Sentence examples for desire and preference from inspiring English sources

Pollock (2006) argues that the number of such facts is on the order of a billion billions at the very least, just to encode the same facts about desire and preference that could readily be generated from just three hundred basic facts about desires.

He was a strong-willed person who was confident in expressing his desires and preferences.

We usually go back to the same desires and preferences we had as 15-year-olds, and Americanah captures this sentiment.

The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us (consumer spending represents 70percentt of our economy), and most of the rest of them made in the name of our needs and desires and preferences.

The heterogeneity of agents is reflected by adjusting parameters according to the agents' beliefs, desires and preferences.

Utilitarians take peoples' desires and interests as given and seek to maximize their satisfaction; in so doing utilitarians suspend judgment regarding the moral permissibility of peoples' desires and preferences and of the social circumstances and institutions within which desires and preferences are formed.

Such agents, like Kantian agents, are not influenced by the particular desires and preferences that are contingent on being embedded in an actual situation.

Investigating desires and preferences that suit baby boomers' aesthetic needs is important to create specific design aspects of their tennis wear.

As our devices become even smarter about our choices, desires and preferences, our mobile phones become the ultra-simple "remote control" for our lives, simplifying and enabling all of our daily transactions.

In theoretical reasoning the premise attitudes are all beliefs or credences (cognitive states of affairs), whereas in practical reasoning some of the premise attitudes are prior intentions, or related states such as desires and preferences.

Oshana's theory provides an analysis of the condition of the autonomous agent rather than the conditions under which an agent's particular desires and preferences at particular times count as autonomous.