Sentences with phrase «term purposive»

Would you think that's «available to the public» giving that term a purposive interpretation of wanting the public to have ready access to laws with punishments for non-compliance?

Evolutionary theory needs to take account of the interaction between short - term purposive behavior on the part of animals and the survival value of particular characteristics.

Not exact matches

However, I shall pass over this obviously Whiteheadian claim that all activity is teleological, and instead limit the discussion to that particular kind of orientedness I have termed «purposive.»

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.

We look for mechanical explanations, feed - back processes and other trends that might make aspects of nature intelligible to us in terms of our own functionally purposive intelligence.

The vacant land (that might be land that is earmarked for other uses but not yet in use as such or land that is not fit for construction e.g. flood zones, land under power lines, etcetera, or buffer zones and land reserves for future use) is given in short or medium term lease to organized groups of urban poor for gardening purposes (multi annual purposive specific leaseholds or occupancy licenses).

As such, the decision provides a strong signal to the arbitration user community that the English courts are — at least in this context — likely to adopt a more «common sense / purposive» and less literal approach to contract terms when seeking to ascertain the parties» intentions.

Real reconciliation, to use the term favoured by a succession of chief justices, will only become likely when a government takes office that genuinely wants to forge new relationships and when Canada decides that the best way to interpret obligations set out in agreements will follow a line between clear and plain meaning and a purposive interpretation.