Sentence examples for principled grounds from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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

No concept is so widely incanted by contemporary philosophers and so lacking in principled ground, while no work is more suggestive here than the early Marx's.

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.

Nor, indeed, does he offer any principled grounding for just these categories of being, a circumstance which has left him open to further criticism from later philosophers, including famously Kant who, after lauding Aristotle for coming up with the idea of category theory, proceeds to excoriate him for selecting his particular categories on no principled basis whatsoever.