Sentence examples for instead of the principles from inspiring English sources

When the equiprobability assumption is made, the parties in the original position would choose the principle of average utility instead of the principles of justice (Harsanyi 1975).

(Besides, the nihilist should want to protect his freedom to be the person he is; what if he chose the principle of utility and ended up in a religiously fundamentalist society governed by Puritans?) Thus it remains irrational to jeopardize basic liberties by choosing the principle of utility instead of the principles of justice.

"We are tired of living in a nation governed by fear instead of the principles of freedom and liberty that made this nation great," the ACLU stated about Snowden.

An equation of motion of the system can be extracted by requiring the maximum-entropy principle (instead of the principle of least action).

Because all one's values, commitments, and future prospects are at stake in the original position, and there is no hope of renegotiating the outcome, a rational person would agree to the principles of justice instead of the principle of utility.

Instead of naming the principles of Mosaic law ("the Torah of Moses") as, for example, Maimonides did in his well-known list of thirteen principles, Albo widens his target and lists the principles of "divine law".

If morale in the military is low, it may be in part because it has come to realize that its role has become protecting American pocketbooks instead of upholding the principles of democracy on which our country prides itself.

Instead of upholding the principles - however shaky - on which our financial system is based, they have entered into the fray of Russian business, and connived in its attempts to subvert and evade those principles.

While Kato uses this lemma instead of the min max principle, it should be emphasized that this lemma can be used to prove that principle!  .

While Kato uses this lemma instead of the min max principle, it should be emphasized that this lemma can be used to prove that principle!

First, these can all be understood as examples of the application of the Leibnizean Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR): if there is no sufficient reason for one thing to happen instead of another, the principle says that nothing happens (the initial situation does not change).