Sentences with phrase «arbitrary nature of»

[26][27][29][30] They give distribution - free expressions for direct and indirect effects and demonstrate that, despite the arbitrary nature of the error distributions and the functions f, g, and h, mediated effects can nevertheless be estimated from data using regression.

Johnella Bird and Allan Wade discuss the numerous limitations and arbitrary nature of mainstream psychological ideas supporting the diagnosis of PTSD.

They argued that the arbitrary nature of the deprivation was not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

I won't dwell on the arbitrary nature of that date, or the centuries between one area and another.

Justice Newbury rejected this argument, finding that the arbitrary nature of the case was that the facts were unusual as the compensation would be based on the value of the estate, which was not based on any skill of the lawyers involved.

Now call me picky if you like, but if there's a lot of discussion about the accuracy of the data, the methods of analysing it, and what it all means, then surely it would be more prudent to make clear the uncertainty, and certainly make clear the arbitrary nature of one's scepticism e.g. «I do not see how such large amounts...» Incredulity is not science.

And this 100 % alarmism has nothing to do with the real state of the planet, but all to do with the fragility and arbitrary nature of their ascendency.

The removal of any divergence before after this period where all plots share sign, slope and offset can only have one purpose, and that is to hide the arbitrary nature of where the convergence exists.

It is the arbitrary nature of the data selected to be removed that spoils the soup.

The sound works explores how we use personification and animal metaphors to define human behavior in our daily conversations, sparking dialogue about the arbitrary nature of classification in language.

The arbitrary nature of events that inform the significance of sites and monuments is explored by Deimantas Narkevičius, while works by Geoffrey Farmer and Goshka Macuga incorporate material culled from books, emphasizing that art historical narratives - and culture in general - are collective in scope and subject to remaking and reinterpretation.

With ideological utopias often referred to as islands of idealism, Mamou is creating forced utopias through material explorations; thereby highlighting the arbitrary nature of boundaries, and social constructs that exist within them.

The piece illustrates the arbitrary nature of truth in a word's relationship to its definition, pointing to the fact that text plays a visual role as itself, completing an image or idea.

Gregory Thielker's work is shaped by the arbitrary nature of territory and memory.

The chancellor's statement that the arbitrary nature of the bands «appeared to believe the Caribbean was further away than California,» is also a clear recognition of a crucial issue raised by the organisation during lobbying efforts to have the tax reformed.

-- led to a civil suit being filed against the city about the arbitrary nature of the enforcement of the law

Piracy is a particular threat because of a second, bigger problem: the apparently arbitrary nature of e-book pricing.

Also evident is the arbitrary nature of these boundaries with Highland Park residing within Dallas ISD.

Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional school discipline practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.

It is understood that this is a purely social construction that has established itself in very specific times and places, but in practice the arbitrary nature of these institutionalized arrangements escapes conscious notice.

As with Wong's other films such as Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, Happy Together and Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love dictates the arbitrary nature of romance and the notion of the «missed moment».

'» And when she switches gears, the sheer absurdity of the scene isn't only funny but illuminating, carrying its own message about the arbitrary nature of nearly all edicts and absolutes as the teacher, exuding ironclad authority, walks through neat rows of obedient students while they work, pausing only to offer corrections or suggestions in the form of Dogme principles.

It's the arbitrary nature of it and the intimidatory aspect of it.

Any test case against a CBD seller would draw attention to both the absurdity of a law which even the department who wrote it and are tasked with enforcing it don't understand, and the truly arbitrary nature of our drug law enforcement.

But Bergson has pointed out the arbitrary nature of the dividing line drawn by commonsense between the zone of «organic» determinisms and that of «spontaneity» in the course of embryogenesis.

«At the official press conference that unveiled Caritas in Veritate, Cardinal Mgr Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice -LSB-...] said that Cold War ideologies «have been replaced by the new ideology of technology,» and that the «arbitrary nature of technology is one of the greatest problems of today's world.»

Not exact matches

so, if there is agreement on the nature of morality from most religions, wouldn't that make holding specific, e.g. christian, religious beliefs even more arbitrary?

Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no more arbitrary than those of the constitution of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine subjective aim toward the maximum of value intensity, together with the property of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature) of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal evaluations.

On this account, to refuse marriage to gay couples is not to say that they may not marry (which might seem arbitrary and unjust) but simply that, given the very nature of marriage itself, they can not marry.

Hare argues that such a morality is not arbitrary, because it fits the nature God gave us in creation; still, it is contingent, and the «second table» of the Ten Commandments might have been rather different, had God decided to make it so.

Given the continuous nature of the natural hierarchy, any effort to demarcate between living natural systems (those above a specific level of complexity) and nonliving systems (those below that level) is a totally arbitrary procedure.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

God's Law isn't a list of arbitrary rules, but help guide us to understanding and conforming to His nature, which is the only real source of Goodness.

Our will to transcend nature through projects of mastery mounts a rebellion against the natural constraints of the organic human body, harnessing the power of technological innovations to render it the instrument of our arbitrary will.

There is, of course, an intrinsic indefiniteness in nature, described in physics by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but this is no arbitrary uncertainty; it is a precise limit concerning the relationship between momentum and position for each particle.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

It is this fact that Whitehead believes conceals the true meaning of simultaneity, for Whitehead clearly believes that the existence of such frames is indeed factual: «This spatio - temporal framework is not an arbitrary convention... Thus, the space of a consentient set is a fact of nature; the traveler with the set only discovers it» (PNK 32).

Yet natural law theory holds that the judgments of good and evil are not (or at least should not be) arbitrary judgments based on convenience or political utility, but are in fact located in the very nature of the behaviors (or behavers) themselves.

It is a progression which we can analyse, which is traceable backwards also, and we can trace it backwards as a «history» because neither the «environment» nor the natures under our consideration are found to be arbitrary and chaotic, even though they are part of a transformist order of being.

While very few Jews, I imagine, would hold that the Decalogue's prohibition against murder is an arbitrary decree which God might have ordained otherwise, nonetheless the admission of an inherent good or evil in the very nature of certain actions can be deeply problematic for Jewish theology.

Cudworth, more clearly than any of his contemporaries, realized that if nature was in some sense a coherent and intelligible system, then it could not be explained in terms either of the random movements of matter in space such as Hobbes supposed or of arbitrary and incalculable acts of God and other supernatural and demonic agents.

The watchmaker argument is flawed in that equates something that does not occur in nature, and applies the logic of design and purpose onto nature in a very arbitrary way.

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3

What I mean under the first heading is that religious appeal is directed partly to excite that instinctive fear of the wrath of a tyrant which was inbred in the unhappy populations of the arbitrary empires of the ancient world, and in particular to excite that fear of an all - powerful arbitrary tyrant behind the unknown forces of nature.

Of course, process theology is associated with the work of Whitehead, and Whitehead has been severely criticized by Buchler for his arbitrary use of a principle of ontological priority.4 Yet there seems to be nothing in the nature of process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than otherOf course, process theology is associated with the work of Whitehead, and Whitehead has been severely criticized by Buchler for his arbitrary use of a principle of ontological priority.4 Yet there seems to be nothing in the nature of process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than otherof Whitehead, and Whitehead has been severely criticized by Buchler for his arbitrary use of a principle of ontological priority.4 Yet there seems to be nothing in the nature of process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than otherof a principle of ontological priority.4 Yet there seems to be nothing in the nature of process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than otherof ontological priority.4 Yet there seems to be nothing in the nature of process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than otherof process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than others.

In ethics the dualistic uncertainty over the nature of «reality» and our perception of it is a major justification for modern moral relativism, or the claim that what is called morality is actually grounded in nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferences.

Plaintiff further avers that regulations 45 of C.I. 94 is discriminatory in nature, arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

«With respect to a records retention policy, my belief is the nature of the communication and its significance should determine how long it should be kept, and there likely should not be an arbitrary dividing line between retention and disposal,» Freeman said.

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.