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nonarbitrary

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Adj.1.nonarbitrary - not subject to individual determination
unarbitrary
arbitrary - based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves"
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Agencies will need to become comfortable openly acknowledging influences by political actors and explaining their decisions in both technocratic and political terms, and the courts will need to acknowledge that an agency's reliance on influences from political actors that involve policy considerations and value judgments can help to provide a reasonable, nonarbitrary explanation in the rulemaking context.
Proposing a place for politics in arbitrary and capricious review by Watts, Kathryn A. / Yale Law Journal
Moreover, the fact that ignoring the boundaries of scientific disciplines is justified on the grounds that they were arbitrarily drawn to begin with suggests that a nonarbitrary procedure might have been employed for this purpose and, had it been so, no such rearrangement of disciplinary boundaries would be required for the accumulation of interdisciplinary knowledge.
Toward an interdisciplinary science of culture by Hayes, Linda J.; Fryling, Mitch J. / The Psychological Record
The statement by Humpty-Dumpty illustrates the impossibility of a completely nonarbitrary definition.
A time to define: making the specific learning disability definition ... by Kavale, Kenneth A.; Spaulding, Lucinda S.; Beam, Andrea P. / Learning Disability Quarterly
 
 
 
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