Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon last two events of the competition. 6 of the 29 starters did not appear for the fourth event. 5 more athletes, including the 6th-placed Nilsson, retired after the high jump and did not appear for the fifth event. This brought the number of non-finishers up to 11, leaving 18 to continue the competition. Philbrook scored over 1000 points in the event by breaking the previous Olympic record (listed as 41.46 metres in the 1912 official report, though actually only 40.89 set by Martin Sheridan in 1908). Since the discus throw event had been held 2 days prior to the decathlon
Essentially contested concept proposed a set of seven conditions for the existence of an essentially contested concept. Gallie was very specific about the limits of his enterprise: it dealt exclusively with abstract, qualitative notions, such as "art", "religion", "science", "democracy", and "social justice" (and, if Gallie’s choices are contrasted with negatively regarded concepts such as "evil", "disease", "superstition", etc., it is clear that the concepts he chose were exclusively positively regarded). Freeden remarks that "not all essentially contested concepts signify valued achievements; they may equally signify disapproved and denigrated phenomena", and Gerring asks us to imagine just how difficult it would be to