He employs not simply an ends-justifying-means reasoning but, instead, a view that the end is self-justifying whereas the process of inquiry is itself somewhat dispensable.
In some cases these scaffolding molecules and domains are dispensable with the introduction of appropriate fusions.
Many of the 277 notes are immediately germane to the text, although others are dispensable distractions.
Since risk is already shared predominantly among patients and providers, the payers have made themselves increasingly dispensable.
Everything in this book is extremely worth reading but the book itself is, in my judgement, entirely dispensable.
This is not to say that such norms are useless or wholly dispensable for those purposes.
Though he would prefer to be happy, he thinks such matters overrated: a small, and ultimately dispensable, part of the good life.
I do not think this shows that middle knowledge is dispensable.