Much of the debate on that question so far has been based on generalities and assertions, with those who favor principles over rules having the better of the rhetorical debate.
However, this new pattern P2 will almost certainly be convertible through fine-tuned social engineering into another pattern P3 that better realizes the favored patterning principle.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, joins Arlington County, Virginia to Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Talking to people involved in infrastructure, one gets this picture: user fees are not enough and toll roads, favored in principle by many, do not raise enough money to attract and keep private investors.
That is why we favored the Principle of minimum of Tsallis information gain against the Shannon information gain when we deal with the Pareto distribution.
I have discussed it in Appendix 1, in which it is suggested that DRTs in the compact form mentioned above were not only favored in principle of replication parsimony, but also very likely to have just been the DRTs emerging in the very beginning.
On a related point, Philip Kitcher takes tradtionalists to hold that "our favored logical principles are prescriptions for thought" (Kitcher, 1992: 63).
No one really favors the principle of diversity as such.
The results indicate that while Americans favor the principle behind Mr. Bush's initiative, they oppose many of the details.
The Chinese government continues to favor the principle of non-intervention in countries around the world and opposes any foreign role in Taiwan or Tibet, regarding them both as part of China, he said.
The new T.S.A. rules, however, in effectively favoring the principle of unfettered freedom from discrimination over the invasion of personal privacy, have shifted the balance in a fashion that is offensive to the common sense of most Americans.
The conception of respect for reason in the moral argument seems not obviously to favor the principle of reasonableness.
