Alternative Possibilities

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

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/ɔlˈtərnətɪv ˌpɑsəˈbɪlətiz/

The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answers.
In other words, functionalism does not explain why certain specific cultural patterns arise to fulfill a need that might be fulfilled just as easily by any of a number of alternative possibilities.
There is, however, a range of events where alternative possibilities are available - namely, the events of human choice.
It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts as they exist, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles.
Once you have the EXPLAIN output, look at how the query's result set is generated, and then consider alternative access path possibilities.

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