On Monday, the backbencher Julian Huppert also wrote against blocking any contemplation of shutting down social networks.
The banks decry any contemplation of an increase in capital standards as a death knell for economic growth.
I highly suspect any contemplation on the path not taken will be borne more of curiosity, than lament.
In a famous case description, Moore argued that a world with beauty but without its contemplation, and indeed without any mental states whatever, is better than a world that is "simply one heap of filth" (Moore: sec. 50; contrast Sidgwick: 114).
Music, poetry, painting, sculpture, photography and, yes, films can overwhelm the senses with their naked beauty, without the contemplation demanded of reading Proust or Nabokov.
- It feeds off the need to know and respond immediately, impulsively, sometimes frantically, often without much contemplation of deeper reasons and connections.
Instead of examining the argument, Eikenberry was criticized among McChrystal's team and his intellectual positions summarily dismissed without serious contemplation.
Without that contemplation, too often all we see is what is directly in front of us, limiting our vision and imagination, and therefore, limiting what we can actually do.
Several experts expressed doubt about the scientific value of the questionnaire (e.g. for requesting an instantaneous response without prolonged contemplation).
As the respondents were familiar with the housing systems and hazards (as they were experts who had been asked to abstain from scoring when they were not familiar with it) and as they were asked to respond without much contemplation, it is reasonable to assume that in most cases the scores were given for typical, representative examples of systems and hazards.
