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Definition of Preferability
1. n. The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.
Definition of Preferability
1. Noun. The state of being preferable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preferability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Preferability
Literary usage of Preferability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guild Socialism: An Historical and Critical Analysis by Niles Carpenter (1922)
"There are two grounds upon which this theory of industrial democracy recommends
itself : first, the preferability of industrial self-government to other ..."
2. The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong by Franz Clemens Brentano, ( (1902)
"And therefore I have said that we derived our knowledge of preferability, not
from the fact that our experience has the character of rightness, ..."
3. The Metaphysic of Experience by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1898)
"... preferability in acts of choice, of which we have hitherto caught of Acts of
Choice.— End: Motive: Reason. § 3. Criterion of preferability. —Conscience. ..."
4. Moral Order and Progress: An Analysis of Ethical Conceptions by Samuel Alexander (1896)
"Used of minds which are lower than our own the term preferability might be unmeaning.
And secondly, it may suggest that there is an inherent moral value in ..."
5. An Introduction to Social Philosophy by John Stuart Mackenzie (1895)
"206, where the preferability of a pleasure is clearly distinguished from its
intensity. Mr. Alexander's point, indeed, if I understand him rightly, ..."
6. An Introduction to Social Philosophy by John Stuart Mackenzie (1895)
"Mr. Alexander's point, indeed, if I understand him rightly, is not quite the same
as mine ; since the preferability to which he refers is not preferability ..."
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