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Arbitrariness is the quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle". It is also used to refer to a choice made ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Arbitrariness; From an adjective: This is a redirect from an adjective, which is a word or phrase that describes a noun, ...
The Principle of Avoiding Arbitrariness (PAA) is stated as follows: "For all x, if a person, S, has a justification for x, then there is some reason, r1, available to S for x; and there is some reason, r2, available to S for r1; etc." [3] PAA says that in order to avoid arbitrariness, for any proposition x to be justified for an epistemological ...
Arbitrary inference is a classic tenet of cognitive therapy created by Aaron T. Beck in 1979. [1] He defines the act of making an arbitrary inference as the process of drawing a conclusion without sufficient evidence, or without any evidence at all.
There is much discussion about arbitrariness there and this can have some relevance. -- Aethralis 08:40, 31 October 2005 (UTC) HI: This is a good article to keep but the main entry does not match the (correct) definition(s) in Wictionary. The most general sense of the term is given in definition 1: "Based on individual discretion or judgement".
The statement " is non-negative for arbitrarily large ." is a shorthand for: "For every real number , () is non-negative for some value of greater than .". In the common parlance, the term "arbitrarily long" is often used in the context of sequence of numbers.
[75] [76] In response, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the question "why the fuck do I need a google+ account to comment on a video?" on his YouTube channel to express his negative opinion of the change. [77] The official YouTube announcement [78] received 20,097 "thumbs down" votes and generated more than 32,000 comments in two days. [79]
Refugee roulette refers to arbitrariness in the process of refugee status determinations or, as it is called in the United States, asylum adjudication. Recent research suggests that at least in the United States and Canada, the outcome of asylum determinations largely depends upon the identity of the particular adjudicator to whom an application is randomly assigned, and that the resulting ...