characteristics--commensurability with money,
quantifiability, and
In languages that exhibit polarity (e.g., the Cushitic language Somali), the gender shifts that occur between singular and plural depend on paradigm-specific patterns of exponence and syncretism (often restricted to only a subset of indexing targets), which do not affect the semantic and pragmatic construal of the noun phrase referent with respect to its countability and
quantifiability properties (as it happens instead in those languages that I classify as instances of M1).
organic act, the
quantifiability of timber production goals, and
However, the lack of
quantifiability regarding deterrence is no reason to dismiss the argument altogether.
There seems to me a conflict within Fitch's project between the incorporation of non-linguistic conceptual representations and their
quantifiability as "mathematical" entities, since the latter would result in a loss of the very iconicity characteristic of the nonverbal which he wishes to incorporate.
(258) However, this practical problem of
quantifiability remains minor in comparison to the dichotomy's didactic danger.
A second novelty of the new media that the Tow Center authors identify is "
quantifiability." In theory, by measuring clicks and hits, newspapers can decide what their readers "really like." "The web creates a huge increase in diversity over a world dominated by broadcast and print media," write the Tow Center authors.
But the conditions of identifiability,
quantifiability, and controllability of risk should be met within reasonable tolerances.
However, aside from problems with
quantifiability, permanency,
Here, the often intangible motivations of aesthetic practice and experience are understood to be incompatible with the strict
quantifiability of legal standards and rules.
The specificity and
quantifiability of analytic aspects of a luminous environment do not imply their greater importance, only that they can be a described with a definiteness that heuristic aspects do not permit.