Sentence examples for objective notion from inspiring English sources

Nussbaum's capabilities approach, unlike Bruckner's view, invokes an objective notion of the good.

For Davidson, this specific sort of communal solution to the problem of error leads to an objectionable sort of relativism which is inadequate for a genuinely objective notion of error (Davidson 1984, xix; 1990, 309).

The general charge against procedural autonomy accounts is that they inevitably sneak in an objective notion of the good when they are supposed to be neutral, and that those who fail them are believed to lack mental capacities to understand or scrutinize their choices.

So can objective notions of good acting even exist, or is it all about context?

Nearly all share Holmes's view that the public purposes asserted for laws, like supposedly objective notions of right and wrong, are often hypocritical masks for raw power struggles.

Just what objective notions would be available to such a creature?

"This whole phrase is really subject to interpretation, and, because of the subjectivity, we don't even know if our decisions are based on objective notions of medical benefit".

In other words, one may separate two issues: 1) whether one needs more information than individual preference orderings in order to perform interpersonal comparisons; 2) what kind of additional information is ethically relevant (subjective utility or objective notions of opportunities, etc).

Technical precision, unlike the spirit of a performance, is empirically demonstrable, virtually quantifiable, and the quasi-objective notion of there being a violinist who is "the best" made for an extraordinary selling point and reputation.

In other words the "being-in-the-world of the Negro" as Sartre defined Négritude using Heideggerian language is "subjective" while class is "objective": the notion of race is concrete and particular, Sartre writes, while that of class is universal and abstract; in the terminology of Karl Jaspers the first resorts to "comprehension" while the latter resorts to "intellection" (1976, 59).

For multiobjective problems of ongoing optima, resource allocation, continuing investment planning with risk forecasting, optimal production models with time-varying objectives, the notion of finite causality is introduced leading to separable programs and sequential (not necessarily convergent) balance and Pareto sets.