Nor am I alone: Seth Stevenson sang the praises of ghosting in Slate a few years ago, and Amanda Hess has advocated a version of it for relationships that aren't working out after a few dates.
(Some techies are even advocating a version of leaving that involves deleting all your Facebook data without deleting your account). Just think of all the free time you'd gain back for your family, for exercise, or for reading The Washington Post.
The Later Mohists advocated a version of pragmatic-semantic realism.
Curnoe himself once advocated a version of the multiregional theory in Australia after some initial work on the Kow Swamp skulls - but no longer.
If one denies property-dualism, and advocates a version of reductionism regarding properties such as that of being a person or of being a pain, then one seems to be committed to the assumption that properties reduce to properties.
If one rejects any dualistic parallelism of mental and physical events and advocates a version of reductionism rather than eliminativism for events such as perceivings, willings or pain events, then one seems to assert that events may reduce to events.
If one denies classical substance-dualism and advocates a version of reductionism rather than eliminativism for minds, persons and mental state, then one seems to assert that objects or substances reduce to objects.
Criticizing the individualistic approach in general for failing to accommodate conservation concerns for ecological wholes, J. Baird Callicott (1980) once advocated a version of land-ethical holism which takes Leopold's statement "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
In this climate, Alberta voters were attracted to the economic theories of evangelical preacher William Aberhart, who advocated a version of social credit.
Rove is an advocate of a version of Trende's "full Rubio" strategy, as witnessed by Rove's oversight of Bush's success in winning over 40 percent of the Latino vote in 2004.
