Sentence examples for terms of imperatives from inspiring English sources

Hare never said that ethical statements are imperatives; however, it is striking that non-descriptive or evaluative meaning is defined in terms of imperatives.

And if it's conceptually impossible to be instrumentally incoherent, we'd be unable to make sense of why Kant formulates his account of instrumental incoherence in terms of imperatives, which, on Kant's view, are commands addressed to a will that is capable of both following and not following the commands (Kant 4 414; Hill 1973, 430; Korsgaard 1997, 236).

There has been an important moral obligation attached to ASCT regarding the debate on the "imperative of technology" in terms of imperative of possibilities [ 57]: the new high technology (thought to be a true innovation) with the potential to benefit women with a life-threatening disease raised new hope for patients and physicians [ 18, 58, 59].

Hence, in employing a maxim, any human willing already embodies the form of means-end reasoning that calls for evaluation in terms of hypothetical imperatives.

This is put in question in Horty (2007) where a consistent deontic reading in terms of conditional imperatives is presented which also challenges the procedural approach by favoring the conclusions B and C. The left diagram demonstrates that there are distributions such that no As are not-Ds although A ⇒ C and C ↛ D hold.

A further barrier was the prioritisation of outcome over process in terms of organisational imperatives.

We find that QWERTY developed a degree of format/device compatibility that was near-optimal in terms of certain design imperatives that would have been difficult to have bettered with the techniques available to the designer in his day.

"Confucian countries are now the most Protestant countries on earth, in terms of a moral imperative to work hard, save money, to do well," Mr. Inglehart said.

If Democrats are to reclaim the role of leadership, they must define issues in terms of a moral imperative to create true economic justice and recovery for the benefit of working people, instead of capitulating to corporate power and serving the economic bottom line of the wealthy elite.

This is crucial in terms of the policy imperative to improve patient safety, because without such knowledge it is difficult to design improvement initiatives which chime with professionals' experience of trying to keep their services safe and the barriers they face to doing so.

Ms. Doyle worked with the dancers to examine Shakespeare's text, in terms of its rhythm and imperative quality, to gain a sense of its energy.