Sentence examples for prescriptive properties from inspiring English sources

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Mackie contends that the moral sentences we utter when we make moral judgments in fact express propositions about just such "objectively prescriptive" properties; as a result, our moral judgments can be true or false.

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Many believe that if Moore gave the wrong reason for disputing the possibility of these identities, he was still right to draw our attention to the apparent difference between a property that describes a natural feature of the world and a property that has prescriptive or normative significance for us.

Equation (A1) expresses the power of the SLH formalism; it captures the modular nature of the optical network and also gives us a prescriptive formula for how to model the properties of the entire device by knowing properties of each module.

A prescriptive approach will not fit every property owner's needs.

Hansson develops systems of deontic logic where he analyzes prohibitive and prescriptive deontic notions in terms of abstract properties of various preference orderings (e.g., a normative status is prohibitive whenever anything worse than something that has that status also has it).

According to cognitivist anti-realism, although ethical sentences express propositions about objectively prescriptive properties ones with "to-be-pursuedness" built in no such properties exist; and due to this presupposition failure, we are systematically in error in our moral judgments.

Christine Korsgaard (1996) has endorsed the idea of something like objectively prescriptive entities, though these entities are not, in her view, moral properties.

For Harare, we suggest the following measures in keeping with the lessons highlighted above: Adopt prescriptive planning approach in which the key players or developers and property owners are compelled to develop in line with city council goals and aspirations.

Lastly, it includes a release of "any right, title, and interest" which may have been acquired in the property through the above referenced legal concepts of adverse possession and a prescriptive easement.

Accurate determination of rock mass properties is a critical part of open-pit mine planning activities to enable more prescriptive blast designs to achieve improved loading and hauling and downstream process efficiency.

If a hedge merely obstructs your light and its branches do not overhang your property, you probably cannot force your neighbour to do anything about it unless there is a prescriptive right to light - that is one acquired through uninterrupted use over 20 years.

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