Surely, early generative phonology in the 1970s provided evidence for preferring deletion to insertion rules for the sake of generality.
Moreover, and more damagingly, he has established no grounds for preferring the hypothetical insurance scheme to the talent auction.
Expected utility theory provides the theoretical basis for preferring the standard gamble over the time trade-off as a criterion measure of utility.
He avoids the term 'assimilation', preferring 'acculturation' because it does not entail a complete rejection of the culture of origin.
But some of our most important linguistic choice rules, such as preferring short sentences, were suggested by experts and subjects in our revision exercises.
In the natural language processing and computational linguistics literature, there is a definite bias toward preferring 'theoretical' solutions.
Furthermore, they all referred to existing values by preferring to prescribe drugs with proven long-term efficacy and those included in treatment guidelines.
Organists and organ makers were particularly reluctant - and some are reluctant even now, preferring mean-tone to equal one.
