Wyclif takes many aspects from Scotus' explanation, but strongly stresses the ontological implications of the doctrine.
She reinterprets key scriptural passages, she provides numerous examples of biblical women speakers, she draws out the egalitarian implications of the doctrine of the light, and she appeals to anti-clerical and anti-authoritarian Quaker principles.
In his review of de Silva's book, Joseph Kitagawa argues that de Silva is too narrow in his analysis of the anatta doctrine; he claims that a better analysis would have been for de Silva to take into consideration the broader implication of the anattā doctrine, and to challenge the very basis of Greek philosophy which had influenced much of Christian theology.
This precedence is one implication of the Confucian doctrine of love with distinctions ("love with distinctions" is the usual translation, but perhaps "care with distinctions" is less misleading because it covers both the emotionally freighted attitude toward kin and a more distanced attitude toward strangers).
A crucial implication of this doctrine is that people whose conscious states are alike must be justified in believing the same propositions.
One implication of this doctrine is that at every instance each existent is renewed and thus provides a solution to the old problem of time and creation by asserting that the world is created in time, because at each instant all existence is new in time.
Here, the idea that a proposition formally signifies itself to be true is replaced by the notion of implication from the doctrine of consequences.
In fact, the implication of the Judeo-Christian doctrine of grace for God's selection of a world to create seems to be entirely negative — rather than giving a reason why he might select a particular creaturely world, or rule out other creaturely worlds, it simply tells us that if God creates a world with creatures, his love of the creatures in that world cannot be his reason for creating it.
One can try to calm theological anxieties here by insisting that God is not only the sole creator but that it is metaphysically impossible that he not be the sole creator, but such a position has the same implications as a revision of the doctrine of creation itself so that such a metaphysical implication is carried by the doctrine itself rather than by this additional claim.
Like every other aspect of American foreign policy, the Powell doctrine has required adjustment to the realities of al-Qaeda.The implication is that the doctrine is not dead.
