Some of the causal and contextual effects of genes may be expressed in the ultimate phenotype in relation to environment.
Indeed, the rise of Neo-Confucian discourse in the Tokugawa should be understood as a reassertion of the meaningfulness of language and its ultimate value in relation to any understandings of truth.
Philosophical pragmatists and empiricists, for example, hold that while a successful theory should describe experiments as accurately as possible, it has no necessary relation to ultimate reality, partly because one can never say whether new experiments will give new results and force changes in the theory.
This variability raises questions about the ethical responsibilities of each professional, as well as questions with regard to clarity regarding who has ultimate legal responsibility in relation to the decision making process.
OUT OF THE GATE In many elections, the first precincts reporting vote totals do not mean much, because the totals bear little relation to the ultimate outcome.
Moreover, when one tries to determine what would induce an unrelated party to enter the transaction, one finds that a price that is low in relation to the ultimate resale price would induce a seller to sell.
In preliterate society everyday events have been given sacramental interpretations by being invested with supernatural meanings in relation to their ultimate sources in the unseen divine or sacred powers.
In his ruling, Kay writes: "The fact that the 2004 act, in creating the singular post of DCS, identified as a matter of policy one individual with ultimate responsibility and accountability in relation to children's services does not mean that that person is to be denied the protections that have long been accorded to responsible and accountable office-holders.
The fictional worldview, then, is one in which we are able to divide our selves to assume simultaneously opposing consciousnesses, and to enter and leave different realities at will, all the while voluntarily suspending judgments concerning their relation to an ultimate reality.
Accordingly, even when a precise statute seems over- or underinclusive in relation to its ultimate aims (as is often the case), the Court now hews closely to the rules embedded in the enacted text, rather than adjusting that text to make it more consistent with its apparent purposes.
