extrinsic evidence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Intrinsic rewards are more important than extrinsic (or at least short-term extrinsic rewards). From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
"Changes in extrinsic fluorescence in squid axons during voltage-clamp," Science 169, 1322 – 1324 (1970). From Wordnik.com. [Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography] Reference
Also referred to as extrinsic value, time value decays over time. From Wordnik.com. [Intrinsic Value and Time Value] Reference
The first is whether so-called extrinsic value is really a type of value at all. From Wordnik.com. [Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value] Reference
These special reasons, which authorise the charging of interest, are called extrinsic titles. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
The toolkit provides a common interface and an. exe file for calling extrinsic methods by Distributed Management Task Force. From Wordnik.com. [PlanetJava] Reference
Revelation and its evidences are called extrinsic and auxiliary supernatural, the elevation itself retaining the name of intrinsic or, according to some, theological supernatural. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
If that is the case, then the difference between the propositional attitudes and perception should be elucidated in terms extrinsic to the type of content involved in these states. From Wordnik.com. [Nonconceptual Mental Content] Reference
Also I'm perfectly Ok with some kind of extrinsic cognition being around before the Cambrian. From Wordnik.com. [Combinatorial Dependencies] Reference
Another desire I've come to be cautious about in coaching as an "extrinsic" value is the desire of enlightenment, or some kind of spiritual goal. From Wordnik.com. [Arjuna Ardagh: The Gift You Were Born to Give] Reference
Needless to say, in cases with that kind of extrinsic, objective evidence that the recanting witness gave false testimony, hearings are superfluous. From Wordnik.com. [Barry Scheck: Troubling Questions Surround Troy Davis Execution Set for Monday] Reference
Through working with clients in this way and similar ways for more than 25 years, I've come to recognize the difference between "extrinsic" values and "intrinsic" values. From Wordnik.com. [Arjuna Ardagh: The Gift You Were Born to Give] Reference
This allows this brush to gently remove food residue, plaque, tarter, and even "extrinsic" stains (caused by coffee, tea, and tabacco). From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Physicists are taught to design experiments that minimize this kind of extrinsic effect and to concentrate on the intrinsic, or fundamental, properties of a material. From Wordnik.com. [WUSTL Record: University News] Reference
"extrinsic" private rewards that they may gain (whether they are money, advancement, or prestige). From Wordnik.com. [madisonian.net] Reference
This kind of goodness and badness we may call extrinsic. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
There are both intrinsic and extrinsic causes of insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
The limitations to its growth are extrinsic and not intrinsic. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Simply put, an extrinsic value is something that you've been taught to want. From Wordnik.com. [Arjuna Ardagh: The Gift You Were Born to Give] Reference
But to be in a place is an accident when compared with the extrinsic container. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Researchers say there are two basic motivations in life: intrinsic and extrinsic. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Robinson: Lindsay, Snooki, Mel and Happiness] Reference
Is there any extrinsic evidence to show that he means something beyond the words?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
The extrinsic causes are more operative the more unfavorable is the environment of the mother. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Further, the muscles of the tongue, intrinsic as well as extrinsic, were extremely well developed. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
But actually we need to conserve these reactions for their extrinsic value, as spurs and correctives. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
But it is the fact of possessing that intrinsic and extrinsic goodness that makes it a legitimate ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Reply Obj. 1: As was stated above, suffering belongs to a body that suffers in respect of some extrinsic body. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
(Deci 1971) "Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.". From Wordnik.com. [Sam Chaltain: The Science of School Renewal] Reference
Also the larynx as a whole can be moved in various directions by means of extrinsic muscles joined to points above and below. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
Reply Obj. 1: Filial fear is a preamble to the Law, not as though it were extrinsic thereto, but as being the beginning of the Law, just as love is. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
This wisdom, this beauty that culture offers us, does not need extrinsic justification; it is, as Emerson so happily said, its own excuse for being; it is. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
He again postulated that perhaps there really was no love -- just people who having no extrinsic value in the universe at large clung to each other for meaning. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Given such a defective nervous system, extrinsic conditions which would have no effect on another individual or would be felt in different ways may produce insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Check out these insights from three different studies of human behavior and the human responses to programs, like performance pay, that are based on extrinsic rewards. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Chaltain: The Science of School Renewal] Reference
Now the lifelessness of faith is not essential to the species of faith, since faith is said to be lifeless through lack of an extrinsic form, as stated above (Q. 4, A. 4). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
There were other grounds also, which cannot be reduced to the classification of extrinsic titles, on which more than the amount of the loan might be justly returned to the lender. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
Rationalism, -- the spirit which disposes men to reject all belief founded upon authority, and to make the causes of phenomena intrinsic and not extrinsic to the phenomena themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
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