They are still treated as pariahs, even as more and more scientists quietly adopt their position.

Writers seem to adopt a position of hostility.

You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

These are some of the problems and questions that have still to be resolved by those who would adopt a position of holist externalism or externalist holism.

I lived a day at a time in my own little world, a private cocoon, and adopted the position of self-suffi-cient loner.