Signification de "arbitrary" dans le dictionnaire anglais

L'arbitraire est un terme donné aux choix et aux actions assujetties à la volonté, au jugement ou à la préférence individuelle, en fonction uniquement de l'opinion ou de la discrétion d'un individu. Les décisions arbitraires ne sont pas nécessairement les mêmes que les décisions aléatoires. Par exemple, lors de la crise du pétrole de 1973, les Américains ont été autorisés à acheter de l'essence uniquement sur des jours impairs si leur plaque d'immatriculation était étrange et sur des jours pairs si leur plaque d'immatriculation était uniforme. Le système était bien défini et non aléatoire dans ses restrictions; Cependant, puisque les numéros de plaque d'immatriculation ne sont totalement pas liés à l'aptitude physique d'une personne à acheter de l'essence, il s'agissait encore d'une division arbitraire de personnes. De même, les écoliers sont souvent organisés par leur nom de famille dans un ordre alphabétique, une méthode non aléatoire mais encore arbitraire, au moins dans les cas où les noms ne sont pas pertinents. Arbitrariness is a term given to choices and actions subject to individual will, judgment or preference, based solely upon an individual's opinion or discretion. Arbitrary decisions are not necessarily the same as random decisions. For example, during the 1973 oil crisis, Americans were allowed to purchase gasoline only on odd-numbered days if their license plate was odd, and on even-numbered days if their license plate was even. The system was well-defined and not random in its restrictions; however, since license plate numbers are completely unrelated to a person's fitness to purchase gasoline, it was still an arbitrary division of people. Similarly, schoolchildren are often organized by their surname in alphabetical order, a non-random yet still arbitrary method, at least in cases where surnames are irrelevant.

synonymes en anglais de arbitrary

absolute · autocratic · capricious · chance · despotic · dictatorial · discretionary · dogmatic · domineering · erratic · fanciful · high-handed · imperious · inconsistent · magisterial · optional · overbearing · peremptory · personal · random · subjective · summary · tyrannical · tyrannous · uncontrolled · unlimited · unreasonable · unrestrained · whimsical · wilful

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opposite of arbitrary

arbitrary and capricious

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Abigail Adams

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

John Quincy Adams

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Mortimer Adler

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.

Emily Greene Balch

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Michael Behe

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Roy Blount, Jr.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

William S. Burroughs

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Sandra Cisneros

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

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In this eye-opening work, Angela J. Davis shines a much-needed light on the power of American prosecutors, revealing how the day-to-day practice of even the most well-intentioned prosecutors can result in unequal treatment of defendants and ...

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Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle political slavery’s discursive complexity, engaging Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas of study too often kept apart.

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This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other.

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Individually, the essays in this book contribute to ongoing debates in their respective fields.

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The Human Rights Watch documented 133 killings, but believes the actual number of arbitrary killings by security forces may be sustantially higher.

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Taking as its starting point a cogent analysis of the fundamentalconcepts of "legality" and the "rule of law,"Limiting Arbitrary Power undertakes a specific study of thecontents of the vagueness doctrine.

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The Duty to Investigate

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This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato's dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments in the Cratylus.

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This book presents analytical formulas which allow one to calculate the S-matrix for the acoustic and electromagnetic wave scattering by small bodies or arbitrary shapes with arbitrary accuracy.

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Foley argues that fundamental flaws exist in the implementation of the death penalty.

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Gun classifications based solely on the look of grips are arbitrary …

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Osage Nation joins oil industry in asking federal court to block …

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Angola : Arbitrary arrest and detention of fourteen members of (...)

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