Sentence examples for the principle in question from inspiring English sources

The principle in question, known by the acronym Nairu, holds that when the unemployment rate falls below a certain level, inflation accelerates.

Were someone to deny that all future phenomena are today already predetermined in all respects, he would probably not be able to accept the principle in question".

(2) Spinoza's theory had attributed thought to the principle in question, but had rejected conceptions that it had intentions or was a mind.

This fundamental modification involves several further ones which Herder also finds attractive, including the following: (1) Whereas Spinoza had conceived the principle in question as an inactive thing, Herder's revision effectively turns it into an activity.

And given that his general philosophy of mind identifies the mind with force, his identification of the principle in question with force also imports an implication that it is a mind (he does not yet quite say this in God. Some Conversations, but a few years later in On the Spirit of Christianity (1798) he explicitly describes God as a Geist, a mind).

The principle in question simply states that the essence of I-hood lies in the assertion of ones own self-identity, i.e., that consciousness presupposes self-consciousness (the Kantian "I think," which must, at least in principle, be able to accompany all our representations).

This conviction connects with the views already mentioned, that metaphysics is the science of first principles and that the principles in question are ineluctable in the sense that they are operative in their own denial.

Of the principles in question, the most commonly questioned on independent grounds are the principle that 'ought' implies 'can' and PD.

Interpretation of the practice purports to identify the principles in question and thereby the normative impact of the practice on citizens' rights and responsibilities.

If they have no reason other than cases of putative dilemmas for denying the principles in question, then we have a mere standoff.

Lastly, Gauthier argues that the principles in question are principles of morality, an argument which makes implicit reference to a functionalist account of moral norms (Gauthier 1986, chapters 7 8).