Sentence examples for instrumental question from inspiring English sources

(This need not be means-end reasoning in the conventional sense; if, for example, our goal is the just resolution of a conflict, we must determine what constitutes justice in these particular circumstances. Here we are engaged in ethical inquiry, and are not asking a purely instrumental question).

Yet these are sentiments and concerns that clearly need to be more forcibly acknowledged as we move beyond instrumental questions of 'what works?' and 'how can technology fix education?'.

The first pillar helps to answer instrumental questions concerning the intervention process (how does the intervention work?).

But that first justification, being instrumental, raises the question of whether certain forms of political communication are in fact likely to contribute to a vibrant sphere of public political debate.

On the other, the theorem considered in the Appendix, i.e. Makowski and Neustadt (1974, Theorem 12.1), presents a wide enough scope of applicability to allow for a complete characterization of the solution to the instrumental program in question.

"You don't make instrumental calculations about questions of honor," he said.

Understanding such mechanisms would thus be instrumental in addressing questions on the presence of special molecular mechanisms and on whether we can activate those programs in mammalian brains to achieve functional recovery utilizing the endogenous stem cells.