However, it is often the case that some IDS are completely reliable, while others are completely unreliable for a particular frame of discernment.
How that feeling is expressed in practice is to be determined, he writes, not by "a new set of general rules, canonical in nature and applicable to all cases," but by "a responsible personal and pastoral discernment of particular cases".
"What is possible is simply a renewed encouragement to undertake a responsible personal and pastoral discernment of particular cases".
Francis seemed to back that stance in his letter, calling for there to be "responsible, personal and pastoral discernment of particular cases".
"At the same time, it must be said that, precisely for that reason, what is part of a practical discernment in particular circumstances cannot be elevated to the level of a rule".
To analyse the ethical discernment of dilemmas particular to this specialty from an axiological perspective.
Part of this effort, in particular in mathematics education, involves the discernment of specific disparities between American and East Asian students and schools that may be correlated with the performance gap (see Ma et al. 2013).
Consequently, in order to allow the discernment of patients in whom a particular therapy will exert a real benefit, it is crucial to identify factors relevant to response to fluorouracil/platinum as well as factors predisposed to the development of severe toxicity.
"[O]ne man of discernment is better fitted to analyze and estimate the peculiar qualities adapted to particular offices," Hamilton wrote.
Feminist ethicists influenced by Carol Gilligan's path breaking work on moral development emphasize the importance of the kind of care and discernment that are salient and well-developed by people immersed in particular relationships (Held 1995); but this emphasis is consistent with such general principles as "one ought to be sensitive to the wishes of one's friends".
