory, the amount of oscillation as neutrinos pass through matter (as in the Sun) depends on the difference between the squares of the masses of the basic neutrino types (which are in fact different from the observed electron-, muon-, and tau-neutrino "flavours").
