But, she suggests, if we can conceive of it as being permissible, and as being impermissible, we have shown that we are able to conceive of two ethically inconsistent possible worlds.
Invocation of demons in ceremonial magic is permissible as long as they are good demons, and as long as the spirits receive only a lesser veneration addressed to them as created servants of God (OP 3 58 59).
In the F.D.A. decision, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote, "If Congress has not specifically addressed the question, a reviewing court must respect the agency's construction of the statute so long as it is permissible".
In a 6-to-3 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that in cases where Congress has left ambiguous the outlines of a regulatory agency's jurisdiction, "the court must defer to the administering agency's construction of the statute so long as it is permissible".
Applying and widening a precedent from 1983, Marsh v Chambers, Justice Kennedy argued that just as it is permissible for a state legislature to employ a chaplain for daily benedictions, it is fine for Greece to offer its microphone to a "chaplain for a day".
Under Chevron, if "the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue," we defer to the agency's construction of the statute, so long as it is "permissible". Id. at 843.
As it is permissible for manufacturers to calculate the nutritional content of supermarket ready meals based on raw ingredients and to put this information on the packaging, 30 this also maximised comparability as far as possible.
As so often in the 21st century, any cruelty or stupidity is permissible as long as it is cloaked in "appropriate" language.
Such diversity is permissible as long as the basic principles of Islām are not affected.
And, yes, many Republicans seem to believe anything is permissible as long as it's designed to foil Obama.
