Sentence examples for pragmatic rules from inspiring English sources

Another email from the environment minister Lord de Mauley to the Beyond GM campaigning group promises "pragmatic rules" for separating GM and non-GM crops to allow product labelling, and does not foresee commercial planting of crops "for at least a few years".

However, opponents of ME normativity stress, these are pragmatic rules, regulating the performance of speech acts, not semantic ones.

The first one consists of using a set of pragmatic rules in order to generate a succession of passive and active phases allowing us to perform a dynamic walking gait of the robot.

When an intervention known to be effective in study populations fails to work in a particular patient, clinicians therefore have little choice but to move to alternative interventions on the basis of pragmatic rules of thumb (heuristics).

The most pragmatic rules defined SDI on the basis of the intermediate sample interval (< X = 120 days), the same spacing after the previous ADI as the most liberal definition (> Y = 50 days), the conventional antibody boost for defining infection (≥ Z = 4 fold = 0.602), and inclusion of seroconversion.

For instance, beliefs relating the normative and pragmatic rules for engaging in health-promoting behavior (diet and exercise) or leisure activity (watching television or playing video games) will change as individual members of an ethnic group experience and come to value innovative practices, while losing interest in and thereby disvaluing traditional practices.

Hungary's cultural life benefited from the greater political tolerance experienced under Kádár's pragmatic rule.

These overbeliefs involve a panpsychistic interpretation of experience (one that ascribes a psychic aspect to all of nature) that goes beyond radical Empiricism and the pragmatic rule into conventional metaphysics.

He used the pragmatic rule in his polemic against monism and the "block universe," which held that all of reality is of one piece (cemented, as it were, together); and he used this rule against internal relations (i.e., the notion that you cannot have one thing without having everything), against all finalities, staticisms, and completenesses.

Having made use of the pragmatic rule in his study of religious experience, he now turned it upon the ideas of change and chance, of freedom, variety, pluralism, and novelty, which, from the time he had read Renouvier, it had been his preoccupation to establish.

Previous applications of cellular automata to architectural design have oftentimes been characterised by their limited generative capacity for top down developmental control and for pragmatic rule-breaking as they are easily offered by human designers.