Abelard's theory of substantial integral wholes is not a pure mereology in the modern sense, since he holds that there are privileged divisions: just as a genus is properly divided into not just any species but its proximate species, so too the division of a whole must be into its principal parts.
Poetry is "magic," too, because, Wieners wrote, "things change in proximate location" to its "aura" or "romantic glow"; we are enchanted as by a "children's story".
Judges' reactions have varied, with some declining to order restitution, including one in Texas and another in Maine, usually saying that the link between possession and the harm done is too tenuous to reach the level of "proximate harm" generally required under the law for restitution.
The proximate cause of the site's death was too much data.
Proximate cause is that the harm is reasonably foreseeable and not too far removed from the action to be attributable to it.
For 4-stages and above, the optimization space is too large (> 1010), therefore, only 108 schedules are generated to find the best proximate solution.
Calcott shows another respect in which Mayr's dichotomy is "too simple", pointing out that there are questions that do not fit in either proximate or ultimate category.
He also said that the problems were entirely "the direct and proximate result of the negligence" of the church.
Surely, it is both proximate and important.
Complacency among Americans was the proximate cause.
