What is capricious about selection is that different speakers, in different conversational contexts, will disagree about what is a cause and what is a background condition.
The arbitrator said USA Swimming was "arbitrary" and "capricious" in making selections for FINA referees and excluding the official, Michael Saltzstein, who worked the 2008 Olympics as a stroke-and-turn judge.
If one does not know what inquiry a speaker is pursuing, one may well find her selections capricious.
In other mature works he noted that discoveries are made "not by any capricious conjecture of arbitrary selection" (1858a, I, 29) and explained that new hypotheses are properly "collected from the facts" (1849, 17).
First, there is the argument from caprice, which maintains that our actual practice of selection is too capricious to have any real basis.
But the selections often seemed capricious.
Coverage of the Islamic world is patchy, and the selections from medieval Christendom seem capricious.
Where clubs use economic criteria for selection, the system becomes an arbitrary and capricious practice".
For example, in Drosophila, many transmembrane molecules, including semaphorin, capricious and teneurins, have been suggested to guide synaptic target selection between olfactory receptor neurons (ORN) and projection neurons (PN) (Komiyama et al., 2007; Hong et al., 2009, 2012).
Are psychiatric diagnoses capricious?
