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The basic reason is that no productive factor with a non-zero marginal product is left unutilized, and the units of each factor are so allocated as to yield the same indirect marginal utility in all uses, a basic efficiency condition ( if this indirect marginal utility were higher in one use than in other ones, a Pareto improvement could be achieved by transferring a small amount of the factor to the use where it yields a higher marginal utility ).
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Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
Thus, for non-negative changes in the basic wage rate, the industry becomes the active wage-setter, since any increase in the basic wage rate can occur only by reason of industry acquiescence.
Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the basic addressable element in many computer architectures.
" Referring to the argument as the "' Kalam ' cosmological argument ", Duncan asserts that it " received its fullest articulation at the hands of Muslim and Jewish exponents of Kalam (" the use of reason by believers to justify the basic metaphysical presuppositions of the faith ).
One reason for this was that architects ( microcode writers ) sometimes " over-designed " assembler language instructions, i. e. including features which were not possible to implement efficiently on the basic hardware available.
Hume maintained that all knowledge, even the most basic beliefs about the natural world, cannot be conclusively established by reason.
Rationalists generally hold that so-called truths of reason are the ( most important ) epistemologically basic propositions.
Except for the president's desire to perpetuate himself in office, there seemed little reason to alter the nation's basic charter.
For example, religions that preach of the value of faith over evidence from everyday experience or reason inoculate societies against many of the most basic tools people commonly use to evaluate their ideas.
Al-Ghazali abstracted these " basic goods " from the legal precepts in the Qur ' an and Sunnah: they are religion, life, reason, lineage and property.
For Rand, all of the principal virtues are applications of the role of reason as man's basic tool of survival: rationality, honesty, justice, independence, integrity, productiveness, and pride — each of which she explains in some detail in " The Objectivist Ethics.
He traveled widely in Europe and served as an ambassador and has been called " the first tourist " because he traveled just for pleasure, which was the basic reason he climbed Mont Ventoux.
For that reason ergometer scores are generally not used as the sole selection criterion for crews, and technique training is limited to the basic body position and movements.
For this reason, vesicles are a basic tool used by the cell for organizing cellular substances.
In his opinion all human beings have the same abilities with regard to reason, feelings and imagination, but these basic ingredients are used in different ways and in different environments, which gives rise to different cultures and civilisations.
The basic reason for the constant shortage of labor was that, with large amounts of cheap land available and lots of landowners searching for workers, free European immigrants were able to become landowners themselves after a relatively short time, thus increasing the need for workers.
The Third Umpire can then use only basic technology to judge whether there is any reason to overrule the on-field umpires decision.
They were approached with questions about crops, weather, or the health of bees ( Landa ), and often invoked in curing rituals ( which is the basic reason why the most important early-colonial collection of Yucatec curing texts, the Ritual of the Bacabs, has been named after them ).
The basic reason for closing the community was that it was never self-supporting and had declined from its height of population of 147 to under 100 people by the early 19th century.
They can also carry out some basic tests on both partners to see if there is an identifiable reason for not having achieved a pregnancy yet.
Epicurus ’ basic doctrine is that a life of virtue is the life which generates the most amount of pleasure, and it is for this reason that we ought to be virtuous.
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The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.
Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.
We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.
The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.
When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.
The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.
The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.
There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.
Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??
Yet this basic condition of outlawry and anarchy is not the work of Katanga.
In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.
The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.
Since the validity of all subsequent planning depends on the accuracy of the basic inventory information, great care is being taken that the inventory is as complete as possible.
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Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.
The general, remarkably courteous, explanation has left basic positions unchanged, but there has been no explosion in the council.
Furthermore, there is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth that does not contradict well understood, basic aspects of biology and physics.
In sociology, behavior is considered as having no meaning, being not directed at other people and thus is the most basic human action, although it can play a part in diagnosis of disorders such as the autism spectrum disorders.
The constitution expanded citizens ' basic rights, including that of " tutela ," under which an immediate court action can be requested by an individual if he or she feels that their constitutional rights are being violated and if there is no other legal recourse.
Such a machine violates no physical laws, and we already possess the basic technologies necessary for some of the more detailed proposed designs.
In contrast, the basic definition of " whisky " in the United States has no specific aging duration requirements for whiskey, except for whiskey labelled as " straight " ( which must be aged for at least two years ).
However, also available general-purpose DBMSs can often be used for such purpose, if they provide basic user-interfaces for straightforward database applications ( limited query and data display ; no real programming needed ), while still enjoying the database qualities and protections that these DBMSs can provide.
After Locke, constructive deism could no longer appeal to innate ideas for justification of its basic tenets such as the existence of God.
The new design used most of the basic PRISM concepts, but was re-tuned to allow VMS and VMS programs to run at reasonable speed with no conversion at all.
Clarke has stated that each book of the series takes place in its own universe and, apart from its basic concepts, has no consistent relationship with one another.
A basic five-piece fusion kit, with one crash cymbal and no effects cymbals, complete with throne and sticks
" Moreover, " he basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification for his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue or value.
While a foundationalist would use Münchhausen Trilemma as a justification for demanding the validity of basic beliefs, a skeptic would see no problem with admitting the result.
Owing to the small amounts of produced einsteinium and the short half-life of its most easily produced isotope, there are currently almost no practical applications for it outside of basic scientific research.
Owing to the small amounts of produced fermium and its short half-life, there are currently no uses for it outside of basic scientific research.
If an elementary particle truly has no substructure, then it is one of the basic building blocks of the universe from which all other particles are made.
Software classified as freeware is licensed at no cost and is either fully functional for an unlimited time ; or has only basic functions enabled with a fully functional version available commercially or as shareware.
The basic box includes 80 non-random cards but no polyhedral dice, which are to be purchased separately from local game retailers.
A basic distinction is with regard to whether the speaker looks at a situation as bounded and unitary, without reference to any flow of time during the situation (" I ate "), or with no reference to temporal bounds but with reference to the nature of the flow of time during the situation (" I was eating ", " I used to eat ").
On 10 March 1952, ( in what would become known as the " Stalin Note ") Stalin put forth a proposal to reunify Germany with a policy of neutrality, with no conditions on economic policies and with guarantees for " the rights of man and basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, religious persuasion, political conviction, and assembly " and free activity of democratic parties and organizations.
For the purpose of quick identification in all of these, heraldry distinguishes only seven basic colors and makes no fine distinctions in the precise size or placement of charges on the field.
Like the previous Jeep, the basic HMMWV has no armor or protection against chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats.
Procedures are the basic building blocks of Icon programs, and although they use Pascal naming they work more like C functions and can return values ; there is no keyword in Icon.
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