Sentence examples for principled ground from inspiring English sources

This serves as a principled ground for leaving morality free from legal enforcement.

Excluding Nazis and Ku Klux Klanners and gay bashers from the zone of speech-toleration may feel good, but it rests on no principled ground, and attempts, like Harel's, to specify such a ground are merely attempts to occlude the entirely arbitrary nature of the classification.

In a discussion of ISIS's implementation of "slavery" and "crucifixion," he is quoted as saying, "The only principled ground that the Islamic State's opponents could take is to say that certain core texts and traditional teachings of Islam are no longer valid".

Since the principle of double effect implies that the latter may be permissible even when the former are not, those who wish to apply the principle of double effect must provide principled grounds for drawing this distinction.

But, with no great grandstanding, that principled grounding is missing from his popular reputation.

So proponents of an intrinsic unnaturalness argument can insist that in spite of not being able to provide principled grounds for distinguishing between the two kinds of cases, they still know that creating chimeras is wrong.

(On anti-reductionism and the Simple View, see Parfit (1984: 210) and Olson (2012).) These arguments exploit so-called "fission cases", which involve an individual that apparently splits into distinct individuals but without principled grounds for identifying one rather than another of the post-fission individuals with the pre-fission individual.

Conceding that unnaturalness is not sufficient for wrongness, however, opens the proponent of the Unnaturalness Argument to a further challenge, that of providing principled grounds for distinguishing between those cases in which an act is wrong because it is unnatural and those cases in which an act is unnatural but not wrong, and of showing that creating chimeras falls into the former category.

It is this ambiguous status that makes it surprisingly difficult to defend the modern nation on principled grounds.

"Thereafter, the city adopted a pro-cycling policy, albeit on pragmatic rather than principled grounds," Oldenziel writes.

Dow Chemical also opposes the move, again on principled grounds, and not because it would likely drive up prices for the natural gas it uses in chemical processes.