purpositivity

plural purpositivities

1. uncountableusuallyThe state or condition of being purpositive.

   He steadfastly asserted that languages were human institutions, the communicative purpositivity of which overrides all else.

   2009, Harro Stammerjohann, “William Dwight Whitney”, in Lexicon Grammaticorum: A Bio-Bibliographical Companion to the History of Linguistics, Second, Revised and Enlarged edition, volume II, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1635

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   […] e.g. the extent to which they are hereditory and automatic in operation, though the purpositivity implied in the concept is usally accepted.

   1964, R.M. Shah, “Progressive (Canalization) Personality Units Formation and Some Properties and Corollaries”, in Comprehensive Personality Theory, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, page 80

   Therefore, in performance appraisal, modern organizations should re-examine the purpositivity requirements of performance appraisal from the perspective of management philosophy.

   2022, Xianghe Yi, Sufen Lu, Jianjun Tan, “Ethical Review of Performance Appraisal”, in Taosheng Wang, Srikanta Patnaik, Andrew W.H. Ip, Madjid Tavana, editors, Advances in Decision and Science Management: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Decision Science and Management (ICDSM 2021), Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 274

   Synonyms: purpositiveness, purposiveness