So the fact of variability of desire is not on its own enough to cast doubt on the natural law universal goods thesis: as the good is not defined fundamentally by reference to desire, the fact of variation in desire is not enough to raise questions about universal goods.
For the purposes of this analysis we used a broad definition of expectations, including references to desired or hoped-for outcomes.
In contrast to material principles, formal principles describe how one acts without making reference to any desires.
Also peculiar, according to critics, is the way in which the invitation to tender makes no reference to the desire or requirement for a garden bridge.
"If I can play well here then it helps a couple of situations at the end of the year," admitted Poulter on Friday, a clear reference to his desire to be part of Faldo's party.
Executives and editors started speaking in catch phrases like "Washington 360," "Digital first," "Utility inside the wall, visibility outside the wall," a reference to their desire to make the new free Web site a topic of conversation in Washington.
Bagby characterized the flag motif as the "Southern Cross" – the constellation, not a religious symbol – and hailed it for pointing "the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave" southward to "the banks of the Amazon," a reference to the desire among many Southerners to expand Confederate territory into Latin America.
LONDON — The British authorities said publicly for the first time on Friday that concern for "international relations" had been a factor in blocking a public inquiry into the poisoning death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former K.G.B. officer, an apparent reference to their desire to avoid upsetting the Kremlin.
So one might think that some things — knowledge, beauty, etc. — are just good in themselves, apart from any reference to human desire or perfection, but hold that the pursuit of these are only part of the natural law insofar as they fall within the ambit of human practical possibility.
The first, tracing back at least to Chisholm (1957), assumes that the dispositionalist's aim is to reduce or analyze facts about belief entirely into facts about outward behavior, facts specifiable without reference to other beliefs, desires, inner feelings, and so forth (see the entry on philosophical behaviorism).
