Some of that explanatory job is a matter of moral theory, not metaethics, and involves figuring out what counts as good excuses, legitimate justifications, and appropriate burdens.
(What they are really doing — stirring up sectarian violence, inciting protests, helping regimists to escape the country before the prosecutor-general catches up with them — is a matter of national counterrevolutionary conspiracy theory and speculation).
It is a matter of devising a new theory of the firm, and shifting our focus and behavior toward that understanding.
The distribution of consciousness is a matter of empirical contingency on dualist theories as for physicalist theories.
Exactly how it came to dissolve in the groundwater is a matter of debate, but the prevailing theory is that it was a natural process.
Cohen suggests that the standard of proof should be conceived entirely as a matter of evidential weight which, on his theory, is a matter of the number of tests or challenges to which a factual hypothesis is subjected to in court.
When Darcy later tweeted the story, Facebook was provoked to reply, citing a counterargument embraced by the right that moderating problematic content is a matter of free speech taking down conspiracy theories, so the argument goes, would violate an ever-moving but also inviolable boundary of what is and isn't protected by the First Amendment.
Which habit of thought is better in theory is a matter of opinion.
The importance of the sublime within Kant's aesthetic theory is a matter of dispute.
Its association with the bundle theory is a matter of historical contingency.
