Discourse, modes

We do not have the possibility to refrain from interdisciplinary communication for another reason. In the normal mode of practicing our own particular science, we already use terms, concepts, and statements, and we also take points of view that stem from other scientific provinces. Doing this, we automatically participate in discourses about validity and standards of adequacy that take place in the fields... 

This section is based on discussions and correspondence, during over two decades, with the seven of the other living investigators who have created molecular periodic systems (and of course on the author s own experience). All of them share the belief that the universe of discourse is comprehensible and that our modes of thinking and communicating about it are adequate. 

The formation of laminations caused by extrusion and their implications depend to a very large extent on the raw material properties, the preparation technology employed, the design and operating mode of the extruder. Consequently the following discourse can only represent some hints and a rough orientation. Purposeful tests carried out directly at the extruder or within the upstream technological processes are unavoidable in individual cases. 

The global discourse on modes of safety regulation, discussed by Baram and Lindpe in Chapter 2, has been highly critical of prescription in the form of detailed technical mles imposed in a command-and-control framework. This is the approach taken by MMS and transferred to BSEE. Among the charges made is that such prescription is inevitably suboptimal because it seeks conformity across industry with one size fits all mles, and thereby fails to recognize the unique aspects of each offshore operation and each operator s potential for developing a more cost-effective approach that would provide equivalent or superior safety performance. 

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