Sentences with phrase «theoretical justification for»

The theoretical justification for the criminal sanction is that the corporation can be ascribed the necessary mental state (here, in part foreseeability of harm) when a senior officer is shown to be in possession of such a state.

There is no theoretical justification for choosing between feasible solutions.

All of this theoretical justification for criticizing B - E statistics (which K&C suggested in passing might improve upon the standard Boltzman distribution) rather misses the point that nothing else has been shown, either by derivation or curve - fitting, to be adequate.

And do you have any theoretical justification for this claim?

There's some theoretical justification for investing in all public companies in the world in proportion to their market weight.

And, there is good theoretical justification for it.

If we further assume that — for reasons we will outline next — older adults may also be more motivated than younger adults to take advantage of technological advances that might facilitate achieving their romantic objectives, Socioemotional Selectivity Theory provides a theoretical justification for predicting that, compared to younger adults, older adults should be more motivated to invest in online dating activity.

This is regarded as providing a theoretical justification for NHS reforms carried out by subsequent governments, particularly the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

What he denied himself was any theoretical justification for these practical judgments.

Witte argues that this predominantly secular view of marriage provided the theoretical justification for the present - day transformation of Anglo - American marriage law.

Because the theoretical justifications for stare decisis depend largely on publication, the FISA courts should publish any opinion that they consider binding precedent.

Nevertheless, despite the ongoing debate about the theoretical justifications for punitive damages, nearly all fifty states and federal courts have accepted the doctrine of punitive damages.10 Indeed, punitive damages have a long historical pedigree dating back to the Hammurabi Code in 2000 B.C. 11

The comorbidity of abrasive personality traits with other personality disorders should not, in and of itself, constitute an argument against the validity of a cluster of personality traits constituting a personality disorder, at least until the theoretical justifications for reducing comorbidity among personality disorders have been better elucidated.

Not exact matches

«1 While there may be some justification for this categorization, it nevertheless fails to capture the theoretical scope and philosophical ambition of what is perhaps the most important of Deleuze's works: Difference and Repetition (1968).

It may be that, for them, the theoretical justification is irrelevant.

Cobb also points out that «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 351) leads not only to theoretical problems for theodicy, but to practical problems in the church, «because particular providence has often been appealed to as justification for many actions on the part of believers that are disruptive of the healthy life of the church» (TIP 14).

An elucidation of the agreement here, however, involves concepts which provide a context for an alternative which challenges the formalist position with respect to the logic of other key issues in the philosophy of science, viz., with respect to the nature and status of laws, the role and justification of induction, the model of theoretical explanation, and the intelligibility of conceptual change.

Thirdly, as a slogan, Bush's «compassionate conservatism» lacked a deeper theoretical justification that could be used as a basis for long - term policy - making.

At the present time, neither a theoretical nor an empirical justification for hierarchies of evidence can be successfully provided.»

«THE WHITE CUBE» By Thomas Marquet # 48: On the theoretical utility of reproduction for the justification of a name.

Although it has been a common practice in studying paleoclimate data to use proxy data from, for example, an ice core in Antarctica, to represent global climate after dividing the former by a factor of ∼ 2 or by a model - determined, latitude - dependent scaling factor, theoretical justification is only beginning to be emphasized (22).

None of these papers provides any theoretical or empirical justification for a value as high as the κ ≈ 0.313 ° K W — 1 m2 chosen by the IPCC.

It is of no little significance that the IPCC's value for the coefficient in the CO2 forcing equation depends on only one paper in the literature; that its values for the feedbacks that it believes account for two - thirds of humankind's effect on global temperatures are likewise taken from only one paper; and that its implicit value of the crucial parameter κ depends upon only two papers, one of which had been written by a lead author of the chapter in question, and neither of which provides any theoretical or empirical justification for a value as high as that which the IPCC adopted.

You haven't said a word about how the IPCC got 3 °C for the sensitivity, and you haven't provided any justification, either theoretical or observational, for removing what you admit to be part of the natural signal.

L. Rev. 135, 151 — 171 (1987)(calling for more «critical reading and writing» in the law school curriculum); Pamela Lysaght & Cristina D. Lockwood, Writing - Across - the - Law - School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, 40 Sw.

There is therefore a justification for common sense in philosophy, but only as showing that our theoretical principles can not be quite correct so long as their consequences are condemned by an appeal to common sense which we feel to be irresistible.

So long as there is no subject who can be identified in terms of incentive theory as an efficient allocation, then the question becomes why should they be allocated «randomly» just for the sake of allocation, and not on the basis of any theoretical justification, being it utilitarian or naturalistic?