The challenge arises from the functional fixedness of the boxes containing the candles and the thumbtacks. (slaw.ca)
«24 The question arises as to why he should be so rigid in his rejection of this account, when earlier the point is labored that we can not know anything of the beginnings.25 In spite of this problem, he introduces the concept of fixedness in which the laws of days, years, and seasons are understood. (religion-online.org)
As the «new media» of the printed book became common, the debates over the contents of the canon subsided, and instead encouraged by its new fixedness those over the exactness of its inspiration (the development of the doctrines of infallibility, inerrancy, et al) began to spring up. (premierchristianity.com)