"This diplomatic and legal achievement comes as a decisive answer to the so-called alternative homeland, or Jordan Option," the king said on December 5th.Mr Abbas's people note further that the international fallout, too, has so far proved lower than previously anticipated: America which opposed the vote has yet to close the PLO mission in Washington.
The success of the social enterprise, its founder believes, proves that people want an "alternative answer" to the supermarket giants.
This week, of all weeks, should be the one in which the party can persuade us it has an alternative answer to the wrecking of global capitalism.
You might imagine that Mr. Grassley has in hand an alternative answer to the question "How much of the tax cut will go to the top 1percentt?" -- that the administration has, at some point, produced a number showing that the wealthy aren't getting a big share of the benefits.
There is, however, an alternative answer to the J-question that appeals to reliability without making perceptual justification dependent upon beliefs that attribute reliability to perceptual experiences.
An alternative answer to the attack is that some informed consent rights are waiveable (perhaps including many disclosure rights), and others are non-waiveable (perhaps including the right to refuse bodily intrusion).
An answer to the question of why these "alternative ways of knowing" should be taught in science courses is supplied by Michael J. Reiss in his concluding essay, "Teaching about Origins in Science: Where Now?" The strongest argument, in my view, for teaching about religion in a science class, whether at school, college or university, is if it helps students better to understand science.
And this in turn provides an answer to the question of just which alternatives to what is believed are relevant: they are those such that, if the process in question is reliable to the contextually required degree, the subject will be able to discriminate between them and what is in fact the case.
