This special technê does consist in a secure and unshakeable insight into what is appropriate at each juncture of life.
On a plausible rendering of the term 'domination' as, roughly speaking, arbitrary or uncontrolled power (see Wartenberg 1990; Pettit 1996, 1997, 2012; Lovett 2001, 2010a), we might equivalently say that freedom in the republican sense consists in the secure enjoyment of non-domination.
Holbach is a thoroughgoing utilitarian: where the government fails to secure the general welfare, which consists principally in securing property and basic freedoms such as the freedoms of speech and religion, society has a right to revolution (La politique naturelle, 4.5).
It is a product of action because it arises out of the concerted activities of a plurality of agents, and it rests on persuasion because it consists in the ability to secure the consent of others through unconstrained discussion and debate.
Problems arose in securing the property, however.
The extension of such a concept consists in giving it a secure net of uses, also credibly linked to the earlier net, in an adjacent domain.
In its first public statement last week, the ad hoc committee said that it consisted of about 20 firms holding $1 billion in secured debt.
This model seems thus to secure the rationality of faith: if faith consists in beliefs that have the status of knowledge, surely faith cannot fail to be rational?
A spoofing attack consists in the use of forged biometric traits to gain illegitimate access to secured resources protected by a biometric authentication system.
specifies what truth consists in.
