Third, the distributive model conceives of power statically, as a pattern of distribution, whereas Young, following Foucault (1980), claims that power exists only in action, and thus must be understood dynamically, as existing in ongoing processes or interactions.
But this act is also part of being a parent insofar as it contributes to determining "that for the sake of which" I understand myself as existing.
In other words, if successful scientific theories are not understood as describing an independently existing reality, their success is impossible to explain.
McTaggart also dispenses with possibilities, and argues that all statements about possibilities are best understood as concerning connections between existing things.
Gender dysphoria experienced by transsexuals, in such a view, is to be understood as unhappiness with the existing sex-role system.
Welfarist theories of adjudication face several difficulties when understood as interpretive theories of existing (common law) practice.[20] First, the structure of adjudication does not generally provide adequate or appropriate information for the selection of rules that maximize social welfare.
