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.
On the alternative interpretation, the analogous conclusions are (1) that the notion of 'athletic ability' is dispensable and (2) that the notion can be constructed out of consistent winning relations.
Instead of taking the one-to-one correspondence between preferences and choices as showing that talk of subjective preferences is dispensable, the correspondence between choice and preference legitimates talk of subjective states.
Everything in this book is extremely worth reading but the book itself is, in my judgement, entirely dispensable.
How do we determine whether some functioning is important or trivial, urgent or dispensable?
It is always "de trop" or dispensable in the strictest sense, since the contribution made by humorous behavior or discourse at work falls squarely in the area of interpersonal relationships.
Since risk is already shared predominantly among patients and providers, the payers have made themselves increasingly dispensable.
Details are boring and therefore dispensable.
