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There were three practical reasons for doing so.
However, this early work can be seen as essential to the practical implementation of argumentation-based systems.
One might consider this to be the practical viewpoint versus the theoretical one.
Have philosophers not offered us profound advice on practical questions such as how to live and what to value?
Very little in the way of propositional knowledge must figure in the exercise of the practical capacity.
If the risk to the other's agency interests were brought to his attention, his practical reasoning would change.
Nothing tells us that practical indifference deserves judicial punishment as distinct from other kinds of social responses to blameworthy conduct.
In addition to its theoretical value, the book also has practical and political value.
Furthermore, even if teachers base questions on their practical experience they can only ask questions about issues of which they have knowledge.
Making ' real world ' environmental changes would of course entail considerable practical problems and costs.
Practical steps towards unification were also worked out, as we shall see.
The practical implications for investigation of mental illness of the differences and commonalities between psychopathology and psychology, for example, could be tremendous.
The system may, however, be intractable as a deterministic system in the practical sense, because it contains too many degrees of freedom.
A final virtue of self-experimentation, it might be argued, is that it showed the practical value of basic behavioral research.
The number of new ideas, the strangeness of some of them, and their practical value all argue that self-experimentation is worthwhile.
The practical significance of this limitation is that it is necessary to fixate most words so that they can be identified.
By considering these additional characteristics, whorl data offer impor tant insights into religious significance of spinning, as well as practical qualities of fiber production.
As a practical matter, it was not possible.
Singling out his conscious intentions as causes is practical and parsimonious, however, as it does not require a theory of everything.
Practical constraints required a split-split-plot design of the field trial with three levels of splitting.
However, it is not clear that practical benefits for agricultural systems will be delivered where more of the same work is done.
Teachers are encouraged to adopt this research process as a practical way of examining the impact of peer modelling with their own students.
Music therapists and educators have extensive practical experience of children making such strides in their development and passing across such thresholds.
Effective questioning must be one of the most important ways of eliciting a contribution from students, whether verbal or practical.
Since song performance resembles contemporary classroom practice, research using song performance as the criterion task may generate more practical implications for music teachers.
As such it is a practical guide which yields considerable insight into the culture and craft of orchestral playing.
Others see it as a stimulus directly relevant to practical music-making.
The book succeeds in the first case, although attention to the practical application of the research in this area is less well considered.
The results will now be considered as regards their practical and theoretical implications for the curriculum.
We should admit to ourselves, he continues, that our best research is pursued for aesthetic reasons, rather than the practical value of its ®ndings.
At this stage, it could appear that the book is all philosophy with no practical applications.
Alternatively, is it that boys ®nd it easier to write about things in which they have a practical involvement?
His support of educational methods that produced effective and participatory citizens as the litmus test suggests that his pedagogy was practical or utilitarian.
Even at its most ideologically pretentious the species has not yet conceived a practical form in which to transcend the nation-state.
Postmodern objections to totalizing theories are of two kinds: theoretical and practical.
True, postmodernists are correct to wonder about the scientific character of practical reason.
Rather, he articulates it as if he had found the point at which epistemic and practical modes mediate each other.
The effect is striking because it is narrativized in a single diegetic continuum using the mimetically practical narrative tempo of scene.
Science was born in that mind, the intuition of nature, the instinct for political organization and that direct practical normal conduct of life and affairs.
The reciprocity of obligations is an entirely formal one which has the practical effect of reinforcing the inferiors' inferiority.
Only the species difference for cysteine was of practical significance.
He responds to the higher-level question about the reliability of a socially established doxastic practice in terms of practical rationality.
Next, positive practical action for change in the school situation was taken.
The peace movement may have given a practical outlet for idealistic values which had been long held in check.
The practical vocation of the guidebooks is reflected in their physical format.
On this score, however, central place theory has two weaknesses when we try to give it a practical application.
The list is long but of limited practical use.
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