Sentence examples for coherent preference from inspiring English sources

A number of phenomena have been identified as evidence that such coherent preference may not be observed in practice [24].

If we believe that individuals' choices do not necessarily reveal information about their coherent preferences, how then can we define the social welfare function?

Complicating matters is empirical research suggesting that our preferences are subject to such powerful contextual influences that it is better to talk about the construction of coherent preferences than about their derivation from underlying desires (see, e.g., the papers in Lichtenstein and Slovic 2006).

How can a collective (e.g., electorate, legislature, collegial court, expert panel, or committee) arrive at coherent collective preferences or judgments on some issues, on the basis of its members' individual preferences or judgments?

Sectoral Investment Programmes (SIPs), introduced in the late 1990s by the World Bank, appeared to offer a solution to this fragmentation of development assistance and the patchwork approach to coordination, with their focus on integration and the development of coherent programmes, in preference to individual projects [ 11].

Of course, her preference for coherent, consistent worlds is not prescriptive.

Our findings are consistent with previous evidence showing a preference of coherent motion types in CSv (Sunaert et al. 1999; Braddick et al. 2001; Dieterich et al. 2003; Orban et al. 2003; Antal et al. 2008; Wall and Smith 2008).

Similarly, despite the selection of V5/MT on the basis of its preference to coherent motion over static dots, area MST had a greater "increase" to coherent motion compared with V5/MT (Fig. 2 c ), which confirms prior work (Morrone et al. 2000; Smith et al. 2006).

5) In the third paragraph of the Discussion section, the authors write: "Significant spike-phase coherence in the principal cell population was seen primarily during correct trials Beta and low gamma coherent cells exhibited this preference for correct trials more often than theta coherent cells".

But the other is that America's two political parties have been increasingly successful at organising different preferences into coherent ideological camps, and at carving up territory according to those preferences.

Overall his approach to establishing moral truths was very close to Sidgwick's, appealing to intuitive judgements that can be made at different levels of generality and that must be brought into a coherent whole, though with some preference for the most abstract judgements.