And in 1921 the economist Frank Knight argued that the function of entrepreneurs was to "specialize in risk-taking".
Scalia argued that "the function of the Court is to preserve our society's values regarding (among other things) equal protection, not to revise them".
The most influential advocate for its instrumental function, Frederick Taylor, argued that the function of managers was to increase efficiency and maximize their enterprises' returns.
The eighteenth-century Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon, who coined the term "entrepreneur," defined it as a "bearer of risk". And in 1921 the economist Frank Knight argued that the function of entrepreneurs was to "specialize in risk-taking". Yet studies of entrepreneurs find that, in general, they're as risk-averse as everyone else.
Pat spent more and more time at Ramachandran's lab, and later on she collaborated with him on a paper titled "A Critique of Pure Vision," which argued that the function of vision was not to represent the world but to help a creature survive, and that it had evolved, accordingly, as a partial and fractured system that served the more basic needs of the motor system.
Place has argued that the function of the 'automatic pilot', to which he refers as 'the zombie within', is to alert consciousness to inputs which it identifies as problematic, while it ignores non-problematic inputs or re-routes them to output without the need for conscious awareness.
In 1881, a few years after William Jevons argued that the functioning of the brain's black box would not be known, Francis Edgeworth proposed the creation of a "hedonimeter", which would measure the utility that each individual gained from his decisions.
In this review, we argue that the function of sleep could be trivial for mammals and birds because sleep does not provide additional advantages over simple rest.
For this reason it is possible to argue that the function of typology was instrumental, not only for the transmission of architectural knowledge, but also for the normalization of what domestic space was meant to contain and organize efficiently: domestic labor.
Dewey argues that the function of value judgments is to guide human conduct.
This is a similar approach to that taken by Hawe et al [ 67], who argue that the function that a component plays in an intervention should be standardised, rather than the form this component.
