How To Use Purposive In A Sentence

  • The scheme (Purposive Discarding based Filtering) decides whether the client's request is legitimate or not by observing client's protocol consistency behavior.
  • They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity.
  • The Area Committee rejected this submission as being contrary to any purposive interpretation and as contradicted by the clear wording of the regulation.
  • Nevertheless, it does illustrate a reluctance on the part of the courts to acquiesce in the loss of a right of appeal which would have been the result of a stricter, less purposive construction.
  • On the other hand, the muscles of our limbs are termed ‘voluntary,’ because we can use them to carry out the purposive determinations of the Will.
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  • If Mr. Spencer's "Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed" is purposive, that is equivalent to saying that God is what we mean by personal. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
  • An aeon of evolutionary pressure has selected for ordered and regular behaviour that leads to positive outcomes, and this can look like purposive behaviour.
  • Revelation is the sensitizing of persons to/to ward the divine activity with the invitation to participate in that purposive world.
  • In light of the historical attention given to purposiveness and intentionality, it is worth asking what is required in the way of cognitive structure to support these aspects of adaptive behavior.
  • It was founded on a broad purposive interpretation giving effect to the intention of Parliament.
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  • Experiment shows that a frog deprived of consciousness and volition by the removal of the front part of its brain, will, under the action of various stimuli, perform many acts which can only be called purposive, such as moving to recover its balance when the board on which it stands is inclined, or scratching where it is made uncomfortable, or croaking when pressed in a particular spot. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Psychotherapy" is a masterpiece, but his psychic equation of _causative_ and _purposive_, with all his mathesis, not only remains unsolved, but leads to confusion, from the false light shed on the unknown quantity, and his failure to indicate the gnosis; the demarcation between automatism and purposive Intelligence. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
  • Lord Denning led the stampede for the door, arguing for a purposive approach.
  • It appears that D will be convicted only where a purposive intent is proved.
  • Thus we see that while physical causation is still thought to be basic, it is the notion of purposive causa - tion, and of legal policy (the law's purposes) that mod - ern lawyers think of when the idea of legal causation comes to mind. CAUSATION IN LAW
  • U.S. psychologist who developed a system of psychology known as purposive, or molar, behaviourism, which attempts to explore the entire action of the total organism. Nothingandall
  • There is a growing tendency in biology and comparative psychology to restrict the term instinct to inherited purposive adaptations. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • Kant insisted that although we cannot prove that nature is purposively organized, we must systematize our empirical knowledge by viewing nature as if it were so organized.
  • It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity.
  • On the other hand: nothing better expresses the idea of purposive, responsible, and self-directed guidance of the reproductive powers. The Pivot of Civilization
  • The apparatus by which purposive movements are actuated is the nervous system, and also, the muscles into which the nerve fibre is so intimately interlaced. Criminal Anthropology from a Canadian View-Point
  • The Americans pushed for peace, and Garang fell to the task with purposive will.
  • * Behavior which is merely “functional” but not purposive, that is, behavior that is useful as judged by observers but unbeknown to the actor, nor deliberately sought by the actor, is not rational in the terms used here and by many others. THE MORAL DIMENSION
  • Only if what we are trying to explain is the purposive activity of a rational agent is it appropriate to look for a personal explanation.
  • If one looks at that history we say that a purposive construction gives rise to a different view to that which I understand is literally open.
  • In contrasting their ritual presence to the differance of purposive endeavor, Wordsworth seems to hearken back to an anecdote in Boswell's Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
  • Officials generally believe that war results from a calculated, purposive, conscious decision.
  • It is essential, however, that these paths intersect at key points, so one can stray or purposively deviate from an easier trail to a more difficult one (or from a more defined to a less defined one).
  • There is, moreover, a scientific view and method regarding what he calls the purposive view which he overlooks entirely, and which by emphasis of the causal, makes seemingly impossible. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
  • Belief in God, gods and spirits is what Monod calls animism: the projection into nature of the purposive properties of the human central nervous system.
  • She began to move, for the first time, in a purposive direction. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • ‘Although the term ‘purposive construction’ is not new, its entry into fashion betokens a swing by the appellate courts away from literal construction.
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  • Remember that Kant emphasized formal features and the idea of purposiveness without a purpose.
  • I have again attempted to construe the statute in a purposive manner and with my understanding of the intent of the Act in mind.
  • Every student of physiology is familiar with what is termed automatic action, with the tendency of cells to repeat vibrations originally set up by purposive action; thus are formed what we term habits, and we unconsciously repeat motions which at first were done with thought. Death—and After?
  • Each is defined by one of three aspects of purposive human activity, and this is its ‘horizonal schema’ or ‘pattern’.
  • This is an inclusive or purposive concept of community which in principle excludes no one, but which cannot be assigned to you.
  • This was a purposive sample that included people at various levels of commitment to the church and various lengths of time in attendance.
  • Methodism has, in its tradition, a strong streak of "purposive" endeavors -- study, prayer, and physical exercise were among the things in which one engaged because they pursued a purpose, namely to attain the goal of a blessed life. TEXAS FAITH: What do your spiritual paths say about the role of play? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • Ignoring for the moment any controversies regarding a proper translation of the phrase śacni cilθl, I would like to suggest that pattern A effectively translates as "for the [śacni cilθl], for the city and for the people everlasting" (locative -e + -ri = purposive/benefactive), pattern B means "to the [śacni cilθl] (and) to the city everlasting" (directive -is + -tra-is involves an action directed towards these things) and pattern C states "to the [śacni cilθl], to the city and to the people everlasting" (attributive -s/-l, implying an act of offering or dedication). Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
  • This is the purposive activity of craving on a large scale, as it embraces all sentient life.
  • Poisoning is no doubt a purposive activity, and reflections on its purpose may show that it has its internal principles.
  • His meanness lost its gaiety and took on a purposive quality. FAMILY PICTURES
  • The abuse was thus deliberate and purposive, intended to make prisoners psychologically ready for interrogation.
  • It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity.
  • In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses.

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