0 having a purpose; done with the aim of achieving a particular thing:
Primarily deployed outside elite circles, these reinterpretations further dislodged the purposive logic of phrenology as a world-comparative theory of difference.
Purposive rationality is not the whole of economics, nor is accurate assessment its own ought-to-be.
Here, the hypnotic suggestion served to prevent motor intentions from reaching forward models of the purposive behaviour.
We also had an initial purposive sample of 27 studies, provided by an expert in the field.
The first is the "purposive action" model, in which change is driven by "calculated leadership decisions" (p. 12).
Purposive sampling was used to capture a full range of views.
The sampling method (purposive sampling) and the small sample size (23) inevitably limit the generalisability of the findings.
This language made clear that only direct, purposive, individual acts of discrimination were to be outlawed, and not so-called "statistical discrimination" (inferred from numerical imbalances).
