Sentence examples for a kind of partiality from inspiring English sources
Consequentialists and deontologists must think that relationships like friendship essentially involve a kind of special concern for the friend and that such relationships therefore demand that one's actions exhibit a kind of partiality towards the friend.
This suggests that the analysis of definite descriptions is facilitated by the kind of partiality that situation semantics provides.
An influential attack on the situation semantics approach to "incomplete" definite descriptions came from Soames 1986, who concluded that "the analysis of definite descriptions is not facilitated by the kind of partiality that situation semantics provides" (Soames 1986, 368).
This means that with respect to those matters and within the same limits, it is also good for a Cuban to judge as a Cuban and to put Cuban interests first, etc. Actually, this is how we think of our special obligations to, and preferences for, our family, friends, or local community; this kind of partiality is legitimate, and indeed valuable, not only for us but for anyone.
This sort of self-concern, then, constitutes a form of partiality which seems, from the vantage point of common sense, to be morally endorsed.
