Sentences with phrase «arbitrary choices for»

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.

Not exact matches

Without foundations, choices are finally arbitrary, and Rorty's reasons for choosing the failed political atheism that is one step removed from the liberal Protestant pulpit is less than convincing.

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

Our choice of two — J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away — is therefore somewhat arbitrary, but not entirely, for so much has been written about such novels as The Brothers Karamazov and The Sound and the Fury, and the stories of Alyosha and Dilsey are such perfect illustrations of the parabolic way, that they are almost too easy.

Determinism rejects this and is left with a choice between Spinozism (or the Leibnizian subterfuge) and a wholesale admission of contingency entirely beyond our experience, back at the beginning or back of the beginning, some act of God, endowed with supreme freedom (in a sense in which our freedom is not simply inferior but is zero), or some mere arbitrary, absolute chance, or finally an infinite regress for which nothing at all by way of reason is conceivable.

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

It is arbitrary in that there are no inherent grounds in the object of that choice that compel my response... Jesus is in the world in such a way that he readies me for whatever beliefs and actions and forms of self - discipline I may be obliged to take on.

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.

There remains considerable room for arbitrary choice.

He starts by pointing to the prerequisites for being able to use the formalism of coordinate geometry, namely the arbitrary choice of an origin and coordinate axes.

The choice of Barrett's lab was more or less arbitrary; it seemed suitable because it's a big, bustling lab that has been churning out Ph.D. graduates and postdocs for about 20 years.

When we pursue something that should ultimately be for ourselves because of the pressure from others, or because of arbitrary deadlines like holidays, we are much less likely to make good choices or stick with them.

Many of the choices seem all but arbitrary, but others are totemic: what better film to stand in for Vertigo, as a Frisco epic of traumatic verticality, than The Towering Inferno?

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

No choices were ever arbitrary for Richard; everything had a reason for drama, concept and character `.

Here, the selection by cable channels of what to letterbox seems almost totally arbitrary (Pillow Talk but not The Tarnished Angels, for instance); this Sunday TNT is presenting a whole day of letterboxed movies, but the titles selected suggest that artistic considerations had little or nothing to do with the choices.

What is still unclear The $ 500,000 pot is an arbitrary amount chosen by Amazon with no particular reasoning being given for the choice.

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

I guess my main point is that unlike someone who is living paycheck to paycheck and has a very strict budget and thus can pretty easily calculate what they can afford for rent, my choice seems really arbitrary.

Now you have one of two choices: One, you could go through my list and break down why the games shouldn't be on the list based on an arbitrary criteria you devise to minimize the impact that a list of that size has on your point, or you can put aside pointless console zealotry and decide that the universe has room for multiple successful consoles.

If the choice of showing only her stripe paintings sounds in any way arbitrary (excluding her most famous «wave paintings,» for instance), the show is an occasion to focus on a particular selection of works with the same features.

The experiments have at times been extreme — wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, and living without measured time — yet one of the most important goals of this work is to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary such a choice can be.

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

My point is that if the choice is not arbitrary, you need to prove the case for one versus the other.

The choice of 2050 is somewhat arbitrary, in that while it may be important for the negotiating process, it is largely irrelevant for the atmosphere.

My choice of decadal periods was arbitrary but provided four sub-sets of the data set for the considered period since 1970 (i.e. the longest period which the troll introduced to the discussion at October 29, 2012 at 9:37 am).

I'll quibble with your choice of the word arbitrary though, for the 1990 standard.

An equally arbitrary choice of 1999 - 2009 would demonstrate a positive slope, deviating upward, for example, from the flat or slightly declining interval from 1986 - 1996, also arbitrarily selected.

You're telling me that it is valid to look for temperature difference by an arbitrary choice of time periods and to compare them graphically, avoiding the use of statistics?

The arbitrary choice of 30 years is unfortunate for several reasons.

But the choice of the two hemispheric means for this analysis is arbitrary.

20, and plot the pi * Bo for an arbitrary tau vector of your choice.

There were good reasons for not involving all other Iranian banks, and the facts showed that the choice was not arbitrary.

It will also handle strata corporation and tenancy issues relating to non-payment of monthly strata fees or fines; unfair actions by the strata corporation or by people owning more than half of the strata lots in a complex; uneven, arbitrary or non-enforcement of strata bylaws; issues of financial responsibility for repairs and the choice of bids for services; irregularities in the conduct of meetings, voting, minutes or other matters; interpretation of the legislation, regulations or bylaws; and issues regarding the common property.