Sentence examples for descriptive proposal from inspiring English sources

(a) Though Parfit briefly discusses and sets aside the descriptive proposal (Parfit 1987, 359 60), interest in that proposal has been renewed in recent years (Hare 2007, 512 23, advocating concept of "de dicto" harm; Reiman 2007, 78 90, describing a "veil of ignorance" with respect to the identity of the person harmed).

Parfit's own concerns about proposal (a) – the descriptive proposal – are based on the apparent explanatory gap between the claim that the couple's act makes things worse for "the child produced by the couple" and the result we seek to explain – that the act of entering into the contract is wrong.

He also said that the wording of the proposal was adequately descriptive and that to rewrite the ballot to say the initiative would permit human cloning — a claim the state rejects because New Jersey law prohibits cloning — would further confuse voters.

‐      The proposal is essentially descriptive.

This accounts for our proposal of new descriptive names (CLiW, r1SuL).

These proposals, however, are descriptive and do not provide a formal ground to assess the commonalities and differences of the various SPEs.

In pursuing that aim, Austin also made a number of distinctive proposals about the descriptive function of the truth predicate.[5] Let's turn, then, to the core of Austin's account of truth.

There is an obvious and serious problem with the proposal that narrow content is descriptive content, however.

Jackson's proposal seemingly avoids triviality, because evaluative and descriptive predicates appear to be distinct.

Cognitivists have raised doubts about the adequacy of these proposals due to the manner in which the descriptive meaning is determined.

We extracted data from the proposals using closed and open questions, analysed using descriptive statistics and content analysis respectively.