Sentence examples for instrumental utility from inspiring English sources

But money in itself is of only instrumental utility.

And indeed much in the way that Plato's Socrates does, Kant goes on to enumerate some things which fall into the other category, the category of things that are of mere instrumental utility.

No doubt it is of instrumental utility; he doesn't deny either Glaucon's arguments or Adeimantus's arguments about the ways in which being perceived as just can be of use to us.

It's an argument through something that Glaucon and Adeimantus have conceded to have intrinsic as well as instrumental utility, and a claim that once you understand what justice is, you can see the direct analogy between the soul and justice, and the body and health.

Diffusion and creation of novel representational features start from a process of critical imitation steered by criteria of instrumental utility set by the individual design teams to address both their needs, concerning level of understanding and desired expressiveness of the design, and the socially regulated expectations about what is required in a good design.

Let us make the first important proposition as a foundation for further discussion: The instrumental utility of social ties can be (partially) substituted.

This almost two orders of magnitude gain in efficiency with the MLMC methods is instrumental in their utility for performing more realistic UQ simulations at an acceptable computational cost.

Animals' lives are valuable merely because of what's called their instrumental value or utility to humans.

The ability to excise from a genomic location has been instrumental to the utility of P element based vectors.

The electric utility was instrumental in spreading wealth among a large and prosperous middle class.

The greatest variations were detected in the colorimetric study, reflecting the utility of instrumental colour measurements for these types of studies.