Sentence examples for a mixed position from inspiring English sources

Another approach might be construed as a mixed position, though it was not put forward in these terms.

It might seem that a mixed position could be developed that would give us the best of both worlds (there are a number of other proposals along these lines; for example see Hampshire 1983 and 1989).

(A mixed position could contend that tolerance is the only objective moral truth, all others being relative; but it would have to be shown that this is more than an ad hoc maneuver).

Such a mixed position might be motivated by some of the philosophical questions already raised (recall also the suggestion in the section on experimental philosophy that some people may be "meta-ethical pluralists").

Another response to his argument is to claim that, even if it does apply to evaluations, it would only apply to very basic ones and would leave room for substantial disagreements beyond these (if this were the case, then Davidson would have established only what I call a mixed position in section 7).

For example, a consequentialist view that polygamy is right in one society and wrong in another because it has good consequences in the first society and bad consequences in the second would not be a mixed position because the judgments "Polygamy is right in circumstances A" and "Polygamy is wrong in circumstances B" could both be true in an absolute sense.

A somewhat similar mixed position has been advanced, though more tentatively, by Foot (2002a and 2002b; see also Scanlon 1995 and 1998: ch. 8).

In addition, but to a lesser extent due to the rarity of the issue in Sanger-based data, PCR strategies designed to avoid NUMT amplification or comparison of any mixed positions to known NUMTs, along with confirmation via an alternative typing method have also been employed [19,23,67,68].

Finally, it should also be noted that a rather different kind of mixed position was proposed by Bernard Williams (1981 and 1985: ch. 9).

As with Foot, Nussbaum came to this mixed position from the objectivist side of the debate.

Two strains (C17.01D and N84.06D) had the same six mixed positions, of which only one was a coding change (G29D), and the other two strains (P44.08C and Q26.15D) had the same single mixed position, causing the coding change G32E.