Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being binding or obligatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.
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- noun The state or quality of being
binding .
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Examples
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Of course, the mystery for people looking for Kantian normative bindingness is how autonomous motivation would look any different.
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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Of course, the mystery for people looking for Kantian normative bindingness is how autonomous motivation would look any different.
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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Legal structure: what are the options for the legal nature (or "bindingness") of a post-Kyoto agreement and what would be most optimal for China?
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Legal structure: what are the options for the legal nature (or "bindingness") of a post-Kyoto agreement and what would be most optimal for China?
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It is not an accident that these same Scottish Enlightenment philosophes I have cited above praising the agreeable virtues of peaceable exchange and commerce should also be committed to offering theories of the interior moral qualities of honor, trust, ‘bindingness’, sympathy, and all the other affective qualities that undergird what might otherwise, on the surface, appear to be merely the enforcement of contracts.
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The type of force or bindingness that one's theory of practical reason will inherit from one's theory of action will be determined by the choice between these two modes of argument.
Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions Millgram, Elijah 2009
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On the approach we are examining, theories of practical inference inherit their bindingness from the nonoptionality of the associated conception of action.
Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions Millgram, Elijah 2009
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Moral qualities have a bindingness attached to them shown in the force of the moral
Moral Arguments for the Existence of God Byrne, Peter 2007
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Taken in isolation from other considerations (such as expectations and predictability), equality does not support the bindingness of incorrect decisions.
Precedent and Analogy in Legal Reasoning Lamond, Grant 2006
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Now, the basic norm cannot be a legal norm -- we cannot fully explain the bindingness of law by reference to more law.
Legal Positivism Green, Leslie 2003
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