Sentences with phrase «not practical usefulness»

These materials were combined with each other in all manner of ways, but it is important to see that the guiding principle of such organization was not practical usefulness in the adaptation to the environment, but intrinsic satisfaction.

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But their working relationship with the Republicans is not an alliance of ideology, and won't last any longer than its immediate, practical usefulness to them.

The problem I have with it is its usefulness, as the speaker basically said that if the answer didn't match observations then that just meant the constraints were wrong (or possibly the prior - he did not insist on a uniform one) which implies it doesn't have any practical predictive value, as there seems no way of knowing which constraints are the right ones other than by checking if the answer looks good... Rumour has it that one of the later speakers may be going to say it is not useful for our sort of climate research for some reason... it will all be on video at some later date for those who are interested.

While the SCC is clearly not zero, the complexity and assumptions underneath the current calculation process make the FSCC of questionable usefulness in the practical policy debate.