Sentence examples for Prior question from inspiring English sources

Its great difficulty was with a prior question: which sort of thing are you – a building or a movement?

This uncertainty resolves only when measured (for example, by being asked a question), and the result will be affected by the state of the individual's reasoning in the wake of any previous measurements (such as a prior question).

Locke pointed out that, before they could make progress, they would need to consider the prior question of what the human mind is (and is not) capable of comprehending.

Will they spend enough money to combat the disease, and will they spend it wisely?A billion here, a billion thereA prior question is how much could usefully be spent fighting AIDS.

The question in any democracy, but especially a direct democracy in which citizens legislate at the ballot box, is how much voters do in fact know.A prior question may be what voters think they know.

On Politics interrogates the great thinkers in the tradition and presents their varied answers to what is the best form of government (although, some like Marx, avoid giving an answer), as well as to the prior question of whether it is possible or desirable for human beings to govern themselves.

The concern, however, is that EU theory does not itself address important prior questions of representation/decision modelling.

Although patients were asked not to proceed to the final question until completing all prior questions, it is difficult to ascertain compliance.

For example, questions that test the same concepts but in new situations can be designed and sequenced in a way to scaffold learning based on prior questions.

Political liberalism answers the conceptually prior questions of legitimacy and stability, so fixing the context and starting points for justice as fairness.

We find that the order used in prior questions may change people's opinions toward various attributes of the good to be valued, and thereby change WTP by a substantial amount.