Sentences with phrase «on arbitrary choices»

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.

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?

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

Such choices are prompted by nothing other than the individual subject and his private conscience acting either on persuasive evidence or the arbitrary assertion of will.

Finally, most of the previous reviews of the evidence on school choice have generated more fog than light, mainly because they have been arbitrary or incomplete in their selection of studies to review.

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.

Instead, there often are arbitrary caps on choice programs regarding how much government funding a non-government school or service can receive and even on how many students can partake in the program.

The choice is often arbitrary, or based on who the lender is accustomed to using.

But again, the real problem is, your choices often feel irrelevant and the outcomes arbitrary — you can lose (or gain) an entire vehicle from a choice in a random text box encounter, enemies ignore your attacks and just suicide run on your MCV, and tactical creativity never seems to be more effective than maneuvering your vehicles so that enemies crash.

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.

Although potential comparisons between Bangkok and Phnom Penh can be drawn on many levels, the curators emphasise their choice of the two cities as «arbitrary».

His decision to cease making blue and red paintings in 1954 was due to his realization that viewers reacted strongly to his color choices, feeling attracted to one color or another based on arbitrary preferences, ignoring the formal problematics Reinhardt was engaged with.

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.

In case of continuous variables there is no way around the fact that our largely arbitrary choices influence the outcome of our analysis, when our goal is to make inferences on the statistical properties of variables that can be used to describe the real world.

In that case, the choice of an «objective prior» just is a blind reliance on an arbitrary mathematical convention and this choice isn't any less subjective (at best) than any other just because some mathematician has decided to call it «objective».

The choice of the second special is arbitrary; it could be any on the list.

Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»

The choice is often arbitrary, or based on who the lender is accustomed to using.