Not exact matches
William Lad Sessions, who summarized and analyzed Hartshorne's doctoral work writes: «The concepts, or «ideas»
of philosophy, Hartshorne insists, are communicable (or «transferable» to
use his term which
points to the experiential basis
of conception) but only partially so, because... obscurity is directly
proportional to concreteness, and good philosophy plunges thought into the concrete....
«The number
of superlatives and exclamation
points used in an article are inversely
proportional to the author's intelligence.»
Southwest
uses a revenue - based, fixed - value redemption system in which the number
of points you need to redeem for your ticket is
proportional to the cash value
of that ticket.
Also when you do a least squares curve fit
using the normal equations (the usual method), there is an implicit weighting
of the data
points proportional to their distance from the center.