cope
gerund or present participle: coping
(of a person) deal effectively with something difficult.
(of a machine or system) have the capacity to deal successfully with.
"the roads are barely adequate to cope with the present traffic" — Google
Sorry, it might not have been that clear.
What I was trying to point to is that "adequate" seems at first glance to be a normative (intersubjective) standard, but that asking the question "adequate for what' allows you to think of it in terms of your own subjective measure of adequacy, in accordance with your own goals. — Janus
The tension I think you're identifying comes about when also considering coping to mean something like: resigning oneself to the way things are. — csalisbury
Yes, resigning oneself to the way things are is a coping skill? I mean, embracing depression entails that one accept or resign oneself to the cards dealt by fate. Is this a stipulative suggestion to think of coping in these terms or self-refuting? — Posty McPostface
Because you resign yourself to your problems. Conversely, if you're coping successfully, is there anything left to cope with? — Posty McPostface
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