serviceableness
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The formulation of definitions and laws in exclusively mechanical terms is not due to the exhaustive or even preëminent reality of these properties, but to their peculiar serviceableness in a verifiable description of events.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
He finds now that the form itself—over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl—gives him pleasure.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge
His serviceableness to his friends was unwearied, and his generous liberality toward all whom he could help either with his interest, his trouble, or his purse was unfailing.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
But the serviceableness of the stipulation is most vividly illustrated by referring to the actual examples in the pages of the Latin comic dramatists.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir
Wisdom is the theoretic knowledge of things as they are, irrespective of their serviceableness to our practical interests.
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt
