There is also the abrupt transition from the visual to the physical, from the sphere of retinal experience to a world where eye and brain are but two organs in a wholly constituted body.
Cup is earlier wholly constituted by Hcup, that is Tcup plus handle, and later wholly constituted by Tcup alone.
Virtues consist in part in dispositions, but are not wholly constituted by dispositions.
Moral properties, on this view, are not identical with natural or descriptive properties, although they may be wholly constituted by them.
There is a sequence S of cups such that each member of S that is not identical with Hcup is, at some time, a proper part of some member of S. For each time between and including t1 and t2 Cup is wholly constituted by some member of S. Cup is wholly constituted by Tcup at t2.
On the issue of evidence-possession generally: if we regard evidence as wholly constituted by mental states (experiences, beliefs, memories, etc)., then an account of what it is to "possess" evidence will be relatively straightforward we must simply have these mental states.
If, on the other hand, the defender of the supervenience view holds that the state of affairs its being morally obligatory to φ is partially but not wholly constituted by God's commanding φ-ing, then there is pressure to explain why he or she does not simply affirm the reduction view, on which its being morally obligatory to φ just is God's commanding φ-ing.
The "native" can do it for us, at a remove of superstition and primitive behavior, so that we can pretend to be wholly and effortlessly constituted.
On the other hand, against the idealist opponents of these early realists, Anderson of course insisted that no entities could be constituted, wholly or in part, by their relations (SEP, 43).
TERC was excluded because it is constituted wholly by RNA, and consequently it was difficult to devise primers including the intron region.
