the oxford handbook of political institutions nov 2006

... account of knowledge. Within the discipline of philosophy, epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge and justification: in particular, the study of (a) the defining components, (b) the ... illustrates the hopes of the modal logicians who developed epistemic logic with Fitch's proof for unknowables and the surprise-test paradox. He considers the epistemology of proof with the help of ... affects the meaning of sentences, then some nod in the direction of enlarging the brief considerations of the preceding paragraph will be needed, even though they do not require abandoning the...

... that the value of the created universe increases in proportion to the variety of kinds of beings God creates. For the purpose of the created world is to reflect the infinite goodness of God. ... independent of who they are and the kind of lives they lead. To base his love on who they are and the kind of lives they lead would be to take those persons and their lives as more deserving of his ... to interpret the theses and what they entail. Thus, consider the pair of theses (A)–(B). We can ask of (A) how we are to understand the scope of “everything.” Are there features of reality that...

... understood in terms of the theory of defeasibility rather than the theory of sources or of positive grounds. The importance of incoherence as a defeater of justification, then, is not a good ... rational from the point of view of theoretical reason, as well as a twofold requirement: of an adequate proportion of rational cognitions and of the absence of certain kinds of “vitiating” ... is that there may be perceptual sources of theoretical rationality other than the familiar ones. The concept of theoretical rationality is surely no more closed than is the notion of a perceptual...

... in the US, as part of an attempt to find a more positive official term than handicapped (the official term in the US) or disabled (the preferred term in the UK during the eighties). Another ... published by the Oxford University Press. It follows in the tradition of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary in attempting to record the history of some recent additions to the language, ... additives and the publication of a number of reference books giving details of all the permitted food additives as well as some of the possible effects on health of ingesting them. Possibly the most...