There is more to right and wrong than mere choice.
_"An ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist" is how he explained it.
By the equivalence principle, however, free-fall trajectories satisfy all empirical criteria for being inertial trajectories, and so the distinction between the two types of trajectory depends on the mere choice of coordinates.
Duchamp selected the pieces on the basis of visual indifference - a theory summed up by surrealist Andre Breton as "an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist".
"But your history was born, not out of mere choice, but out of necessity, in the face of racism, and in the aftermath of the Civil War".
Also, the mere choice of a single threshold lends an element of arbitrariness to the classification procedure, which our approach avoids.
But a real understanding of language acknowledges which rules are truly ironclad, which ones are in dispute and which ones are mere style choices.
Some combinations are naturally anticipated based on patent activities in the past or mere random choices, and some appear to deviate exceptionally from existing invention pathways.
Mike Huckabee dismissed Mr. Obama, the first black candidate of any major party, as a mere "symbolic" choice for president.
As a lesbian, I resent my faith's being considered a mere lifestyle choice as much as I resent my sexuality's being considered as such.
