Sentence examples for concepts of desert from inspiring English sources

However, there is an important difference between the concepts of desert and entitlement.

A tube-type solar still is proposed to integrate a conventional still and a water distribution network suitable to our concept of desert plantation.

Philosophers have made use of the concept of desert in several contexts.

The concept of desert itself does not yield this value of raising the social product; it is a value societies hold independently.

We can profitably discuss these questions without committing ourselves to any view about the metaphysical complexity of the concept of desert.

Miller says that if we did not have these attitudes, 'we would not and could not use the concept of desert' (1976, 89).

Hence, desert principles identifying desert-bases tied to socially productive activity (productivity, compensation, and effort all being examples of such bases) do not do so because the concept of desert requires this.

In social and political philosophy (or philosophy of law) a number of philosophers have appealed to the concept of desert when discussing the justification of penalties for violations of law.

J.J.C. Smart (1963) famously bifurcated the free will debate, denying the notion of moral responsibility built on the concept of desert (one seemingly incompatible with determinism), and in doing so dismissing the traditional free will problem.

But they also may have the ability to avoid the repugnant conclusion – to explain, for example, by reference to the ideal of human flourishing (Temkin) or the concept of desert (Feldman) how it can be morally better to produce a smaller number of extremely well off individuals rather than a very large number of people whose lives are only barely worth living.

"I have been researching the contradictory concepts of the desert being the realm of the anti-life force, as Burroughs described it, or as a rich life force of electric fields, similar to the quest of other contemporary researchers".