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  • noun Plural form of resultant.

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  • The doctrine of methodological individualism does not take issue with these ordinary ways of speaking, it merely stipulates that “in sociological work these collectivities must be treated as solely the resultants and modes of organization of the particular acts of individual persons, since these alone can be treated as agents in a course of subjectively understandable action” (Weber 1968, 13).

    Methodological Individualism Heath, Joseph 2009

  • Assuming that the brain is basically an extremely complicated mechanical object, all the interesting higher-level mental functions have to be resultants of an awful lot of less complex micro-functions.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Rigging A Study to Make Conservatives Look Stupid”: 2007

  • In these cases the laws are said to be “chemical”: the resultants have properties that are not present in the causes.

    John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

  • James Mill's son, John Stuart Mill continued his father's work on associationist psychology, but he allowed that combinations of ideas might produce resultants that went beyond their constituent mental parts, thus providing an early model of mental emergence (1865).

    Consciousness Van Gulick, Robert 2004

  • Accepting the above hypothesis, it can be deduced that all imaginable cultures are resultants of human interaction, in all spheres of life, since the first caveman crossed the threshold into his neighbour's territory.

    1997 1997

  • When EM wave mixing stress is rhythmically applied to the atom, a scalar EM stress wave system is formed with zero E and B vector resultants.

    Chapter 4 1990

  • This resulting scalar EM wave is a resonant, standing spherical wave with zero E and B electromagnetic force field resultants.

    Chapter 6 1990

  • In arguing for the utility of a similar interpretation in the public sector, Allison 1971 noted that “the decisions and actions of governments are … political resultants … in the sense that what happens is not chosen as a solution to a problem, but rather results from compromises, conflict, and confusion of officials with diverse interests and unequal influence.”

    The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain DAVID A. LAX 1986

  • In arguing for the utility of a similar interpretation in the public sector, Allison 1971 noted that “the decisions and actions of governments are … political resultants … in the sense that what happens is not chosen as a solution to a problem, but rather results from compromises, conflict, and confusion of officials with diverse interests and unequal influence.”

    The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain DAVID A. LAX 1986

  • These might consist of forces directly exerted on the gene by other genes, whether allelic or not (Muller, 1935), or they might be resultants of the state of spiralization, etc., of the chromosome region, circumstances which in their turn are in part dependent on synaptic forces (Ephrussi and Sutton, 1944 et seq.).

    Hermann J. Muller - Nobel Lecture 1964

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