Gone are the paradoxes of property and promises intended to prove that particular virtues are devised on purpose; also missing is what some commentators think Hume's most original contribution to the theory of justice, his account of convention.
Numerous staging systems have been devised for purposes of risk classification; we sought to identify the optimal staging system to predict postoperative survival.
The common defense of this is usually that this is a logical notation devised for purposes of logic, and it does not claim to capture every nuance of the natural language forms that the symbols resemble.
Furthermore, the modern and contemporary paintings pose specific problems for the identification of the technique used by the artist [5], because of the large and often undocumented use of materials not specifically devised for that purpose and, in some cases, the deliberate intention of the artist of creating an ephemeral work of art [6].
Changes in self-management behaviours were reflected by the following: i. development or use of a self-management plan: Two questions devised for the purpose of the study measured participants' self-reported stage of change (Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change Model) in developing or updating a self-management/action plan and discussing the plan with their GP; ii.
One notable method [ 11] that uses a Bayesian approach to integrate heterogeneous data sources was devised for the purposes of function prediction.
Several such scales have been devised for the purpose of standardizing terms and providing a basis for statistical analysis.
Human conduct, insofar as it is rational, is generally explained with reference to ends or goals pursued or alleged to be pursued, and humans have often understood the behaviour of other things in nature on the basis of that analogy, either as of themselves pursuing ends or goals or as designed to fulfill a purpose devised by a mind that transcends nature.
