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In any case, as Hilary Putnam argues, on purely pragmatic grounds more understanding is gleaned by taking into account mental causation than by dogmatically attributing all events solely to physical causation.

It belongs solely to proprietors of the softer sex, whom fortune has indulged as you perceive with every thing that is calculated to give new relish to the pursuits of life, and beguile the lazy foot of time.

I be wrong, Lady Bellamy, if I supposed that you have not come to Madeira solely for pleasure?

In due timeand not overmuch time, considering the snaillike creep of progress among the Cuban bureaucracy, not to mention the vagaries of sea-borne communication and the exceeding delicacy of treating with such sworn enemies as the European interloping, excommunicant trespassers on lands that Rome had long ago given solely to Spanish-Moorish keepinga guarda costa from Cuba, an armed sloop, had arrived in the basin below El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa with a message from the Governor of the Indies noting that neither the Norse, the French, the Irish, nor the Portuguese would any of them admit to knowledge of this dreadful fire-arming and training of the savage indios .

America raised, not in condemnation of all experimentation upon animals, but solely in protest against its cruelty and secrecy, and in appeal for its reform, was that of the leading American surgeon of his time, Professor Henry J.

Her decision was guided solely by what was best for the breathless, cyanotic, hypotensive little boy.

This devotes itself solely to the collection of data regarding longevity, and sends out schedules to all those in whose families there have been individuals attaining the age of 80 or over.

For the rest of the day, other than a call to Marlyn at noon to postpone a luncheon date until dinner, Krista focused solely on company problems and put all personal ones on hold.

It disappeared inside, making some linkage that helped the boy achieve a more intimate bond with Sun than could he had solely through his mutated hands and mercuric eyes.

To be fearlessly outspoken in her opinions came easily to her, since she judged solely from the standpoint of her social position.

Hence they may imagine, that to trumpet forth the praises of such a person, would, in the vulgar phrase, be crying Roast-meat, and calling in partakers of what they intend to apply solely to their own use.

It is owing, perhaps, solely to her, that I have not, before this, wanted a bit of bread.

No doubt why it was part of the Human Equation, rather than required solely for procreative purposes.

Miss Pross too is governed in her actions solely by her love of Lucie.

My safety, our safety, depended, under Providence, Saint Patrick, Stephen the Protomartyr, and Saint Brendan, solely upon my own ineptitude, my own gross ineptitude: I might even say inefficiency.