nonpurposive

(ˌnɒnˈpɜːpəsɪv)

adj

lacking purpose

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But the later Hayek no longer believes that it is necessary to start from action that is (subjectively) believed to serve a certain end which is (subjectively) valued: nonpurposive rule-following behavior too can result in social order.

Methodological individualism and cultural evolution: ontogenetic and phylogenetic approaches to social order

But, according to Evangelist, this interferes with the attempt to distinguish between literary art as nonpurposive from other nonliterary forms of discourse that are dominated by the particular utilitarian purposes they serve, since seeking sacred truths would seem to be a purposive activity.

Preface

This philosophical issue goes beyond this article, but apart from wondering about the meaning of the term "value" in this nonpurposive world, one could also wonder about the role and meaning of such ethical concepts as responsibility, merit, praiseworthiness (and blameworthiness), choice, principled behavior, and the like.

Ethics without profits

Triangulation of survey methods or nonpurposive sampling methods is recommended to address this issue in future similar study.

A survey comparison of career motivations of social work and business students

In each case, Gilmore accepts the risk of bodily harm, and shows herself committing--or, in the piece with helpers, encouraging--blithely nonpurposive violence.

Kate Gilmore: Smith-Stewart

Rawls's account, ideal theory is entirely nonpurposive because it

Justifications, powers, and authority

The effect of musical cues on the nonpurposive speech of persons with aphasia.

A comparison between the use of songs and improvisation in music therapy with adults living with acquired and chronic illness

130) On this broadly hermeneutic view, it makes no sense to think of language as a nonpurposive, nontheoretical means of appropriating the word; it is equally senseless to attempt to understand some social group's institutions, practices, or conduct without learning their language.

Method and fit: two problems for contemporary philosophies of tort law

Thus, the present study was limited by using a nonpurposive, nonrandom sample of convenience.

Spirituality and the events of September 11: a preliminary study

Their ambitious work emphasizes the conceptualizing phase of an information process, integrating problem solving along a continuum from preattentive and nonpurposive through adaptive intelligence.

Introduction

T]he theoretical unity of biology would be better served if the natural functions of the parts of organic life-forms could be given a reductive account completely in terms of nonpurposive or nonfunctional naturalistic processes or conditions.

Intelligent design psychology and evolutionary psychology: A Comparison of rival paradigms

Recently, however, researchers have begun to pay attention to a nonpurposive activity that Sandra Erdelez[1] has called `information encountering' and Kirsty Williamson[2] has called `incidental information acquisition'.

FINDING WITHOUT SEEKING: WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT THE ROLE OF PLEASURE READING AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION

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