Sentence examples for descriptions under which from inspiring English sources

But while nomological relations between events (relations involving laws) depend on the descriptions under which the events are given, relations of causality and identity obtain irrespective of descriptions — if the icing-up of the road did indeed cause the skid, then it did so no matter how the events at issue are described.

Even so, Scotus is enough of an Aristotelian about the functioning of our intellect on this side of heaven to insist that even though our brute acquaintance with those acts is independent of phantasms, the descriptions under which we know those acts must be capable of being captured in a phantasm.

A subjective principle of volition, that is, a description under which the act is done.

That is, what determines the morality of the action on the Kantian picture is the description under which the action is performed.

Kant says: No what matters is the description under which the act is done, and in particular that that description be that one have respect for the law itself.

How could anybody have a view of morality that says, what matters for an act to be moral is not the outcome that it produces, but rather the description under which the act is done?

"Only by considering the motive and not by considering the outcome can the action be expressive of the good will itself". "The good will is the only thing that is good in itself," says Kant, and it's only by looking at the description under which an act is done that we can determine whether the good will was implicated in the right way in the choice to perform that action.

Following Korsgaard (1996 20099), we understand a practical identity to be a description under which a person values herself, where valuing oneself involves treating oneself as a source of reasons.

What counts, and can often be inferred despite prevarication, is the act-description under which the behavior chosen was attractive to the defendant in his or her actual deliberations (as distinct from rationalizing act-descriptions adopted to present that motivation in a better light).

Recipes are flanked by descriptions of the customs under which the breads are made and eaten and the people who bake them.

The case includes historically-significant interviews with officials from both the Ukraine and U.S., and detailed descriptions of the agreement under which Ukraine scraps its nuclear weapons in exchange for external financial assistance.