Sentence examples for formal criterion from inspiring English sources

But along with the criteria was a further declaration: that "the union's capacity to absorb new members...is also an important consideration in the general interest of both the union and the candidate countries".The distinction between a formal "criterion" and a mere "consideration" sounds abstruse and semantic, but in practice it has been vital to the EU's recent expansion.

(Godel had proved the completeness of first-order predicate calculus, thus providing a purely formal criterion for what followed from what in that language.

However, despite these seminal refinements, no formal criterion exists yet which predicts the most active disconnection in comparison to other possible deformation modes.

Already then, however, Carnap (1928b, §7) edged towards a formal criterion by requiring empirically significant statements to be such that experiential support for them or for their negation is at least conceivable.

Now against both the pragmatic and the post-linguistic responses to the perceived failure of the attempt to provide a precise formal criterion of significance serious worries can be raised.

Abelard solves the problem by taking obedience to God's will the hallmark of morally correct behaviour, and itself an instance of natural law to be a matter of the agent's intention conforming to a purely formal criterion, namely the Golden Rule ("Do to others as you would be done to").

They have held that the fulfillment of formal criteria counts as a necessary condition for artistic excellence but not a sufficient condition.

Although ridding the area of the debris it invariably collects is not among the formal criteria that the National Park Service weighs in its year-long study of the site, it could not hurt.

There's no formal criteria for what puts a PC notebook into the "superslim" category, but it probably should weigh no more than three pounds and be no more than an inch thick.

Traditions had to be sustained by an expert "science" of attestation able to satisfy rigorous formal criteria of their connection with the person of Muhammad through his "companions," by an unbroken sequence of "reportage".

No formal criteria were established.