Normally, Polybius lays great emphasis on causality, and his distinction (III, 6) between the causes of an event (aitiai) and its immediate origins (archai) is useful up to a point, though it is more mechanical than that of the great Greek historian Thucydides and allows nothing for the dialectical character of real historical situations.
He allows nothing inconsistent with the laws of nature, gleaned through experience.
Ms. Catlett has allowed nothing to stand in the way of being an artist.
The mood of the country allows nothing else.
In fact, the Manor Association, which collects $500 a year in dues from each homeowner, allows nothing else, declaring that "no building of the character known as a 'two-family house' or 'flat' shall be erected".
The situation allows nothing more.
In his mental spreadsheet, Patterson allows nothing here.
An argument for this is often based on the claim that only another belief could stand in a justification relation to a belief, allowing nothing but properties of systems of belief, including coherence, to be conditions for justification.
Their polemic was simple: the 1960s pop that promised liberation had, by the mid 70s, become a prison, a hegemony of perception that allowed nothing else to thrive.
Subway platform spectators are now allowed nothing more than a tantalizing view of the upper deck in the distance, the tiptop of the stadium flagpole with its yardarm shaped like a baseball bat, and the silvery lights reflecting back out of a stadium they cannot see into.
