Sentences with phrase «arbitrary choice»

And there's no guarantee of that, because it's not usually related to my gameplay performance, it's simply based on arbitrary choices I'm making.

You'll be given a seemingly arbitrary choice at the beginning of the game as to which division you'll be a part of.

The overall results for the index as a whole were overwhelmed by the quite arbitrary choices to be made on this one point.

The somewhat arbitrary choice among them has a great effect upon their results.

Trend lines are used precisely so as to avoid these kind of arbitrary choice of starting points, and using trend lines, one finds clearly that there is more absolute warming late century than early century.

Come Nov. 9, in a six - story, 28,000 - square - foot industrial building in Chelsea, RH Contemporary Art will open its inaugural exhibition with five concurrent solo shows from Nathan Baker, Toby Christian, Peter Demos, Samantha Thomas and Natasha Wheat, all emerging artists and seemingly arbitrary choices for a debut exhibit.

In 2000, Zittel established A-Z West in Joshua Tree, where she uses her own experiences, such as wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, or living without measured time, to illustrate how we attribute significance to chosen ways of life and how arbitrary those choices can be.

Yet if one knows that he is doing it and knows why he does it, the dangers of arbitrary choice based on wishful thinking or one's personal point of view may be somewhat eliminated.

While some philosophers, acclaiming human reason's inability to know reality, equate freedom with arbitrary choice, urging others to «create their own values», such immorality soon runs into contradictions.

Sartre's philosophy is abhorrent to me because it recognises no norm outside human reason, sees reason as absurd, and makes all value dependent upon arbitrary choice.

If I don't know what's coming — that is, if I have no hard - and - fast image, as I have with a photographic original — then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part» (G. Richter, quoted in «Interview with Sabine Schütz, 1990» in H - U.

The new work develops this attitude towards prescribed criteria, that is, defined areas of choice as opposed to unbounded arbitrary choice, by allowing the interaction between structure (rational -LSB-...]

The simplest way to manage these more or less arbitrary choices is by chosing an official arbiter that writers must follow.

Drawing from her own experiences, such as wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, or living without measured time, she illustrates how we attribute significance to chosen ways of life and how arbitrary those choices can be.

In this way, the robustness of the results to relatively arbitrary choices can be assessed.

Regarding allocation across the market cap is arbitrary choice of Fund manager even for Multicap / Balanced fund.

It is arbitrary because you could just as easily use the summer solstice or an equinox, whatever your arbitrary choice.

This selection can not err for it is based upon obedience of the whole person rather than arbitrary choice.

Of course, for practical purposes we regard the position from which we make an observation as a fixed point, but this is an arbitrary choice on our part.

But how is it possible to come to an understanding which on one hand is not based on some arbitrary choice of particular aspects, but on the other hand allows me to hear the message of the text and not something coming from my own self?

There remains considerable room for arbitrary choice.

But if this limitation is universalised, by applying it not only to scientific research but to reason and human understanding as such, it becomes unsustainable and inhuman, since it would prevent us from rationally pondering the decisive questions of our lives -LSB-...] and would force us to entrust the answer to these questions solely to our sentiments or arbitrary choices, detached from reason.»

My particular suggestion does not involve such an arbitrary choice but comes from a fundamental tension between the basic principles of quantum mechanics and those of standard gravitational theory (general relativity), especially the principle of equivalence.

And that's just what they did, which suggests they've irrationally devalued red M&M s because they'd had to make an arbitrary choice about those a few seconds earlier.

What an arbitrary choice: Goodbye to Language beats Boyhood for one point, but Linklater doubles Godard's amount of votes as best director.

The silvery monochrome photography itself feels like an arbitrary choice, handsome in hue but not especially evocative of the period, and exacerbating the under - composed aspect of the shots.

Our efforts to determine which students gain more than others — and thus which teachers and schools are more effective — turn out to depend on conventions (arbitrary choices) that make some educators look better than others.

What Why Schools Matter fails to say is that countries themselves are often an arbitrary choice as a unit of analysis.

The effort your team put in was clearly greater, yet an arbitrary choice gave the victory to the lesser team.

You make an arbitrary choice, and then never think of it again.

The game also features «retro 8 - bit color graphics», which seems like an arbitrary choice for its visual design, but I guess it's what's in now.

I'm not sure why I need six buttons to go into menus and two buttons to cycle between phases when I don't even have a run button and have to rely on the arbitrary choice of how long I've been walking forward for the game to decide I want to run, or have to use the same attack button to do a five - step combo with five different weapons when I could have up to five different attack buttons to drop efficient combos against enemies weak to certain attacks.

He would have liked the arbitrary choice of green and its varied, intuitive placement.

If you had you would have learned that 30 years is not at all an arbitrary choice, but is in fact determined by the data set itself, a property common to all time series data sets.

An arithmetic average for temperatures defined over some region of the atmosphere, or any homogeneous system, is not an arbitrary choice.