The Rae-Taylor theorem rests on an implicit equal-stakes assumption, i.e., di = 1 for every i ∈ N. Brighouse and Fleurbaey show that when stakes are allowed to vary across voters, total utility is maximized not by majority rule, but by a weighted majority rule, where each individual i's voting weight wi is proportional to his or her stake di.
This would imply an equal implicit price per gram of all cabbages.
Progressive hearts will have lifted at the reference to the feminist landmark of Seneca Falls, the gay battleground of Stonewall (making this the first inaugural address to include the word "gay"), the implicit promise of action on equal marriage, and the rallying cry on climate change.
Professors court a diversity of views in the classroom and take an implicit oath to welcome everyone on an equal basis.
(a: A)(implicit e: Equal[A]) : Boolean = e equal (value, a) def and ≠ a ̆ (a: A)(implicit e: Equal[A]) : Boolean = !( = ? (a)).
All objects for which an instance of type class Equal can be found in implicit scope can now be compared in a type-safe manner using these operators.
By relaxing the implicit assumption that all worlds are of equal weight, a generalized argument shows that weighted average distance is the only function to satisfy the extension principles.
Our implicit assumption was that all patients have an equal risk of development of ototoxicity at any point in time.
As stated earlier in this article, we maintained the hypothesis of equal number of neighbors and the implicit local symmetry of the surface of the nuclear envelope under rotations.
There's a tendency to view an open, democratic society as a part of the antidote for any number of ills — that was the implicit message behind the American aids activists' "silence equals death" slogan.
The fully implicit Radau IIA Runge Kutta methods compare favorably with equal-order DIRK methods in terms of accuracy, number of GMRES iterations, number of matrix vector multiplications, and wall-clock time, for a wide range of time steps.
