Sentence examples for status of actions from inspiring English sources

Our rapid assessment of the status of actions indicates that the level of progress reported for at least 32 of these 151 actions (around 21%) has been overstated.

Since, arguably, any reasonable moral theory has to take these aspects of possible states of affairs into account when determining the normative status of actions, the study of population ethics is of general import for moral theory.

There is a concern that including the non-objectivism clause threatens to make moral anti-realism trivially true, since there is little room for doubting that the moral status of actions usually (if not always) depends in some manner on mental phenomena such as the intentions with which the action was performed or the episodes or pleasure and pain that ensue from it.

It has, then, the ontological status of actions: each utterance is a unique historical event; it is a token, not a type; an utterance made by one speaker cannot be made by another one; an utterance made here and now cannot be made there later.

However, whatever the plausibility of this account with respect to actual token actions or persons, it is less clear how the counterfactual criterion would apply to the moral status of actions featured in the merely hypothetical cases found in typical methodology.

Next, and crucially, this model is taken to support philosophical claims about knowledge, such as: "whether a subject knows that p may depend upon the moral status of actions the subject performs in light of the belief that p" (495).

For example, if the dimension of field of discourse is conceptualised as concerning activity, then the systems introduced by its entry points could cover everything that classifies the nature of action, such as types of action ('material'/'verbal'), the sphere of action ('local' ,/'institutionalised'), and the status of action ('quotidian'/'specialised'specialised

Although there is no nation-wide study to investigate and report the current status of action research implementation in Singapore, the potential challenges that have been raised thus far may not portend well in terms of the sustainable development of a positive mindset towards action research.

Those writing after Davidson have tended to focus, then, on the question of the possibility and rational status of action contrary to one's unconditional better judgment.[12] With respect to these questions, it seems to me, the challenge sketched at the end of Section 1 above remains in full force.

Correction: November 22, 2000, Wednesday An article yesterday about a public hearing on New York City's long-term waste management plan referred imprecisely to the status of government actions on a proposal for a waste transfer station in Linden, N.J.

An extreme externalist view thus seems to mischaracterize the status of akratic actions.