Switching to an a priori entailment relation goes partway towards restoring the applicability of an entailment account to ontological disputes.
Performance is defined by Laitinen ([2002], p.66) as "the ability of an object to produce results in a dimension determined a priori, in relation to a target".
The overall pattern of lower survival in the more deprived groups has changed very little over the three successive calendar periods that we defined a priori in relation to the NHS Cancer Plan.
As he sees it, in the Canons bian is part of the study of "disputation," which investigates a priori, necessary relations between names, but not relations between names and objects.
These fitnesses or proportions were to be discovered in our nature and although they might be consistent with a priori metaphysical relations, the norms and values that they determined were obliging and motivating in absence of access to said relations.
The more an instrument behaves according to a priori hypothesised relations, the stronger is the evidence for validity (Guyatt, 1999).
To examine construct validity: (1) a priori expected relations between CHQ concepts and HUI attributes were examined; (2) HUI and CHQ summary scores were compared to visual analogue scale (VAS) scores.
Unless the material composition field in functionally graded materials (FGM) is assumed a priori, an explicit relation between the objective function and the design variables is almost hard to derive.
Using a systematic data mining approach, we tested the potential statistical relationship between BT consumption and five health indicators, without any a priori assumptions in relation to any of these health indicators.
