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Usage examples of criteria.

It is in this sense that the free market is not ruled by the intellectual criteria of the majority, which prevail only at and for any given moment.

Only businessmen—the producers, the providers, the supporters, the Atlases who carry our whole economy on their shoulders—are regarded as guilty by nature and are required to prove their innocence, without any definable criteria of innocence or proof, and are left at the mercy of the whim, the favor, or the malice of any publicity-seeking politician, any scheming statist, any envious mediocrity who might chance to work his way into a bureaucratic job and who feels a yen to do some trust-busting.

Cooley used in allocating these quotas"—but that it has never been and never can be too clear what criteria he was expected to use by the legislation that granted him these powers.

They poured abuse on a few specific groups and would not disclose the criteria by which these groups had been chosen.

The consequence, today, is a chaos of subjective whims setting the criteria of logic, of communication, demonstration, evidence, proof, which differ from class to class, from teacher to teacher.

These elite colleges traditionally applied geographical criteria to applicants, deliberately favoring boys from homes located far from their campuses, in the hopes of assembling a highly diversified student body.

At the level of slang, the turnover rate is so rapid that it has forced dictionary makers to change their criteria for word inclusion.

It does this by imposing order, a set of principles or criteria on the choices he makes in his daily life.

He remains constantly in a posture of non-commitment, and without strong commitment to the values and styles of some group he lacks the explicit set of criteria that he needs to pick his way through the burgeoning jungle of overchoice.

The immediate criteria on which the decision is based are relatively simple and clear-cut, and because all the circumstances are familiar, he scarcely has to think about it.

Today we need far more sophisticated criteria for choosing among technologies.

We need such policy criteria not only to stave off avoidable disasters, but to help us discover tomorrow's opportunities.

The haphazard way in which this is done today, however, and the criteria on which selection is based, need to be changed.

Necessity, therefore, and strict universality are safe criteria of knowledge a priori, and are inseparable one from the other.

As, however, in the use of these criteria, it is sometimes easier to show the contingency than the empirical limitation8 of judgments, and as it is sometimes more convincing to prove the unlimited universality which we attribute to a judgment than its necessity, it is advisable to use both criteria separately, each being by itself infallible.