ADJECTIVE
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acting with a specific goal
the most calculating and selfish men in the community
How To Use calculative In A Sentence
- By the 3rd millennium B.C., they had developed a primitive form of cost accounting, elaborate techniques of budgeting and planning, and calculative techniques for devising labor standards.
- Needless to say, sometimes I get disappointed with friends who do not realize or are not calculative enough to see my ‘generosity’.
- There is no doubt that computers ‘play’ a very different kind of chess to humans which generally speaking is highly calculative, rather materialistic and unbelievably tenacious.
- So elusive seems this innocence, so thoroughgoing our saturation in the technological, the calculative, and the instrumental, that we may be tempted to adopt an antithetical conception of human nature, as violent, chaotic, and amoral.
- But because Vogler regards noncalculative reasons as optional, Korsgaard and Vogler differ over whether the universalizability of maxims is mandatory. Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions
- And to understand human emotion, the human experience, outside of data and calculative tables, which are all a machine can comprehend. REVIEW: Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
- The accounting practices examined in this paper do not reveal some crude, and by modern standards ‘simplistic’, calculative technology.
- He's calculative, you gotta do something he wouldn't expect.
- Carry the count of industrial data, obtain parameter of calculative of benefit of concerned water supply.
- There was something about how his smile was genuine, not cool and calculative weighing her in the balance as other guys usually did, wry smiles casting their face downward.