instrumental

Examples of instrumentally

instrumentally
But suppose that this character trait, while instrumentally virtuous, is intrinsically bad.
All syllables were analysed instrumentally in order to determine the vowel duration, voice onset time (if applicable), and fundamental frequency contour.
According to the second, there is no plausible explanation of why equality must benefit at least one individual in order to be non-instrumentally valuable.
Freedom of choice is then instrumentally necessary for people to get what they want.
If someone wants to have children in order to continue their genetic line do they act instrumentally?
In other words, people continue to treat pencils completely instrumentally.
Efficiency-based, instrumentally-oriented formal settings are not designed to support person-preserving ends.
In practice, of course, families, firms, organizations, and other groups do sometimes act collectively, but such actions cannot in general be instrumentally rational.
But some use the term governance more instrumentally, simply to refer to any political system which maintains order.
Furthermore, there is no reason to suppose that everything which is intrinsically good is also instrumentally good.
Individuals are modelled as instrumentally rational to the extent that they choose those actions that are best calculated to achieve preferred outcomes.
That is why instrumentally rational governments seek to share the blame for unpopular pension reforms by implicating either the opposition or the trades unions.
Depending on these characteristics, actors are expected to make choices which are to a greater or lesser degree value-rational or instrumentally rational.
The autonomy of an instrumentally designed bureaucracy emerges as the inevitable consequence of an ideal-type model incompatible with a complex reality.
However, what might be instrumentally reinforcing in one situation (whether "subjective" or "objective") may not be in another.
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