I know that many economists just refuse to accept this proposition, which seems absurd to them.
Why should readers accept this proposition after Iraq's horrors over the last six years and scant evidence of positive change in the region?
It is tempting to accept this proposition.
Even if one accepts this proposition, however, there are emails, receipts and records that affirm what Bosch testified.
If one accepts this proposition (and the authors do) then this means that there is then a need to identify the social context of those people who suffer from this inability and make adjustments in their positioning on the no free choice/free choice continuum.
We might not like Hamas or some of its methods, but that is not the same as accepting the proposition that Palestinians should supinely accept the denial of their right to exist as a free people in their ancestral homeland.
Strictly speaking, a person's acceptance of some proposition is based solely on her understanding it only if that understanding both causes and justifies her accepting that proposition.
Possessing those concepts, and understanding the proposition that contains them, explains why the person is justified in accepting that proposition even if it does not cause them to hold it.
According to Maher, the cognitive utility of a proposition A, given that Ci is the truth, is identical to the cognitive utility of accepting the proposition in those circumstances.
"After they accepted the proposition that this was actually happening, they were furious," said Jim Gerstein, the executive director of Democracy Corps.
We appear to accept the proposition that this utopian, millenarian faith describes a neutral force; a kind of biological law, like Darwin's theory of evolution.
