methodological principle

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methodological
adjective
uk
/ˌmeθ.ə.dəlˈɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/
us
/ˌmeθ.ə.dəlˈɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the method used for doing, teaching, or ...
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principle
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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Educated guessing does indeed constitute themethodologicalprincipleunderlying the present text; yet some readers might ultimately demand less guesswork and more education.
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The guidingmethodologicalprinciplewas to ensure that variation existed within the sample by recruiting patients from two diverse practices.
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Amethodologicalprinciplethat underpins oral history is that statements and testimonies should be recorded or transcribed.
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As those earlier systems demonstrate, incrementality is amethodologicalprinciplecommonly used to build robust, broad-coverage parsers that rely on computationally tractable syntactic descriptions.
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It is themethodologicalprincipleto base planning primarily on computations, seldom on qualitative evaluations of alternatives.
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It is worth noting that this, besides being amethodologicalprinciple, establishing limits to knowledge, is also a meta-principle for the controversy.
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General covariance is the most recent refinement of themethodologicalprincipleof "unity of determination" employed in the constitution of objects as objects of physical knowledge.
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The contextual model proposes "relational ethics" -- the ethical or justice dimension of close relationships -- as an overarching integrative conceptual andmethodologicalprinciple.
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There must be something wrong with amethodologicalprinciplethat has such devastating implications.
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This is not a language rule but amethodologicalprinciple.
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In the following sections, we ask whether methodological principles can be identified that guide the distinction between group-specific and all-encompassing dimensional structures.
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Teachers of intercomprehension can base their approach on two methodological principles.
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Methods already exist for valuing equity-efficiency trade-offs, based on established methodological principles for valuing trade-offs between different dimensions of health.
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This book now builds on the methodological principles established by these groundbreaking investigations to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date manual for laboratory work with zebrafish.
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True to his methodological principles, he does not insist that one must perform this kind of analysis.
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Such exclusion can easily be justified by the author in terms of his methodological principles stated in the introduction: historians should not aspire to write total history.
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She demonstrates the methodological principles that guide cross-variety comparisons and how these can be used to establish similarities and differences across a diverse range of dialects.
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Parsons developed a general theory for the study of society called action theory, based on themethodologicalprincipleof voluntarism and the epistemological principle of analytical realism.
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Heggarty (forthcoming), moreover, gives a very full description, starting out from first methodological principles.
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Whilst listening to the dynamic parliamentary debates it is hard to resist forming the impression that many research centres are continuing to make use of schematic, hackneyed methodological principles.
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