Sentences with phrase «such value judgment»

This is a result of our evolved tribal brains leading us not only to place such value judgment on beliefs but also to demonize and dismiss them as nonsense or evil, or both.

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The innovator has to be able to feel outside the box, too — that is, to make value judgments about the images and ideas that he or she has produced in such abundance.

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant judgments and estimates, including the fair value of certain forms of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value of acquired intangible assets, which involve projections of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives of the assets.

I'm very glad, that's a value judgment, I'm very glad that I live in such a society.

And perhaps worst of all, the media constrict our experience and substitute media world for real world so that we become less and less able to make the fine value judgments that living in such a complex world requires.

Since a proposition is not a verbal statement (nor some other linguistic entity), nor a judgment, propositional truth value is entertained in the feeling of propositions that may issue in linguistic entities or judgments, but as distinct from the proposition as such.

The three critics R. P. Blackmur, Jean - Paul Sartre, and Cleanth Brooks, although varying in the explicitness with which they affirm the criteria and their philosophical bases, all make value judgments that have such implications.

As thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be made.

In this setting many questions are inevitably asked, such as whether or not the history of religions teaches religion, whether religions of the world can be or should be taught without value judgment, and finally whether the history of religions is to provide intellectual understanding about religions or contribute to the religious growth of students.

O.K. Foods is very active in First Tee, which «provides young people of all backgrounds an opportunity to develop life - enhancing values such as confidence, perseverance and judgment through golf and character education,» the organization says.

Such judgments are based on Western values favoring the perception of how individualism and infant autonomy are best promoted and obtained.

Authoritarian parenting is characterized by strict rules adhering to an external judgment of what is the «correct» way to behave, such as social values, religious values, family traditions or preconceived notions about what makes the perfect parent.

She excavates the hidden beliefs people hold by measuring how fast they make value judgments when shown a rapid - fire succession of stimuli, such as photographs of faces.

Such has been the success of the so - called scientific method as a means of rationalising and manipulating the world around us that the idea of extracting value judgments or moral standards from science seems totally alien.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

Hard to Be a God is such a singular anomaly that it's tempting to suspend any value judgment.

Our approach to valuing pensions, which considers both the generosity and the risk of pension benefits, is entirely consistent with economic theory, the way in which liabilities of all types are valued in the private sector, public - sector accounting standards in Canada and Western Europe, academic writings, and the judgments of officials at nonpartisan government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Assessment may have an evaluative component — a summative assessment, such as a final exam — that places a value or judgment on performance.

The federal exemption gives you a $ 12,625 aggregate value on household goods, jewelry up to $ 1,600, health aids, wrongful death recovery for a person you depended on for support, and a personal injury judgment up to $ 23,675 with the exception of pain and suffering or pecuniary loss that can't really be measured in money, such as loss of enjoyment.

Factors which may cause the adviser to make such a judgment include, but are not limited to, the following: only a bid price or an asked price is available; the spread between bid and asked prices is substantial; the frequency of sales; the thinness of the market; the size of reported trades; and actions of the securities markets, such as the suspension or limitation of trading; (iii) securities determined to be illiquid; (iv) securities with respect to which an event that will affect the value thereof has occurred (a «significant event») since the closing prices were established on the principal exchange on which they are traded, but prior to the Fund's calculation of its net asset value.

Fortunately, the two Deadpool items are so good, and such a good value, that I'm willing to excuse this lack of judgment on Loot Crate's part.

(The trouble, I think, is that «no simpler than necessary» necessarily invokes subjective value judgments, some of which are illuminated by the various alternate formulations such as those that I listed.)

Policymakers must do cost / benefit analysis, taking into account tradeoffs, such as balancing risks from climate change against those from poverty, and as Hans von Storch points out, «judgments of the value of costs versus benefits is [sic] a highly subjective, value - laden calculation.»

But the only reason it is of any value to such a person is that «scientific consensus» is not something scientists themselves treat as relevant evidence when they exercise professional judgment on matters w / i the domain of their expertise.

It places no value judgment on that activity, whether it has created a positive or negative effect on society, and doesn't include all sorts of unpaid activities such as growing your own food or doing unpaid housework.

You might want to learn and think about the things you criticize, especially if you are going to make such sweeping judgments on their value.

They are making judgments on how leaders are selected and leading, on how decisions are being made, on how the firm values such contributions.

She said: ``... questions of assumption of risk depend upon a wider range of factors and value judgments... Although the result in this case may be to bring about certainty and clarity... such an imposed limit on liability could easily be at the expense of justice in some future case.

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If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution... The tendency of those who execute the criminal laws of the country to obtain conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions, the latter often obtained after subjecting accused persons to unwarranted practices destructive of rights secured by the Federal Constitution, should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts which are charged at all times with the support of the Constitution and to which people of all conditions have a right to appeal for the maintenance of such fundamental rights.

Although such features may help the resale value, you can't let such details cloud your judgment.