Sentence examples for permissible to pull from inspiring English sources
Is it permissible to pull the lever?
But it still seems permissible to pull the lever, yet wrong to push the man off the bridge.
That is quite consistent with their having the intuition that it would be permissible to pull the lever in the switch case, since intuiting is not believing.
If people are asked to consider Switch first, and Bridge second, they tend to say that it is permissible to pull the lever in Switch but not permissible to push the man onto the track in Bridge.
But once we remember that one's beliefs and judgements may conflict with one's intuitions it is not at all clear that the subjects lack the intuition that it would be permissible to pull the lever in the switch case when they say that it would be wrong.
For Trap Door is like Bridge in the sense that the bystander is killed as a means of saving the five, but many more people tend to have the intuition that it is permissible to pull the lever in Trap Door (Greene et al. 2009).
For example, it may be permissible, if we are one-life-at-risk short of the threshold, to pull one more person into danger who will then be saved, along with the others at risk, by killing an innocent person (Alexander 2000).
To pull — pull herself out.
If Mr Meta were to pull out of the government, these fears would come to the fore.Another aspect of the electoral changes will work to Mr Berisha's advantage: only constructive votes of no-confidence are permissible in the new parliament, meaning that the chamber must back an alternative prime minister at the same time as renouncing the current one.
