An evil-skeptic might reply that we should abandon only the concept of evil, and not other normative concepts, because the concept of evil is particularly dangerous or susceptible to abuse.
It also provides him with an indisputable reason to believe that he himself is privileged, a belief he abandons only with the shock of first setting foot in a prosperous nation.
Tiberius sought a solution of the manpower problem in a large-scale revival of the traditional Roman policy, abandoned only in the last 30 years, of settling landless men on the extensive public lands acquired by the Roman state during the former conquest of Italy.
We saw this dynamic in the dreadful initial plans for the trade center site, which were abandoned only in the face of public outcry, generated largely through a concerted effort by the city's architects and news media.
If driving rates down to zero was, above all, a measure to combat deflation, the policy should be abandoned only when the threat of deflation is lifted.
But after the unexpectedly rapid collapse of the Netherlands forced him to make a separate peace with France in 1673, the Elector adopted a policy of neutrality, which he abandoned only when the Holy Roman Empire declared war against France.
He told the group that the sales had raised much-needed cash and could be abandoned only if the United States was willing to compensate for it.
If production is going swimmingly or indeed, catastrophically the first few items reveal this, and sampling can be abandoned; only if the situation is less clear-cut does sampling need to continue.
In response to this first version of the argument from the analysis of knowledge, some theorists (e.g., Luper 1984, BonJour 1987, DeRose 1995) have offered what might be called the argument from closure, which says that K has great plausibility in its own right (which Dretske acknowledges in 2005: 18) so it should be abandoned only in the face of compelling reasons, yet there are no such reasons.
Now, the grandstand project stands abandoned, with only the stark concrete of its elevator towers to show for the plans.
