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Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically_____________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.
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In medieval China, the Confucian emphasis on rites as an outward manifestation of virtue explains Chinese bureaucrats'_____________ the accurate performance of tributary rituals by foreigners at the imperial court.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area-and imminent rationing and steep water price increases-is_____________ the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer communities nearby conserve by necessity.
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Much as our taste for sugar and fat served us well in a world of scarce nutrition but has become _____________ in a world of plenty, where we satisfy it to the point of obesity, our memories can work against us in our contemporary information age.
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Most of the bank-efficiency literature suggests that bank mergers culminating in larger, more complex organizations (i)_____________ significant economies of scale or scope that are (ii) _____________ to consumers. Indeed, some of this literature suggests diseconomies, which would lead to higher loan rates or lower deposit rates for consumers.
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There is a clear trend away from automobile ownership and solo driving among young people. One view holds that these young people will (i)_____________ as they age, but Willson argues that the trend is (ii)_____________ one. As a result, car-free lifestyles will become more (iii)_____________ .
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The journalist seems to have _____________ attitude about truth and falsehood, as exhibited, for example, in a disdain for fact-checking and a repeated failure to correct errors in articles once they are pointed out.
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While lunar geology may appear to be a relatively _____________ area of planetary science, it is important to realize that the Moon's surface and interior retain records that shed light on the histories of all terrestrial planets.
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Since the deficit predicament is fundamentally a long-term problem, the legislature's _____________ short-term approaches has actually compounded the difficulty in each succeeding year, eroding the state's credit rating in the process.
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For a philosopher of the analytic tradition, Williams' approach is somewhat (i)_____________ . Unlike most analytic philosophers, Williams has not kept himself (ii)_____________ the rest of the humanities; in fact, he wishes to address colleagues in other fields in terms that will make sense to them. In particular, he objects to the (iii) _____________ character of analytic philosophy: the amount it tries to accomplish by conceptual analysis and a priori argument alone. Williams is convinced that philosophy must use history, including historical imagination, to understand and defend values of any kind.
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Adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological niche in interactions with other disciplines, the scientific discipline of ecology can be seen as highly _____________.
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Political debates supposedly exist to inform viewers, who watch them with open minds to learn about the candidates and decide how to vote. Of course, given the (i)_____________ that routinely permeates most debates, it is hard to (ii)_____________ that they fulfill their purpose.
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Unlike those glossy Architectural Digest photographs that are deliberately (i)_____________ lest they distract from a focus on the building itself, Friedlander's architectural photography is the product of his insistence that he is an individual looking at buildings and scenes as they actually exist. Friedlander reminds us that everyday objects (ii)_____________ or, more exactly, that the unimpeded visual scene of a building without cars or power lines or street signs is a highly (iii) _____________ photographic artifact.
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Self-driving cars appear in countless science-fiction movies; indeed, in that context they are so _____________ that they do not get noticed.
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Like his fellow _____________ covering the campaign tour, who rarely had the luxury of spending more than one night in one place, Tony had his bags packed well before the evening fund-raiser.
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One thing both authors have in common is a striking amount of _____________: they claim to know how massive institutions, some of them richly endowed, all of them central to American society and culture, should be reshaped.
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Letters present an awkward stumbling block to those who take a high line about literature as a custodian of moral values. The letters of accomplished poets and novelists are-as often as not-about drinking and infidelity, about sponging and wasting time. Consequently, one's (i)_____________ the writer as (ii)_____________ can often come in for a rude shock on contemplation of the writer's correspondence: the soul that composed the poems and the self that wrote the letters can seem (iii)_____________.
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Those familiar with the insular conditions that once prevailed in Russia may be surprised by the _____________of eighteenth-century Russian composer Natalia Kurakina, who translated novels from French into ltalian and composed songs in both languages.
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Because we participate in the dynamics of ecosystems as we restore them, restoration practice is in essence antithetical to the idea of _____________ wilderness.
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For millennia, remembering was hard and costly, and people had to choose deliberately what should be remembered, allowing most things to be forgotten. The digital age has brought about an (i) _____________ of the balance of remembering and forgetting. Committing information to digital memory has become (ii) _____________.
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