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.
Group stability is understood to exist if the variation in the relative interquartile range (RIR) between rounds is lower than.30.
Like Boethius, the medievals accept the view that relations cannot be understood to exist by themselves or apart from their correlatives.
Similarly, consensus is understood to exist if the variation in the coefficient of variation (CV) is below 40%% in most items.
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.
At First Principles 1.7.1 we are said to be properly identical with our rational element; but Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine said the same without being understood to mean that we have ever existed as disembodied souls.
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.
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.
But whatever is understood exists in the understanding, just as the plan of a painting he has yet to execute already exists in the understanding of the painter.
It is understood no script yet exists for the project, which is in its early stages.
