But the vastness of scale, the immensity and rapidity, and the universal consequences for all citizens (of germ warfare or nuclear destruction) are new.
The author does not advocate one particular approach, but rather attempts to demonstrate the vastness and intricacy of the field.
Only, in this instance, it is the vastness of future time and future history that is of crucial importance.
On the other hand, they have emphasised the vastness of the repertoire and the variety of means for linking them.
As we argued above, these include intentionality, partiality, vastness, and the attendant primacy of accessibility over possibility.
It is, in many senses, a levelling belief that there are people like us inhabiting planets like ours out in the vastness of deep space.
The members of this community have often only weak historical connections, and because of the sheer vastness of the community they cannot know each other.
Each blow or explosion is a revelation of its vastness.