I’m putting in my two cents here, and I’m doing so with intentional bluntness; no offense intended to anyone. I’m also on a major pain-killer (naughty appendix, gone now), so please forgive any non sequituri.

If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order […]

In this era of the increasing biologization of psychology and psychiatry ( Miller, 2010 ; Satel and Lilienfeld, 2013 ), authors may be tempted to assume that biological variables, such as parameters of brain functioning, “underlie” psychological phenomena.

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]