Additional file 1: Relevance, Appropriateness, Transparency and Soundness (RATS) principles for the reporting of qualitative research.
Rigour was optimized through purposive sampling, inductive analysis, examining deviant responses, and comparison of independently-derived themes, and complying with Relevance, Appropriateness, Transparency and Soundness (RATS) principles (Additional file 1) for the reporting of qualitative research [ 31, 32].
Rigour was further ensured by complying with Relevance, Appropriateness, Transparency and Soundness (RATS) principles for the reporting of qualitative research [ 27] as the citation in Additional file 1. Ethics approval for this study was acquired from the University Health Network which required that participants provide written informed consent prior to being interviewed.
Hence, the instances of soundness (reflection principle) provable in a system are exactly the ones which concern sentences which are themselves provable in the system.
For a wide class of cognitive projects examples of these presuppositions include: normal and proper functioning of the relevant cognitive faculties, the reliability of utilised instruments, the obtaining of the circumstances congenial to the proposed method of investigation, the soundness of relevant principles of inference utilised in developing and collating one's results, and so on.
Whatever the soundness of liberal principles, in other words, the fact remains that many communitarians seem worried by a perception that traditional liberal institutions and practices have contributed to, or at least do not seem up to the task of dealing with, such modern phenomena as alienation from the political process, unbridled greed, loneliness, urban crime, and high divorce rates.
Algeria's independence from France, achieved in 1962, confirmed Arafat's belief in the soundness of the principle of relying on one's own strength.
The American College Dictionary defines integrity as: "soundness of moral principle and character; uprightness; honesty; the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished, sound, unimpaired, or in perfect condition".
We examine the tension between the principles of soundness and competitiveness within the financial services sector to ascertain whether APEC competition principles can be applied to the financial sector.
Rule utilitarians disagree with act utilitarians; Rawlsians disagree with each other, inter alia, on the metric of equality and the soundness of the difference principle; and libertarians debate the stringency of their preference for liberty over social equality.
