But under libertarian labor markets, neither formal nor substantive equality of opportunity is required.
The range of views can roughly be divided into two categories: the "thin", or formal, conception and the "thick", or substantive, conception of the rule of law.
These conceptions can generally be divided into two categories developed by legal academics, the "thin", or formal, conception and the "thick", or substantive, conception of the rule of law.
In other words, Kant takes the rational psychologist to slide (mistakenly) from formal features of subjectivity to material or substantive metaphysical claims about an alleged (super-sensible) object (the soul).
Here Wolff defines perfection in both formal and substantive terms: formally, simply as the order or harmony of the parts in a whole; but substantively, as the suitability of that order or harmony of parts for achieving the aim that is intended for the whole, such as accurately telling time in the case of a clock.
Each applicant must have a formal affiliation in the form of an honorary or substantive contract with the hospital or the university before applying to access CRIS.
The problems posed by the existence of individuals with severe disabilities might suggest an objection against formal and substantive conceptions of equality of opportunity or at least raise doubts about their ethical importance.
Deontological theories set forth formal or relational criteria such as equality or impartiality; teleological theories, by contrast, provide material or substantive criteria, as, for example, happiness or pleasure.
Later generations of Protestant thinkers sometimes resorted to scholastic philosophical definitions similar to those of medieval theologians; in such definitions justification became the material (or substantive) principle of the Reformation, while the matter of scriptural authority became the equally important formal (or structural) principle.
The use of transformational grammar in language analysis assumes a certain number of formal and substantive universals.
