Sentence examples for practical equivalence from inspiring English sources

Here is why some have thought rule-consequentialism collapses into practical equivalence with act-consequentialism. Consider a rule that rule-consequentialism purports to favor — e.g., "don't steal".

An important confusion to avoid is to think that rule-consequentialism's including a "prevent disaster" rule means that rule-consequentialism collapses into practical equivalence with maximising act-consequentialism. Maximising act-consequentialism holds that we should lie, or steal, or harm the innocent whenever doing so would produce even a little higher expected good than not doing so would.

Since the early 1970s, however, most moral philosophers have thought of rule-consequentialism as fatally impaled on one or the other horn of the following dilemma: Either rule-consequentialism collapses into practical equivalence with the simpler act-consequentialism, or rule-consequentialism is incoherent.

Since rule-consequentialism can tell us to follow this simpler and less demanding code, even when following it will not to maximise expected good, rule-consequentialism escapes collapse into practical equivalence to act-consequentialism. To the extent that rule-consequentialism circumvents collapse, this theory is accused of incoherence.

What is the point of rule-consequentialism with its infinitely amended rules if we can get the same practical result much more efficiently with the simpler act-consequentialism? Rule-consequentialists in fact have an excellent reply to the objection that their theory collapses into practical equivalence with act-consequentialism.

Details of the model implementation, and of its practical equivalence to SDE models, are provided in Croft et al. (2012).

Drawing on interviews with translators and translation review committee members and on an analysis of archival materials, it provides an empirically grounded understanding of practical problems of linguistic equivalence, and the institutional work required to maintain the IFRS as a global, translingual institution.

Here, defining word shape by a practical test for holistic equivalence allowed us to isolate and measure the contribution of the process, W, that recognizes words as wholes.

The practical support includes finding equivalences for professional qualifications and developing language skills.

Randomised, pragmatic trial of equivalence.

Therefore, we demonstrate from both theoretical and practical aspects that there is an asymptotic equivalence between stochastic and deterministic energy sources.