It's a useful story because it points out how people have a tendency to project a personal or partial experience as a whole truth — and ignore the experience of others.
Moreover, according to Parfit, Sidgwick drew the conflict too narrowly, between impartial and egoistic reasons, when in fact we might have personal and partial, but not self-interested reasons to act wrongly – or to care about the well-being of others – and impartial reasons to act wrongly.
Jewish Life in America c1654-1954: Sources from the American Jewish Historical Society provides full online access to 24 collections of personal papers, and partial access to the papers and archives of six organizations.
And Bernard Williams (1973) has argued that the demandingness of utilitarianism threatens the sort of personal projects and partial relationships that help give our lives meaning.
In a letter sent to affected customers this week (and buried on the Healthcare.gov website), CMS disclosed that sensitive personal data — including partial Social Security numbers, immigration status and some tax information — may have been taken.
His creditors obtained a deficiency judgment for the unpaid portion of his debt after the foreclosure, and, following his death, forced the sale of some of his furniture and parts of his personal library in partial satisfaction of his remaining debts.
The database contains 3280 subjects, with complete or partial personal data, DFP data and genome information for each subject.
Some of these will have personal reasons for partial non-completion, so it is unlikely that we accurately can impute their answers conditionally missing at random (MAR).
Thus even this partial personal protection against the massive exposure levels that characterize much of sub-Saharan Africa [ 67, 68] delivers worthwhile alleviation of malaria infection and disease burden [ 1].
You plunge in to this partial and personal selection of work, never quite knowing how long you'll be detained.
