Despite claims that the autonomy paradigm at the heart of biomedical ethics is a key factor in patient participation, for a number of reasons it may provide inadequate foundations for such initiatives.
More specifically, there needs to be an acknowledgment in theory and practice that the emphasis on citizen choice as determiner of policy and practice is inadequate as a foundation for private and public engagement.
(1) Ad hoc management, which could also be called seat-of-the-pants decision-making, is based on some combination of anecdotal information, the absence of clear management goals, little or no technical foundation for management actions, and inadequate monitoring.
Although classical first-order logic is the de facto standard logical foundation for artificial intelligence, the lack of a built-in, semantically grounded capability for reasoning under uncertainty renders it inadequate for many important classes of problems.
They are a foundation for political change.
Familiarity, the foundation for cohesiveness, is important.
These principles provide a foundation for negotiations.
We want a sound foundation for change.
Education is a foundation for life".
The foundation for that: trust.
