Symmetry Sample Clauses

Symmetry. This point can be pressed further if we consider the other property of ordinary identity relations: symmetry. A further problem with the memory criterion if it is constitutive of personal identity is that memory, “being aware of the thoughts and actions of another person from the inside”, only works in one direction in time – backwards. In Xxxx’x example, the Officer remembers being the Boy, so he is personally identical with the Boy. In the same way, the General remembers being the Officer, so he is personally identical with the Officer. But the Boy does not remember be- ing the Officer. And the Officer does not remember being the General. Does that mean that the Boy is not personally identical with the Officer, and the Officer is not personally identical with the General? On a straightforward reading of the memory criterion, where the memory link backwards is the sole constitutive fact of personal identity, there can exist someone in the future who will be able to remember me and thus be personally identical with me. But I cannot remember being anyone in the future so I cannot be personally identical with that person. This again, cannot work for a relation which is supposed to be an identity relation. Now, if memory is taken to be merely symptomatic of an identity relation which transcends time, which is to say that the relation of personal identity is not entirely reduced to what I remember, but what I remember is just an effect of the underlying relation of identity, then symmetry is not a problem. In that case, a relation like “will be remembered by X”, that is to say a relation that is future- directed, would track the same relation of identity as the past-directed relation of “X remembers”. But the Traditional Reading is precisely that that is not how the memory cri- terion should be understood: it should not be understood as merely referring to a soul-like underlying identity. Instead, this reading of the memory criterion says that “X remembers” is wholly and solely what personal identity is constituted of. And if that is the case, “X remembers Y” and “Y will be remembered by X” are funda- mentally different kinds of relations. Not least because, when I say “X remembers Y”, X exists and Y has existed. That is a relation between things who have or have had concrete existence. But when when I say “Y will be remembered by X”, Y exists, but X does not and has never existed. And for all we can possibly know, X may never exist. The modality of the relati...

Symmetry. A topology is symmetric when the network looks the same from every switch. Figure 3

Symmetry. It is the intention of the parties for there to be symmetry in the determination of benefit costs to be assumed by the Partnership (such as short and long term incentives), and costs retained by each other wireless employer (such as severance unrelated to the actions of the Partnership) whose employees transfer employment to the Partnership, including each employing entity other than the Partnership employing a Xxxx Atlantic Employee who transfers to the Partnership upon the Stage I or Stage II Closing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Xxxx Atlantic shall assume any special benefit costs (including but not limited to severance) arising from the disposition of Conflicted Cellco Assets.

Symmetry. This property assumes that the multidimensional poverty index depends only on the various attributes j that the individuals have and not on their identity.

Symmetry. If the feasible set of solutions is symmetric, each party will get equal share of utility.

Symmetry. The presence or absence of symmetry is a characteristic of conceptualisations of DH first made explicit by Xxxx (2019a): can a politician emerge from a DH conflict with clean hands? Applied more generally to dirt, the symmetry division asks whether an agent can avoid dirt altogether when faced with a scenario where the ATC-justified right action entails dirt?16 This question is important in terms of ensuring the proper allocation of moral responsibility, the correct description of an agent’s phenomenological experience and moral character, and the right understanding of what is at stake for the actors making the decisions.