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We have so far found that people’s integration with their environment is not only multifarious but unpredictable. Not only do we find it difficult to find a solid base of hard data, but what we find seems to be tarred with the same brush whose mark has sent us originally on our search, and this is especially so where policy-significant interests are concerned.
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The Poverty of Historicism, op.cit.
Leviathan, op.cit. “There is no covenant without sword”.
And this is the tenor of the Law Reform proposed by Mr. Justice Kirby, who is in charge of the appropriate commission as well.
The Leviathan, op.cit.
The Idea of Social Science, op.cit.
The situation arose because the Ukrainian nobles ceased to regard themselves as Ukrainian, and left the largest nation in the federation feeling a lack of representation in the Sejm (Polish Lower House).
“They” includes “we” if we are members of the population in question.
op.cit.
In Elements of Social and Political Philosophy, I did not give Devlin sufficient credit for the reasonableness of this worry.
A Theory of Justice, op.cit.
N.Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed. Harvard, 1983).
A Theory of Justice, op.cit.
D. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, (ed.) L.A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford, 1888). Book III, Part I, Sect.I.
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Basic Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, op.cit.
cf. The Bible, any edition.
I have argued the case in detail in: “Is ‘Is’ Just an ‘Is’, or is it also an ‘Ought’”, in Anales Universitas Marie Currie-Sklodowska Scaede Philosophie — Special Issue. I shall not reproduce it here.
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, op-cit.
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, op.cit. Chapter I, Sect.6 (stressing mine).
On Liberty and Other Essays, op.cit.
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Srzednicki, J. (1988). The Opacity of Satisfaction Prognosis-Perspectives. In: The Democratic Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3671-3_7
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