This notation can be considered as a modified Fridy non-thin term defined for subsequences.
These do not invoke the supposedly "thinner" terms of overall moral assessment, "good," or "right".
Perhaps the more descriptive "thick" ethical terms, such as 'cruel', 'kind', or 'courageous' provide the best examples of terms that possess such dispositions, though these may be evident even when reflecting on "thin" ethical terms, such as 'good' or 'right'right
"We are thin in terms of numbers of available experts, resources and staff".
The week is also thin in terms of market-moving economic data.
There are small start-up companies in the district, but the neighborhood is still a bit "thin" in terms of the number of companies and people working there.
Facebook has been famously thin in terms of its international organisation.
They contrast with "thin" ethical terms that are purely normative: "good"/ bad", "ought"/ must not", "right"/ wrong" and so on.
The library of Daydream content is a little thin in terms of titles available at launch, especially compared to the decent size of Gear VR's available options.
The AIB is less evident in GIs, presumably because it is thin in terms of the latitude range, particularly at the beginning, compared with the spatial resolution of GIs.
It is apt, according to Stevenson, because ethical language (i) almost always has both emotive and descriptive meaning, where (ii) emotive meaning is essential and (iii) often strongly independent of descriptive meaning (in the sense in which "thin" ethical terms, such as 'good', might be said to have emotive meaning that is strongly independent of any descriptive meaning it might have).
