Sentences with phrase «arbitrariness as»

In fact, it was one of Hillary's top advisors who first crafted policies to tie teachers fates to standardized tests, introducing stunning inaccuracy and arbitrariness as big government sought autocratic shortcuts to determine school quality and student performance.

Not exact matches

Ken really exposed the arbitrariness of his arguments when he admitted that he cherry - picks which portions of the Bible he accepts as literal and which he accepts as figurative.

But if there has always been a realm of finite actualities, and if the existence of such a realm (though not with any particular order) is as eternal and necessary as is the existence of God, then it also makes sense to think of eternally necessary principles descriptive of their possible relationships... [T] his correlation between freedom and intrinsic value is a necessary one, rather than a result of divine arbitrariness (PTE 711).

My demand is, that the ultimate arbitrariness of matter of fact from which our formulation starts should disclose the same general principles of reality, which we dimly discern as stretching away into regions beyond our explicit powers of discernment.»

Unless one thinks that God's act of creation is purely arbitrary — and it would be incoherent to attribute arbitrariness of any kind to a God of infinite goodness (an argument for another time)-- then one must understand creation as a direct expression of God's own Logos.

As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreAs Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas it were, is redolent of the sacred.

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

Since linguistic signs are matters of historical and cultural convention, when language presents itself as natural rather than drawing attention to its own arbitrariness, it may get granted unquestioned status as the expression of what is real and abiding.

It would be a disaster if today's European culture could only conceive freedom as absence of obligation, which would inevitably play intothe hands of fanaticism and arbitrariness.

Accordingly teleology is characterized as essentially derivative, subjective and flawed with the arbitrariness and relativity that pertain to secondary qualities.

Yet, more frequently, he opposes the various connotations of the term «creator,» as applied to God, (He especially resists any appeal to the will of God because if its suggestion of arbitrariness.

A God who at first glance is comparable to the picture of the Oriental ruler, who governs his people with complete arbitrariness, bound by no rational law; but a God who is conceived as wholly different from an Oriental ruler, since all physical traits are lacking, all tyrannical desires alien; a God who desires justice and righteousness and punishes sin, a God who loves His people as a father his first - born son, a God to whom the religious man ills as to his father, and in whose help he trusts in all situations of life.

«In a sense, all explanation must end in an ultimate arbitrariness» (Whitehead, Science 92), whether it is the givenness of Being, or the givenness of God and of his decisions, or the givenness of creativity: all explanation must come to an end, as Wittgenstein says.

Thus there is an intrinsic ambiguity in the categories of the mental and the physical and a certain arbitrariness, as well as mystery, in cognition.

Beginning with Furman v. Georgia (1972), which held that the death penalty as currently applied in the U.S. was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court sought to maintain «a system of «super due process» through which capital defendants could be assured an extra measure of protection from arbitrariness, caprice or emotionalism.»

For sheer fatuity, on this score, it would be difficult to surpass Martin Kettle's pompous and platitudinous reflections in the Guardian, appearing two days after the earthquake: certainly, he argues, the arbitrariness of the destruction visited upon so many and such diverse victims must pose an insoluble conundrum for «creationists» everywhere» although he wonders, in concluding, whether his contemporaries are «too cowed» even to ask «if the God can exist that can do such things» (as if a public avowal of unbelief required any great reserves of fortitude in modern Britain).

As Scalia's dissent makes clear, the majority opinion in Lawrence epitomizes everything that is wrong with the contemporary Court» its arbitrariness, its contempt for democratic governance, its constant readiness to fashion new constitutional rights out of whole cloth.

And «the ultimate arbitrariness of matter of fact from which our formulation starts should disclose the same general principles of reality, which we dimly discern as stretching away into regions beyond our explicit powers of discernment.»

In a statement in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Mr Omotowa described the judgment as a victory for Nigeria and the rule of law, adding that the court decision was a rejection of what he called arbitrariness and illegality.

Qualms about arbitrariness in computer models diminish as teams model ice - age climate and dispense with special adjustments to reproduce current climate.

As Nowell - Smith notes, Visconti's Ossessione converted «Cain's parable of arbitrariness into a demonstration of necessity».17 Ossessione is a film about survival in every sense.

There are the interests of employees, who have a perfectly legitimate set of interests to guard against arbitrariness and get as much economic benefit out of their work as is possible.

Or as per a recent post on this blog, that there is indeed much «Arbitrariness Inherent in Teacher Observations.»

Another «One of the «Forty - Four» Teachers» is now speaking up and speaking out about this situation, using as a base for his reflections the email he received from the district with, most pertinent (in my opinion), all of its arbitrariness included.

The portraits, which are part of a series she worked on daily from 2011 to 2013 as a «warmup in the studio,» explore the arbitrariness of skin color.

With his work, Ted Stamm draws as much from a Minimalist, hard - edge legacy as it does from the randomness and arbitrariness of his own life.

The pictures and three - dimensional works are open to figurative as well as conceptual or literal readings and set in motion a negotiation between arbitrariness and intentionality.

Works by a selection of younger artists who also represented Cyprus at Venice Biennale during the last ten years or so, traverse across ideas of construction and deconstruction, presence and absence, while concurrently investigate issues around the subjectivity and arbitrariness of mindsets as well as the mapping of oneself in the sphere of existence.

His works take on a surrealist quality as they often appear as the products an undefinable consciousness, rife with interruptions of sex, violence and sheer arbitrariness.

As with all of Nolan's oeuvre, the works in The weakened eye of day reveal, through their very subjective and intimate nature, the arbitrariness and inherent absurdity of attempting to tackle the enormity of these subjects through the process of object making.

The works of Halil Altındere, Osman Bozkurt, or Ahmet Öğüt deal with structural inequality, state oppression and arbitrariness, but also with public protest as a form of political participation.

Maychack has found his own way to this sort of provocation, echoing Duchamp (1887 - 1968) less than 1960s makers of the «shaped canvas,» such as Frank Stella, whose paintings» eccentric geometry made the arbitrariness of pictures» rectangularity clearly felt.

Baldessari clearly belongs to the camp that doesn't quite see the distinction as clear - cut, repeatedly asserting the arbitrariness of categories in his works and writings.

The arbitrariness is replaced by optimization of the model's inferences, using their unique measure — the conditional or unconditional entropy — as the optimized quantity.

I do not judge that getting into personalities on these issues such as Gergis 2016 and post fact selection have much bearing on the issue at hand which is what will a sensitivity test using other criteria for post fact selection of proxies reveal about the arbitrariness of the method and in effect showing the inappropriateness of the post fact selection method.

OK, let's take Watts «bombshell» graph, and shift the projections down 0.1 degrees (as the absolute value has some arbitrariness about where zero is).

The scale has some arbitrariness, so you can't read too much into it when it assumes 1990 was an exactly accurate year as opposed to 2000 for example.

The result is that § 16 (b) produces, just as ACCA's residual clause did, «more unpredictability and arbitrariness than the due process clause tolerates.

Thus, although Watson had left civil courts no role to play in reviewing ecclesiastical decisions during the course of resolving church property disputes, Gonzalez first adverted to the possibility of «marginal civil court review,» Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, supra at 393 U. S. 447, in cases challenging decisions of ecclesiastical tribunals as products of «fraud, collusion, or arbitrariness.»

In the recent R. v. Bedford, 2013 SCC 72 decision, the Supreme Court has stated that the concepts of arbitrariness, oberbreadth and gross proportionality «evolved organically as Courts were faced with novel Charter claims.»

It is to be hoped the Law Society can be galvanised to assert the law (as humbly submitted here) against presidential «whims» (the word chosen by Sir Thomas Moore LC to deal with arbitrariness).

It requires, as well, measures to ensure adherence to the principles of supremacy of law, equality before the law, accountability to the law, fairness in the application of the law, separation of powers, participation in decision - making, legal certainty, avoidance of arbitrariness and procedural and legal transparency.»

In its seeming arbitrariness, it's like the answer to the question of what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything, which happens, as I'm sure you know, to be 42.)

Beyond that, I don't think it's at all fair to reproach the Supreme Court for invoking principles such as overbreadth, disproportionality and arbitrariness in applying s. 7.

Mr. Cloud, the accused, had not challenged the constitutionality of the surcharge, but Justice Healy was convinced of its arbitrariness and disproportionality, and decided to minimize its effects by imposing a nominal fine on Mr. Cloud, which resulted in the surcharge being calculated as a percentage of the fine (and thus a very small amount) rather than at 100 $ per summary conviction offence and 200 $ for an indictable offence.

One such principle, long recognized by the Court, is a prohibition on arbitrariness, understood as the absence of a rational relationship between a law's purpose and its effect.

It must, however, be applied with some caution, so as to avoid legal uncertainty and arbitrariness.

Of course, designating certain cases as nonprecedential is not the same as embracing arbitrariness.

This would clearly act as a further, important safeguard against arbitrariness.

This method retains the strengths of voxel - based analysis while addressing some of its drawbacks, such as aligning images from multiple subjects and the arbitrariness of the choice of spatial smoothing [23].