By David K. Shipler May 5, 2011 Advocates of torture who enjoy tormenting the rest of us with the hypothetical ticking-bomb scenario might be tested with the counter-hypothetical proposed by Michael Sandel, a political philosopher at Harvard.
Advocates of torture who enjoy tormenting the rest of us with the hypothetical ticking-bomb scenario might be tested with the counter-hypothetical proposed by Michael Sandel, a political philosopher at Harvard.
Bertillon countered this hypothetical typology with empirical method, taking "anthropometric" measurements — determining the length of a convict's middle finger, for example — as well as making elaborate verbal descriptions of a subject's physical aspect, covering everything from his wrinkles to his eyelids, and two standardized photographs of his face, one from the front, one in profile.
Why did the WSJ use "if" in that sentence as if it were a counter-factual hypothetical?
Just one more piece of evidence to counter the many hypothetical dangers of personalized genetic testing!
Instead, the main national security debate involved a nitpicking controversy about whether or not troops conducting hypothetical counter-terrorism missions in post-withdrawal Iraq should (hypothetically) be based in Iraq or somewhere else.
It's a hypothetical," countered McKay.
But "that concern is hypothetical," countered Jay Lefkowitz, who as the general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget helped Mr. Bush devise his policy.
In other words, though many call any counter-factual or hypothetical situation a thought experiment, this seems too encompassing.
The counter to these hypotheticals is that a prosecutor wouldn't charge grieving parents under those circumstances.
But this hypothetical counter-argument would not hold up, because the crime rate continued to soar until 1933, when it saw a sudden and dramatic decline.
