Dramatic irony is also sometimes equated with tragic irony, situational irony, or structural irony; all those terms are also sometimes understood to exist within a hierarchy that establishes narrow differences of meaning among themselves.
The biological attack conducted through the US postal system in 2001 broadened the threat posed by anthrax from one pertinent mainly to soldiers on the battlefield to one understood to exist throughout our society.
But, like a meat eater in an abattoir, they are being confronted with a vulgar reality of which they chose to be either only vaguely aware or which they understood to exist in a parallel universe that would never encroach on their own, even in their imagination.
He seems to feel that something is dangerous about a society in which there is no philosophical bridge between private happiness and social welfare, a society in which individual life is the only thing that has meaning, and everything else — institutions, customs, traditions, values — is understood to exist only to serve our present happiness.
(Sarcasm can be considered a form of verbal irony). Dramatic irony is also sometimes equated with tragic irony, situational irony, or structural irony; all those terms are also sometimes understood to exist within a hierarchy that establishes narrow differences of meaning among themselves.
Corp. v. SEC, 380 F.3d 619, 619 (2d. Cir. 2004) (finding that for-cause removal protections are "commonly understood" to exist for SEC commissioners (quoting SEC v. Blinder, Robinson & Co., 855 F.2d 681, 681 (10th Cir. 1988))); see also Note, Eliminating the FEC: The Best Hope for Campaign Finance Regulation?, 131 Harv.
In accordance with Christian creation myths, the chain is understood to be fixed: there exists no historical or evolutionary relatedness between the elements of the chain.
Battling over equipment, to be understood, to just exist as a human being and not a drone, to continue to believe that there is, indeed, a pot of something--maybe not gold--at the end of the rainbow, can be so taxing that sometimes you loose touch with your humanity.
Such matches between the object as it is perceived and the object as it is understood to actually exist (regardless of transformations in the energy of stimulation) are called perceptual constancies.
It's relatively unpopular, badly understood, and might cease to exist after the Supreme Court issues its ruling, next month.
But for at least the past 100 years, we have understood capitalism and freedom to exist within a larger context — a complicated, real-world, human context.
