Sentence examples for an objective ordering from inspiring English sources

The Stoic doctrine of the natural attachment to what is appropriate (oikeiôsis) thus provides a foundation in nature for an objective ordering of preferences, at least on a prima facie basis.

However, the ordering generated by the A-series is supposed to be an objective ordering: an A-series is not thereby generated simply by one's arbitrary choice of a point of time as the present.

Adding the panels in all possible orders is combinatorically daunting and of dubious interpretive value, and we preferred to have an objective ordering, so we added panels in order of increasing pairwise F ST to the cross-validation panel.

Conceptualizing experience as involving an objective order and arrangement of items amounts to making objectively valid judgments about it, which, in turn, implies that experience must consist of a rule-governed connectedness of representations (1966: 98).

The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led--it seems to many--to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst.

"Justice follows an objective order - an ideal - but then you have to ask 'what is the ideal?' It was Aristotle who pointed out that you have to treat everyone the same, but at the same time you must look at individual cases and circumstances.

Claiming that there is an objective order of values, or in Pascal's terminology, an "ordre du coeur" (order of the heart), necessarily entails that the higher values "ought" to be preferred to the lower.

On this view, reason recognizes an objective order of values or moral ends that exist prior to and independently of our reasoning and of the kinds of agents we are.

Bolzano's idea of an objective order among truths has its origin in the Aristotelian distinction between proofs of the fact and those that yield the reason of the fact.

Without an accurate estimation, established with one or several diagnostic method, one has difficulties in setting and reaching objectives, ordering diagnostics and interventions, and attracting funding agencies that are often result-focused.

To use them in that way is to announce in advance the results of a certain interpretation of the dialogues and to canonize that interpretation under the guise of a presumably objective order of composition when in fact no such order is objectively known.