Sentence examples for first-order question from inspiring English sources

While much literature has sought to understand this participatory approach, considerably fewer studies have engaged the essential first-order question: How would we know who the appropriate community representatives are?

On the one side, there is the first-order question of what moral truths there are, if any.

As discussed above, on deflationary views of truth and facts, it is a first-order question whether some attribution is in error or not.

Work on the Prize Essay put Kant in a stressful situation, not only because he had to meet the contest deadline, but also because he forced himself to engage with metaphysics on two levels in the book, he pursued a first-order question on God's existence, and in the essay, he examined the second-order question of whether such a pursuit is actually feasible.

Here is what the authors have to say in the abstract of their paper: The power of molecular oxygen to drive many crucial biogeochemical processes, from cellular respiration to rock weathering, makes reconstructing the history of its production and accumulation a first-order question for understanding Earth's evolution.

I think the first-order question is, what's the point of having editorials?

As he puts it, "The citizens of the United States have essentially forfeited any capacity to ask first-order questions about the fundamentals of national security policy".

That scrutiny has not yet been given, not least because, as Bacevich has observed, "The citizens of the United States have essentially forfeited any capacity to ask first-order questions about the fundamentals of national security policy".

The problem with that process is that patents didn't consistently include such citations until the 1940s, which limits their usefulness in analyzing longer historical trends and answering those "first-order" questions.

Given minimalism, many questions that might at first sight seem metaethical, second-order questions about ethics turn out to be first-order questions within ethics.

Insofar as the non-naturalist (quite rightly) aspires to remain neutral on such first-order questions, this is a theoretical vice of the proposed explanation.