Sentence examples for contingent characteristics from inspiring English sources

For some early feminists this meant enthusiastically endorsing a dualism between mind and body, with bodily features regarded as contingent characteristics of the self, and the potentially rational minds as its core.

Early scientists identified gold by contingent characteristics rather than its atomic essence, knowledge of which had to await thorough investigation of many putative examples — some of which turned out to be gold and some not.

Contingent characteristics may not be necessary but may have an influence in certain circumstances.

Analysis of the data from the interviews and workshop identified necessary and contingent characteristics of HIA and HPP practice.

For both Aristotle and Kant dignity thus seems to be contingent upon characteristics such as rationality and autonomy: it would be difficult for someone who lacked rationality to possess the Aristotelian moral virtues, while Kant's reference to "intrinsic value" seems nonetheless to rest on the possession of autonomy.

Therefore, the ESN, SVM and NB analyses were repeated three times each time using another initialization of the weights in the echo-state network, to see whether or not the variations seen in different analyses were caused by contingent network characteristics.

Although MCSs are found to be contingent on situational characteristics, it remains unclear whether this contingency fit contributes to performance.

This explorative empirical study investigates which sets of portfolio restructuring design characteristics, contingent on individual firm and industry characteristics, lead to successful business portfolio transformations.

We received written permission from the company to use these data for research purposes and publishing contingent on identifying characteristics of the company and its traders remaining confidential and anonymous.

More generally, our findings are contingent upon the characteristics of our study population and on the coverage and sensitivity of the descriptive and preference-based measures used to generate our conversion algorithms.

It not only takes into account the community-embedded nature of respondents in the data, but also allows testing whether the relationships between predictor variables and the outcome variable vary across communities or are contingent on community characteristics.