The veto is a setback to religious freedom and equal opportunity in Turkey, preconditions for a flourishing democracy.
A Danish monocultural philosophy, in which "assimilation is viewed normatively and causally as a precondition of equal inclusion and opportunity" and a Swedish philosophy that seeks an "equilibrium between pluralism and universalism" and renders "equal inclusion and opportunity contingent on the ability of each, especially the majority, to recognize the others".
In broad brush strokes, the defining idea of the former is to single out a national core culture to which minorities have to adapt in the process of integration, in which assimilation is viewed normatively and causally as a precondition for equal inclusion and opportunity.
The second approach yields valid population-based analyses on tumour stage-specific incidence if the precondition of equal tumour stage distributions among the cases with unknown T-stage and the cases with known T-stage is met.
Equal partnership emerged as a precondition at the multidisciplinary level in which all professionals would have equal rights to participate in decision-making.
While ECD by itself is not enough to ensure equal opportunities later on, given its complementarity with subsequent investments in skills, it is a precondition and an area where public policy action could be extremely powerful.
But this rarely translates into the kinds of transformations that lie beyond such limiting measures, such as changes in women's sense of their own possibilities and horizons, and shifts of power that are the precondition for creating a more just and equal world.
However, one must keep in mind that group-specific treatment may be necessary to correct patterns of discrimination and injustices that hinder the equal status of minority groups, which is, again, one of the preconditions of the contact hypothesis.
Similar preconditions exist in the case of mobile service operators trading equal, elementary radio resource goods within hierarchical trading periods.
Reichenbach's claim is that there is a principle of probability that has an equal status: it cannot be empirically established, but it is a precondition of empirical knowledge.
