But they also may have the ability to avoid the repugnant conclusion – to explain, for example, by reference to the ideal of human flourishing (Temkin) or the concept of desert (Feldman) how it can be morally better to produce a smaller number of extremely well off individuals rather than a very large number of people whose lives are only barely worth living.
Thus, one cannot explain voting behaviour, for example, simply by reference to the self-interested calculations of individuals.
The category of object, for example, is distinguished by reference to the linguistic category of proper name (Dummett 1973/1981, 55 56; cf. Wright 1983, 13 and Hale 1987, 3 4)—i.e., an object just is the correlate of a proper name, where proper names are held to include all singular terms (including singular substantival phrases preceded by the definite article).
For example, the authors first introduce "secretins," followed by reference to "the T4P system" and "the T4P machinery".
For example, §415 defines "overcharges" (which customers are entitled to recover) by reference to the filed rate.
For example, ad hominem reasoning literally means reasoning by reference to a person rather than by reference to the argument itself.
Understand the deconditioning/extinction process: In reference to the example given above: by removing the second stimulus (sickness) one can then decondition the nausea associated with perfume.
By reference to these examples it is interesting to see how the old conflicts are instantly reestablished, which leads me to a different question, I wonder about sometimes -- why I, as a Jew, have not left Germany a long time ago.
And the legislation calls on the Department of Transportation to review its own regulations, many of which define a car by reference to, for example, steering wheels and brake pedals — language that may conflict with some automakers that choose to build cars without those features.
Second, it could be defended by reference to particular examples of evil, especially very terrible evils, where it just seems obvious the evils are unjustified.
