As some of you may know, I wrote a series of articles for my original blog about the need and preferability of having multiple parties in Congress. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“On the preferability of epistemic structural realism.” ❋ Ladyman, James (2009)
So the Palins are such good parents, such good Christians, such good citizens, that they could not even convince their daughter of the preferability of getting married before she got pregnant? ❋ Unknown (2009)
The second runs contrary to patent observations that virtually everyone can see, such as the preferability of happiness to misery, the impermissibility of murder, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Stoics call things whose preferability is overridden only in very rare circumstances "things according to nature." ❋ Baltzly, Dirk (2008)
I also find it more useful to describe the issue here as one of the presumptive preferability of naturalistic scientific realism, rather than one of falsifiability or even empirical content. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I think you know it, too, but because you feel so strongly about both the desirability of licensing gay marriage and the preferability of judicial restraint, you attempt to square the circle by redefining what the judgedid. ❋ Unknown (2007)
By contrast, many contemporary discussions work within a background assumption of the preferability of materialist monism. ❋ Robinson, William (2007)
And preferability to Bush is far too low a threshold, I think, to merit support as a candidate for president. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I discuss how comparisons of E&M interactions in different spaces show preferability of three large space dimensions. ❋ Sean (2007)
There would be no problem if Leonardo thinks the moral progress lies in the moral preferability of the vegetarian belief rather than the truth of the matter. ❋ Sorensen, Roy (2006)
Now suppose you wish to rank-order the three bridges with respect to their preferability as crossing-points. ❋ Ross, Don (2006)
That biography from you, who allways believed in the superiority the preferability of the imagined to the seen not to say to the merely recounted. ❋ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1994)
The threat liberal societies faced from Nazism, fascism, and communism, and the threat that Islamic extremism represents today, is the denial of this fundamental belief in the inviolable dignity of individual human beings and in the preferability of a liberal society. ❋ Unknown (2002)
But on the point of moral preferability, there seems at first sight to be room for doubt. ❋ Unknown (2002)
In the absence of a military threat from Russia or significant support among Russians for territorial expansion to the west, it is difficult to understand the administration's failure to consider the preferability of intensifying its support for the membership of the Visegrad states in the European Union and WEU and postponing a decision about NATO membership for them until and unless that should become an evident need. ❋ Davies, Richard T. (1995)
With a long-suffering sigh, Kirk made a mental note to have another little chat with Scotty about the preferability of informing the captain prior to taking otherwise unauthorised excursions, then shifted his attention back to the council proceedings. ❋ Weinstein, Howard (1994)
It struck me as a genuine instance of the preferability of the devil one didn't know. ❋ Zelazny, Roger (1991)
